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	<title>Synthesizing Education &#187; Education &amp; Society</title>
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	<description>Working to Integrate the Past, Present, Future of Education</description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Become Anti-Literacy</title>
		<link>http://synthesizingeducation.com/blog/2010/07/01/lets-become-anti-literacy/</link>
		<comments>http://synthesizingeducation.com/blog/2010/07/01/lets-become-anti-literacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Eyler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education & Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[attention]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am anti-literacy. What I mean is that I am anti people taking the word &#8220;literacy&#8221; and placing it after another word simply to make it sound more important or &#8220;21st Century.&#8221; The other day I read something where &#8220;attention literacy&#8221; was used. Are you kidding me? Here&#8217;s the way I think about the overuse [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;You Covered This Last Year&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://synthesizingeducation.com/blog/2010/06/03/you-covered-this-last-year/</link>
		<comments>http://synthesizingeducation.com/blog/2010/06/03/you-covered-this-last-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Eyler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[online gradebooks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Summer Recess]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Another brain dump. It drives me mad when teachers say this to students: How could you not know this?!?!? You were supposed to have covered it last year! First off: it probably wasn&#8217;t all that important to begin with. Does it worry me if students don&#8217;t retain important information and big concepts from year to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Did You Read the Directions?</title>
		<link>http://synthesizingeducation.com/blog/2010/05/06/did-you-read-the-directions/</link>
		<comments>http://synthesizingeducation.com/blog/2010/05/06/did-you-read-the-directions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 19:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Eyler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education & Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Car]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cell phone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Directions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Think back to the most recent cell phone you purchased and how long you spent reading the directions that came with it. Don&#8217;t you remember how you scrutinized every word to ensure that you understood all the intricacies of the cellphone? Also, think back to the most recent car you bought. Remember how you went [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Text Speech &amp; The Responsibility of Educators</title>
		<link>http://synthesizingeducation.com/blog/2010/04/22/text-speech-the-responsibility-of-educators/</link>
		<comments>http://synthesizingeducation.com/blog/2010/04/22/text-speech-the-responsibility-of-educators/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Eyler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education & Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Plethora of Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adaptability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barry Bachenheimer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrick Henry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pew research Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Text Messaging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Guardian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Jefferson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I have come across a number of articles that discuss text messaging and questions regarding the “danger&#8221; it poses to literacy. Then I was going through my Google Reader and read a post on “A Plethora of Technology” titled “Text Messaging and Literacy” by Barry Bachenheimer where he asks the following: The key question [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Importance of A &#8220;Reading Culture&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://synthesizingeducation.com/blog/2010/04/20/importance-of-a-reading-culture/</link>
		<comments>http://synthesizingeducation.com/blog/2010/04/20/importance-of-a-reading-culture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Eyler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education & Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Idea of the Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matthew Effect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miller-McCune]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pew Center Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reading]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I truly enjoy reading the “Idea of The Day” from the New York Times, but today really got me thinking and, eventually, upset and annoyed. It discusses a study by Miller-McCune analyzing the effects of having large amounts of books in homes and its effect on educational achievement. Here is an excerpt: “Home library size [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Three Good Reasons To Be A Teacher?</title>
		<link>http://synthesizingeducation.com/blog/2010/04/08/three-good-reasons-to-be-a-teacher/</link>
		<comments>http://synthesizingeducation.com/blog/2010/04/08/three-good-reasons-to-be-a-teacher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 01:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Eyler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education & Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Credibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Professionalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slogans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I saw a sign today with this same slogan on it. Now I realize that people think it is &#8220;cute&#8221; or &#8220;funny,&#8221; but to me, it is downright insulting to the profession. Think about the message that something like this says to kids as it sits on a teacher&#8217;s desk. Is it still cute? Post [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Hypocrisy of Sports Mentality vs. School Mentality</title>
		<link>http://synthesizingeducation.com/blog/2010/03/27/the-hypocrisy-of-sports-mentality-vs-school-mentality/</link>
		<comments>http://synthesizingeducation.com/blog/2010/03/27/the-hypocrisy-of-sports-mentality-vs-school-mentality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Eyler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education & Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Academic Achievement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Athletic Success]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Athletics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cognitive Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Future Success]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hypocrisy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Professional Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It amazes me more and more the amount of hypocritical thinking that takes place in the way that people view sports compared to that of education and cognitive development. In fact, after talking to some people, one might actually think that you can control more variables that effect how good an individual is at sports [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Case for Tenure</title>
		<link>http://synthesizingeducation.com/blog/2010/03/17/the-case-for-tenure/</link>
		<comments>http://synthesizingeducation.com/blog/2010/03/17/the-case-for-tenure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Eyler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education & Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget Deficits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget Surplus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Christie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tenure]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://synthesizingeducation.com/blog/?p=617</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tenure doesn’t exist to protect bad teachers. It exists to protect good ones. Suppose tenure doesn’t exist, you are a newly hired superintendent, and you come in to face record high class sizes and a major budget deficit. What do you do? I’ll tell you exactly what you would do. You start by taking every [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Teacher Professionalism (Or Lack Thereof)</title>
		<link>http://synthesizingeducation.com/blog/2010/03/09/teacher-professionalism-or-lack-thereof/</link>
		<comments>http://synthesizingeducation.com/blog/2010/03/09/teacher-professionalism-or-lack-thereof/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Eyler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education & Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colloquium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conferences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Double-Standard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meetings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Professionalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Respect]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://synthesizingeducation.com/blog/?p=576</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my biggest pet peeves in education is when I attend a meeting, or go to a conference, or attend a colloquium and teachers act unprofessionally. It really makes my blood boil to think that some hold such a double-standard for how we demand kids act in school vs. how they act as professionals. In my [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Implications of the Transition from A &#8220;Backpack Culture&#8221; to &#8220;Laptop Culture&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://synthesizingeducation.com/blog/2010/03/08/implications-of-the-transition-from-a-backpack-culture-to-laptop-culture/</link>
		<comments>http://synthesizingeducation.com/blog/2010/03/08/implications-of-the-transition-from-a-backpack-culture-to-laptop-culture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Eyler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education & Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amy Bruckman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Backpack Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Curiosity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EdTech]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Experiences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Field Trips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Globalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Implications of Future Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Instructional Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Integrative Thinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laptop Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile Device]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pattern Seeking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TedxNYED]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The MET]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Next Bison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web-based Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[YouTube]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I sat at TedxNYEd this weekend, a thought kept recurring in my head, which I eventually tweeted: @aaron_eyler: My observation: Big problem with schools is most still haven&#8217;t outgrown the backpack. It restricts learning to a sack. @ 11:34 a.m. Now I am sure that there are a lot of people who read (or [...]]]></description>
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