Pop Quiz: Student Privacy In Public Schools
A high school finds a teens diary. The principal reads it. In it she discusses marijuana and possible use. No drug is found on the student or in her locker yet they suspend her. This is not a joke this happened in a Missouri school toward the end of the …
Pop Quiz: The Horror of Math
The bulk of the classes I teach are general science courses that are not math heavy. Even though these courses do not rely on math like a Physics class would there is still a small math component to each course. I am really not sure how to do science without …
Pop Quiz: Temperature Control!
This past week I took a look at my work clothes to assess whether or not I need a few more short sleeve shirts and cardigans in my wardrobe. Every new semester it is a crap shoot as to whether I will be dying of heat or freezing to death …
Pop Quiz: Did You Survive?
For a lot of my College/University instructor/professor friends, including myself, this week was the first week of the fall semester. So how did it go? Have you survived add/drop yet? The Pop Quiz is a question posed to you, the Scholars of Doubt. Look for it on Mondays, Wednesdays and …
No More Rape? Easy! Women Don’t Drink
Okay, I almost ran into the person in front of me on the way to work yesterday while listening to the Diane Rehm Show on NPR. The show topic was The Role of Fraternities and Sororities Today (click link for transcript and show) and I tuned in after it had …
Pop Quiz: Whiteboard vs. Chalkboard
The other day I was talking with my father-in-law who helps out at their church’s school. He was telling me about how they were cleaning some stuff out to get things ready for the new school year. As he was telling me this he also managed to describe how they …
Office Supply Shopping Time!!!!! OH, YEAH!!!!
I have an addiction. An addiction not yet recognized by the medical community but perhaps someday it will be and its name might be, Officium Copia Addiction Disorder. That is Office Supply Addiction Disorder or OSAD for short. A person with OSAD cannot pass a ream of paper without feeling …
Pop Quiz: When is it too late to cancel a class?
See my post about Monday August 11 to understand where the content for this quiz is coming from. So I am not going to beat around the bush. A natural disaster happened on the way to work the other day and I did not cancel class because it happened so …
Monday August 11….I wish I would have canceled class!
I am about to give everyone a very good indication where I live because I am about to describe my commute to work on Monday evening. This is a prelude to the pop quiz for this Friday. I woke up on Monday morning to a very gloomy sky. I went …
Pop Quiz: Minimum Technology
If I do not have a mediated classroom with at least a computer in it that is capable of projecting information and pictures on a screen my astronomy lectures are broken. I need the ability to show pictures. I have colleagues who still use slide projectors to show examples of …