Darth Vader Teaches

While Kennedy Road has it's own Darth Vader teacher...Mr. Chauncey. This video is not him.



However, I thought this was a fun how-to video on teaching the Pythagorean Theorem. Anytime you can take a concept and put it in a realm that students are not expecting, they seem to become enliven again with the concepts.

Victory...Yes!

In the last post, I said that I had contemplated sending the article Do Internet Filters Undermine the Teaching of 21st Century Citizenship? to the Superintendent. Well...I did it.

What resulted was a series of forwarded emails to other people in the technology department, followed by a lot of non-responsive emails for meeting dates, a blurb in our county's Communicator about the importance of webfiltering, a one-on-one with the super, a sit down with an assistant super and tech rep, and, ultimately, me getting what I wanted.

That shouldn't sound as boastful as I think it does, but I'm just glad that I can update or install software on teacher computers and can unblock educational material that teachers are struggling to access because of the filters. In situations like these, I think of a saying that I hear a lot around here: I have to do what's best for the students.

I think teaching with 21st century technology is part of that.