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Karen LaBonte

Secrets of Teaching Writing Revealed - 23 views

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    resources & strategies for teaching expository writing in middle school and beyond
Clifford Baker

Free Technology for Teachers: Lesson Plans for Teaching Web Search Strategies - 0 views

  • The Google for Educators community has nine lesson plans for teaching Internet search strategies. The lessons are divided into three modules. The lessons start with the basics and conclude with advanced search strategies.
andrew bendelow

Starting the Fire: Motivating Readers - National Writing Project - 10 views

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    Enacting literature with students to motivate reading Wilhelm describes action strategies
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    Using "action strategies" invigorates the English class
Leslie Healey

Attention literacy : Howard Rheingold : City Brights - 14 views

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    great strategies for teaching and practicing attention with our students
Kirstie Knighton

Teaching Channel: Videos, Lesson Plans and Other Resources for Teachers - 1 views

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    Teacher videos, resources and lesson plans. Discover great ideas and strategies to use as a teacher with this collection of videos covering Math, Science, English, History and more.
susan  carter morgan

Wordle in the Classroom | Clif's Notes - 0 views

  • Tom Barrett, developed the below presentation. It is full of strategies and tips for effectively integrating Wordle with teaching and learning.
James Miscavish

Comics in the Classroom: 100 Tips, Tools, and Resources for Teachers | Teaching Degree.org - 1 views

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    Excellent compendium of practical strategies and resources for using comics in the classroom for a variety of purposes.
Susan Payne

Word Generation - Developing Academic Language - 9 views

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    Effective techniques for engaging students in discussion and teaching them strategies to use independently.
Leslie Healey

Video Games Are Ruled Protected Speech, Now What? - 2 views

    • Leslie Healey
       
      this is true! why gaming is legitimately a path fro educators to formulate learning strategies
    • Leslie Healey
       
      also--they ask why there are not more erudite games, just as there is "classic" literature--I think games are still a new art form. And aren't there are many fluff books as there are fluff or violent games
  • More important than that historic ruling is the reminder by a U.S. Supreme Court Justice that video games, like books, plays and movies, communicate ideas.
  • Reading Dante is unquestionably more cultured and intellectually edifying than playing Mortal Kombat," Scalia wrote. "But these cultural and intellectual differences are not constitutional." It raises the question, what video games live up to that legacy of great literary works? And why aren't there more of them?
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  • Now that this distraction is out of the way, lets see the creation of more games like Bioshock, like Shadow of the Colossus, like Flower, games that make you think, that explore new ideas, that shake up preconceived notions.
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