Teachers
“I freely confess: It was the objection of David Hume which first, many years ago, interrupted my dog-matic slumber” (Philosopher Immanuel Kant)”
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*** Star Wars offers the image of the Teacher: Think of the wise, respected, and mysterious martial arts Teacher, and the focused, eager, and respectful student/learner.
Dear Teachers:
One of the difficulties in teaching citizenship, multiculturalism, and pluralism is integrating into lessons resources that are effective at encouraging differentiated instruction and fostering creative and critical thinking while being truly cross curricular and engaging. I think you will find a springboard for all those things at this site as a whole. Our goal here is not simply to provide set units and lesson plans, but rather offer a springboard from which lessons and rubrics can be drafted with students, grade/division teams, etc.
There are a wealth of freely available creative and critical thinking resources from school boards and the web, so it is just a question of integrating them into lesson and unit building. If students are to be assessed on their creative and critical thinking skills, these need to be explicitly taught and modeled.
Darth Plagueis The Wise: Teacher of Darth Sidious
*** image fair Use Wiki: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Darth_Plagueis?file=DarthPlagueisHS-SWI130.jpg
Here are some of my favorite Lesson Building Resources:
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(2/2) What is Reading? A Joint Post on Secular Frontier and Secular Web Kids
Reading is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle without seeing the picture on the front of the puzzle box. Understanding what you’ve read is like looking at and studying a hidden gestalt image over and over until you finally see the hidden picture, and then can’t unsee the hidden picture. Our analogies capture the cognitive…
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What is Philosophy? A Joint Post on Secular Frontier and Secular Web Kids
For the Greeks Philosophy was interested in Being, which was the iceberg beneath the surface of the water when all you can see is the tip, or what is going on behind the scenes that makes the theater play on the stage possible and run smoothly. For example, we have grapeness before our mind’s eye…
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DOET Thinking and Rote Memorization
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A DOET Short Story!
Once upon a time, on the edge of a deep, ancient forest, there ran a roaring, modern highway. Cars and trucks barreled down it day and night, moving fast like lines of data inside a supercomputer. Right next to this busy road lived two very different creatures: Horace the Hedgehog and Master Jada the Jedi.…
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Why use DOET Thinking in your Classroom?
Kids are naturally like little philosophers because the pursue the “why questions” more than regular adults. Children are not pre-rational beings waiting to become smart; they are the truest practitioners of phusis because they live naturally within the open horizon of the question. When a four-year-old enters a relentless loop of asking “Why?”, “But why?”,…
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Exploring DOET Thinking for Kids!
DOET thinking is just as much a search for questions as it is a search for answers. Inquiry questions open up a path for exploration where you can record all the interesting things you find, but the circular path ultimately leads back where it started so you can re-ask the question in a more basic…
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Let’s Begin to Learn About DOET Thinking
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Darth Harley Character Reveal
I did a character reveal for Darth Harley yesterday on Secular Web Kids blog HERE as part of my end of summer posting that I also did on my Secular Frontier blog. It turns out that while Harley is a bright kid, he also has significant mental challenges he is managing. I wanted to create…
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Darth Harley, The Sickest Boy in the World
Darth Harley was a Bark Lord of the Sith. Of course, Harley knew he wasn’t actually a Sith. The Jedi and the Sith were from long ago in a galaxy far, far away. But, he liked to think of himself that way. Interestingly, Harley’s favorite movie series wasn’t Star Wars, but the Rocky movies. He…
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Weird Facts
Did you know the oldest goldfish lived to be 43 years old, or that you’re taller in the morning than at night? Check out some totally weird facts on this Reader’s Digest site and share some unusual facts about yourself to your friends.