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I'm currently teaching Middle School Science, Robotics and Design Technology at Spartanburg Day School.
I live in Asheville, set in the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina. I have a wide ranging academic background including studies in Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology, String Theory, Divinity School and Dante, so I'm what you might call a generalist.
I've also published a couple of books and articles, won a few awards and spoken on the topics of social media and democratized web platforms at tech, marketing and education conferences.
My motto is, always, nullius in verba.
I slept for 16 hours yesterday and I still feel exhausted.
However, that's because it's the last period of the day at school, which happens to be my planning period. You don't realize how much energy you pour into being a teacher until the day is over and the classroom is empty except the reverberating echoes of student voices.Funny thing is, I wouldn't be doing anything else. This is my dream job and I live for every second in the classroom... especially those that exist on the thin line between delirium and academic enchantment.
The Mad Hatter and the March Hare champion the mathematics of William Rowan Hamilton, one of the great innovators in Victorian algebra. Hamilton decided that manipulations of numbers like adding and subtracting should be thought of as steps in what he called “pure time.” This was a Kantian notion that had more to do with sequence than with real time, and it seems to have captivated Dodgson. In the title of Chapter 7, “A Mad Tea-Party,” we should read tea-party as t-party, with t being the mathematical symbol for time.
Have to show this to my 8th graders currently taking Algebra...
Would a Lava Lamp work in a high-gravity environment such as Jupiter? Would the wax still rise to the surface? Would the blobs be smaller and faster? With broad disagreement on the answers, I built a large centrifuge to find out.
I love that he calculates the G's using a Nexus One.
Yay Science.
The person of more classical disposition does not believe this. On the contrary, he believes that there are some things that are much better not expressed at all. He counterbalances his belief in the value of freedom of opinion with that in the value of freedom from opinion. He believes that rage will not decrease with its habitual expression, but rather increase with it.
Here is a thoughtful piece on why blog commenting (and internet immediacy especially in the age of the "live web") might not be the best course of action for human response.
After all, we are an animal that has survived millennia because of our ability to soak up facts, details and information before making a response. There's something to be learned from our past steps.
I should be grading papers and writing student comments, but I'm
sifting through my ancient languages texts from my time at Wofford
College instead.
I made Ryan Newman's NASCAR car (oddly in pink) and Mary Hudson made a Big Green Rabbit.
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Funny to see how some things never change... Boys and Girls self- segregating at middle school dances...
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Official meeting is Friday but the guys say it's a light homework night... So...
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