Once upon a time, for about a million years or so, we were Tribal. (Now we're NOT. Wait.) Tribal meant (and in some places still means) being born into a monoculture; there is one cuisine, there is one kind of music, there is one set of dance moves, there is one set of beliefs, one memeset. And, in most cases, one would live out an entire ( Read more... )

NYT says kids actually are pretty good judges of teachers' work ( Read more... )

I finally got an explanation for our new disastrous program/schedule from one of our top admins. When I passed it along to our Team Leader, he laughed longer and harder than I'd ever heard from him. So I figured it was worth sharing ( Read more... )

The other day I did a demo of some sound/music software for the kids as part of our science unit on sound...yes, I showed them what individual waveforms look and sound like, but more importantly I showed them how a DJ like Donald Glaude can take four or five different pieces of music, filter out different parts of them, and recombine them to make ( Read more... )

...and, as I kept saying to parents at conferences: their world is changing even faster than ours ( Read more... )

"More Time To Learn" is one of those phrases that could mean something glorious and progressive when it comes along in Schoolville, but with each passing year I come to recognize Orwellian doublespeak faster and faster. (Which I guess is a learning experience itself ( Read more... )

Okay, I kinda lost interest in the blogging challenge I was doing because the more involved I was in the community it involved (a buncha independent artists hoping to get free publicist services or at least jumpstart their own PR work) , the less interested I was in them and in the prize itself ( Read more... )

Five of Monday:

Walked home five miles.
Wrote a poem.
Some work, mostly technical, on tweaking "Moroccan" and "Sword."
Further work prepping Palace gig.
Further scheming w/Servitor.

I find myself (swimming) in love with you ( Read more... )

• Heard some great Rilke on "On Being."
• Discovered yet another improvement on my weekly beverage system - cheaper, more efficient.
• Two good hours fixing up the classroom.
• Vacuumed the house, cleaned out the cat box, a load of laundry.
• Installed new Reason & Record software, re-acquainted myself with the "Sword" remix I mean to tweak.