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Visual Learning: Are You Really What You Wear? — YES! Magazine
Images, photos, and pictures stimulate the mind. For the viewer, they offer a chance to connect and question. They also offer potential for play and imagination, and pulling the observer into...
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Zombies in the Classroom
By KellyAnn Bonnell, MA On October 25,2011 John Fuglesang tweeted, “I live in a society where a network called the History Channel can run a 2-hr prime-time special on Zombies.” The actual title of the...
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THR: Jay-Z’s Lyrics Analyzed as Subject of College Course
by Sophie Schillaci The class, titled “Sociology of Hip-Hop: Jay-Z,” is currently offered at Georgetown University. Jay-Z may not have attended college, but his lyrics have provided the subject matter...
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T&L: Curation is the new search: seven tools you may not know you can search...
by Joyce Valenza This year, I am teaching my kids to curate. While this is an exciting way for learners to discover how to manage their information worlds by consciously selecting and aggregating a...
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My Pop Studio
I stumbled upon this site in my wanderings and thought some of you might want to explore it. My Pop Studio is a creative play experience that strengthens critical thinking skills about television,...
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Publishing Perspectives: What’s Wrong with Children Self-Publishing? Nothing
By Dave Weich Kids won’t want to read books written by other kids? Who says? Must have been an adult. “Over the past five years,” Elissa Gootman reported in the March 31 New York Times,...
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Common Sense with Controversial Artifacts – Introducing Al Jazeera America
by KellyAnn Bonnell, MA When the television series NUMB3RS first came out, it was a tantalizing idea that math could be used to predict crime. Now the very concept is the norm in LA according to a...
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Book Review: This One Summer by Jillian and Mariko Tamakari
by KellyAnn Bonnell The best young adult fiction is fiction engages the reader as a partner in the story, trusting its readers’s experiences to provide dimension to the tale. Jillian and Mariko Tamaki...
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Classroom Discourse: Net Neutrality
by KellyAnn Bonnell, MA . School Districts filter web searches to protect young minds from “inappropriate” content. This makes sense from a developmental perspective and since we serve a diverse...
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Fifty Shades of can we please get over it now?
by KellyAnn Bonnell I’ll admit it, I love romance novels, or as my husband refers to them, mindless drivel. I also happen to be a real fan of Young Adult Fiction. Having said that, Twilight never...
View ArticleNational Sesame Street Day
On November 10, 1969 Sesame Street premiered on American television. Its curriculum had been piloted right here in Phoenix at Arizona’s oldest child care center, Phoenix Day. It was an innovative idea...
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