Missouri Law on Sexual Misconduct of Teachers
Last week, the Missouri state senate passed a new bill that is intended to protect students against pedophile teachers. Here is something that I don’t fully understand. Evidently, the time that it...
View ArticleYouTube Videos Unwelcome Here
Iowa substitute teacher Thomas Buckler recently learned the hard way that not everyone considers making videos for YouTube an ”educational” activity. Buckler was fired from his teaching position...
View ArticleHeroic Kindergarten Teacher
Anyone who teaches knows we all have challenging days. Sometimes it seems like we have a thankless job, and we wonder if we are making a difference. No matter how bad things get, there is almost always...
View ArticleACMHCK Conference
Last week I gave a presentation at the Association of Community Mental Health Centers of Kansas annual conference entitled “Our Connected Lives: How Networked Digital Media Are Changing Us.” I posted...
View ArticleInformation Workers in Industrial Environments
It is 6:00 AM on a Sunday morning. All is quiet in my house, so I am reflecting on the busy week I finished yesterday, and am poking around with some things on my computer from work. Yesterday was a...
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Newt and the Child Janitor
Newt Gingrich has stirred things up this week by suggesting that schools fire union janitors and put students in charge of school clean-up. A quick search on Twitter reveals that most people commenting...
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Pepper Spray Cop Meme
This week a rather shocking incident made international news when a campus police officer at UC Davis shot pepper spray in the faces of seated student protesters at point-blank range. My initial...
View ArticlePerry’s Levels of Development
I first learned about William Perry’s Scheme of Intellectual and Ethical Development at a Wakonse Conference on College Teaching. Although I am now aware they exist, I’m not sure that I yet do a good...
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Finding True Happiness
Right now I am reading a book by Fr. Robert Spitzer, Jesuit priest and retired president of Gonzaga University, entitled Five Pillars of the Spiritual Life: A Practical Guide to Prayer for Active...
View Article25 Things Every Young Professional Should Know by Age 25
I love this list of 25 Things Every Young Professional Should Know by Age 25. My favorite is #20 The days of a college syllabus are long gone. If you’re waiting for someone to give you direction, have...
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