Mesopotamians – Blue Cereal Education https://bluecerealeducation.com Fri, 23 Jun 2023 18:55:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://files.bluecerealeducation.com/2023/06/BowlIcon.png Mesopotamians – Blue Cereal Education https://bluecerealeducation.com 32 32 The Mesopotamians & Jumping the Classroom Shark https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/mesopotamians-jumping-classroom-shark/ Wed, 08 Aug 2018 14:51:31 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/mesopotamians-jumping-classroom-shark/ The MesopotamiansPop culture connections are a blessing and a curse in the high school history classroom. On the one hand, YAY ANYTHING THAT REINFORCES CONTENT IN UNEXPECTED WAYS! – even if it’s strange, inaccurate, and fictional {I’m looking at you, Hollywood}. On the other, it’s difficult to anticipate when such things have jumped the shark in relation to teen culture. Just to keep things really frustrating, some of the most promising and engaging sources are so far from school-appropriate that no amount of editing will make them OK, no matter how much I want to use them anyway.

]]> 468 Cutting Up Gum Based On Haircuts https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/cutting-gum-based-haircuts/ Thu, 19 Oct 2017 22:14:36 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/cutting-gum-based-haircuts/ MesopotamiansEven if all we care about are the standards and the exams and the skills and the content, the best way to make that medicine is with motivated, supported educators well-aware of expectations but with substantial autonomy to adopt and adapt as they see fit based on the kids in front of them and the unique reality they radiate. I’m not saying there’s no role for online courses or commonly agreed upon curriculum across your departments, but setting aside the ethics of treating students as interchangeable receptacles, the vast majority of the time it simply doesn’t work. 

Because they’re not.

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