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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Steve Ransom

Steve Ransom

The Most Important Lesson Schools Can Teach Kids About Reading: It's Fun - Jeffrey Wilh... - 42 views

  • pleasure is not incidental to reading—it’s essential
  • experience the pleasure of entering a story world
  • The pleasure of play is what readers experience when they become lost in a book
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  • not privilege intellectual pleasures, the characteristic province of school
  • You can sort of help yourself change in that way, and when you really admire a character in a book who’s really brave and stuff, you kind of can idolize them and become more like them. So it’s not really learning about yourself, it’s learning about what you could be.
  • teachers of reading and literature need to make pleasure more central to our practice. 
  • Our data also convinced us of the importance of choice
  • Students should have regular opportunities to behave the way adult readers do and choose their own reading.
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    Suggests that when we over-emphasize the intellectual pleasures of reading, we kill the needed joy of reading in many students.
Steve Ransom

ASCD Express 9.03 - How to Take Two-Column Notes - 68 views

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    Great example of how a tool like a smartphone with video can be used to create really clear instructional segments to support of flip instruction. It doesn't have to be fancy... only clear and developmentally appropriate.
Steve Ransom

Cyber Security eBook Helps Parents and Teachers Educate Teens About Cyber Safety (Free ... - 56 views

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    Great resource for parents, teens and teachers!! Free eBook (PDF)
Steve Ransom

Why taking choir kept me from being a Valedictorian: Austin Channell at TEDxColumbus - ... - 36 views

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    My own kids already feeling these pressures. It robs them of experience, well-rounded education, following their passions, and robs the Arts programs.
Steve Ransom

SmartBlog on Education - Bullying prevention from the ground up - SmartBrief, Inc. Smar... - 37 views

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    One of the best articles I've read on combatting the many forms of bullying in schools.
Steve Ransom

Students Battle School Districts Over First Amendment Rights On Social Media - 0 views

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    Seems more reactionary and controlling. Stronger vision, leadership, and willingness to model social media use and engage students in these spaces likely would help a gread deal here. Conversation leads to learning/understanding. Harsh discipline simply leads to compliance much of the time.
Steve Ransom

Teaching for Understanding (Harvard GSE) on Vimeo - 90 views

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    Great video to watch and think about what learning should look like
Steve Ransom

What to do about laptops in lectures? - Daniel Willingham - 79 views

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    What to do about laptops in lectures?
Steve Ransom

DebateGraph - 53 views

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    DebateGraph lets you explore and view individual debate and dialogue maps (and the graph of interrelated maps) through different types of bubble, box, tree and outline views that have complementary strengths, and that are accessed via the Views menu (above the map).
Steve Ransom

Peter T. Coleman, PhD: The Consequences of Our Games - 2 views

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    A great piece worth the time to reflect on. Mindfulness needs to be practiced frequently.
Steve Ransom

The Impact of Digital Tools on Student Writing and How Writing is Taught in Schools | P... - 82 views

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    Asked to assess their students' performance on nine specific writing skills, teachers tended to rate their students "good" or "fair" as opposed to "excellent" or "very good." Students received the best ratings on their ability to "effectively organize and structure writing assignments" and their ability to "understand and consider multiple viewpoints on a particular topic or issue." Teachers gave students the lowest ratings when it comes to "navigating issues of fair use and copyright in composition" and "reading and digesting long or complicated texts."
Steve Ransom

Introducing Flubaroo 3.0! - Welcome to Flubaroo - 123 views

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    Nice updates to the Flubaroo google docs script!
Steve Ransom

Slicereader - Easy reading for Mac - 45 views

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    A great, free text chunking app for those who need textual information processing accommodations or those with short attention spans or distractability... Mac-only
Steve Ransom

Talentism: My Son Won't Do His Homework - 2 views

  • Every employer I know of (and I would assume that you are no exception Colin) wants engaged employees who are passionate about their jobs. Most employers do not want employees who hate their work but persist through it anyway. It is a fallacy to believe that we are teaching our kids that the heart of innovative capability (and therefore their future job prospects) is best served by doing something you hate for an extended period of time no matter the consequences.
  • But I have to focus on what will get them work, even if that will hurt them, society, the companies that hire them and everyone around them.
  • "Why are you so convinced that my son is going to be an academic or an investment banker?" Because as far as I can tell, those are the only two things that schools prepare kids to be.
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  • and that the stuff that he loves (art and music and video games) will be a great future for him and the stuff he hates (math and science) is something he will never compete in, never have a chance at.
  • But school doesn’t care, because school does not have the objective of helping my son produce the maximum amount of value in the future that he will probably encounter. School cares about ensuring that he knows how to take tests, follow directions and can do math that he will never have to care about for the rest of his life.
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    Most employers do not want employees who hate their work but persist through it anyway. It is a fallacy to believe that we are teaching our kids that the heart of innovative capability (and therefore their future job prospects) is best served by doing something you hate for an extended period of time no matter the consequences.
Steve Ransom

Great lecture: what was it about again? | News | Times Higher Education - 55 views

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    Strangely, no surprises. We know full well that unless the learners DO something to process and make sense of information, all they end up with are the lecurer's notes, not learning.
Steve Ransom

For Public Schools, Twitter Is No Longer Optional - Forbes - 0 views

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    Good points, but completely misses the most powerful part of this - learning with others. but, from a branding expert, I guess this is primarily what they are concerned with - protecting and promoting one's brand. The sad part in this is that for some admins, it might actually take a piece in Forbes by a marketing person to catch their attention rather than the countless educators who having been promoting this message... and more.
Steve Ransom

What Is Innovation Day and Why Should You Care? - 34 views

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    Love it... should be more than a single day, of course.
Steve Ransom

SpeEdChange: The Church Task Believers - 6 views

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    If you want to have your thinking pushed regarding teaching and technology, Ira Socol's blog here is one to subscribe to. This post is a prime example that challenges many of our assumptions about learning, school, and technology.
Steve Ransom

Principal fires security guards to hire art teachers - and transforms elementary school... - 62 views

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    Funny... when you treat children with dignity and create beauty around them, they tend NOT to act like criminals. Create a school environment that's like a prison, and...
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