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Billions of years ago the Earth fused together in an arrangement of matter - it taking a long time for it to be even remotely habitable for life as we now know it.  Millions of years ago dinosaurs roamed the land.  Humans made themselves known thousands of years ago.  Hundreds of years ago we began to take small steps towards organizing our stuff and having the means to live together in some semblance of harmony.  Decades ago we pressed the fast forward button on technology and development and we developed the internet, nuclear weapons, microwaves, the Big Mac, gene splicing and rockets to the stars.   

Where will we be in the next minutes and hours and decades from now?  These are the musing and questions that I contemplate.  As a future educator, I hope to inspire students to look back at where they have come from to understand where they will be going.

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Being a good teacher:  Being aware; being flexible; thinking on your feet - never miss an opportunity to be a hero.  (And always save bunnies whenever possible!)
 

Teachers as Agents of Social Justice
This was my final project for Foundations of Education class. The theme challenged us to consider if teachers should act as agents of social transformation and justice. This is an interpretation from my final essay.  It features ‘Make Tomorrow’, the last track off of Peter Gabriel’s 2000 album, "OVO".
View Original:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yurp7t8HApM

Challenge Based Learning Challenge:  Make English Your First of Many Languages
Americans are among the least likely to be bilingual in the world today. As a part of our Kansas State University Technology for Teaching and Learning Class, we had to create a video along the guidelines of Apple's Challenge Based Learning (http://ali.apple.com/cbl/index.html) with a challenge about something we felt important. 3 of the 4 of us are PreService teachers in training to become Spanish teachers. I am in training for Social Studies, but studied Japanese and lived in Japan for 7 years. We all are passionate in our belief that in order to live peaceably in a global community that being able to communicate is vital.
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.” -  Nelson Mandela
View Original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHBqmi9fkXM

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