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Lovely Pre-Thanksgiving Luncheon with the Beightol Family in Marco Island @ Dr. Beightol’s Seaside Abode
Saturday, 11.17.18, As many of the Beightol siblings and offspring as possible met together at Dr. Neal Beightol’s seaside Marco Island retreat (home ; ). It was a great and refreshing time on a beautiful, pre-winter day. The hot tub … Continue reading
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RE: Is NCLB Why Students Score Low on Science Tests?
When I first came into the science classroom, we played at science…students had some experience with magnets, with fishing (outdoors), with aquatic safety (kayaking, jet skiing, surfing), with taking apart machines (electronics, bicycles, cars)…now we take tests Continue reading
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Teacher Agrees with Annie Murphy Paul’s “In Praise of Tinkering”: The Affect of the Decline in Real World Experiences on Student Achievement
Many recent studies are being published now that echo what good teachers have intuitively sensed – children don’t study. Perhaps they never did (to the extent that teachers wanted). But the activities that displace studying now are VIRTUAL, digital, software.
These are 2 dimensional at best. Human authors will never duplicate the complexities of real life. A digital golf game will never teach a child the same concepts such as wind vectors, slope, frictional factors (roughness of green, “slippery-ness”) that a real golf game teaches subconsciously.
We teachers use these subconscious facts and knowledge as hooks upon which we build the framework of new knowledge. It has become increasingly difficult to do so. Continue reading
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Is Public Education Essential to our Leaders Anymore?
Is Public Education Essential to our Leaders Anymore? By Shawn Beightol This was published in the Progresso Weekly in February 2003: http://www.progresoweekly.com/2003/02Feb/03week/Beightol.htm Last Friday, in my chemistry class, a young man took out his saxophone during his presentation on electron … Continue reading
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