http://owlfish.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ en Vox Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:45:00 -0800 Copyright 2007 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/a-new-low.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(mikegalla13) http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/a-new-low.html?_c=feed-rss http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/a-new-low.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:45:00 -0800 Blogging and gmail chatting during class. I am sick. Both physically sick and just intrinsically sick of school. Need to go home. <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/a-new-low.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398999ee8000400e398c9282f0001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398999ee8000400e39899ae7c0005.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(mikegalla13) http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398999ee8000400e39899ae7c0005.html?_c=feed-rss http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398999ee8000400e39899ae7c0005.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 03 May 2007 06:59:00 -0700 My freshman year in college, I had a 10 am physics class. Not early, but early enough for college. For williams, it was a big class, 35 or 40 students, and when the clock hit 10 and it was time for class to start, the prof would always push a litt... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398999ee8000400e39899ae7c0005.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398999ee8000400e39899ae7c0005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398999ee8000400e39899ae7f0005.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(mikegalla13) http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398999ee8000400e39899ae7f0005.html?_c=feed-rss http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398999ee8000400e39899ae7f0005.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:40:00 -0700 What a b.... The cluster method was what I taught FM after school - it made so much more sense to him than any other way he had learned this stuff before, as I said in my mental math post. Obviously, as the woman says, the textbooks seem a li... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398999ee8000400e39899ae7f0005.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398999ee8000400e39899ae7f0005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398999ee8000400e398998f6b0002.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(mikegalla13) http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398999ee8000400e398998f6b0002.html?_c=feed-rss http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398999ee8000400e398998f6b0002.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 27 Apr 2007 01:37:00 -0700 Very often, I'm amazed at what my kids can't do. The fact that they can't do any sort of mental math has astonished me over and over again, as I wait on things like 30 divided by two or 46 divided by 10. Only today did I realize that even skills l... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398999ee8000400e398998f6b0002.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398999ee8000400e398998f6b0002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398999ee8000400e39899ae860005.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(mikegalla13) http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398999ee8000400e39899ae860005.html?_c=feed-rss http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398999ee8000400e39899ae860005.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 25 Apr 2007 04:55:00 -0700 When I have a bad day, I have a few different coping mechanisms. One is to work in my garden. Another is to lay on the couch and read. Neither of these are very helpful. A third, more helpful mechanism, is to think about my favorite students and h... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398999ee8000400e39899ae860005.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398999ee8000400e39899ae860005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398999ee8000400e39899a0b20003.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(mikegalla13) http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398999ee8000400e39899a0b20003.html?_c=feed-rss http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398999ee8000400e39899a0b20003.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 22 Apr 2007 20:29:00 -0700 NYT on symtoms of poverty in the Delta. <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398999ee8000400e39899a0b20003.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398999ee8000400e39899a0b20003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398999ee8000400e39899a0c20003.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(mikegalla13) http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398999ee8000400e39899a0c20003.html?_c=feed-rss http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398999ee8000400e39899a0c20003.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 04 Apr 2007 02:40:00 -0700 So, I can't teach 131 students in the cafeteria. Big deal. Some things are going right though. A former student, who was shunted out to pre-algebra, came to my class after school today. He never does anything in that pre-algebra class, and so he c... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398999ee8000400e39899a0c20003.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398999ee8000400e39899a0c20003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398999ee8000400e398998f640002.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(mikegalla13) http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398999ee8000400e398998f640002.html?_c=feed-rss http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398999ee8000400e398998f640002.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 03 Apr 2007 02:56:00 -0700 Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, a Democrat, who voted against New York’s new budget, called it “an unconscionable, discriminatory addition to the school aid formula.” (nyt) Brodsky is from Westchester county, where the median home value is in th... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398999ee8000400e398998f640002.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398999ee8000400e398998f640002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398999ee8000400e398998f630002.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(mikegalla13) http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398999ee8000400e398998f630002.html?_c=feed-rss http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398999ee8000400e398998f630002.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:06:00 -0700 My kids would say I'm blessed. In the past, I would have said I'm lucky. Now, I'm no longer sure what sort of word to use, but whether I attribute it to blind chance and luck or to a higher power, I was born and grew up with a wonderful group of f... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398999ee8000400e398998f630002.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398999ee8000400e398998f630002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398999ee8000400e398998ccc0001.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(mikegalla13) http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398999ee8000400e398998ccc0001.html?_c=feed-rss http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398999ee8000400e398998ccc0001.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:19:00 -0700 So last night, DD and I went to the fair in town. Just like the fairs set up in parking lots of all the other small cities in the country, it was a sea of asphalt filled with a few rides operated by the drug addicts and the mentally ill and hoarde... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://owlfish.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398999ee8000400e398998ccc0001.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398999ee8000400e398998ccc0001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p>