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Text Messages: Recommendations for Adolescent Readers - ReadWriteThink - 10 views

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    Podcast on varying topics, published monthly.
Clifford Baker

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    Time to Act: An Agenda for Advancing Adolescent Literacy for College and Career Success
Leslie Healey

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann - 3 views

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    I'm on page 199 of 349 of Let the Great World Spin: "there's a high that you get when you're writing code. It's cool. It's easy to do. You forget your mom, your dad, everything. You've got the whole country onboard. This is America. You hit the frontier. You can go anywhere, Its about begin connected, access, gateways, like a whispering games where if you get one thing wrong you've got to go all the way back to the beginning."   quote from a teen hacker in the novel--it captures adolescence, hacking, learning, delight, beauty, everything: I want to remember this when I meet my new students in September
anonymous

What Girls Want - The Atlantic (December 2008) - 0 views

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    Great article about the inner lives of girls and how that relates to reading, especially the Twilight series
Dennis OConnor

Jim Burke: Organizing Curriculum Around Big Questions - 12 views

  • Jim Burke shares how a question-driven classroom engages adolescents of the digital age inside schoo... How big questions engage and motivate students who have grown up digitally
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    English teacher Jim Burke's short podcast on a big issue: How big questions engage and motivate students who have grown up digitally
Meredith Stewart

The Impact of Social Media on Children, Adolescents, and Families - 8 views

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    American Academy of Pediatrics report
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