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"Close Reading and Argument Writing - Authentically Across the Curriculum 7/16/2015 0 Comments Close reading of informational texts and non-fiction articles is not - and should not be - reserved for language arts classes. Every content area would be immensely enhanced if science teachers, social studies teachers, physical education teachers, welding teachers, woodworking teachers (in other words, "all technical subjects," as Common Core states) would not push aside the textbook, but instead embrace it, along with content area and trade articles. Students would then simultaneously learn how to dissect the readings while gaining knowledge in these content areas. What often happens is that teachers feel that students can't handle the text books or can't read the articles independently - and often that is true. However, when teachers instead go into a survival mode, of sorts, and read aloud the whole chapter or article or summarize it with a slideshow, it ends up doing a disservice to students - students are not learning HOW to read these complex texts. They are not learning how to acquire the information on their own. They are not being given the skills to read the sometimes intricate information within a particular content area or even within their possible future trade. They are not being given the opportunity to read, understand, articulate, and discuss or even debate topics within their area of study. Teachers sometimes feel that they can't do these things with students because they are not language arts teachers, or because they don't have time, or simply because they don't know how. Alternatively, a simple solution is to let go of the control and let students do…..with the guidance called close reading. Close reading is a guided reading approach. It is guided because 1) the close reading strategy is reserved for complex texts that are often too high for students to be left with independently and 2) students don't use close reading strateg

"A partir de preguntas como éstas, podemos empezar a hablar de hacking urbano como una manifestación cultural que "reacciona a los cambios en las estructuras del espacio público, la movilidad y la comunicación en la ciudad". Hackear la ciudad es la actividad principal de muchos artistas que, más que "intervenir" (como en el graffiti), interfieren, cambiando las funciones y utilidades originales de las infraestructuras y equipamientos urbanos para que cumplan objetivos distintos a los planificados."

"WordPress has many uses that most of us are exceedingly familiar with. It can be a blog, business website, art portfolio, e-commerce store and so much more. Over the last few years another use case has become more and more popular: WordPress as a Learning Management System (LMS)."

"A state-of-the-art supercomputer simulation indicates that a feedback loop between global warming and cloud loss can push Earth's climate past a disastrous tipping point in as little as a century. On a 1987 voyage to the Antarctic, the paleoceanographer James Kennett and his crew dropped anchor in the Weddell Sea, drilled into the seabed, and extracted a vertical cylinder of sediment. In an inch-thick layer of plankton fossils and other detritus buried more than 500 feet deep, they found a disturbing clue about the planet's past that could spell disaster for the future. Lower in the sediment core, fossils abounded from 60 plankton species. But in that thin cross-section from about 56 million years ago, the number of species dropped to 17. And the planktons' oxygen and carbon isotope compositions had dramatically changed. Kennett and his student Lowell Stott deduced from the anomalous isotopes that carbon dioxide had flooded the air, causing the ocean to rapidly acidify and heat up, in a process similar to what we are seeing today."

"Hay quienes dicen que el movimiento de la Cultura Libre favorece la piratería. Otros lo acusan de matar de hambre a quienes hace arte y cultura y no falta quien lo culpa de la escasez de creaciones culturales en este siglo. Todos son mitos. Solo eso, mitos que impiden el acceso a la cultura y al conocimiento de forma libre y abierta. Ninguno es cierto e iremos desmitificando, uno por uno, hasta completar los 10 más repetidos. Esperamos que al final de esta guía te sumes, como persona, como organización o como medio de comunicación, a esta revolución que tiene como objetivo democratizar el acceso al conocimiento. "

Evolución en el tiempo de los autoretratos de Picasso

Evolución en el tiempo de los autoretratos de Picasso