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Technocracy in the Classroom
CHANDLER, Ariz. - Amy Furman, a seventh-grade English teacher here, roams among 31 students sitting at their desks or in clumps on the floor. They’re studying Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” - but not in any traditional way.
Grading the Digital School
The High-Tech Gamble
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The Runaway
I don't know his name.
I don't know his face.
The face that he had before.
Twenty years old.
A hundred miles an hour.
On tires with no tread.
Until he spun
out of control
Until the rear of his car
met a tree
Ejected the boy
thirty feet across traffic.
To lie face down in wet grass;
half of that face sheared away
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October Morning
Seven o'clock and the limpid sky.
Before sun, before cloud
the trees all glow with an inner Light.
Leaf by leaf give up the fire of life
and leave black filigree
across the ineffable Blue. -
Notes to A Garment of Brightness, Chapter 29 - Quasimodo
I didn't want to burden the story with too much literary bushwah, but for those of you who are curious enough to venture here, here is my thanks ...
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The Season of Clouds
Summer
of the long, slow days.
Sculptures of water and light
Piled high and white
against the Blue
Mother of the evening thunder.
The season of clouds.
Yoko wrote
'Summer passes
and we remember our
exuberance.'
But not passed yet.
For these three days
she stands at zenith.
And so I shall be exuberant
and live, and breathe,
and write. -
Spring
There it is ( Read more... ) -
Right/Left Brain
Ok, so Layrenelement posted her results on this test, and I thought it was cool so I checked it out. It is a pretty interesting test. Here's what came up ( Read more... ) -
玄 機
Gold to copper to umber to black
The flame of life runs inward
Wild sap flows back to root
And all the world is held in hush
Entwombed in winter wood. -
"Yew How"
09/27/2008"I got it, Mom ( Read more... ) -
Aloha `Oe
Vocabulary
Pu’u ~ Hill. or mound. In Hawaii, most of these are cinder cones.
A’a ~ ‘Gnarly lava’. A form of lava rock that is sharp and pitted, like pumice but much coarser and denser. Typically jet black in color, or reddish if it contains iron oxides. If you step on it with bare feet, you will say "a'a! "
Hapa ~ Mixed. Usually referring to ( Read more... )