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jodi tompkins

Tools for Reading, Writing, & Thinking - 82 views

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  • jodi tompkins on 16 Dec 09
     
    Tools to help students engage in rigorous thinking, organize complex ideas, and scaffold their ineractions with texts. Not to be used simply as worksheets or activities for their own sake.
Deborah Baillesderr

About Us | Explore MIT App Inventor - 48 views

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mit appinventor app inventor coding graphical_interface

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  • Deborah Baillesderr on 05 Dec 15
     
    "MIT App Inventor is an innovative beginner's introduction to programming and app creation that transforms the complex language of text-based coding into visual, drag-and-drop building blocks. The simple graphical interface grants even an inexperienced novice the ability to create a basic, fully functional app within an hour or less."
Martin Burrett

How to Improve Literacy by @GuruTeaching - 20 views

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literacy English

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  • Martin Burrett on 31 Jan 18
     
    "Knowing how to improve literacy is crucial if we are to improve the life chances of our students. The attainment gap between highly literate students and their less literate peers is stark. Add to that the complexity of examination questions and the texts that often accompany them and you have a perfect storm."
Deborah Baillesderr

Newsela | Nonfiction Literacy and Current Events - 22 views

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  • rooncl on 01 Feb 15
     
    News for kids including quizzes
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  • aaxtell on 12 Nov 15
     
    News articles and opinion pieces available at different levels of text complexity.
  • aaxtell on 12 Nov 15
     
    News articles and opinion pieces available at different levels of text complexity.
  • Deborah Baillesderr on 17 Mar 20
     
    I've used this site for years. It is a great source for non-fiction articles and Newsela is offering free access till the end of this school year
Clint Heitz

This Is How The Way You Read Impacts Your Memory And Productivity - 17 views

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reading digital resources

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  • Studies have shown that taking notes by longhand will help you remember important meeting points better than tapping notes out on your laptop or smartphone. The reason for that could be that “writing stimulates an area of the brain called the RAS (reticular activating system), which filters and brings clarity to the fore the information we’re focusing on
  • says one explanation for the benefit of reading analog books may come down to something called metacomprehension deficit. “Metacomprehension refers to how well we are ‘in touch with,’ literally speaking, our own comprehension while reading,” says Mangen. “For instance, how much time do you spend reading a text in order to understand it well enough to solve a task afterwards?”
  • “Length does indeed seem to be a central issue, and closely related to length are a number of other dimensions of a text, e.g., structure and layout. Is the content presented in such a way that it is required that you keep in mind several occurrences/text places at the same time?” says Mangen. In other words, she says, complexity and information density may play a role in the importance of the medium providing the text.
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  • “It is not–and should not be–a question of either/or, but of using the most appropriate medium in a given situation, and for a given material/content and purpose of reading,”
  • As the study cited above mentions, like other digital readers, you probably think you are absorbing the information better than you actually are, and thus move through the book faster.A simple solution to this is to simply slow down and take more time reading the material, and you might absorb the information just as well as those who naturally take longer to read a paper book.
Kristin Testerman

Classes should do hands-on exercises before reading and video, Stanford researchers say - 25 views

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  • The research comes out as the idea of a "flipped classroom," in which students first watch videos or read texts and then do projects in the classroom, has been growing in popularity at colleges and graduate schools. The study's conclusion suggests that the current model of the flipped classroom should itself be flipped upside down. The researchers advocate the "flipped flipped classroom," in which videos come after exploration and not before.
    • Kristin Testerman
      Kristin Testerman on 15 Jan 15
       
      How is this different from what the "buzz" is right now in education? What do we do about this research?
  • may have applications in any field where teaching demands visualization and exploration of complex systems
  • Amy Roediger on 19 Jul 13
     
    A new study from the Stanford Graduate School of Education flips upside down the notion that students learn best by first independently reading texts or watching online videos before coming to class to engage in hands-on projects. Studying a particular lesson, the Stanford researchers showed that when the order was reversed, students' performances improved substantially.
  • Kristin Testerman on 15 Jan 15
     
    A new study from the Stanford Graduate School of Education flips upside down the notion that students learn best by first independently reading texts or watching online videos before coming to class to engage in hands-on projects. Studying a particular lesson, the Stanford researchers showed that when the order was reversed, students' performances improved substantially.
Maureen Greenbaum

The Web We Have to Save - Matter - Medium - 18 views

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Internet filter bubble

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  • , I’ve realized how much the hyperlink has been devalued, almost made obsolete.
  • Nearly every social network now treats a link as just the same as it treats any other object — the same as a photo, or a piece of text — instead of seeing it as a way to make that text richer. You’re encouraged to post one single hyperlink and expose it to a quasi-democratic process of liking and plussing and hearting: Adding several links to a piece of text is usually not allowed. Hyperlinks are objectivized, isolated, stripped of their powers.
  • Fewer users are directly checking dedicated webpages, instead getting fed by a never-ending flow of information that’s picked for them by complex –and secretive — algorithms.
anonymous

Curriculum21 - Annotexting - 62 views

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annotating

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  • We would also like to share this DISCUSSION RUBRIC (2007) that you can use as students submit annotations and begin to draw conclusions about what their evidence is pointing to.
    • Sharin Tebo
      Sharin Tebo on 11 Nov 14
       
      An idea or resource perhaps...
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 11 Nov 14
       
      Start off modeling what you expect students to do.  Then, move more toward asking students to look at a text with a certain set of questions in mind.  Finally, just share a simple short list of terms or words which will guide student reading/annotating.
  • These annotations, rather than being on paper, can be collected with different web tools so that students can collaborate
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    • anonymous
      anonymous on 11 Nov 14
       
      Great use of Diigo or Google documents!
  • Students submit their annotations via their smart phones or other digital devices, and then analyze each other’s notations collectively.  They could be looking for main ideas, thematic and literary elements, or big ideas from the work.   They could be looking for evidence of connections to other texts, their own experiences, or world issues. They could simply be searching for meaning to support them when reading complex texts.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 11 Nov 14
       
      Reading, analyzing, and collaborating about annotations helps open the eyes of readers and provides feedback which promotes even more thinking.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 11 Nov 14
       
      FABULOUS way to utilize Google docs and tools!
  • annotexting will allow students to engage with other audiences in tasks with an expanded purpose
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 11 Nov 14
       
      Anytime something is shared and ideas are discussed and shared, there seems to be more of a 'real-life' purpose for digging in and completing the task.
  • In order to get students to own this process, we have to relinquish some control. Let them think, let them make mistakes and respond. Let them draw conclusions even they are not the conclusions we would have drawn. We can be there to coach them through misconceptions.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 11 Nov 14
       
      Step back!  It is amazing to learn from the student's perspective.  Then, if the thinking is not focused toward the goal or objective of the teacher's lesson, a bit of guidance and coaching is all that is needed to steer students toward that goal/objective.
Sandy Dewey

Victor Reader Stream, the versatile, powerful DAISY player - 1 views

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  • Sandy Dewey on 09 Sep 12
     
    Download your favourite books and MP3s on your Stream and leave home with your library in the palm of your hand. This versatile, powerful DAISY-MP3 and NISO player lets you read and navigate through complex books, such as reference manuals and school books, as well as novels and magazines. You can also use its built in text to speech to read books in text format such as Bookshare. And thats not all there are many more functions, including an integrated microphone to record voice notes. No other DAISY player offers you so much in such a small package and at such an affordable price.
Cathie Howe

Not So Far, Far Away - 169 views

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  • Cathie Howe on 07 Apr 12
     
    An excellent resource Kit of ideas for exploring Persuasive texts through a Fairytale context
laeasu

The NCTE Definition of 21st Century Literacies - 53 views

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literacy 21stCenturySkills technology standards

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    • laeasu
      laeasu on 08 Dec 15
       
      Which of these practices do you do in college and in your life?
  • Develop proficiency and fluency with the tools of technology;Build intentional cross-cultural connections and relationships with others so to pose and solve problems collaboratively and strengthen independent thought;Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes;Manage, analyze, and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information;Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multimedia texts;Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments.
Kim Burroughs

Common Core resources · Mightybell - 7 views

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21stcenturyskills

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      Kim Burroughs on 14 Jul 12
       
      Text complexity and the common core - appendix A&B linked here.
melissa renko

Common Core State Standards Initiative | English Language Arts Standards | Science & Te... - 74 views

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  • trace the text’s explanation or depiction of a complex process, phenomenon, or concept
    • melissa renko
      melissa renko on 09 Aug 12
       
      added to the standard from grades 6-8
  • attending to special cases or exceptions defined in the text.
  • melissa renko on 09 Aug 12
     
    common core standards described for science embedded in the ELA standards
Margaret FalerSweany

Educational Leadership:Writing: A Core Skill:Teach Critical Thinking to Teach Writing - 48 views

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critical thinking writing skill

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  • critical thinking doesn't come easily for anyone
  • writing does not necessarily teach critical thinkin
  • the best way to help students learn critical thinking may be to actually teach it
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  • although writing and thinking may be linked, students don't learn to think just by learning to write; rather, to learn to write, they need to learn to think.
  • deniseahlquist on 16 Apr 14
     
    An excellent article on the challenges we all face in become better at thinking critically and writing well. I have found that most students do better presenting arguments in written form when they have engaged in in-depth discussion, as then questioning and peer responses can prompt deeper thinking and make real the need to both cite and explain evidence. The Shared Inquiry method used in Great Books programs provides a focus on open, interpretive questions that require students to make an defend claims about the meaning of complex texts. The model lessons suggest a sequence of activities that supports multiple close readings, collaborative discussions, and writing throughout the process.
trisha_poole

Using Reading Prompts to Encourage Critical Thinking | Faculty Focus - 118 views

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  • “Students can critically read in a variety of ways: When they raise vital questions and problems from the text, When they gather and assess relevant information and then offer plausible interpretations of that information, When they test their interpretations against previous knowledge or experience …, When they examine their assumptions and the implications of those assumptions, and When they use what they have read to communicate effectively with others or to develop potential solutions to complex problems.
  • Interpretation of evidence
  • Making connections
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  • Identification of problem or issue
  • Challenging assumptions
  • Making application
  • trisha_poole on 29 Feb 12
     
    A quick overview of using reading prompts to encourage critical thinking.
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