http://www.ed421.com/?p=35 Stephanie Sandifer Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:07:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.ed421.com/?p=35&cpage=1#comment-21 Wesley Fryer Mon, 01 May 2006 04:54:54 +0000 http://www.ed421.com/?p=35#comment-21 I haven't seen this movie yet, so now I am adding it to my Netflix queue! Conversations are the key, but I think we have to find ways to extend those increasingly outside the blososphere. Like Dr. David Berliner encouraged us at the TTU College of Education on Friday, we need to become more communitarian. We need to hang out on front porches and talk to each other, tell stories, go to civic group meetings, even go talk to the school board. If we don't get these conversations going, who is going to? It is up to us. I haven’t seen this movie yet, so now I am adding it to my Netflix queue! Conversations are the key, but I think we have to find ways to extend those increasingly outside the blososphere. Like Dr. David Berliner encouraged us at the TTU College of Education on Friday, we need to become more communitarian. We need to hang out on front porches and talk to each other, tell stories, go to civic group meetings, even go talk to the school board. If we don’t get these conversations going, who is going to? It is up to us.

]]> http://www.ed421.com/?p=35&cpage=1#comment-20 astephens Sun, 30 Apr 2006 21:50:18 +0000 http://www.ed421.com/?p=35#comment-20 As a teacher who teaches in a district where abstinence is taught over safe sex, I can tell you... it doesn't work. Ingnoring or hiding from the choices our students have to make on an everyday basis is not the way to help them make the best decisions. We need to be educating them on how to use Myspace safely, how to have safe sex (if they choose), why to say no to drugs, etc. As a teacher who teaches in a district where abstinence is taught over safe sex, I can tell you… it doesn’t work. Ingnoring or hiding from the choices our students have to make on an everyday basis is not the way to help them make the best decisions. We need to be educating them on how to use Myspace safely, how to have safe sex (if they choose), why to say no to drugs, etc.

]]> http://www.ed421.com/?p=35&cpage=1#comment-19 Stephanie Sun, 30 Apr 2006 16:06:27 +0000 http://www.ed421.com/?p=35#comment-19 I agree -- the more we make things "off-limits", the more they will appear attractive to children and teens. I agree — the more we make things “off-limits”, the more they will appear attractive to children and teens.

]]> http://www.ed421.com/?p=35&cpage=1#comment-17 panasianbiz Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:37:35 +0000 http://www.ed421.com/?p=35#comment-17 Thanks for linking to that article. I have to agree with both of you here. It doesn't make sense to "hide" things from our kids, particularly since that will only serve to make the off-limits things more attractive. Thanks for linking to that article. I have to agree with both of you here. It doesn’t make sense to “hide” things from our kids, particularly since that will only serve to make the off-limits things more attractive.

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