{"id":1519,"date":"2010-03-10T09:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T09:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/03\/lost-episode-for-educators\/"},"modified":"2010-03-10T09:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T09:13:00","slug":"lost-episode-for-educators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/03\/lost-episode-for-educators.html","title":{"rendered":"LOST: Episode for Educators"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_BtqUSG7RCA0\/S5eo0JW287I\/AAAAAAAAAl0\/_49UYwuLWbI\/s1600-h\/teacher+vs+principal.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_BtqUSG7RCA0\/S5eo0JW287I\/AAAAAAAAAl0\/_49UYwuLWbI\/s320\/teacher+vs+principal.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>A colleague mentioned on Facebook that last night\u2019s episode of LOST, \u201cDr. Linus\u201d, may be of particular interest to educators and administrators \u2013 or at the very least, indicates the tensions that sometimes exist between the two. Outdated equipment in the science classroom \u2013 where have I heard that before? They even mentioned issues of <em>parking<\/em> which I\u2019m guessing are not issues limited to any one campus or educational institution. <\/p>\n<p>I thus wanted to give\u00a0teachers and\u00a0professors,\u00a0principals and deans and other administrators who read this blog (or who\u00a0read the posts from it on Facebook), a chance to discuss the specific issues related to education which came up in the last episode.<\/p>\n<p>Discuss!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-9049799073564276493?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A colleague mentioned on Facebook that last night\u2019s episode of LOST, \u201cDr. Linus\u201d, may be of particular interest to educators and administrators \u2013 or at the very least, indicates the tensions that sometimes exist between the two. Outdated equipment in the science classroom \u2013 where have I heard that before? 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