Comments on: Weblogg-ed 03/17/2007 http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/weblogg-ed-03172007/ Learning with the Read/Write Web Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:36:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: readerdiane http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/weblogg-ed-03172007/comment-page-1/#comment-15318 readerdiane Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:58:30 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/weblogg-ed-03172007/#comment-15318 I have taught remdial reading for 30 years to elementary and middle school children.Some children do not learn a "year's worth of growth" in a year. We are dooming them to failure year after year. It makes me so angry that these students have no chance of being a success. Who are we to say that they have to make a certain amount of growth to be successful. Tortoise and the hare? And don't even go there talking about merit raises based on how your students performed on a test! Now that my blood pressure is up, I will go for a walk. I have taught remdial reading for 30 years to elementary and middle school children.Some children do not learn a “year’s worth of growth” in a year. We are dooming them to failure year after year. It makes me so angry that these students have no chance of being a success. Who are we to say that they have to make a certain amount of growth to be successful. Tortoise and the hare?
And don’t even go there talking about merit raises based on how your students performed on a test!
Now that my blood pressure is up, I will go for a walk.

]]> By: Kevin Jarrett http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/weblogg-ed-03172007/comment-page-1/#comment-15297 Kevin Jarrett Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:51:58 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/weblogg-ed-03172007/#comment-15297 Will, what's this, three blog posts for the price of one? ;-) 1) Blogsafety article - funny, I was just reading this yesterday too. My problem with the Dateline NBC series is that any initial value it had (and for raising awareness and creating conversations it had a LOT) was diminished with each successive episode. How many different miscreants do we need to see paraded across the screen? What is this, Predator Idol? While I suspect there are people at NBC who genuinely want to help combat this problem, this series has turned into a cash cow for them. It disgusts me. I would like to see NBC make an announcement that 100% of the advertising revenue they get from the show is donated to the Center for Missing or Exploited Children or something like that. Seriously! 2) Bubble Kids ... ugh. We just experienced grades 5 & 8 testing this past week and 3/4 are this week. Please, everyone, say a prayer for every kid you know in a NJ elementary school this week! 3) Twitter ... ugh again. Ok! So I signed up and friended you, put a badge on my personal blog, and I'm checking it out. I plan to try it using the web-only interface for now but am thinking it might come in handy at NECC in June. Peace! -kj- Will, what’s this, three blog posts for the price of one? ;-)

1) Blogsafety article – funny, I was just reading this yesterday too. My problem with the Dateline NBC series is that any initial value it had (and for raising awareness and creating conversations it had a LOT) was diminished with each successive episode. How many different miscreants do we need to see paraded across the screen? What is this, Predator Idol? While I suspect there are people at NBC who genuinely want to help combat this problem, this series has turned into a cash cow for them. It disgusts me. I would like to see NBC make an announcement that 100% of the advertising revenue they get from the show is donated to the Center for Missing or Exploited Children or something like that. Seriously!

2) Bubble Kids … ugh. We just experienced grades 5 & 8 testing this past week and 3/4 are this week. Please, everyone, say a prayer for every kid you know in a NJ elementary school this week!

3) Twitter … ugh again. Ok! So I signed up and friended you, put a badge on my personal blog, and I’m checking it out. I plan to try it using the web-only interface for now but am thinking it might come in handy at NECC in June.

Peace!

-kj-

]]> By: Carolyn Foote http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/weblogg-ed-03172007/comment-page-1/#comment-15268 Carolyn Foote Sun, 18 Mar 2007 05:43:29 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/weblogg-ed-03172007/#comment-15268 Will-- I posted on my blog about Twitter being used at the SXSW music conference by attendees this week for people to locate their friends or make plans remotely, which I found interesting. And on another note, the quote about students with difficulty being seen as liabilities because of AYP rings as sadly true. The question is, what are we as educators going to do about that and advocate for those children? Will–

I posted on my blog about Twitter being used at the SXSW music conference by attendees this week for people to locate their friends or make plans remotely, which I found interesting.

And on another note, the quote about students with difficulty being seen as liabilities because of AYP rings as sadly true.

The question is, what are we as educators going to do about that and advocate for those children?

]]> By: Tim Goree http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/weblogg-ed-03172007/comment-page-1/#comment-15227 Tim Goree Sun, 18 Mar 2007 00:46:34 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/weblogg-ed-03172007/#comment-15227 The "bubble kids" term just struck me when Brian wrote that. I have been in those same meetings, even spoke at length with my mother about it (her whole job right now is to pull "bubble kids" out of the classroom and work with them for this purpose!). What is funny is that although I have heard this term many times, this is the first time that it reminded me of the so-called "Bubble Boy" back in the 80's (I think) who was on the news a lot for a while there. I remember thinking, "what a sad existence that would be". Ugh, now I'm feeling the same way about our new "bubble kids". What a sad existence we have created for these kids as a result of the AYP pursuit. The “bubble kids” term just struck me when Brian wrote that. I have been in those same meetings, even spoke at length with my mother about it (her whole job right now is to pull “bubble kids” out of the classroom and work with them for this purpose!).

What is funny is that although I have heard this term many times, this is the first time that it reminded me of the so-called “Bubble Boy” back in the 80′s (I think) who was on the news a lot for a while there. I remember thinking, “what a sad existence that would be”.

Ugh, now I’m feeling the same way about our new “bubble kids”. What a sad existence we have created for these kids as a result of the AYP pursuit.

]]> By: Brian Crosby http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/weblogg-ed-03172007/comment-page-1/#comment-15225 Brian Crosby Sun, 18 Mar 2007 00:28:32 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/weblogg-ed-03172007/#comment-15225 Will - "... for the first time since I’ve been in education, teachers are seeing [that child] as a liability." This is so true - I have sat in meetings and presentations where we actually discussed and were told to put our focus with the "bubble kids" - those that are just below passing scores, because if we get such and such a percentage of those kids to score above ?% our school will make AYP. Will – “… for the first time since I’ve been in education, teachers are seeing [that child] as a liability.” This is so true – I have sat in meetings and presentations where we actually discussed and were told to put our focus with the “bubble kids” – those that are just below passing scores, because if we get such and such a percentage of those kids to score above ?% our school will make AYP.

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