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How to write an Application Essay - 1 views

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  • anonymous on 15 Jul 09
     
    More help on writing college application essays
Leslie Healey

Reading in a whole new way - 15 views

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Reading dreaded socialmedia

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  • Leslie Healey on 17 Jul 10
     
    First time I have seen the way reading changes when reading on a screen. I can use this info with my students, understand how critical reading is changing but not disintegrating
Donalyn Miller

The Way We Live Now - I Tweet, Therefore I Am - NYTimes.com - 10 views

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twitter socialnetworking

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  • Donalyn Miller on 31 Jul 10
     
    Author Peggy Orenstein comments about Twitter and how we use social networking to craft our identities.
The0d0re Shatagin

A Visual Word Puzzle From Radiolab : NPR - 9 views

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  • The0d0re Shatagin on 18 Aug 10
     
    Companion Visual Puzzle to NPR's story on the Origin of Language / Speech
Adam Babcock

Does Your Language Shape How You Think? - NYTimes.com - 5 views

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  • Native American languages impose on their speakers a picture of reality that is totally different from ours, so their speakers would simply not be able to understand some of our most basic concepts, like the flow of time or the distinction between objects
  • rash-landed on hard facts and solid common sense, when it transpired that there had never actually been any evidence to support his fantastic claims
  • new research has revealed that when we learn our mother tongue, we do after all acquire certain habits of thought that shape our experience in significant and often surprising ways.
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  • if different languages influence our minds in different ways, this is not because of what our language allows us to think but rather because of what it habitually obliges us to think about
  • You may well wonder whether my companion was male or female, but I have the right to tell you politely that it’s none of your business. But if we were speaking French or German, I wouldn’t have the privilege to equivocate in this way
  • but I do have to tell you something about the timing of the event: I have to decide whether we dined, have been dining, are dining, will be dining and so on. Chinese, on the other hand, does not oblige its speakers to specify the exact time of the action in this way, because the same verb form can be used for past, present or future actions.
  • When speakers were asked to grade various objects on a range of characteristics, Spanish speakers deemed bridges, clocks and violins to have more “manly properties” like strength, but Germans tended to think of them as more slender or elegant.
  • gendered languages” imprint gender traits for objects so strongly in the mind that these associations obstruct speakers’ ability to commit information to memory
  • When French speakers saw a picture of a fork (la fourchette), most of them wanted it to speak in a woman’s voice, but Spanish speakers, for whom el tenedor is masculine, preferred a gravelly male voice for it.
  • Nonetheless, once gender connotations have been imposed on impressionable young minds, they lead those with a gendered mother tongue to see the inanimate world through lenses tinted with associations and emotional responses that English speakers — stuck in their monochrome desert of “its” — are entirely oblivious to.
Dennis OConnor

The Importance of Student Journals and How to Respond Efficiently | Edutopia - 12 views

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  • Burdened by expanding curriculum and multiplying high-stakes assessment requirements, some of my respected colleagues might be forgiven for not integrating student journals into their courses. The most common objection: "Who has time?"
Mary Worrell

Her Own Terms: The Teaching Life Revisited - 3 views

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teaching inspiration

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    Inspirational post about the tears and rewards that come with being a teacher.
  • Mary Worrell on 07 Sep 10
     
    Incredibly inspiring. Read this when you're wondering how you're going to make it through another year!
Kristin Bergsagel

Does Your Language Shape How You Think? - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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  • if different languages influence our minds in different ways, this is not because of what our language allows us to think but rather because of what it habitually obliges us to think about.
  • When your language routinely obliges you to specify certain types of information, it forces you to be attentive to certain details in the world and to certain aspects of experience that speakers of other languages may not be required to think about all the time. And since such habits of speech are cultivated from the earliest age, it is only natural that they can settle into habits of mind that go beyond language itself, affecting your experiences, perceptions, associations, feelings, memories and orientation in the world.
Donalyn Miller

U.S. Plans Major Changes in How Students Are Tested - NYTimes.com - 9 views

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standardized testing education reform

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  • Donalyn Miller on 04 Sep 10
     
    This article describes a national initiative to overhaul the design of our current standardized testing system.
Leslie Healey

How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard - Powell's Books - 12 views

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    I do not know whether to laugh or cry. Author obviously is a dedicated reader but non readers will not even get the joke! 
Mary Worrell

digitalresearchtools / FrontPage - 3 views

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  • Karen LaBonte on 22 Feb 10
     
    This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively. Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, Digital Research Tools will help you find what you're looking for. We provide a directory of tools organized by research activity, as well as reviews of select tools in which we not only describe the tool's features, but also explore how it might be employed most effectively by researchers.
  • Mary Worrell on 30 Sep 10
     
    Great wiki of research tools!
Karen LaBonte

sigilt - Favorite Web 2.0 Tools - 5 views

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    From our Winter 2010 Newsletter a list of our members favorite Web 2.0 Tools
Jeff See

"Thinkbook" Reading Journals - English Companion Ning - 21 views

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  • How might Archer take advantage of his marriage?
    • Jeff See
      Jeff See on 09 Jan 10
       
      Calls for analysis of his character.
  • Without May's perception, the reader has no reason to believe May is betraying their marriage by any means.
    • Jeff See
      Jeff See on 09 Jan 10
       
      Key Point. Perspective can play a large role in our understanding of a situation.
  • because of her value to society.
    • Jeff See
      Jeff See on 09 Jan 10
       
      This seems to point to a lack of "love" on his part. Good insight.
Karen LaBonte

Comic Creator - ReadWriteThink - 1 views

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comic_life how-to Resources_2.0 comics resources_teachers

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    "The Comic Creator invites students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts (prewriting, pre- and postreading activities, response to literature, and so on). The organizers focus on the key elements of comic strips by allowing students to choose backgrounds, characters, and props, as well as to compose related dialogue (shown at left). This versatile tool can be used by students from kindergarten through high school, for purposes ranging from learning to write dialogue to an in-depth study of a formerly neglected genre. The tool is easy to use, made even easier with the Comic Strip Planning Sheet, a printable PDF that comic creators can use to draft and revise their work before creating and printing their final comics. After completing their comic, students have the ability to print out and illustrate their final versions for feedback and assessment."
Karen LaBonte

Comic Life in the Classroom - 4 views

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    22 ways to use Comic Life in the classroom
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