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Dana Huff

Emily Bronte Overview - 5 views

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wutheringheights bronte english literature reading

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  • Dana Huff on 24 Dec 09
     
    College syllabus for Wuthering Heights. Some good lecture and discussion material.
Julia Robert

What Is TOEFL Test - 3 views

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Toefl Toefl test Toefl test preparation Toefl test papers

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  • Julia Robert on 14 Jan 11
     
    TOEFL is the test of English as a Foreign Language.It is designed to evaluate the English proficiency of people whose native language is not English.It is the most widely respected English language test, highly recognized by more than 7,500 colleges, universities and agencies in more than 130
Leslie Healey

What They're Reading on College Campuses - Publishing - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 11 views

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reading college teens literature

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  • Leslie Healey on 03 Feb 11
     
    very cool list: some conservative, some liberal, some fiction, some satire, some bio, some nonfiction
Dugg Lowe

Essay paragraph writing help - 0 views

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college paragraph structure posterous research

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  • Dugg Lowe on 27 Mar 11
     
    A paragraph can be described as division of a written work that made up of one or more pieces and handles one point or presents the ideas of a talker.
Mark Smith

How to Land Your Kid in Therapy - Magazine - The Atlantic - 8 views

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parenting

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  • Mark Smith on 08 Jul 11
     
    "college deans have reported receiving growing numbers of incoming freshmen they've dubbed "teacups" because they're so fragile that they break down anytime things don't go their way. "Well-intentioned parents have been metabolizing their anxiety for them their entire childhoods," Mogel said of these kids, "so they don't know how to deal with it when they grow up." "
  • Leslie Healey on 09 Jul 11
     
    Agreed: I spend a significant portion of my "parent" time trying to convince HS parents that their child's grade is something the child and I can handle....
Mark Smith

The art of slow reading | Books | The Guardian - 9 views

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reading

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  • Seeley notes that after a conversation with some of her students, she discovered that "most can't concentrate on reading a text for more than 30 seconds or a minute at a time. We're being trained away from slow reading by new technology."
  • Leslie Healey on 20 Jul 10
     
    My students have even told me that they cannot read in school because it is "too distracting" with friends and activities, etc!!! The phones are vibrating, the latest drama unfolds minute by minute--I have decided that half my job it is train them to recognize the proper environment for the proper activity. It is slow going!
  • Adam Babcock on 26 Jul 10
     
    I noticed this myself in my second year of college; the way I was reading (especially literature, etc) was changing rapidly as I became more inundated with short-message communication (Facebook, email, texting, etc.). I would even argue that our composition models are changing. I can fire off short bursts of information very quickly (like right now). However, I am finding more often that I may have to actually plan to find a place to read (frightening...?).
anonymous

100 Twitter Feeds to Sharpen Your Writing Skills | Online Colleges - 2 views

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writing

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  • anonymous on 26 Aug 09
     
    Awesome collection of Twitter users who tweet about teaching writing and issues related to writing.
anonymous

'Teach Naked' Effort Strips Computers From Classrooms - Technology - The Chronicle of H... - 0 views

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  • Here's the kicker, though: The biggest resistance to Mr. Bowen's ideas has come from students, some of whom have groused about taking a more active role during those 50-minute class periods.
  • Introduce issues of debate within the discipline and get the students to weigh in based on the knowledge they have from those lecture podcasts, Mr. Bowen says.
  • "Strangely enough, the people who are most resistant to this model are the students, who are used to being spoon-fed material that is going to be quote unquote on the test," says Mr. Heffernan. "Students have been socialized to view the educational process as essentially passive. The only way we're going to stop that is by radically refiguring the classroom in precisely the way José wants to do it."
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  • "inverted classroom."
  • 'I paid for a college education and you're not going to lecture?'"
  • PowerPoint is not the problem. It is how PPt is used.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 24 Jul 09
       
      That's exactly the point. Of course we do need discussions in classrooms, but we also need to enable students to perform well in them, and here is where technology comes in: You can facilitate it in the learning process. - The headline of this article makes things far too easy...
  • Patrick Higgins on 23 Jul 09
     
    I like how Bowen is questioning the use of tech for tech's sake. This further shows how it's not about the technology, but about the teaching.
Leslie Healey

Beloit College Mindset List - 11 views

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teens learning

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  • Leslie Healey on 17 Aug 10
     
    I read this every year: reminds me to reset my expectations for "what we all ought to know"
Mary Worrell

The Future Of Reading | Wired Science | Wired.com - 7 views

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reading 21stcenturyskills e_books technology

shared by Mary Worrell on 09 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • I sometimes wonder why I’m only able to edit my own writing after it has been printed out, in 3-D form. My prose will always look so flawless on the screen, but then I read the same words on the physical page and I suddenly see all my clichés and banalities and excesses
    • Mary Worrell
      Mary Worrell on 09 Sep 10
       
      I have the same issue. As a business reporter out of college, my first copy editor pushed me to start printing out my drafts for my first round of edits. My editing was much more in-depth and thoughtful, which made her job a lot easier.
  • Mary Worrell on 09 Sep 10
     
    Just another person's opinion on the future of reading and the future of books, but I found it interesting!
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