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Lord of the Flies: How Adults Create Bullying

Piers Young — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:01:57 +0000

When Lord of the Flies is taught this way, it encourages the adults in school to continue to behave as they do, and blames children, and their inherently evil nature, for all that is wrong in society. This lies at the heart of how bullying is usually combatted in our schools.

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Learning from Centuries of Play: Students Reenact Bruegel’s "Children’s Games" – Copy / Paste by Peter Pappas

Piers Young — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 08:00:57 +0000

I was perusing Edward Snow's "Inside Bruegel: The Play of Images in Childrens Games" and impressed with his de-construction of the painting. As a big fan of document based instruction, I got thinking about how much students could learn from a close reading of the work. Link to painting.

After a search, I found that a group of Belgian students had researched and re-enacted Bruegel the Elder's "Children's Games" (1560) for a class project. I'm reposting it to inspire enterprising teachers and students to try their hand at a reenactment of this (or another work).

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Piers Young — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:02:06 +0000

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Teaching Maths Properly

Piers Young — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:50:39 +0000

Dan Meyer hits various nails on various heads. And reading his blog I’ve remembered a) how much talent there is out there and b) how useful it is to be able to access it. Thanks Dan.

WordPress › Active Directory Integration « WordPress Plugins

Piers Young — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:00:14 +0000

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Writing a MindTouch extension in PHP – MindTouch Community Portal

Piers Young — Sun, 16 May 2010 19:02:24 +0000

so I can get started doing some stuff in Ruby for the school intranet.

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YouTube – How To Make a Foxhole Radio

Piers Young — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:01:06 +0000

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Chapter 4: Radio

Piers Young — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:01:52 +0000

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YouTube – Battle of Carrhae (Part 1/3)

Piers Young — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:00:52 +0000

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English ‘a foreign language in London’s schools’| News | This is London

Piers Young — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:00:29 +0000

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