WWTBAM Bored

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?

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.