Friday, December 31, 2004

Over the last week, there have been several good articles that compelled me to do a last update on EdNews for 2004.

A Story of Hope about Autism

One of the most uplifting education columns I've read this year is John O'Neil's One Boy's Journey Out of Autism's Grasp. O'Neil relates the story of his son, James, diagnosis of autism and how his son has developed and is overcoming the disability.

Research program is a step up for students

Jewell Cardwell tells the success story of Patricia Kelly Hunt's high school Student Research Program at the Hathaway Brown School in Research program is a step up for students in USA Today. The program places high school students alongside research scientists doing their own, multiyear research projects. The results are impressive. "Two have U.S. patents...Two have been inducted into the National Gallery of Young Inventors' Hall of Fame. Twenty-two have earned Siemens Westinghouse finalist or semifinalist awards; seven have Intel Science Talent Search honors; and 16 have Intel International Science & Engineering Fair awards."D

Some Education Music about NCLB

Since I was in high school and college in the sixties, I grew up with protest music. Now, a group of educators have gotten together and produced a CD of protest songs about the ill-conceived No Child Left Behind law. The Christian Science Monitor's Rebecca L. Weber tells in Teachers sing the blues over ed law of the Dangerous Folk Trio that put new words to old folk tune medleys to make a statement about the failures of the law. For example:

It's an interesting read, and the music is available here.

A Christmas Gift from APOD

This wouldn't be much of an EdNews posting without something special from the Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive. Mattias Malmer and the Cassini Imaging Team came through big time on Christmas Day with the release of a smashing, large composite of Saturn. The image at right from Big Beautiful Saturn is just a small portion of the giant composite (5 MB) previewed below that Malmer put together from 102 individual Cassini images. Obviously the preview is highly, highly optimized for use here.

In looking for Saturn images for use in the classroom, I've been somewhat disappointed in the past. Now, with this new composite, teachers have an excellent image for use in the classroom. Also, with the proportions of the composite image, you lucky dogs with Apple widescreen displays have got an incredible desktop image to use as a science class conversion starter.

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