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David Hurst

Free Online Grammar Check, Plagiarism, Spelling, and More | PaperRater - 210 views

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Writing grammar education plagiarism

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  • Wayne Holly on 21 Jan 11
     
    PaperRater.com analyzes documents immediately, 24/7, in real-time. We provide in depth analysis to help the student improve grammar and writing. Some of our features include:Plagiarism DetectionAuto GraderSpelling and Grammar CheckStyle and Word Choice AnalysisReadability StatisticsTitle ValidationVocabulary Builder tool
  • Kate Pok on 15 Dec 11
     
    A free plagiarism and writing checker
  • David Hurst on 21 Sep 14
     
    Free (up to 6 pages of text) online grammar/spellcheck/etc. Based on a couple sample essays I uploaded, its advice is pretty spot on. Especially nice for online students who can't be in face-to-face workshops.
Marc Patton

The Reading & Writing Project - 6 views

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Teacher_Resources Teaching_Ideas Language_Arts

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  • Marc Patton on 29 Jun 12
     
    Visit any school affiliated with the TCRWP and you'll immediately see why the organization is a success. Pull your chair alongside and listen to the children's memoirs and essays, lean-in and listen to their literature circles and read aloud conversations and you'll glimpse why this work has captured the hearts and minds of thousands of educators the world over.
Roland Gesthuizen

Should students memorise their essays? - 15 views

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student learning memory examination assessent testing SMH

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  • There is a moral dimension to the process. It is one thing to memorise an answer which you have prepared, but it is wrong to present an answer prepared by someone else.
  • Answer memorisation is inevitable in high-stakes and somewhat predictable examinations.
  • High-stakes tests always corrupt teaching, learning and curriculum.
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  • The reality is that many questions are answered by a process of ''recognition of sameness''.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 16 Oct 10
     
    "Examiners will struggle because the HSC exams have a degree of predictability. They are based on known content and skills. They use the same, known format. If the exam drifts too far from past norms people scream and the media vent complaints of unfairness. The consequence is that parts of exams are readily exploited by prepared answers."
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 16 Oct 10
     
    Intersting implications when we rely on state wide examinations to assess students.
Tony Baldasaro

Does homework work? - David Shenk - 0 views

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homework education

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  • Tony Baldasaro on 15 Sep 09
     
    School's back, and so is Big Homework. Here's what my 7th grade daughter has to do tonight: 1 Math review sheet 1 Science essay French vocab for possible quiz History reading and questionairre English reading and note-taking About two hours, give or take. This is considered a pretty light load, so as to ramp up gently. Over the next few weeks, it will get up to three hours or more.
April Grybosky

ReadWriteThink: Student Materials: Persuasion Map - 1 views

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  • April Grybosky on 27 Jul 09
     
    The Persuasion Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to map out their arguments for a persuasive essay or debate.
Kristen Corcoran

Jonathan Swift - A Modest Proposal - 0 views

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A Modest Proposal Jonathan Swift

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  • Kristen Corcoran on 18 Sep 09
     
    Jonathan Swift's satirical essay from 1729, where he suggests that the Irish eat their own children.
Florence Dujardin

Burns - 37 views

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genre note-taking HE meaning-making

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  • Florence Dujardin on 24 Mar 10
     
    This paper explores the role that notemaking strategies can play as part of an emancipatory pedagogy designed to empower students. We will argue that being taught active notemaking is fundamental in enabling students to use information with confidence and thus that notemaking allows students to gain a voice (Bowl, 2005; Burns et al., 2006) within their own education. Rather than taking a psychological approach to notemaking, we suggest that notemaking allows students to take ownership of ideas and concepts in powerful ways (Gibbs, 1994 cited Burns and Sinfield, 2004), ways that reinforce understanding and build knowledge. These processes and practices can essentially help students to learn what they want to learn - and, pragmatically, to write essays that are adequately researched and correctly referenced (Burns and Sinfield, 2004). The final focus will be on the collaborative development of NoteMaker, a Reusable Learning Object (RLO) designed for use across the university - and across the sector.
sha towers

Free Online Course Materials | MIT OpenCourseWare - 86 views

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education mit learning OpenCourseWare E-Learning Courses resources

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  • trisha_poole on 06 Jan 11
     
    Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT. No registration required.
  • sha towers on 13 Apr 11
     
    MIT's opencourseware feels like the logical outgrowth of Illich's "learning webs" (from Deschooling essay) 
Kate Pok

Writing in College - 1. Some crucial differences between high school and college writing - 55 views

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teaching writing essay

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  • you will be asked to analyze the reading, to make a worthwhile claim about it that is not obvious (state a thesis means almost the same thing), to support your claim with good reasons, all in four or five pages that are organized to present an argument .
  • They expect to see a claim that would encourage them to say, "That's interesting. I'd like to know more."
  • They expect to see evidence, reasons for your claim, evidence that would encourage them to agree with your claim, or at least to think it plausible.
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  • They expect to see that you've thought about limits and objections to your claim.
  • This kind of argument is less like disagreeable wrangling, more like an amiable and lively conversation with someone whom you respect and who respects you; someone who is interested in what you have to say, but will not agree with your claims just because you state them; someone who wants to hear your reasons for believing your claims and also wants to hear answers to their questions.
  • We also know that whatever it is we think, it is never the entire truth. Our conclusions are partial, incomplete, and always subject to challenge. So we write in a way that allows others to test our reasoning: we present our best thinking as a series of claims, reasons, and responses to imagined challenges, so that readers can see not only what we think, but whether they ought to agree.
  • And that's all an argument is--not wrangling, but a serious and focused conversation among people who are intensely interested in getting to the bottom of things cooperatively.
  • So your first step in writing an assigned paper occurs well before you begin writing: You must know what your instructor expects.
  • Start by looking carefully at the words of the assignment.
  • When most of your instructors ask what the point of your paper is, they have in mind something different. By "point" or "claim" (the words are virtually synonymous with thesis), they will more often mean the most important sentence that you wrote in your essay, a sentence that appears on the page, in black in white; words that you can point to, underline, send on a postcard; a sentence that sums up the most important thing you want to say as a result of your reading, thinking, research, and writing. In that sense, you might state the point of your paper as "Well, I want to show/prove/claim/argue/demonstrate (any of those words will serve to introduce the point) that "Though Falstaff seems to play the role of Hal's father, he is, in fact, acting more like a younger brother who . . . ."" If you include in your paper what appears after I want to prove that, then that's the point of your paper, its main claim that the rest of your paper supports.
  • A good point or claim typically has several key characteristics: it says something significant about what you have read, something that helps you and your readers understand it better; it says something that is not obvious, something that your reader didn't already know; it is at least mildly contestable, something that no one would agree with just by reading it; it asserts something that you can plausibly support in five pages, not something that would require a book.
  • Kate Pok on 22 Nov 11
     
    great guide to college writing- print out and give out to students.
sue harwood

Photography within the humanities - 42 views

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photography humanities Wellsley Collge

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      sue harwood on 14 Feb 11
       
      This free onlie book is available on openlibrary.org.
  • sue harwood on 14 Feb 11
     
    This is a collection of essays published by Wellesley college in 1977 on photography and the humanities.
tom campbell

Inside the multimillion-dollar essay-scoring business - Page 1 - News - Minneapolis - C... - 57 views

www.citypages.com/...-dollar-essay-scoring-business

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  • tom campbell on 08 Mar 11
     
    lots of potential for discussion here!
Brian C. Smith

Lee Kolbert: We Can Do Better Than Matt Damon - 1 views

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  • What bothers me is that he was rude to the reporter and her cameraman when they were trying to engage him in a conversation.
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 07 Aug 11
       
      Get passed it.  This isn't an elementary school conversation and we don't know the context before the question was asked.  Let's not forget that reporters provoke to get the sound bite.  
  • But it's a little muddy now because Matt was rude. And we applauded.
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 07 Aug 11
       
      Please.  We don't know the context based on the clip we all viewed.  I think this absolutely adds to the conversation.  
  • the folks at Education Nation are holding an essay contest
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 07 Aug 11
       
      How, uh... educational of them.
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  • Enter the essay contest and if you win, they will fly you out to NYC in September to attend the Teacher Town Hall
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 07 Aug 11
       
      Another Race to the Top! 
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 07 Aug 11
       
      Where were all the other educators at the Save Our Schools March?  I am guilty, and feel guilty for having not attended, but really, where were we all?   No, Matt Damon isn't, and shouldn't be our poster child for education reform.  You cannot fault him for representing us and using a naughty word.  Instead of poo-pooing Matt, I applaud his courage to do so, to tell it like it is, and for defending our profession.  I will not put him on a pedestal as if he speaks for me as one of my own, however, he did defended teachers. I appreciate that, a lot.   Don't make this more than what it is, even if you think he did it in a shitty way.  
anonymous

The Great Wall: A Remembrance | text2cloud - 22 views

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resources remembrance 9_11

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  • anonymous on 12 Sep 11
     
    Raymond Williams had a collection of essays entitled, "Resources for Hope," which I've always felt was another name for teaching done well. Here's a remembrance of an extraordinary teacher and a reflection on 9/11.
Paula Haapanen

Mr Daley - 102 views

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learning language grammar writing reading

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  • Paula Haapanen on 27 Apr 11
     
    Lots of explanations and tools to help you with reading and writing. I particularly like the 'essay organizer' that you can find under the 'Quick links' heading
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