Just about everyone knows someone who has been bullied — because of some difference in ways big and small. Understandably, though, many victims are reluctant to speak about their experiences. The staff of tb-two found some students willing to share their stories. Check out Bully Pulpit and share your thoughts regarding using this stories (the website or the tb-two print copies) in your classroom with us here on the NIE Blogging Zone.

'Bully' film sparks national dialogue with in-your-face reality of harmed students and families: A hard-hitting movie that just reached theaters shows daily school bullying in all its vivid meanness. Cruel behavior fills Bully, a documentary (nonfiction film) that shows the impact on five tormented students and their families in Georgia, Iowa, Texas, Mississippi and Oklahoma during the 2009-10 school year. Check out our lessons in the Front Page Talking Points section of our website. Let us know your thoughts about the movie, lessons and topic here on the NIE Blogging Zone

The Education Week Blog, hosted by Edweek.org notes asks how often you use technology in the classroom.

"Giving students a personalized learning experience can be crucial to improving education, and the use of technology can make it easier and less time-consuming for teachers to accomplish this. Students learn best in different ways and technology can give them an opportunity to access information in the way that best suits them—through text, video, or hands-on learning, for example. Automated data collection can also help teachers gather information about how students learn and then they can adjust their teaching based on that data to address students’ strengths and weaknesses."
 

Do you use technology in your classroom? Are you having the students read the digital edition of the Tampa Bay Times in class, or are you assigning it for homework? If not, why? We want to know your thoughts. Share them here on the NBZ.

Times Columnist John Romano writes, "Maybe that's because prayer, by itself, is far from being the problem. It is those who would use it as an instrument, or even a weapon, for selfish purposes." Romano's column, "Prayer isn't the problem, but panderers sure are," is in today's Tampa Bay Times. You can read it here on Tampabay.com. What are your thoughts about the bill and allowing prayer in school? Do you think this will be a difficult situation to manage at the classroom, school or district level? Share your thoughts here.