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Melody Velasco

Teacher Guides: Can You Trust the News? - 8 views

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shared by Melody Velasco on 21 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Melody Velasco on 21 Jun 10
     
    NewsTrust.net helps people find good journalism online. Each lesson takes about 45 minutes. During that time, we invite you and your students to read a work of journalism (news or opinion) and evaluate it for journalistic quality using NewsTrust review tools. Students will be asked to rate that story on a variety of criteria, such as: facts, fairness and sourcing (news); insights, information and style (opinion).
Rick Beach

What Percent? Tell The World What You Think! State your opinion and vote on polls! - 4 views

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shared by Rick Beach on 09 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Rick Beach on 09 Nov 09
     
    online users vote on their opinions on current issues or questions
jzitrin

Opinion | When We Consent, We Shouldn't Feel Terrible After, Right? - The New York Times - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...education-college-consent.html

language-gender-and-culture

shared by jzitrin on 24 Jan 23 - No Cached
  • jzitrin on 24 Jan 23
     
    Tricky, sophisticated. "Why did I say yes?"
Jenny Gilbert

The Most Comma Mistakes - NYTimes.com - 27 views

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Grammar comma punctuation

shared by Jenny Gilbert on 22 May 12 - No Cached
  • Patrick Higgins on 24 May 12
     
    Can't wait to read this!
Rick Beach

Back to school means back to testing | StarTribune.com - 1 views

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testing school teachers standardization

shared by Rick Beach on 12 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Rick Beach on 12 Sep 12
     
    This critique of excessive testing posits the need to recognize that we're not just "testing to the test," we're "teaching human beings."
Leigh Newton

Michelle's Blog - 0 views

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shared by Leigh Newton on 30 Jun 09 - Cached
  • This requires not only knowledge that people have thoughts that are different from our own (basic Theory of Mind concepts) but that they also can narrate a story across time and/or sequence so the reader can follow and make reasonable conclusions to avoid confusion (this is called narrative language). They also have to recognize that people move from ideas (gestalt or main idea) to thoughts (details). To help the reader the writer has to organize his information so that he introduces his idea and then supports it with a reasonable set of thoughts (details).
    • Leigh Newton
      Leigh Newton on 30 Jun 09
       
      Big ideas are not enough by themselves - they need details in order that the reader can understand.
  • 1. Teach them how we brainstorm information related to the topic we are going to write about. Most 2nd grade students learn about "brainstorming" through the use of what are called, "graphic organizers". "visual organizers" or "mind maps". This lesson needs to be extended for our students and taught much more extensively.
  • 2. Learn to tell the difference between ideas or what we call in writing "main ideas" and how these are different from "details".
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  • 3. Work on pruning their thoughts they brainstorm by creating written outlines to serve as guidance for their work.4. For high school students, learn how to talk understand what an "opinion" is.
  • To motivate students to engage at this level of thinking and showing their thoughts by creating visual structures such as graphic organizers or visual outlines, we would provide them a grade for there production of these visual thinking supports. Thus, rather than receive a grade for the final written product, they would receive a grade for creating the graphic organizer and then the outline, etc.
  • By allowing them this time to work on thinking away from working producing written work allows all of us to re-focus and tune up the core skills of writing.
Todd Finley

Rescuing The Reporters « Clay Shirky - 4 views

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News Biopsy shirky

shared by Todd Finley on 03 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Rescuing The Reporters Last week I gave a talk on newspapers at the Shorenstein center. (They did an amazing job with the transcript, including annotating the talk with a remarkable amount of linking.) During the talk, I ran through various strategies for funding local reporting, including an idea I first saw articulated by Steve Coll that reporters should become employees of non-profit entities. After the talk, I decided to do a “news biopsy,” as a way of thinking about Coll’s idea. I wanted to see how much newspaper content was what Alex Jones calls the iron core of news — reporters going after facts — and how much was “other stuff” — opinion columns, sports, astrology, weather, comics, everything that was neither a hard news story or an ad.
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