Did you see the letter about the science teacher and the cattywampus?
Hey, mrkelley!
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MarleysGh0st
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Hey, mrkelley!
Are you another reader of the SWIFT newsletter on James Randi's website?
Did you see the letter about the science teacher and the cattywampus?
Did you see the letter about the science teacher and the cattywampus?
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mrkelley23
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Just as I was posting my first response to this message, our internet access got very hinky.
Looks like it's over now.
Thank goodness it didn't happen while I was trying to Get DorA going.
I hadn't read the SWIFT news for a while. (Shame on me.) The cattywampus exercis sounds like others I have heard of, and I've adapted a few for use in my classroom. Every once in a while, when I notice more than the usual number of egregious errors in the newspaper or a magazine, we have critical reading day, too.
Kids are starting to catch on to how the internet is a major source of garbage, but for some reason, if they see it on TV or read it in the newspaper, it has a lot more credibility.
I do like cattywampus as code phrase for bilgewater, though. I'm going to have to use that in our next faculty meeting.
Looks like it's over now.
Thank goodness it didn't happen while I was trying to Get DorA going.
I hadn't read the SWIFT news for a while. (Shame on me.) The cattywampus exercis sounds like others I have heard of, and I've adapted a few for use in my classroom. Every once in a while, when I notice more than the usual number of egregious errors in the newspaper or a magazine, we have critical reading day, too.
Kids are starting to catch on to how the internet is a major source of garbage, but for some reason, if they see it on TV or read it in the newspaper, it has a lot more credibility.
I do like cattywampus as code phrase for bilgewater, though. I'm going to have to use that in our next faculty meeting.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. -- Richard Feynman