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A list of 12 tech tools that support the common core--and examples of different websites for each tool.

A list of 12 tech tools that support the common core--and examples of different websites for each tool.

May share this infographic with students--so few take notes! Maybe this will convince them when I cannot.

An anti-prescriptivist English teacher friend sent this to me. It speaks to our collective fear of making mistakes in emails, as well as our sometimes misplaced anger at students for "text-speak."

I had a few seniors who used ebooks for Swallows of Kabul. I watched them struggle through the timed essay test--they couldn't find the quotes they were looking for. I also noticed that their reading quizzes were lower than on their previous novels. Coincidence? Senior slide??

This is a fairly succinct summary of the recent research on multitasking that a blogger posted in Psychology Today.

If this man lived in F451, he'd be hanging out with Granger and company.

Keep reading until page 2--teachers start recognizing students' problems comprehending basic conjunctions and inability to communicate in complex sentences. Much of their progress seems to come from explicitly helping students write more complex sentences. "For years, nothing seemed capable of turning around New Dorp High School's dismal performance-not firing bad teachers, not flashy education technology, not after-school programs. So, faced with closure, the school's principal went all-in on a very specific curriculum reform, placing an overwhelming focus on teaching the basics of analytic writing, every day, in virtually every class."

This is really interesting! I have been reading similar suggestions in Burke, Gallagher, and others that, while not as prescriptive, certainly endorse explicit modeling of sentence types and offering sentence stems for student practice.

"When people - adults as well as children - spend hours on email or Facebook, they are in fact reading a huge amount. The problem is, it is usually self-centred, low-brow stuff. It's not that reading is in decline; it's that good reading is. And difficult reading, too - not always the same thing."