Bush Economics in the Classroom Scott Rosenberg illustrates the difference between mean and median in Bush's hype about tax cuts. "This average is a convenient fiction; it's a statistic that exists only because the enormous benefits accruing to the dividend-owning super-rich skew the 'average' -- and camouflage the fact that the cuts most middle class taxpayers will receive under Bush's proposal are piddling." [Scripting News] This would be a great lesson in the classroom on how politicians try to BS the public.
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This is what an engaged curruiculum should have! Project Management as Journalism..

You heard of storytelling in project management.

Let's refine the idea.

PM as journalism.

Rebecca Blood:

A reporter tries, to the best of their ability, to construct the whole story by seeking out a variety of witnesses and experts, and to convey that story as accurately as possible, for a general audience. 

Project journalism.

PMs cover a beat.

As journalists, PMs interview and research. Their sources are project members and external resources and stakeholders.

PMs verify information, find trends and patterns, dig up urgent and important news.

Reporters use notebooks and tape recorders. Use blogs to organize your notes and sources.

You write status reports, exception reports, issue reports.

You get to the heart of the story, wading through mundane, picking through the information overload.

You communicate clearly. Terse, unbiased, using your voice.

You tailor and route messages to each audience, frugal with their time.

You write headlines with impact, that drive decisions.

You tell stories that create project cohesion, that explain the visions, the plot twists. The truth.  

If that's not journalism...

 

[a klog apart]

This is a part of what an engaging curriculum should look like in our classrooms. Learning should not begin and end in classroom but should engage the world, the community and neighborhood in which one lives. In this model, students are using higher order thinking skills instead of the dummy downed curriculum model that is being proposed across the nation by political hacks. We need critical thinking citizens. Hmmmm
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