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On Survival (Darwinian) and Life (Fragile)
Every weekday morning I tumble out of bed (not literally; that would hurt) and stutter into the warm glow of the bathroom for a shower. Every morning for the past several weeks, a spider sits in the bathtub/shower and stares me down. It’s a Darwinian epic. A word about the arachnids in our house: the…
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Review: The Debt (2011)
Rarely can I say a film manages to be satisfying and UNsatiafying at the same time…..but The Debt succeeds at this paradox. It also serves up an excellent example of 20th century Jewish literature meanwhile. The story revolves around a set of 3 Mossad agents in two different times, 1966 and 1997. The 1997 frame…
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Film Review: The Stoning of Soraya M.
You need to watch this movie. You will hate it. You will writhe in your chair during the last 20 minutes. You won’t be able to get the images out of your mind. In this case, that’s exactly what ought to happen, and you need to see it. The Stoning of Soraiya M tells a…
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Educators and Social Media: A Better Policy
Yesterday I discussed some of the myths that drive adults to make terrible policy decisions, ones that ban good adults from being in exactly the spaces online where they need to be to stay in touch with kids when they’re most needed. Today I’d like to offer a better social media policy for schools &…
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Missouri Facebook Fail: Social Media & Educators
The blogosphere has been abuzz a bit about the recent Missouri law banning public school teachers from having social media contact with their students. The Yahoo news article stated In Missouri, a new bill effective on August 28 will formally ban teachers from befriending students on social networking websites like Facebook. The law is an aggressive…
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