Cubefiled Old Version

aquarium and bunker

Four video (for now), four times of lessons Avenia D'Alessandro in the classroom. Find them in the side column of this blog, a bit 'below.
that is shared or not his style of teaching, it is worth seeing. If nothing else, because it is so rare to be able to open those blessed gates of the classroom, those bunkers opening timed, and see a colleague in action!
Just the other day I had an exchange of ideas on Twitter with a colleague overseas on this subject: the laws of privacy, modesty and with other obstacles, making everywhere rare and valuable then the ability to see each other work. During the period in which I did aide , I truly enjoyed this privilege. Few things enrich us professionally as colleagues to attend the lessons of good (and good ones were really a lot!).
Sometimes I think the school could alleviate those problems, if the classrooms were like aquariums: transparent. And maybe even visible from the house, the families would take a webcam. My colleague tried the professional sloppiness would have an incentive to greater vigor. The boys were held back more intemperate discreet eye of the executive. And most importantly, those who work well, on both sides, could receive the proper recognition. And advice, exchange of ideas, collaborations (not plastered by the institutionalization of "co-teacher ")...
certainly an idea to develop, but ... is just a dream?

Naruto Shippuuden Doujin Fakku

Good movement

You will have already noticed that, in the column on the right, there are two groups of links constantly updated, one under the heading "Highlights" for pages in Italian, and other "Highlights", for those in English.

These links to news, articles and resources that I met on the internet and found interesting, from a strictly personal point of view. They do not necessarily reflect my thinking: things are just beautiful, useful, or at least curious and worth noting. A wonderful and sometimes missed. To you to discover!

If you like, you can subscribe to these reports: the feed url of the collection of links in Italian is
http://www.diigo.com/list/Pokankuni/edu_it/rss.xml

is harvesting in English:
http://www.diigo.com/list/Pokankuni/edu_en/rss.xml

Just copincollare these addresses in your feed reader and you will see these links automatically and continuously.

Most of the time I spend surfing right now I dedicate this: look at what the people I report estimates, and report to me again what a nice / exciting / valuable meeting. If you want to do it in your blog, will grow further this blessed movement of good things, which is the best face on the web!

(image Gerard79 )

Male Gential Tattooing

A major contribution in Afghanistan

La mia amica e collega Alessandra Paganardi , poetessa e insegnante di lettere, ha scritto una pregevole riflessione, prendendo spunto da un post di poche pretese che avevo pubblicato qui  e condiviso su Facebook. Si parlava di voti scolastici, studenti stressati, genitori ansiosi... Il suo commento è stato così ricco e denso che, con il suo permesso, lo pubblico qui, facendone un guest post  (spero solo il primo di molti) di cui sono a dir poco lieta e orgogliosa!

La scuola superiore copre un arco molto lungo, anche senza contare le eventuali ripetenze. Si entra quasi bambini, e many of the males are very, very different and of course it comes out even more autonomous, more unsustainable fferenti a necessarily rigid rules. Subject to the formality of signing the warrants to "age" (often mere legalization of lax bigiata) rules are exactly the same in almost 14 years and 20 or more. same checks, same prohibitions, the same unhealthy environments that often barely have time to go to the toilet in six hours, the same turnover of material which requires in a single day to be ready on Kant, Manzoni, Shakespeare, electromagnetism and derivatives.
A heavy curriculum where the teacher must create a miracle to transform heterogeneous classes, and with great motivation tips, detachments in almost homogeneous, culturally or fake agguerritissimi such. This is in view of a state exam increasingly cybernetic and delicate, which will be judged by his own work, often done under the limits of the general crisis of nerves and you can tell by the frequency, of course increasing with the increase of the commitments of panic attacks, sick leave policy, suicidal youth more or less authentic, turnover of ambulances to school psychologists, social workers, the projects run by charities and discomfort many advocates of youth. The school increasingly resembles a psychiatric hospital instead of a place of shared culture and education ordered. forgot that it is often the teacher himself having to improvise a social worker, having to chase away the eternal student, fatally slowing squeezing the willing and capable. How can we expect young people to maintain a high level of interest and constant attention to five years in such conditions? The class in high school, for example, even exaggerated importance, it depends directly on the performance and peace of mind of many, so that the teacher is often compelled to stop teaching to quell the tensions that arise in the classroom ( I always tell them that a class is like a mountain climber: it takes the first climber, but we do not all one step too far, to avoid jeopardizing the excursion). But on closer scrutiny, as they could not generate tension in an environment so unnaturally claustrophobic? Well, the class group, the university, there is simply more, the boy, especially if he has not had the good fortune of having a family behind educationally and culturally aware, who has supported and helped us to understand the reality around him, instead of pushing it to a sterile docimological success that will do little good, has a precise sense of having thrown away at least five years learning the rules, concepts and strategies useless. Possible that there is a form of transition and adaptation driven, a bit 'smarter, from adolescence to adulthood? Or we want to continue to tell us about prolonged adolescence canard, canard that may in some ways convenient for us adults, but then delivered to the country several thirty-something cowardly and, perhaps for this reason, hopelessly unemployed?

(photo davidsilver )