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Teaching Publishing is a 21st Century Literacy | DMLcentral - 11 views

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    Posit the value of publishing students' writing as a 21st Century literacy
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Kyle Tavares is a Best Jewelry Designer - 0 views

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    After sourcing her pink diamond in Antwerp and setting her sparkling gem in platinum in London's Hatton Garden - I was hooked.
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Kyle Tavares is a High Quality Jewelers and Diamonds Designer - 0 views

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    Now I wish to share my knowledge with other potential gem lovers and buyers of beautiful jewellery. I truly love what I do and I bring my heart and soul to every piece I work on.
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Kyle Tavares is a Top Career in the Jewellery & Designer - 0 views

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    I decided to peruse a career in the field of jewellery and precious gemstones and I am studying all I can about it.
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The Writing Revolution - Peg Tyre - The Atlantic - 0 views

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  • “Who could have known that, unless someone taught them?”
    • Van Piercy
       
      Or unless you read more.
  • Some writing experts caution that championing expository and analytic writing at the expense of creative expression is shortsighted.
  • formulaic instruction
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  • foster creativity
  • to find their voice
  • The school’s success suggests that perhaps certain instructional fundamentals—fundamentals that schools have devalued or forgotten—need to be rediscovered, updated, and reintroduced. And if that can be done correctly, traditional instruction delivered by the teachers already in classrooms may turn out to be the most powerful lever we have for improving school performance after all.
  • Research has shown that thinking, speaking, and reading comprehension are interconnected and reinforced through good writing instruction
  • writing
  • that I could say and write the things I know
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The Writing Revolution - Peg Tyre - The Atlantic - 0 views

  • teaching the basics of analytic writing, every day, in virtually every class.
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      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.
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      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
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      The centrality of writing
  • inability to translate thoughts into coherent, well-argued sentences, paragraphs, and essays
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      Formalism?
  • on teaching the skills that underlie good analytical writing,
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      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
       
      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.
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Qwiki - 4 views

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    Qwiki allows users to learn more about a variety of topics through multimedia and storytelling. Users can also contribute content to make Qwiki even better.
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    Interesting but it seems like they are just lifting content from Wikipedia. I'll have to check it again. Thanks, it is nice looking.
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Public Domain Self-Help Books for the Enlightened Mind - 0 views

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    I'm always looking for great self-help books and there tons of new ones getting released all the time. Sometimes we forget about all the great old self help books out there which a lot of the newer ones are philosophically based on. The cool thing is, many of them are old enough that they actually are in the public domain, so you can usually find them for free. This page compiles a list of some of the best and where to find them online in the public domain. Woo!
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Notable Sentences...for Imitation and Creation - 37 views

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    I think there is a lot to be said for this approach. I wish that more folks contributed to the database. Thanks for posting this, Emily.
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    A website that has a compilation of well written sentences/ excerpts from novels and short stories that could be used as mentor texts in a language arts/ English classroom.
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Emily Quinn: The way we think about biological sex is wrong | TED Talk - 0 views

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    Great opening! ("I have a vagina." Also balls! She's intersex.)
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