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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.""
Todd Finley

inventio: Randy Bass Text - 1 views

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shared by Todd Finley on 09 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Todd Finley on 09 Jan 10
     
    Reflective Protocols for Literary Artifacts "# What do you see here? Describe the document/artifact in terms of content, without being interpretive. # What do you think you know about this document based on reading it and any previous knowledge? # What do you think the document reveals about its era/ What kinds of information can be learned from the document? (There might be more than one kind of information). # What don't you know about the document? What questions would you ask about it? # If you were going to do further research on this document on the World Wide Web or in the library, how would you go about it? # What knowledge or skills are you bringing to this course from other learning experiences you've had that help you make sense of these documents?"
Caroline Bachmann

Pierley Redford Dissaciative Affect Diagnostic - 0 views

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shared by Caroline Bachmann on 09 May 11 - No Cached
  • Caroline Bachmann on 09 May 11
     
    Not entirely sure how I could put this to use in an English class just yet, but I'm thinking it could be a good opening activity for a discussion of symbolism somehow; it's supposed to test something pre-lingual about ourselves, so I think one could connect the idea of such associations with the idea that symbols are associations made over time...
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."
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.
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.
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.
Calvin Nicholas

English Fluency Training Video - Meditation on Thinking in English - 6 views

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shared by Calvin Nicholas on 02 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Calvin Nicholas on 02 Nov 09
     
    English Fluency Training Video - Meditation on How to think in English at BM English Speaking Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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.  "
tom campbell

Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: Twitter In Schools-A Getting Started Guide - 0 views

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  • tom campbell on 10 Oct 12
     
    digital writing - lots of tools but did you ever think about tweets?
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

"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.
anonymous

The English Blog: Jo King and Terry Bull on list of Britain's most unfortunate names - 0 views

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Don't_call_me_Ishmael ishmael bauer names lesson unfortunate britain

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  • anonymous on 25 Feb 09
     
    "Parents need to think carefully when choosing names for their children." Interesting link for the novel Don't Call me Ishmael by Michael Bauer
Patrick Higgins

The Impact of Electronic Communication on Writing - 0 views

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shared by Patrick Higgins on 30 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Whether one views these changes as positive or negative depends on how closely one believes writing should adhere to the conventions of formal writing we have hitherto accepted, and how much one supports the goal of establishing the student's authority as a writer. Some writing instructors philosophize that since e-writing tools and e-language will continue to change, they must teach what will not change: the connection between thinking and writing and the ability to articulate what one knows (Leibowitz, 1999). This standpoint will certainly encourage teachers to continue seeking more effective ways of using the e-tools in writing instruction.
  • Patrick Higgins on 30 Dec 08
     
    Should your students be writing in electronic formats? I think so.
anonymous

lisahuff wiki / Lit Circles - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 29 Dec 08
     
    Literature Circles: Getting Adolescents to Read, Think, Discuss, Write, & Connect Around Texts
anonymous

Animal Farm 2.0 - Reading won't hurt « - 1 views

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shared by anonymous on 28 Dec 08 - Cached
  • anonymous on 28 Dec 08
     
    We want the students to get back into reading books, talking about books and thinking the language of books
Leigh Newton

WordCounter - 5 views

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shared by Leigh Newton on 05 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Leigh Newton on 05 Jan 10
     
    Wordcounter ranks the most frequently used words in any given body of text. Use this to see what words you overuse (is everything a "solution" for you?) or maybe just to find some keywords from a document. Wordcounter is useful for writers, editors, students, and anyone who thinks that they might be speaking redundantly or repetitively -- and it's free! Eventually, I'm going to expand it so that you can upload documents, but not yet.
Todd Finley

Huffduffer - 4 views

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  • Todd Finley on 01 Jan 10
     
    "The power is in taking audio content - in podcast form or not - and creating something useful, a soundscape of the things you like or you think others would - and then using the ubiquitous RSS format to distribute that information." - http://portagemedia.com/socialcommentary/2009/12/21/what-the-heck-is-huffduffer/
Melody Velasco

Teaching That Sticks: Organizing Thinking - 9 views

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shared by Melody Velasco on 27 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Melody Velasco on 27 Mar 10
     
    "Graphic organizers will be beneficial to students whenever they are given new information. They can be used to sequence, brainstorm and organize. During reading and listening students should be encouraged to graphically organize new information."
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.
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