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Melody Velasco

How To Use An Apostrophe - The Oatmeal - 20 views

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apostrophe grammar english literacy writing rule punctuation

shared by Melody Velasco on 27 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Melody Velasco on 27 Mar 10
     
    Interesting visual to explain the appropriate usage of the apostrophe.
andrew bendelow

Teachers as Classroom Coaches :: How to Motivate Students Across the Content Areas - 6 views

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classroom teachers coaching

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  • andrew bendelow on 30 Mar 10
     
    coaching is the new teaching
Adam Babcock

VocabGrabber : Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus - 17 views

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edtech writing english vocab

shared by Adam Babcock on 17 May 10 - Cached
  • VocabGrabber analyzes any text you're interested in, generating lists of the most useful vocabulary words and showing you how those words are used in context. Just copy text from a document and paste it into the box, and then click on the "Grab Vocabulary!" button. VocabGrabber will automatically create a list of vocabulary from your text, which you can then sort, filter, and save.
Victoria Keech

Technology: figuring out how the pieces fit: MoreThanWordles - 18 views

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wordle english teaching ;earning

shared by Victoria Keech on 20 Dec 10 - Cached
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  • Victoria Keech on 20 Dec 10
     
    Ways with Wordles in English teaching
Adam Babcock

Transcript: Obama's State Of The Union Address : NPR - 4 views

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education history

shared by Adam Babcock on 26 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • What we can do — what America does better than anyone — is spark the creativity and imagination of our people. We are the nation that put cars in driveways and computers in offices; the nation of Edison and the Wright brothers; of Google and Facebook. In America, innovation doesn't just change our lives. It's how we make a living.
  • This is our generation's Sputnik moment.
  • That's what Americans have done for over two hundred years: reinvented ourselves
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  • asking Congress to eliminate the billions in taxpayer dollars we currently give to oil companies. I don't know if you've noticed, but they're doing just fine on their own.
  • the biggest impact on a child's success comes from the man or woman at the front of the classroom. In South Korea, teachers are known as "nation builders." Here in America, it's time we treated the people who educate our children with the same level of respect.
  • If you want to make a difference in the life of our nation; if you want to make a difference in the life of a child — become a teacher. Your country needs you.
Patrick Higgins

Reading Rockets: The Six Ts of Effective Elementary Literacy Instruction - 7 views

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literacy elementary reading

shared by Patrick Higgins on 16 Feb 11 - Cached
  • The issue is less stuff vs. reading than it is a question of what sorts of and how much of stuff. When stuff dominates instructional time, warning flags should go up.
  • In less-effective classrooms, there is a lot of stuff going on for which no reliable evidence exists to support their use (e.g., test-preparation workbooks, copying vocabulary definitions from a dictionary, completing after-reading comprehension worksheets).
  • In these classrooms, lower-achieving students spent their days with books they could successfully read.
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  • In other words, in too many cases the lower-achieving students receive, perhaps, an hour of appropriate instruction each day and four hours of instruction based on grade-level texts they cannot read.
  • No child who spends 80 percent of his instructional time in texts that are inappropriately difficult will make much progress academically.
  • These exemplary teachers routinely offered direct, explicit demonstrations of the cognitive strategies used by good readers when they read. In other words, they modeled the thinking that skilled readers engage while they attempt to decode a word, self-monitor for understanding, summarize while reading, or edit when composing. The "watch me" or "let me demonstrate" stance they took seems quite different from the "assign and assess" stance that dominates in less-effective classrooms (e.g., Adams, 1990; Durkin, 1978-79).
    • Patrick Higgins
      Patrick Higgins on 16 Feb 11
       
      This makes great sense: children need to see what experts do when they read.  
  • I must also note that we observed almost no test-preparation activity in these classrooms. None of the teachers relied on the increasingly popular commercial test preparation materials (e.g., workbooks, software). Instead, these teachers believed that good instruction, rich instruction, would lead to enhanced test performances.
Donalyn Miller

YouTube - Why Students Don't Read What is Assigned in Class - 4 views

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penny kittle motivating readers reading

shared by Donalyn Miller on 23 Mar 11 - Cached
  • Donalyn Miller on 23 Mar 11
     
    Outstanding video from Penny Kittle. Her high school students explain how they get around required reading in school.
Adam Babcock

The Failure of American Schools - Magazine - The Atlantic - 3 views

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education politics

shared by Adam Babcock on 01 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • recalcitrant
  • From 1960 to 1980, our supply of college graduates increased at almost 4 percent a year; since then, the increase has been about half as fast. The net effect is that we’re rapidly moving toward two Americas—a wealthy elite, and an increasingly large underclass that lacks the skills to succeed.
  • in education, despite massive increases in expenditure, we don’t see improved results
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  • That leads too many people to suspect that poverty is destiny, that schools can make only a small difference, and that therefore we’re unable to fix this problem, regardless of its seriousness. So why try?
  • That Kafkaesque outcome demonstrates precisely the way the system is run: for the adults. The school system doesn’t want to change, because it serves the needs of the adult stakeholders quite well, both politically and financially.
  • “Listen, they’re trying to get rid of a principal in my district who runs a Democratic club for us. If you protect him, you’ll never have a problem with me.” This kind of encounter was not rare.
  • President Obama was on to something in 2008 when he said: “The single most important factor in determining [student] achievement is not the color of [students’] skin or where they come from. It’s not who their parents are or how much money they have. It’s who their teacher is.” Yet, rather than create a system that attracts and rewards excellent teachers—and that imposes consequences for ineffective or lazy ones—we treat all teachers as if they were identical widgets and their performance didn’t matter.
  • The result: too few effective math and science teachers in high-poverty schools.
  • Many have candidly told me they are burned out, but they can’t afford to leave until their pension fully vests. So they go through the motions until they can retire with the total package.
  • And why give all teachers making $80,000, or more, a 10 percent raise? They’re not going to leave, since they’re close to vesting their lifetime pensions. By contrast, increasing starting salaries by $8,000 (rather than $4,000) would help attract and retain better new teachers.
Dennis OConnor

6-Traits Resources: Barry Lane's YouTube Channel! - 17 views

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writing 6-traits word choice

shared by Dennis OConnor on 03 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • This is a terrific mini lesson from Barry Lane. He shows (not tells) how to explode a moment into a full page of rich writing. The visuals in this video will catch any student's attention.
Dennis OConnor

Beyond Words: Meaning in Motion | Digital Is ... - 13 views

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visual literacy words meaning

shared by Dennis OConnor on 05 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Watching text in motion is nothing new for readers of all levels. We watch words travel across screens of various shapes and sizes, and we set words in motions as we move throughout our daily lives reading text in various places and contexts. What happens, then, when we become more deliberate in our thinking about placing text in motion and the direction suggested by the text itself? How does motion affect meaning and our interpretative process?
Mark Smith

We Can't Teach Students to Love Reading - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Highe... - 14 views

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reading

shared by Mark Smith on 07 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • My hyper-attentive habits were alienating me further and further from the much older and (one would have thought) more firmly established habits of deep attention. I was rapidly becoming a victim of my own mind's plasticity, until a new technology helped me to remember how to do something that for years had been instinctive, unconscious, natural.
Dennis OConnor

projeqt \ how great stories are told - 7 views

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story storytelling digital_storytelling

shared by Dennis OConnor on 05 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Dennis OConnor on 05 Sep 11
     
    From Mark Rounds: Web-Ed Tools Paper.li: "The art of online storytelling is all about presentation. As a non-linear storytelling engine, Projeqt gives creatives the ability to weave together stories dripping with style and personality from Flickr photos, RSS feeds, tweets, YouTube or Vimeo videos, and any media stored on their own computers.Users can craft "projeqts," whatever their purpose may be, by adding content in the form of slides. Create a slide, name it, add tags, and fill the slide with a photo, text, video or feed. Slides are published to create the web story and be can reordered via drag and drop. Users can also create a projeqt within a projeqt to serve as a story inside a story.In private beta right now... It took me a week to get my invite."
Nik Peachey

Nik's Daily English Activities: A City Love Story - 0 views

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esl efl web2.0 video images

shared by Nik Peachey on 24 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Nik Peachey on 24 Oct 09
     
    Today's activity is about talking about your city and the things you love, and was inspired by a YouTube video that tells a short love story. The Story is set in Beirut in Lebanon and tells the story of how two young people meet and fall in and out of love. The video though is also a tribute to the city that they both love and the things that they like about it.
Katie Dixon

Defining bullying - The Sun Chronicle Online - News - 0 views

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Bullying Classroom Management Ed Policies

shared by Katie Dixon on 30 Mar 11 - No Cached
    • Katie Dixon
      Katie Dixon on 30 Mar 11
       
      What is the balance?  Stress their important role, teach them how to partner with the school, church, etc at home - but hold parents accountable? Would this not teach students that they are not personally accountable for their actions?
  • "It has to be a process. I don't look at it as being one shot, one year and done,"
  • focusing on bystanders, mostly at the middle school level,
Leslie Healey

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

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reading

shared by Leslie Healey on 12 May 13 - No Cached
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      Leslie Healey on 12 May 13
       
      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
  • no obvious shape or thickness.
  • "haptic dissonance"
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  • e screen-based reading is more physically and mentally taxing than reading on pape
    • Leslie Healey
      Leslie Healey on 12 May 13
       
      this is the big problem for me
  • t scrolling
  • drains more mental resources than turning or clicking a page, which are simpler and more automatic gestures.
  • 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.
  • When reading on screens, people seem less inclined
  • metacognitive learning regulation—strategies such as setting specific goals, rereading difficult sections and checking how much one has understood
  • 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
  • Participants in her studies say that when they really like an electronic book, they go out and get the paper version.
  • Why not keep paper and evolve screen-based reading into something else entirely?
  • Some Web comics and infographics turn scrolling into a strength rather than a weakness. S
  • e Scale of the Universe tool
  • Atavist o
  • Leslie Healey on 12 May 13
     
    paper vs screen in your brain
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