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The Fischbowl: Follow-Up to Questions for Senators Obama and McCain
barack_obama, education_change, john_mccain, politics, vision
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The Fischbowl: Questions for Senators Obama and McCain
@Jude – Perhaps something more along the lines of, “Explain your views on why school libraries are important? What do you think school libraries should look like and why?”
@Nate Barton – I like the creativity angle. I wonder if the other part of your comment might also spur an interesting question, something along the lines of: “Everyone is talking about making students ‘college ready,’ yet the undergraduate degree appears to be becoming more and more irrelevant. Do you believe the college degree, as currently conceived, is still relevant and, if so, explain why?
@Dr. B.A. – I’m thinking you’d get talking points on that one.
@FCPS – Nice. I, too, wonder how a system that is designed on 2, 4 and 6 year election cycles can address long-term solutions to complicated issues.
@Ben Nuebel – Hey, how’s it going? Great questions, but I also think those would elicit the canned talking points on alternative energy.
@Mike – Might be the best question yet.
@Ian – Interesting and relevant, but I wonder about the implicit assumption that those from the top third of their classes would automatically be better teachers.
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The Fischbowl: Google Maps, Google Earth and the Summer Games
@dan - Thanks. How about "Rank the countries by medals won per budget amount spent on training Olympic athletes?"
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The Fischbowl: Should We Be Teaching This in "Social Studies?"
@etalbert - Thanks for the Aussie "history" lesson. It's good to learn that we're all thinking about these issues.
@barbara - I have been working on my mind reading skills, thanks for noticing. I predict that right now you're wondering if I'm going to answer your reading list question. I'm not, but simply because I need to think about it some more. Because it's fresh in my mind, I think Here Comes Everybody would be on that list, as well as several of our favorite bloggers.
Looking forward to that hug.
@justread - Thanks for the link - looks interesting, and I'll pass along to some of our Language Arts teachers. I definitely agree that this discussion doesn't belong just in Social Studies classes, it cuts across departmental lines. But, given the disconnected and subject-specific approach that typifies many of our current high schools, "social" studies seems (to me) to be the discipline where it most fits as a topic of academic study.
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The Fischbowl: Birmingham, Michigan is Looking for a Forward Thinking Principal
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The Fischbowl: World Book's 21st Century Research Skills
@Bill - Yes, your thoughts definitely make sense. Although I would quibble with one point - I think we always should've been teaching our students to look for bias, even when we supposedly had better validation.
I think a lot of our issues in this new information landscape stem from all of us assuming for a long time that "respectable" sources have been giving us correct and unbiased information. I'm not suggesting any conspiracy theories here, just that bias is a natural part of this and we should be alert to it.
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