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The Canadian Press: Students failing because of Twitter, texting and no grammar teaching - 25 views

www.google.com/...M5iO2uYbAZSE3AovHS__sJEnz407ww social-networking twitter Failure literacy issues
shared by Peter Beens on 01 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Almost a third of those students are failing.
  • For years there's been a flood of anecdotal complaints from professors about what they say is the wretched state of English grammar coming from some of their students.
  • the failure rate has jumped five percentage points in the past few years, up to 30 per cent from 25 per cent.
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  • Some students in public schools are no longer being taught grammar, she believes.
  • Emoticons, happy faces, sad faces, cuz, are just some of the writing horrors being handed in, say professors and administrators at Simon Fraser."Little happy faces ... or a sad face ... little abbreviations," show up even in letters of academic appeal, says Khan Hemani.
  • The Internet norm of ignoring punctuation and capitalization as well as using emoticons may be acceptable in an email to friends and family, but it can have a deadly effect on one's career if used at work.
  • "These folks are going to short-change themselves, and right or wrong, they're looked down upon in traditional corporations," notes Postman.
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IP Reports - 50 views

www.ncte.org/...ipreports copyright fair use NCTE
shared by Jennifer Clark Evans on 15 Jan 10 - Cached
  • copyright
  • also meant to protect the rights of users in order to promote creativity, innovation, and the spread of knowledge
  • not on how much of a piece of copyrighted work that we use, but instead on the ways in which we use it.
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  • fair use requires judgment.
    • Jennifer Clark Evans
      Jennifer Clark Evans on 16 Jan 10
       
      which is why it is so crucial to examine in our classrooms-helping our students develop fair judgment when using technoligies.
  • if the user “transforms” the material in some way, repurposing it in a new media composition, for instance, then fair use likely applies.
  • or did it just repeat the work for the same intent and value as the original?
  • Students’ use of copyrighted material should not be a substitute for creative effort.
  • Chris Sloan on 15 Jan 10
     
    from NCTE's Monthly Intellectual Property Reports, Troy Hicks writes: "In November 2008, educators were introduced to the "Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education," and our concept of how to deal with copyright issues in the classroom has, literally, been transformed. As the official policy of NCTE related to fair use in the teaching of English, it is a document worth our attention as students learn to comprehend and compose texts utilizing a variety of forms of media."
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SAS® Curriculum Pathways® Home Page - 37 views

www.sascurriculumpathways.com curriculum resources history SAS
shared by Chris Friberg on 12 May 10 - Cached
  • Roland O'Daniel on 12 May 10
     
    This resource is your online partner for teaching the core curriculum: English, history, science, mathematics, Spanish Learner-centered tools, lessons, and resources with measurable outcomes Interactive components that foster higher-order thinking skills Twenty-first century skills integrated into content
  • Chris Friberg on 16 May 11
     
    Lots of lessons, videos, interactive activities for high school major subjects
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How Many Spaces After A Period? : Grammar Girl :: Quick and Dirty Tips ™ - 102 views

grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/es-period-end-of-sentence.aspx teaching&learning blogs esl tesol eml426 grammar english englishusage relative_pronouns punctuation
shared by trisha_poole on 15 Jan 11 - Cached
  • trisha_poole on 15 Jan 11
     
    Quick clear discussion of spaces after periods and who/that for pets and animals.
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CAST: Center for Applied Special Technology - 117 views

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shared by Deborah Baillesderr on 15 Mar 11 - Cached
  • Denise Whiteman on 15 Mar 11
     
    WOW! Free tools related to literacy skills. The book builder tool has a section which reads a story (here's a link for "A Tortoise and a Hare") - They offer professional development and multimedia learning tools. ....."A Tortoise and a Hare" - just this one book offers an amazing variety of learning tools including: activating background knowledge, self assessment and reflection, collaboration and communication, action and expression, coping skills and strategies, challenge and support, recruiting interest, goal-centered learning, and designing flexible curriculum. Each of these skills has a specific activity within the story to address it (almost every page has a different one!). Every page also has a question to think about and respond to. At the end it discusses the moral in another activity and the story itself offers extension activities for follow-up. The story is read by a young girl, but there is also a text reader built in, a glossary, and word-by-word English/Spanish translations.
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  • msovoice on 16 Mar 11
     
    This is great. Good for educators, parents, and students. The book builder thing is cool!
  • Mark Trerotola on 22 May 12
     
    An educational research & development organization that works to expand learning opportunities for all individuals through Universal Design for Learning.
  • Marc Patton on 02 Mar 13
     
    CAST is an educational research & development organization that works to expand learning opportunities for all individuals through Universal Design for Learning.
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I'm a Teacher and After Tuesday, I Could Be Fired - 135 views

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shared by Lena Darnay on 15 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Lena Darnay on 15 Mar 11
     
    This is an interesting perspective blog post from Huffington Post sharing the view of education reform from a High School English teacher in California.
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Parem l'altra galta, també? - 10 views

www.ara.cat/...a-galta-tambe_0_542946611.html teaching english
shared by JOSEP M. ESPASA on 27 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Parem l'altra galta, també?
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litcirc - 116 views

iws.punahou.edu/...litcirc.html literaturecircles English teaching
shared by Heidi Beguin on 07 Oct 11 - Cached
  • Heidi Beguin on 07 Oct 11
     
    A good example of a lit circle in action
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Schools Debate Cursive Handwriting Instruction Nationwide - 67 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...andwriting-instr_n_842069.html cursive handwriting debate
shared by Steve Ransom on 31 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • she'd rather "move on" and focus class time on other topics.
  • choosing to teach cursive is not about aesthetics or preference, but about giving children the mental tools needed read English.
  • hreaded letter strokes help guide students' eyes left-to-right and definitively correlates reading with writing:
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  • "I absolutely get that we're moving in a world that's technology-based," she says. "But I'm of the old school that believes you can't forget where you came from to get where you're going. There could be a day the computer crashes."
  • Steve Ransom on 31 Mar 11
     
    "Schools Debate Cursive Handwriting Instruction Nationwide"
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Hey Milly!: iRead Using Evernote - 69 views

heymilly.blogspot.com/...iread-using-evernote.html literacy reading English Evernote folksonomy teaching blog education
shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 30 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 30 Apr 11
     
    In the past I've blogged about Evernote and it's great ability to collate notes and make them available to you online and on your mobile device. Today I had a great experience using Evernote in a different way - to collate and hold iRead recordings.
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Free Online Educational Games for Kids| Teaching kids with games| Math Puzzle & More. - 85 views

www.gudli.com literacy maths English numeracy EYFS KS1 young children game
shared by Martin Burrett on 04 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 04 Jul 11
     
    Gudli is a wonderful site packed with games and activities for young children, including maths and literacy resources. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Early+Years
  • Beth Panitz on 06 Jul 11
     
    I tried this out. Not good.
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First School Years - Teaching Resources for Young Learners - 89 views

www.firstschoolyears.com resources worksheets reading EYFS KS1 literacy English Maths numeracy science Geography history ict Art
shared by Martin Burrett on 09 Oct 11 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 09 Oct 11
     
    A good cross-curricular site with downloadable resources for teachers of young learners of 5-9 years old. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Early+Years
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ESL : Listening : Podcasts - 36 views

iteslj.org/...Podcasts listening podcast english esl flexiblelearning blendedlearning education web2.0 fbl INF506 EMT502 EML426 onlinelearning onlinetools lists learningdesign learning&teaching learningtools resources
shared by trisha_poole on 10 Jan 11 - Cached
  • trisha_poole on 10 Jan 11
     
    List of podcast resources for ESL teachers and learners. Can be used in many different educational settings.
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Principal: What I've learned about annual standardized testing - The Washington Post - 36 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...ut-annual-standardized-testing new-tests principal annual testing washington post
shared by Matt Renwick on 02 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • the Department of Education should not be “a national school board.
    • Matt Renwick
      Matt Renwick on 02 Feb 15
       
      Quote from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island)
  • to think that first-graders fluently reading would “cure poverty” is not only indefensible, it trivializes the great economic inequities that are the root cause of our nation’s greatest challenge.
  • I have witnessed schools move from progressive practices such as inclusion, to the grouping of special education students with ELLs and other struggling learners into “double period” classes where they are drilled to pass the test.
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  • There is now minimal support from the research community for the use of annual test scores in teacher evaluations, often referred to as VAM.
  • When teachers begin losing their jobs based on test scores, how easy will it be to attract excellent teachers to schools with high degrees of student mobility and/or truancy? Who will want to teach English language learners with interrupted education, or students with emotional disabilities that make their performance on tests unpredictable?
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