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Donalyn Miller

Education Week: The Misuse of Professional Development - 12 views

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    "The Misuse of Professional Development" suggests that professional development must focus on learner outcomes.
Leslie Healey

What should teachers expect? Alan Sitomer - 16 views

www.alanlawrencesitomer.com/...-to-be-a-long-long-school-year

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    Does your output equal your input? Tough times for teachers to navigate.....
Donalyn Miller

10 Tips on How to Write Less Badly - Do Your Job Better - The Chronicle of Higher Educa... - 18 views

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    10 Tips on How to Write Less Badly
Dana Huff

Gene Weingarten - Goodbye, cruel words: English. It's dead to me. - 7 views

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  • Dana Huff on 22 Sep 10
     
    The English language, which arose from humble Anglo-Saxon roots to become the lingua franca of 600 million people worldwide and the dominant lexicon of international discourse, is dead. It succumbed last month at the age of 1,617 after a long illness. It is survived by an ignominiously diminished form of itself.
Dana Huff

George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," 1946 - 10 views

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  • Dana Huff on 22 Sep 10
     
    Orwell's advice to writers.
Dana Huff

Stu's Quiz Boxes! - 7 views

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  • Dana Huff on 30 Sep 10
     
    Make review games for your interactive white board with Stu's Quiz Boxes.
Marielle Palombo

TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC - 9 views

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    Lesson plans, articles, and other resources to support the teaching of English from the British Council and the BBC
Adam Babcock

The Associated Press: Sex, drugs more common in hyper-texting teens - 5 views

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  • aren't suggesting that "hyper-texting" leads to sex, drinking or drugs, but say it's startling to see an apparent link between excessive messaging and that kind of risky behavior
  • It found that about one in five students were hyper-texters and about one in nine are hyper-networkers — those who spend three or more hours a day on Facebook and other social networking websites.About one in 25 fall into both categories.
  • Hyper-texting and hyper-networking were more common among girls, minorities, kids whose parents have less education and students from a single-mother household, the study found.
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  • a legitimate question to explore
  • tudy found those who text at least 120 times a day are nearly three-and-a-half times more likely to have had sex than their peers who don't text that much
  • Talking on the phone just isn't appealing to some teens, said her classmate, Ivanna Storms-Thompson."Your arm gets tired, your ear gets sweaty," said Ivanna, who also doesn't like the awkward silences.
Adam Babcock

College Applications Continue to Increase. When Is Enough Enough? - NYTimes.com - 4 views

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  • “They want you so they can reject you,” says Mr. Stewart, a senior in Burnsville, Minn., who has a 3.5 grade-point average and scored a 27 (out of 36) on the ACT. Those numbers are well below the freshman averages at some of the big-name colleges that sent him applications along with brochures.
Adam Babcock

Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction - NYTimes.com - 4 views

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  • Bypassing Vonnegut, he clicks over to YouTube, meaning that tomorrow he will enter his senior year of high school hoping to see an improvement in his grades, but without having completed his only summer homework. On YouTube, “you can get a whole story in six minutes,” he explains. “A book takes so long. I prefer the immediate gratification.”
  • The risk, they say, is that developing brains can become more easily habituated than adult brains to constantly switching tasks — and less able to sustain attention.
  • “Their brains are rewarded not for staying on task but for jumping to the next thing,” said Michael Rich, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and executive director of the Center on Media and Child Health in Boston. And the effects could linger: “The worry is we’re raising a generation of kids in front of screens whose brains are going to be wired differently.”
Adam Babcock

Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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  • Bypassing Vonnegut, he clicks over to YouTube, meaning that tomorrow he will enter his senior year of high school hoping to see an improvement in his grades, but without having completed his only summer homework. On YouTube, “you can get a whole story in six minutes,” he explains. “A book takes so long. I prefer the immediate gratification.”
  • is that developing brains can become more easily habituated than adult brains to constantly switching tasks — and less able to sustain attention.
  • plays video games 10 hours a week
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  • regularly sends Facebook status updates at 2 a.m., even on school nights
  • his best friend calls him a “YouTube bully.”
Dana Huff

Tutoring Center, Hand Outs - 15 views

www.bucks.edu/hndouts.php

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shared by Dana Huff on 26 Nov 10 - No Cached
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    Great tutorial handouts from Bucks County Community College.
Dana Huff

The Differentiator - 21 views

www.byrdseed.com/differentiator

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    Build your objectives using Revised Bloom's Taxonomy.
Teresa Ilgunas

eduTecher.net - 8 views

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  • Teresa Ilgunas on 25 Nov 10
     
    One stop for teachers looking for tech tools. Click on Edutech.TV, and many of these tools have how-to videos. Nice.
Nik Peachey

Nik's Quick Shout: Make Quick Pronunciation Activities - 3 views

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    "Text2Phonetics is a very handy site if you like to use phonemic script with your students. It can take a lot of the hard work out of transcribing text to phonetic symbols. You just paste in a short piece of text, click a button, and it does it for you."
Barry Janzen

Figment: Write yourself in. - 6 views

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  • Barry Janzen on 09 Dec 10
     
    Figment is a community where you can share your writing, connect with other readers, and discover new stories and authors. Whatever you're into, from sonnets to mysteries, from sci-fi stories to cell phone novels, you can find it all here.
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