I firmly believe that Mortimer Adler is one of the most misunderstood and neglected thinkers of the last one hundred years. Often labeled elitist and Eurocentric, people often confuse his views on education with people like Allen Bloom and Ed Hirsch, who advocate a kind of cultural literacy as a key component of education. On [...]
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Mortimer Adler: The Forgotten Educational Reformer
August 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Literature, Reading, Teaching
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Use Social Networks to Teach Kids about Literature
March 16th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Literature, Technology
Megan Palevich of Middle School 101 has a must-see project for teachers who want to tap into students’ use of social networking to bring literary or historical people to life. Students create fake Facebook, Twitter and instant message interactions between characters or historical people. Everything is done with templates that students work on in [...]
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Shakespeare Teaches the Birds and the Bees with Sonnet 2
March 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Lessons, Literature, Teaching
I was amused this morning when I read a tweet from helloSchmoop comparing Shakespeare’s Sonnet 2 to a parent giving their child “the talk.”
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