August 1 Thru 8 Blogs Revised
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
i Table of Contents by Date 01: DUKE ROBILLARD 02: Overheard Conversation 03: Why Can’t School Be More Like Camp? 04: Bob Dylan Lyrics and the Game of Thrones 05: Instructor’s Reflection 06: Introduction to a New Learning Community 07: Who Put the “Natural” in Natural Supports 08: Until I Say Goodbye Welcome to the 09: Please Raise Your Hand If … – 2017 Version continuation 10: You Got Me Thinking 11: Personalizing Reinforcement of Ernie’s Blog in a 12: Communitas Est – Spring 2012 more condensed 13: Thoughts On Teaching My Current Courses format 14: When Schools Forgo Grades for the month of 15: What Are You Getting Into? 16: So Far August, 2017. 17: Naoki Higashida 18: Diversity of Feedback 19: Neurodiversity – What I See 20: The Public’s Need to Comment 21: NeuroFeedback Companies The purpose of this blog is to provide a 22: My DMV Experience commentary in essays, visual organizers and 23: Jackaby Book Review poems on topics of interest that stem from the 24: We Are All Life-Long Learners courses I teach at Central Connecticut State 25: Thoughts Upon Watching The Teachings of Jon University (CCSU). I hope that current 26: Members of Each Other – A Book Review students and reviewers of this blog can stay 27: Bridge Diagram – Collaboration current on what I have to say on topics of 28: Lessons from Hurricane Harvey – From Afar mutual interest. I consider this outlet to be 29: Playing the Building one of the main ways I can share my creative 30: Opening Day work with others. 31: Starting from Zero Points 01 08/01/17 DUKE ROBILLARD. During one stage of Dylan's Never Ending Tour, Duke Robillard was a fill-in guitarist. I looked up some information about this highly talented musician and developed an acrostic organizer as my summary of a show I saw on April 6, 2013. 02 08/02/17 Overheard Conversation. I was eating breakfast at a hotel recently and overheard a dad telling his 5-year old son about the choices for breakfast. He named the wide array of choices including Fruit Loops cereal. At the very end, the boy said, "I want Fruit Loops!" His dad responded, "You can only have Fruit Loops on Saturday!" The boy thought for a second and then realized, "Today's Saturday!" "You're in luck," his dad said. I don't know why, but I enjoyed this interchange as I ate my own breakfast - - - not Fruit Loops, by the way. 08/03/17 Why Can’t School Be More Like Camp? During the summer months many school-age students are attending summer camps throughout the country. Memories from these summer traditions remain many years later often with fond positive feelings. Activities include swimming, crafts, horseback riding, various sports, theater, camp fire stories / singing, among many other experiences. I often wonder, “Why can’t school be more like camp?” There are some – certainly not enough – schools with an arts enhanced curriculum. STEM has evolved into STEAM with positive feedback from many articles that cross my desk. “Learning should be fun!” to quote from Albert Cullum, a teacher whose philosophy and life work was captured in the documentary, A Touch of Greatness, one of the most memorable such films I have viewed. How one engages in the learning process is equally important, in my opinion, than what one actually learns. What one learns is subject to change over time and our “learning years” never end. Developing a love of learning supersedes an accumulation of minutia of information / facts. 03 08/04/17 Bob Dylan Lyrics and the Game of Thrones. One of 03: Dylan Lyrics: Blowin’ In the Wind the methods of engagement for students is to link Yes, how many years can a mountain exist lyrics from their musical interests to the content Before it’s washed to the sea? currently under investigation in a subject area. I Yes, how many years can some people exist decided to link various lines from Bob Dylan's lyrics Before they’re allowed to be free? to the Game of Thrones with the following results: Game of Thrones: Gregor Clegane 01: Dylan Lyrics: Oh Sister 04: Dylan Lyrics: Love Minus Zero No Limit Oh, sister, when I come to lie in your arms You should not treat me like a stranger My love, she’s like some raven Our Father would not like the way that you act At my window with a broken wing And you must realize the danger Dylan Lyrics: Can You Please Crawl Out Your Oh, sister, am I not a brother to you Window? And one deserving of affection If he needs a third eye he just grows it And is our purpose not the same on this earth To love and follow his direction Game of Thrones: Bran Stark – Three Eyed Raven Game of Thrones: Relationship of Cersei and Jaime Lannister 05: Dylan Lyrics: The Groom’s Still Waiting at the Altar 02: Dylan Lyrics: Long and Wasted Years West of the Jordan, east of the Rock of I ain’t seen my family in twenty years Gibraltar That ain’t easy to understand I see the turning of the page They may be dead now Curtain rising on a new age I lost track of them after they lost their land. See the groom still waiting at the altar. Game of Thrones: House Stark Game of Thrones: Cersei Lannister / Daenerys Targaryen 04 08/04/17 (continued) 08: Dylan Lyrics: Pay in Blood Someone must of slipped a drug in your wine 06: Dylan Lyrics: Cold Irons Bound You gulped it down and you’ve crossed the line Looking at you and I’m on my bended knee Man can’t live by bread alone I pay in blood, but not my own. You have no idea what you do to me. Dylan Lyrics: I Feel a Change Comin’ On Game of Thrones: Arya Stark / revenge of the Red Wedding We got so much in common We strive for the same old ends 09: Dylan Lyrics: If Not For You And I just can't wait Wait for us to become friends If not for you The winter would hold no spring I feel a change comin' on And the fourth part of the day's already gone Couldn’t hear a robin sing I just wouldn’t have a clue, If not for you. Game of Thrones: Jon Snow / Daenerys Targaryen Game of Thrones: Winter is Coming 07: Dylan Lyrics: Shelter From the Storm 10: Dylan Lyrics: Positively Fourth Street You got a lotta nerve Now there’s a wall between us, somethin’ there’s been lost To say you got a hand to lend You just wanna be I took too much for granted, got my signals crossed. On the side that’s winning. Game of Thrones: The Wall Game of Thrones: House Allegiances 05 08/04/17 08/05/17 (continued) Instructor’s Reflection 11: Dylan Lyrics: Changing of the Guard I don’t know how you think things went Peace will come From your own point of view - - - I just know I enjoyed my time With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall Learning and teaching with you. And cruel death surrenders with its pale ghost retreating The summer is a time to reflect now & then Between the King and the Queen of Swords And see how things are going - - - Game of Thrones: Battle for the Seven Kingdoms Thank you for being part of that time and To keep my learning growing. 12: Dylan Lyrics: Beyond the Horizon Every time I teach this course I’m touched with desire It keeps on getting better What don’t I do? Because I meet people like you - - - I’ll throw logs on the fire The readers of this letter. I’ll build my world around you. We are more alike than we have our differences Beyond the horizon, at the end of the game We use our strengths and skills Every step that you take, I’m walking the same. We meet ourselves at different levels Game of Thrones: General Comment Our hearts, our minds and our wills. I teach so I can hear myself think - 13: Dylan Lyrics: Abandoned Love I once heard a wise man say. Everybody's wearing a disguise Thank you for being part of that time To hide what they've got left behind their eyes As we met along the way . So one more time at midnight, near the wall To advance forward Take off your heavy make-up and your shawl To be better than we were before Won't you descend from the throne, from where you sit? That was the purpose of the past five weeks Let me feel your love one more time before I abandon it To build up from a solid core . Game of Thrones: Arya Stark learning her craft with the faceless men / Jon Snow leaving the wall / throne 06 08/05/17 08/06/17 (continued) Introduction to a New Learning Community. Below are notes Of values, strategies and that I wrote for an incoming group of students for one of my To meet people of inspiration courses: So we can find that inner voice This may not be the best course at CCSU that you have ever That leads to our celebration . taken, but it will be the best course at CCSU that I have ever And we move on taught.