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		<title>climate scientists get it wrong?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my RSS reader this week, I got this uplifting story about current research in Antarctica: Sea Levels May Rise Faster Than Expected. Much of the story speculates on rather scary possibilities down the road and should be taken with a certain amount of skepticism, the degree of warming we might expect in the future [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clarkbeast.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3539345&amp;post=2108&amp;subd=clarkbeast&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>owning the moment—#edu180atl 11.14.11 cross-posted</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past year and a half, my oldest son has kept two African Dwarf Frogs as pets in a water-filled plastic cube about the size of a softball perched on his bedside table. I hadn’t paid them much notice at all, each being about the size of my thumbnail and only marginally more interesting, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clarkbeast.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3539345&amp;post=2088&amp;subd=clarkbeast&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>got to call it like I see it</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 21:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m way overdue in putting up a new post and giving an update on the Environmental Writing class that Peyten Dobbs and I are teaching. It has been, without question, one of the most interesting and challenging teaching experiences of my career, and we&#8217;ve both admitted to each other that, relatively speaking, we&#8217;re a little [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clarkbeast.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3539345&amp;post=2061&amp;subd=clarkbeast&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>courting controversy: teaching global warming, ctd</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, I gave an overview of the new Writing Workshop: Environmental Writing course that Peyten Dobbs and I are teaching this semester. Today I want to address a pointed concern about our methodology as expressed by a colleague from our Science Department and then echoed by a commenter on my last post. They raise [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clarkbeast.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3539345&amp;post=2011&amp;subd=clarkbeast&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>courting controversy: teaching global warming</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last October, I wrote a post thinking about the 21st Century Education movement that concluded with an idea for a new course: What if you started a course exploring the issue of climate change with back-to-back showings of An Inconvenient Truth and The Great Global Warming Swindle, not in some lame and fallacious attempt to provide “balance” to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clarkbeast.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3539345&amp;post=1985&amp;subd=clarkbeast&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>a simple vision</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 03:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another day, another film trailer . . . In the Keynote slideshow he sent out to all of us before tomorrow&#8217;s first faculty meetings of the new school year, my Principal asked &#8220;How can we use campus for PBL [project-based-learning]?&#8221; And our simple assignment for tomorrow afternoon is to come with a few ideas in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clarkbeast.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3539345&amp;post=1968&amp;subd=clarkbeast&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>like a punch to the solar plexus</title>
		<link>http://clarkbeast.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/like-a-punch-to-the-solar-plexus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 04:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, we&#8217;re days away from the start of a new school year, and I&#8217;m in need of an attitude adjustment, having just come across the trailer to the film Mother Nature&#8217;s Child: I just finished six-days worth of Apple training to build up my digital teaching skills in preparation for our one-to-one MacBook rollout next [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clarkbeast.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3539345&amp;post=1934&amp;subd=clarkbeast&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>river summer comes to a close</title>
		<link>http://clarkbeast.wordpress.com/2011/08/07/river-summer-comes-to-a-close/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 21:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the new academic year right around the corner, we&#8217;ve had Apple training sessions at school this past week as part of our changeover to Macintosh, so I took advantage of this time to edit together more of the video I&#8217;ve been sitting on from our summer adventures. First, I put together a look back [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clarkbeast.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3539345&amp;post=1917&amp;subd=clarkbeast&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the river as once-and-future classroom</title>
		<link>http://clarkbeast.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/the-river-as-once-and-future-classroom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 07:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today, reading some lively back-and-forth comments on the blog written by my principal, I came across this statement by a chemistry-teaching colleague of mine: At this age there’s a LOT of boring, fact based learning that needs to take place BEFORE deeper, more meaningful, creative learning and problem solving can take place. Well, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clarkbeast.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3539345&amp;post=1884&amp;subd=clarkbeast&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;right dad&#8221; strikes again</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew has a habit of following even the most unambiguous of statements by fishing for confirmation—&#8221;right, Dad?&#8221; On this trip, &#8220;right dad&#8221; has been omnipresent: &#8220;This river&#8217;s shallow, right Dad?&#8221;; That&#8217;s a long kayak, right Dad?&#8221;; These cookies are good, right Dad?&#8221;; &#8220;It&#8217;s hot, right Dad?&#8221; Well, I want to go on record that Dad was, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clarkbeast.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3539345&amp;post=1870&amp;subd=clarkbeast&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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