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Students Speak Up in Class, Silently, via Social Media - NYTimes.com - 10 views

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shared by Leslie Healey on 13 May 11 - No Cached
  • Leslie Healey on 13 May 11
     
    Though this is not true in my school, I know this must be MY tribe... and it must be true, cause it is in the NYT (in joke in my worldlit class).
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Raymond Carver reviewed by James Campbell TLS - 0 views

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shared by Clifford Baker on 30 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Carver was Hemingway (most of whose fiction is located abroad) transposed to the blue-collar American margins, populated by men and women who seldom think about the world beyond – a land of bad marriages, cramped living rooms, truculent children, and unharnessed addictions of the old-fashioned sort.
  • But what is the real thing? In the original manuscript of “Why Don’t You Dance?”, before Lish’s blue pencil descended, the girl's sympathetic words to the yard sale vendor, “You must be desperate or something”, are not uttered while the pair are dancing. The sentence is adapted from an earlier remark she makes to her boyfriend when they first inspect the items for sale. “They must be desperate or something.” The vendor has yet to make an entrance. It was Lish who changed the words and placed them in her mouth as she “pushed her face into the man’s shoulder”, making it the emotional high point of the narrative.
  • As with other restored or revised texts – in this case, unrevised – the appearance of Beginners prompts some awkward questions. Does the emergence of the “real” stories undermine the reality that the most Carveresque of Carver’s books has had for almost thirty years in the minds of readers? Characters who appear sane turn out to have been mad originally. Characters who smoke didn’t do so in 1980, on their entry into the world. They are the children of Raymond Carver, but their identities were altered by the midwife, Gordon Lish.
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apophenia: I want my cyborg life - 1 views

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    danah boyd--a must read
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Blog Awayto Teach | The Text is a Terrible Thing to Waste - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 15 Jul 09
     
    Welcome to AwaytoTeach. There are a few lessons and Illuminated Texts that you can view without logging in and registering - but for the most part - you must register to view and download our content. It is easy to register, and there is no fee or payment. This is an outstanding blog. Five Stars!
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CMS Test results invite scrutiny - CharlotteObserver.com - 0 views

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shared by Sheri Edwards on 27 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Staff at both schools will collect 10- to 15-percent pay hikes based on this year's scores, money that goes away next year. The raises, paid for by county commissioners eager to see kids succeed at low-performing schools, illustrate the rewards and penalties that can hang on test scores.
  • In 2006, a principal split Garinger into five academies with specialized themes. The New Technology school emerged strong, but the rest of the campus struggled.
  • She was convinced the dismal pass rate could change but believed many needed stronger skills to pass exams. “We really had to put the brakes on things,” she said. That meant letting strong students go straight into the EOC classes. But weaker ones took a semester or more of preparatory classes designed to boost their reading, math or science skills.
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  • The Observer analysis shows an unusually large number of Garinger International students sidestepped EOC courses in 2008-09. (See box.)
  • This year the school added juniors, which meant enrollment grew by almost 50 percent. Yet the school gave 46 fewer tests.
  • In English I, which all ninth-graders must take, Garinger International's pass rate went from 67 to 81 percent.
  • the only thing we have to vary is the time it takes to attain the standards. We do not all learn at the same rate.
  • It sounds like the principal is trying to help all her kids be successful. Why must that be cause for suspicion??
  • Sheri Edwards on 27 Jul 09
     
    What do you think?
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I Am a Teacher in Florida « Tangerine, Florida - 5 views

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  • Karen LaBonte on 05 Apr 10
     
    A must-read post from a teacher facing FL's new laws linking teacher salaries to student performance.
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Academic Writing Course - 13 views

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shared by Julia Robert on 07 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Julia Robert on 07 Feb 11
     
    Academic Writing Course,In the future you must give your students more specific study preparatory skills, not least the ability to acquire material in English in various disciplines: This book deals with all aspects of academic writing, through advice and exercises based on a wide range of material.
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Vocab Videos - Bringing Vocabulary to Life - Vocab Film Festival. - 13 views

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  • Tom McHale on 03 Feb 11
     
    The Vocab Film Festival challenges students and filmmakers to create and share their own vocabulary video and photo projects for a chance to win over $20,000 in monthly and grand prizes.  Entries must meet our monthly challenge and illustrate the meaning of a vocabulary word listed below. The Festival closes 5/31/11, so there will be a total of 4 monthly challenges Could be an interesting way to engage kids in vocab.
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Harold Bloom on Literary Criticism | FiveBooks | The Browser - 13 views

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  • Leslie Healey on 21 Aug 11
     
    Interview bloom: his 5 fave litcrit books. At the end: nice bit about why we must read
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80 Online Tools, References, and Resources | Edutopia Group Discussions by and for Educ... - 8 views

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  • Clifford Baker on 14 Jul 11
     
    "80 "must see" trial, free, and paid websites recommended by Edutopia community members."
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MoMA | Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language - 0 views

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  • Berylaube 00 on 15 Jul 12
     
    "Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language brings together historical and contemporary works of art that treat language not merely as a system of communication governed by grammatical rules and assigned meanings, but as a material that can be manipulated with creative freedom, like paint, clay, or any other artistic medium. The exhibition is divided into two sections. The first is a historical overview of 20th-century art that experiments with the graphic, sonic, and kinetic possibilities of letters and words. With a few notable exceptions, these works are confined to the two-dimensional parameters of a page. The second section presents an installation of contemporary works, most of which do away with the page; some do away with writing altogether. The artist and poet Emmett Williams observed that "the poem as picture is as old as the hills," citing its beginnings in hieroglyphics,"
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Beyond Social Networking: Building Toward Learning Communities -- THE Journal - 0 views

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shared by Susan Payne on 18 Jul 09 - Cached
  • specific instructional use is more effective and acceptable for students to understand why the teacher has created the space. What Social Networking Does Not Offer to Learning
  • While this level of connection and shared information is a great first step in community building, it does not necessarily lead to learning communities or the sharing of ideas. This must happen intentionally and is where the instructor is very much a necessary support to the process.
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Beyond Social Networking: Building Toward Learning Communities -- THE Journal - 0 views

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shared by Susan Payne on 18 Jul 09 - Cached
  • specific instructional use is more effective and acceptable for students to understand why the teacher has created the space.
  • While this level of connection and shared information is a great first step in community building, it does not necessarily lead to learning communities or the sharing of ideas. This must happen intentionally and is where the instructor is very much a necessary support to the process.
  • Susan Payne on 18 Jul 09
     
    Teachers as guides to move students beyond the social piece to forming a learning community.
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No right brain left behind: Must kids prep for 'risk-taking'? - USATODAY.com - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 15 Jul 09 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 15 Jul 09
     
    So important to consider the role of brain-based instruction and such faculties as creativity and imagination at this point. This USA Today article sums up some of those issues and concerns and names the books, especially Pink's Whole New Mind, that teachers need to know about and incorporate the ideas of into their teaching.
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