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Karen LaBonte

Education Week: The Case for Literature by Nancie Atwell - 4 views

www.edweek.org/...21atwell_ep.h29.html

literature atwell reading

shared by Karen LaBonte on 09 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Karen LaBonte on 09 Feb 10
     
    "A few weeks ago, I received an urgent e-mail: The National Council of Teachers of English is looking for volunteers for an ad hoc task force whose charge is to gather evidence about why literature should continue to be taught in the 21st century."
The0d0re Shatagin

Education Week: The Core Standards for Writing: Another Failure of Imagination? - 9 views

www.edweek.org/...20schuster.h29.html

education writing standards common_core

shared by The0d0re Shatagin on 21 Mar 10 - Cached
  • The0d0re Shatagin on 21 Mar 10
     
    Education Week Commentary on Common Core Standards on Writing
Mary Worrell

REFLECTIONS ON CREATIVE WRITING CLASS: THE TEACHER; How to confront 30,000 words a week... - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...-30000-words-week-teenage.html

frank_mccourt teaching writing education

shared by Mary Worrell on 20 Jul 09 - Cached
  • What I learned, most of all, was that if you're teaching and not learning then you're not teaching, and if you don't enjoy yourself in the classroom, you might as well be driving a taxi.
  • Mary Worrell on 20 Jul 09
     
    A great article by the late Frank McCourt about teaching creative writing and learning alongside his students.
andrew bendelow

Education Week: Why Core Standards Must Embrace Media Literacy - 5 views

www.edweek.org/...36baker.h30.html

education core standards media literacy

shared by andrew bendelow on 28 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • andrew bendelow on 28 Jun 11
     
    Problems with CC media literacy standards: " focus marginalizes uses of a range of other media/digital literacies associated with social-networking sites, blogs, wikis, digital images/videos, smartphone/tablet apps, video games, podcasts, etc., for constructing media content, building social networks, engaging audiences, and critiquing status quo problems.And, other than a mention of the need to "evaluate information from multiple oral, visual, or multimodal sources," there is no specific reference in the common standards to critical analysis and production of film, television, advertising, radio, news, music, popular culture, video games, media remixes, and so on. Nor is there explicit attention on fostering critical analysis of media messages and representations."
Dennis OConnor

Education Week Teacher: High-Tech Teaching in a Low-Tech Classroom - 6 views

www.edweek.org/...barnett_hightechteaching.html

education Low-Tech 21st century skills ed-tech blended learning

shared by Dennis OConnor on 04 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • How can we best use limited resources to support learning and familiarize students with technology?
  • get creative with lesson structure
  • Take advantage of any time that your students have access to a computer lab with multiple computers.
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  • Relieve yourself from the pressure of knowing all the ins and outs of every tool. Instead, empower your students by challenging them to become experts who teach one another (and you!) how to use new programs.
  • "Pass it On" Buddy Method
  • Students assist one another in creating digital products that represent or reflect their new learning. It’s a great way to spread technological skills in a one-computer classroom.
  • Group Consensus Method
  • Small groups of students engage in dialogue on a particular topic, then a member uses a digital tool to report on the group's consensus.
  • Rotating Scribe Method
  • Each day, one student uses technology to record the lesson for other students.
  • Whole Class Method
  • Teachers in one-computer classrooms often invite large groups of students to gather around the computer. Here are a few suggestions for making the most of these activities
  • When we are faced with limited resources, it is tempting to throw up our hands and say, "I just don't have what I need to do this!" However, do not underestimate your ability to make it work.
  • Dennis OConnor on 04 Sep 11
     
    Might help create a blended classroom, even when you have to share the blender.  Common sense advise for the real world of underequipped classrooms and stretched thin teachers.
Donalyn Miller

Education Week: The Misuse of Professional Development - 12 views

www.edweek.org/...04mizell_ep.h30.html

professional development

shared by Donalyn Miller on 25 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Donalyn Miller on 25 Sep 10
     
    "The Misuse of Professional Development" suggests that professional development must focus on learner outcomes.
Adam Babcock

Education Week's Digital Directions: Classroom-Tested Tech Tools Used to Boost Literacy - 10 views

www.edweek.org/...02literacy.h04.html

reading edtech literacy fluency

shared by Adam Babcock on 09 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • English-language learners
  • audio recorders to have student-teachers read sets of vocabulary words, then she creates matching PowerPoint presentations with the words and burns them onto DVDs
  • 2nd through 4th graders over 16 weeks as they used webcams to see themselves reading and then he identified their mistakes.
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  • at least two fewer mistakes per minute.
  • podcasting to help her students practice fluency.
  • Then they can literally see the pauses or mistakes they made in the editing program and correct them.
  • Using VoiceThread, for instance—which allows users to create collaborative, multimedia slide shows with images, documents, and videos
  • Storybird, allows students to tap into a library of illustrations to create digital books, says Lovely.
Donnie Smith

The Way We Live Now - I Tweet, Therefore I Am - NYTimes.com - 4 views

www.nytimes.com/...01wwln-lede-t.html

shared by Donnie Smith on 01 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Donnie Smith on 01 Aug 10
     
    I saw this yesterday and plan to use it as an Article of the Week with my High School 9th grade students in September.
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