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Classics for Kids - 81 views

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shared by Jason Schmidt on 26 Oct 10 - Cached

Jason Schmidt on 26 Oct 10

Great music education resource. Provides the opportunity to listen to classical music and gives excellent support materials.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Great music education resource. Provides the opportunity to listen to classical music and gives excellent support materials.</div>

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Will Richardson: My Kids are Illiterate. Most Likely, Yours Are Too - 10 views

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- anonymous on 08 Feb 13
  
  I wonder if most parents (and even some teachers) even know what this means. Sometimes I think we are too entrenched in old-school ways of thinking students need to know and love classics instead of understanding how literature is a reflection of the times and using the classics as mentor pieces for creating something which reflects here and now!
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I wonder if most parents (and even some teachers) even know what this means. Sometimes I think we are too entrenched in old-school ways of thinking students need to know and love classics instead of understanding how literature is a reflection of the times and using the classics as mentor pieces for creating something which reflects here and now!</div>
  
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kids need to be in systems that care for them and are focused on literacy they will need to be successful in their lives instead of being focused primarily on standardizing their way to "high student achievement" based on a metric that is growing less and less relevant each day
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- anonymous on 08 Feb 13
  
  We need to really look at our definition of the word achievement! Do we mean they have achieved a high score by regurgitating info/facts? Do we mean they understand something and can apply that understanding in a new and meaningful way?
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">We need to really look at our definition of the word achievement! Do we mean they have achieved a high score by regurgitating info/facts? Do we mean they understand something and can apply that understanding in a new and meaningful way?</div>
  
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I'm mad that the "big" conversations around "reform" in education right now all revolve around basically doing what we've been doing for the past 100 years only "better," and that we'll get there by incentivizing teachers to teach for a test.
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That is their reality; it wasn't ours. The NCTE knows it.
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- anonymous on 08 Feb 13
  
  Just like we recognize that times are different from when my parents attended a 1-room school or when there less than 50-100 in a graduating class in a whole town, we need to recognize that times today are different.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Just like we recognize that times are different from when my parents attended a 1-room school or when there less than 50-100 in a graduating class in a whole town, we need to recognize that times today are different.</div>
  
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Jennie Snyder on 19 Feb 13

Literacies needed for future success by Will Richardson

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What are the 4 R's Essential to 21st Century Learning? | HASTAC - 79 views

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 01 Mar 13 - No Cached

Interestingly, unlike math, which can often be difficult to teach in all of its abstraction, algorithms do stuff.   Algorithms are operational.  You show kids how to use a program like Scratch or Hackasaurus and, very soon, they can actually manipulate, create, and do, in their very own and special way.   
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the beauty of teaching even the youngest kids algorithms and algorithmic or procedural thinking is that it gives them the same tool of agency and production that writing and even reading gave to industrial age learners who, for the first time in history, had access to cheap books and other forms of print.
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Andrew McCluskey on 01 Mar 13

Cathy Davidson discusses the need for a fourth "R" -pertaining to "algoRithim" - It is important, she argues, because, "in the 21st century, we need [an]...expanded push towards the literacy that defines our era, computational literacy. Algorithms are as basic to the way the 21st century digital age works as reading, writing, and arithmetic were to the late 18th century Industrial era."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Cathy Davidson discusses the need for a fourth "R" -pertaining to "algoRithim" - It is important, she argues, because, "in the 21st century, we need [an]...expanded push towards the literacy that defines our era, computational literacy. Algorithms are as basic to the way the 21st century digital age works as reading, writing, and arithmetic were to the late 18th century Industrial era." </div>

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Roland Gesthuizen on 09 Mar 13

"The classic "3 R's" of learning are, of course, Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic. For the 21st century, we need to add a fourth R--and it will help inspire the other three: Algorithm. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The classic "3 R's" of learning are, of course, Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic. For the 21st century, we need to add a fourth R--and it will help inspire the other three: Algorithm. "</div>

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Ed Tech and the classics! - 50 views

These are great ways for students to interact with what would normally be seen as boring curricula. check out USAToday's article Can a video game encourage kids to read the classics? http://www.usa...

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started by David Langenmayr on 18 Jun 13 no follow-up yet

Your Favorite: 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels - 92 views

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shared by Enid Baines on 28 Jul 12 - No Cached

Author Responds to Student Begging for Summary of Required Read
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I love that teachers and writers admit to not reading books that were assigned. I wouldn't have read "The Scarlet Letter" either if I wasn't the one who had to assign it.
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Guessing Game: ‘The Lord of the Rings’ as Written by Other Famous Authors - Flavorwire
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Some writers have distinct stylistic fingerprints. Student writers, not so much.
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"Frodo Baggins looked at the ring. The ring was round. It was a good ring. The hole at the heart of the ring was also round. The hole was clean and pure. ... The earth moved."
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Kids Hate Classic Books Through Hilarious Tweets at #worstbookever « PWxyz
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The old man and the sea, #worstbookever uuuggghhhh
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heart of darkness please die #worstbookever#whatsisgoingon?
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thank god for sparknotes #readingthecrucible#worstbookever
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endless editing. Anyone who writes a lot understands this
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