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Leigh Newton

An Introduction to Critical Thinking - 12 views

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shared by Leigh Newton on 02 Sep 10 - Cached
  • "It is strange that we expect students to learn, yet seldom teach them anything about learning."
  • "We should be teaching students how to think. Instead, we are teaching them what to think."
  • "Many 17-year-olds do not possess the 'higher-order' intellectual skills we should expect of them. Nearly 40 percent cannot draw inferences from written material; only one-fifth can write a persuasive essay; and only one-third can solve a mathematics problem requiring several steps."
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  • Critical thinking can be described as the scientific method applied by ordinary people to the ordinary world.
  • Critical thinking is a learned ability that must be taught. Most individuals never learn it. Critical thinking cannot be taught reliably to students by peers or by most parents. Trained and knowledgable instructors are necessary to impart the proper information and skills.
  • Critical thinking means correct thinking in the pursuit of relevant and reliable knowledge about the world.
  • Leigh Newton on 02 Sep 10
     
    ""We should be teaching students how to think. Instead, we are teaching them what to think.""
Leigh Newton

MyRead Guide - Three Stages Of Reading - 11 views

www.myread.org/guide_stages.htm

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shared by Leigh Newton on 12 Jul 10 - Cached
  • The Three Stages Of Reading strategy involves teaching students to delve into text. The Before Reading stage provides a scaffold for new concepts and vocabulary, promotes engagement and provides a means for prediction. The second stage, During Reading, allows students to integrate the knowledge and information they bring to the text with ‘new’ information in the text. The last stage, After Reading, allows students to articulate and process their understanding of what they have read and to think critically about the validity of the text.
  • Before Reading Stage
  • One of the purposes of Before Reading is to acknowledge the different experiences and background knowledge that students bring to a text, influencing how they will read and learn from a particular text. By knowing what students bring to a text the teacher can provide students with appropriate scaffolds to make links between what is already known and new information presented in a text.
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  • During Reading Stage
  • During this stage of the reading process students need structured means to integrate the knowledge and information they bring to the text with the ‘new or unknown’ within the text. They are processing the text and self-monitoring.
  • After Reading Stage
  • During the After Reading stage students articulate and process their understanding of what they have read and think critically about the validity of the text. Two tools that can be during this stage are Paired Reviews and Story Stars.
  • Leigh Newton on 12 Jul 10
     
    "The Three Stages Of Reading strategy involves teaching students to delve into text. The Before Reading stage provides a scaffold for new concepts and vocabulary, promotes engagement and provides a means for prediction. The second stage, During Reading, allows students to integrate the knowledge and information they bring to the text with 'new' information in the text. The last stage, After Reading, allows students to articulate and process their understanding of what they have read and to think critically about the validity of the text."
Cindy Marston

Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Printable Handbooks - 39 views

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shared by Cindy Marston on 04 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Dana Huff on 04 Sep 13
     
    Chicago Shakespeare Theater has printable handbooks for many of Shakespeare's plays. "Each of our entirely original teacher handbooks includes active, engaging teaching activities, 400 years of critical thinking, synopses, and much more. Teaching activities-all aligned with the Common Core State Standards-are designed to draw upon some of the same practices and techniques that actors use in the rehearsal process to break open Shakespeare's challenging language."
  • Cindy Marston on 04 Sep 13
     
    "Each of our entirely original teacher handbooks includes active, engaging teaching activities, 400 years of critical thinking, synopses, and much more. Teaching activities-all aligned with the Common Core State Standards-are designed to draw upon some of the same practices and techniques that actors use in the rehearsal process to break open Shakespeare's challenging language.  "
Van Piercy

The Writing Revolution - Peg Tyre - The Atlantic - 0 views

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shared by Van Piercy on 25 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • teaching the basics of analytic writing, every day, in virtually every class.
    • Van Piercy
      Van Piercy on 25 Mar 13
       
      So they were going to a WAC/WID curriculum? Makes sense.
  • a coherent, well-turned paragraph
  • the essay questions were just too difficult. Many would simply write a sentence or two and shut the test booklet.
    • Van Piercy
      Van Piercy on 25 Mar 13
       
      So they just didn't know how to think? No one had taught them to think. Cf. Philips-Exeter and the Harkness table.
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  • bad writing
    • Van Piercy
      Van Piercy on 25 Mar 13
       
      The centrality of writing
  • inability to translate thoughts into coherent, well-argued sentences, paragraphs, and essays
    • Van Piercy
      Van Piercy on 25 Mar 13
       
      Formalism?
  • on teaching the skills that underlie good analytical writing,
    • Van Piercy
      Van Piercy on 25 Mar 13
       
      The skills underlying good writing--not just formalism?
  • To be able to think critically and express that thinking, it’s where we are going,”
  • the importance of formal writing instruction
  • constructing personal narratives, memoirs, and small works of fiction—
  • write informative and persuasive essays.
  • David Coleman
    • Van Piercy
      Van Piercy on 25 Mar 13
       
      So wait, is Coleman the architect of New Dorp's success? No.
  • Students’ inability to translate thoughts into coherent, well-argued sentences, paragraphs, and essays was severely impeding intellectual growth in many subjects
  • teaching the basics of analytic writing, every day
  • DeAngelis
  • ­roughly 40 percent of students are poor, a third are Hispanic, and 12 percent are black
  • Her decision in 2008 to focus on how teachers supported writing inside each classroom was not popular.
Jen Sevart

StudySync - 0 views

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shared by Jen Sevart on 29 Jun 13 - Cached
  • Jen Sevart on 29 Jun 13
     
    Awesome platform for online reading, writing, and critical thinking. Great for Common Core.
Dana Huff

10 Ways to Promote Writing For an Authentic Audience - The Learning Network Blog - NYTi... - 7 views

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shared by Dana Huff on 24 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Dana Huff on 24 Mar 10
     
    Participating in an online discussion on events and issues in the news not only gives students a forum, but it also helps them build critical thinking, writing and news literacy skills and provides an opportunity to write for an authentic audience.
Dana Huff

Is Technology Producing A Decline In Critical Thinking And Analysis? - 0 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...090128092341.htm

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shared by Dana Huff on 01 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Dana Huff on 01 Feb 09
     
    Some holes in this study, I think, but interesting for the Diigo challenges.
Dana Huff

"The Lord of the Rings," "Twilight," and Young-Adult Fantasy Books : The New Yorker - 9 views

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shared by Dana Huff on 14 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Dana Huff on 14 Dec 11
     
    Adam Gopnik discusses the appeal of high fantasy in YA. He misses the mark, I think, in not discussing Joseph Campbell's influence in all of this, and he's condescending throughout much of the piece, but it's an interesting analysis aside from these two admittedly major issues.
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