My GardenClose-up of the spiny plant here!
My nameless spiny plant has blossomed flowers! If anyone knows what this plant is please let me know :) All of my other plants are doing great. The celosia is still orange/red and my Zinca has about the same amount of flowers going on as last week. |
My MealWhat's cooking in the kitchen this week? I made organic chicken, organic broccoli and (non-organic) macaroni and cheese for my mother. For the chicken I simply put it in the pan, sprinkled with salt, pepper and olive oil and cooked on medium-high heat for 10 minutes or so (I cut in the middle to make sure it was cooked all the way through.) At the same time I steamed the broccoli and boiled some water and then cooked my mac and cheese (5 minutes) and added in a tablespoon of butter, the cheese packet, and a little olive oil.
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Exploring EducationThis week I wanted to explore flipped classrooms a little further so I read an article on "Five Ways to Flip your Classroom with The New York Times." I found this article to be very insightful seeing that we have been discussing flipped classrooms and working on our lesson plans in our classroom as well. I really enjoyed how this article says that a flipped classroom "swaps explanation and lecture" which I think is a great way to term flipped lessons. An idea given in this article was to have students watch a video on the Middle East at home (all students being assigned a region) and then have the students explain to each other what they learned. I thought this was a really cool concept that could be applied to my future English class as well by assigning my future students a different topic (perhaps different authors?) and watching them explain their topic to one another. Another really cool idea given in this article was using Times multimedia collection to interact with infographics. Overall I found this article to be very useful and loved how it gave various examples and online resources to use throughout it. I really enjoyed the various ways to connect The New York Times with flipped lessons and I definitely recommend reading this. This article might have been written in 2011 but I found all of the ideas used to be relevant and usable in the classroom today.
Article: learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/five-ways-to-flip-your-classroom-with-the-new-york-times/?_r=0 |
