DVDs of Old Sesame Street Labled “Adult’s Only.”
November 19, 2007
Virginia Heffernan – The Medium – Sesame Street – Television – Internet Video – Media – YouTube – New York Times
Say what? At a recent all-ages home screening, a hush fell over the room. “What did they do to us?” asked one Gen-X mother of two, finally. The show rolled, and the sweet trauma came flooding back. What they did to us was hard-core. Man, was that scene rough. The masonry on the dingy brownstone at 123 Sesame Street, where the closeted Ernie and Bert shared a dismal basement apartment, was deteriorating. Cookie Monster was on a fast track to diabetes. Oscar’s depression was untreated. Prozacky Elmo didn’t exist.
Nothing in the children’s entertainment of today, candy-colored animation hopped up on computer tricks, can prepare young or old for this frightening glimpse of simpler times. Back then — as on the very first episode, which aired on PBS Nov. 10, 1969 — a pretty, lonely girl like Sally might find herself befriended by an older male stranger who held her hand and took her home. Granted, Gordon just wanted Sally to meet his wife and have some milk and cookies, but . . . well, he could have wanted anything. As it was, he fed her milk and cookies. The milk looks dangerously whole.
The Key Learning Community: Cultivating Multiple Intelligences
November 19, 2007
This is an interesting read if you are in to educational theory, like what works and what doesn’t….
The Key Learning Community: Cultivating Multiple Intelligences
Key Learning Community opened its elementary school in 1987, its middle school in 1993, and its high school in 1999. In 2000, the three schools moved into a single building. Started by veteran teachers who were exploring creativity in children, Key Learning’s program is based on the theory of multiple intelligences, which holds that each individual possesses different forms of intelligence to greater or lesser degrees. Those intelligences are linguistic, musical, logical-mathematical, spatial, naturalist, body-kinesthetic, intrapersonal — such as insight — and interpersonal — such as social skills. This theory was pioneered by Harvard University professor Howard Gardner.
