A few blog posts I’ve found interesting in the last few days

Before I forget, I’d like to mention a few blog posts that I’ve come across recently which I think deserve a wider audience:

One teachers approach to preventing gender bullying in a classroom.What this teacher did for her students is truly inspiring.

Why I flipped off “Kiss Cam” at the Boxing Day TestFor a long time now the game of Cricket as managed by Cricket Australia and the ICB has made me despair for the future of the game. Placing advertising on everything that moves is bad enough, but Twenty-20? Can’t Stand It(tm). Add to that the arrogance displayed by the Australian team and you’ve got a real turn off. Reading Megan’s post about the “kiss cam” made me wonder WTF Cricket Australia and their sponsors were thinking. Were they thinking at all? With their small heads? Sadly, but unsurprisingly, about half of the comments attached to Megan’s post display a lack of understanding about why the “kiss cam” is a bad thing for Cricket, and sport in general.

The insecure, unfulfilled life of the true scepticTeaching children to think for themselves, and to nurture their critical faculties while doing so, is one of the best things a teacher can do for a student. I’ve always had teachers who insisted that I think for myself, and showed me how to winnow the chaff. If your child’s teachers aren’t doing that, then your child is missing out on essential life skills which are even more important now (with digital natives, like my kids) than they were when I was at school and could still find an encyclopedia on the library shelves.