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Mr. Breitsprecher's Career Activities - 8 views

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careerresearch e201

shared by Adam Babcock on 09 Feb 11 - Cached

Adam Babcock on 09 Feb 11

A huge collection of worksheets / handouts related to career research, goal-setting, etc

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Discourse community - 0 views

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discourse

shared by Todd Finley on 27 Mar 11 - No Cached

Discourse community Swales (1990) found that a discourse community has a broadly agreed set of common public goals has mechanisms of intercommunication among its members uses its participatory mechanisms primarily to provide information and feedback utilizes and hence possesses one or more genres in the communicative utterance of its aims has acquired some specific lexis (specialized terminology, acronyms) has a threshold level of members with a suitable degree of relevant content and discoursal expertise.  
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Todd Finley on 27 Mar 11

Discourse communitySwales (1990) found that a discourse communityhas a broadly agreed set of common public goalshas mechanisms of intercommunication among its membersuses its participatory mechanisms primarily to provide information and feedbackutilizes and hence possesses one or more genres in the communicative utterance of its aimshas acquired some specific lexis (specialized terminology, acronyms)has a threshold level of members with a suitable degree of relevant content and discoursal expertise.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Discourse communitySwales (1990) found that a discourse communityhas a broadly agreed set of common public goalshas mechanisms of intercommunication among its membersuses its participatory mechanisms primarily to provide information and feedbackutilizes and hence possesses one or more genres in the communicative utterance of its aimshas acquired some specific lexis (specialized terminology, acronyms)has a threshold level of members with a suitable degree of relevant content and discoursal expertise. </div>

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BookGlutton - 1 views

anonymous on 15 Jul 09

We set out to create a better way to read on-line; our goal was to make something different, engaging, intelligent and digital. The concept was born, as many good ideas are, on a crumpled cocktail napkin late one evening in 2006, and we've been working to

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The Wikiness - 10 views

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challenge education goal-setting knowledge millennials gen-x

shared by andrew bendelow on 30 Jun 11 - Cached

it seems clear that Project-based learning (PBL) groups—I'm thinking literature circles--should be an excellent vehicle for their learning in a large classroom (next year 30+ sizes)
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andrew bendelow on 30 Jun 11

Who the Millennials are, and how Gen-X English teachers might best work with them

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The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens: Scientific A... - 18 views

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shared by Leslie Healey on 12 May 13 - No Cached

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  on the other hand, I just tried to change the color of my highlighter, and redo a highlight that supported a different conclusion, and Diigo would not let me--I learned that on my iPad
  
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no obvious shape or thickness.
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"haptic dissonance"
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e screen-based reading is more physically and mentally taxing than reading on pape
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- Leslie Healey on 12 May 13
  
  this is the big problem for me
  
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t scrolling
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drains more mental resources than turning or clicking a page, which are simpler and more automatic gestures.
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people reading on screens take a lot of shortcuts—they spend more time browsing, scanning and hunting for keywords compared with people reading on paper, and are more likely to read a document once, and only once.
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When reading on screens, people seem less inclined
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metacognitive learning regulation—strategies such as setting specific goals, rereading difficult sections and checking how much one has understood
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Sellen has learned that many people do not feel much ownership of e-books because of their impermanence and intangibility: "They think of using an e-book, not owning an e-book," s
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Participants in her studies say that when they really like an electronic book, they go out and get the paper version.
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Why not keep paper and evolve screen-based reading into something else entirely?
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Some Web comics and infographics turn scrolling into a strength rather than a weakness. S
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e Scale of the Universe tool
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Leslie Healey on 12 May 13

paper vs screen in your brain

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