Group items tagged

New York State education officials, admitting that the state's annual tests were not properly measuring student proficiency, released results Wednesday showing that more than half of New York City students were failing to meet state standards in reading, at a time when Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg boasted that more that more than two-thirds of city's students were reading at grade level.

This is a best practices example of Wikispaces for an English course or a reading club. This looks like the 21st Century skills and project based learning we have been toying around with

Interesting thoughts on collaboration, copyright, and web-based writing. Also, the links to "popular stories" all look interesting!

I knew then that the book's migration to the digital realm would not be a simple matter of trading ink for pixels, but would likely change the way we read, write and sell books in profound ways. It will make it easier for us to buy books, but at the same

This is an example of a book review that I had my students annotate together. Here are the instructions I gave them: This is an example of a book review. Use your Diigo toolbar to highlight and comment on the review. Focus on stylistic and organizational choices that the writer makes, the voice that she develops, and the content that she covers. We will use this as a model for book reviews that we will write about our independent reads.

On the one hand/on the other hand - Promotion of the language, great; promotion of body art - de gustibus non disputandum est. Sed hoc modo possumus promovere saltem usum linguae ut commentarium faciamus de rebus currentibus in actis diurnis. Et, sine dubio, homines praeclari habent maximum momenti.

It was once true that after the school day ended at 3:30, schools rarely, if ever, had any response to behaviors that occurred. However, now, everyone - policy makers, educators, and parents - needs to understand that education is 24/7 and any approach taken to mitigate and/or ultimately improve digital learning with students needs to start from that basic understanding of time and space. Efforts to empower must be community, parent and school-based. Read report, reflect and answer the following questions: What stage school do you think we are now? What stage school are we striving to become?

This is one of the best articles I've read on why people blog. Great ideas and great writing.

Read the 14 page "Exceutive Summary PDF" to get a view of the national plan. Will Richardson mentioned this during our morning session. Enjoy!

A student sent this to me from Yale. The American Scholar is a great resource. This suggests reasons for why students are not selecting English as their majors anymore.

English Teachers: To tempt you further to read this amazing article: "But we can, we must, do better. At stake are the books themselves and what they can mean to the young. Yes, it is just a literary tradition. That's all. But without such traditions, civil societies have no compass to guide them. That boy falling out of the sky is not to be neglected."