Many of you know that I've been participating in the NASAOK Space Grant Consortium's STELLAR Mentorship Program. If you know someone in Oklahoma that is an education major, please share my recruitment video for this wonderful opportunity! https://t.co/54uluExDjd
Many kids (and adults) today feel just as hopeless as I did, are just as angry as I was, and are just as socially awkward as I used to be. Create a place for them to belong, even if it has to be ONLINE. Even on your worst day, you can be a student's best hope.
To see how modern storytellers of all ages can write their own star stories, check out https://t.co/1qUuIWTSRQ to read the story of "Hoot, The Owl." @DorOKSG
Here I am with my girl Andromeda. According to Greek Mythology, The goddess Athena placed Andromeda, her husband Perseus, and her parents in the stars so the story of Perseus and his bravery saving Andromeda from a sea monster would always be remembered. @DorOKSG
It was too cloudy to see Andromeda, but cool to hold the constellation card up where she should be and backlight it with the iPad to shine through the punch holes. We found Canis to the south of us using Sirius as a ref point. @DorOKSG
Tonight I played around with Star Walk 2 again. I found out it plays music! I turned the speakers up and thought about how the music represents the dramatic dance the constellations perform every night as they “move” through the sky. @DorOKSG
With GoSkyWatchPlanetarium I can stargaze even on cloudy nights! Look at that cool planet lineup (Mercury, Saturn, Jupiter, and Pluto)on the horizon right next to my birth sign!
I’ll let you in on a secret. I have a doctorate in education, but the field’s basically just a 100 years old. We don’t really know what we’re doing. Our scholarly understanding of how learning happens is like astronomy 2000 years ago.
Most classroom practice is astrology.