Echoes from the Square

Creativity over destruction - based on true actions of the cellist of Sarajevo.

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fiddlersinmyhouse aka Elizabeth Wellburn

Dr Phil Zimbardo's TED Talk - How ordinary people become monsters ... or heroes

The video (http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/philip_zimbardo_on_the_psychology_of_evil.html) is an excellent resource for teachers who wan…

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George Bailey a Hero? (It's a Wonderful Life) What do today's kids think?

In the Frank Capra classic movie "It's a Wonderful Life", Jimmy Stewart plays George Bailey, who, in my mind, is a kind of everyday hero. T…

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Books with Similar themes

The folks in Sandwich chose "Echoes from the Square" for their children's program because the adults in the town were reading the similarly…

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1 Jul 14
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fiddlersinmyhouse aka Elizabeth Wellburn

Dr Phil Zimbardo's TED Talk - How ordinary people become monsters ... or heroes

The video (http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/philip_zimbardo_on_the_psychology_of_evil.html) is an excellent resource for teachers who wan…

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6 May 11
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fiddlersinmyhouse aka Elizabeth Wellburn

George Bailey a Hero? (It's a Wonderful Life) What do today's kids think?

In the Frank Capra classic movie "It's a Wonderful Life", Jimmy Stewart plays George Bailey, who, in my mind, is a kind of everyday hero. T…

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0 Apr 26
fiddlersinmyhouse aka Elizabeth Wellburn

Passion-based learning

John Seely Brown and Richard Adler write about “passion-based” learning. These authors argue that understanding is socially constructed and…

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2 Apr 17
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Linda Rosch

The Indequacy of Education in the Public School Systems on Topics of Human Interaction

I acknowledge that developing essential skills in reading comprehension and a foundaton for mathematics is CRITICAL in the public school sy…

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fiddlersinmyhouse aka Elizabeth Wellburn

Emphasizing personal responsibility without making the attribution error.

Heroic actions often seem to be related to an individual's disposition -- Zimbardo challenges us to think about this a bit differently. He…

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4 Mar 28
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Related online resources

I've placed three relevant links on the main page of this site (and also below), and I encourage others to submit relevant sites with their…

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0 Mar 14

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