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Mark Smith

The Case for Breaking Up With Your Parents - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Hi... - 5 views

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education parents

shared by Mark Smith on 07 May 12 - No Cached
  • More than love, sex, courtship, and marriage; more than inheritance, ambition, rivalry, or disgrace; more than hatred, betrayal, revenge, or death, orphanhood—the absence of the parent, the frightening yet galvanizing solitude of the child—may be the defining fixation of the novel as a genre, what one might call its primordial motive or matrix, the conditioning psychic reality out of which the form itself develops.
  • Mark Smith on 07 May 12
     
    "This is the play-date generation. ... There was a time when children came home from school and just played randomly with their friends. Or hung around and got bored, and eventually that would lead you on to something. Kids don't get to do that now. Busy parents book them into things constantly-violin lessons, ballet lessons, swimming teams. The kids get the idea that someone will always be structuring their time for them."
  • Mark Smith on 07 May 12
     
    A great article, worth 15 minutes.
Dennis OConnor

Caught Cheating: New Ways Kids Are Breaking the Rules - 14 views

www.commonsensemedia.org/...w-ways-kids-are-breaking-rules

cheating digitalcitizenship ethics social-media facebook information literacy

shared by Dennis OConnor on 20 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Dennis OConnor on 20 Aug 11
     
    When is it cheating? When is it collaboration? This thoughtful article from Common Sense Media provides fine advice for parents (or teachers) on how to talk to kids about digital media and ethics.  
Mark Smith

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

www.theatlantic.com/...2

parenting

shared by Mark Smith on 08 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • 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....
Meredith Stewart

Storynory - 7 views

storynory.com

audio podcast kids books

shared by Meredith Stewart on 04 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Meredith Stewart on 04 Mar 10
     
    Free Audio Stories for Kids
Teresa Ilgunas

If Your Kids Are Awake, They're Probably Online - NYTimes.com - 4 views

www.nytimes.com/...20wired.html

students online research

shared by Teresa Ilgunas on 22 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Teresa Ilgunas on 22 Jan 10
     
    Kids' online lives
Leslie Healey

Reading Digitally Infographic - 23 views

www.ryanbretag.com/blog

infographic reading ebooks

shared by Leslie Healey on 19 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Leslie Healey on 19 Nov 11
     
    if you had doubts about the chance to engage more kids with eReaders, this infographic might change your mind. I am planning a digital reading course next year, and will use this to argue my case to administration
  • Mark Smith on 20 Nov 11
     
    This graphic is nice ... but who conducted the study? How was this information gathered? Why should we trust it?
Clifford Baker

Weblogg-ed » The Obama Speech - 0 views

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weekly_article will_richardson

shared by Clifford Baker on 05 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Clifford Baker on 05 Sep 09
     
    In the midst of all of the "uproar" over the President's planned speech to school kids on Tuesday, I keep thinking about what all of this says about schools, about what they are for, and about the perception that a lot of people in this country have of them.
anonymous

Three-Minute Fiction : NPR - 0 views

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fiction writing literature

shared by anonymous on 23 Aug 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 23 Aug 09
     
    Excellent site for English teachers who want to incorporate some creative fiction either for reading or writing. Have kids write their own three-minute stories.
anonymous

NCEE (National Center on Education and the Economy) - 0 views

www.skillscommission.org/executive.htm

literacy flat_world skills reports workforce

shared by anonymous on 15 Jul 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 15 Jul 09
     
    Goes directly to the Tough Choices Tough Times report (a summary of it) which is the latest version of the SCANS report several decades ago. Tough Times looks at what the workplace says kids need to graduate knowing how to do if we are to remain economica
anonymous

Film: The Lunch Date - 0 views

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media film race

shared by anonymous on 15 Jul 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 15 Jul 09
     
    This short film has many uses in the classroom for all kids.
anonymous

Reading: MADMAN, ARCHITECT, CARPENTER, JUDGE: ROLES AND THE WRITING PROCESS - 2 views

webspace.utexas.edu/...b_flowers.html

writing AP

shared by anonymous on 15 Jul 09 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 15 Jul 09
     
    By Betty Sue Flowers. A friend uses this in his law school writing class. Kids in my AP class have found it very helpful.
Leslie Healey

Not the Booker prize: Pictures of Lily by Matthew Yorke | Books | guardian.co.uk - 2 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...ze-pictures-lily-matthew-yorke

booker

shared by Leslie Healey on 08 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Leslie Healey on 08 Oct 10
     
    hmmmmm...I have had students tell me that YoungAdult ficiton is mostly "kid books" interesting review. Anyone read this book?
Sheri Edwards

CMS Test results invite scrutiny - CharlotteObserver.com - 0 views

www.charlotteobserver.com/...853533.html

charlotteobserver testing assessment standards national

shared by Sheri Edwards on 27 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Staff at both schools will collect 10- to 15-percent pay hikes based on this year's scores, money that goes away next year. The raises, paid for by county commissioners eager to see kids succeed at low-performing schools, illustrate the rewards and penalties that can hang on test scores.
  • In 2006, a principal split Garinger into five academies with specialized themes. The New Technology school emerged strong, but the rest of the campus struggled.
  • She was convinced the dismal pass rate could change but believed many needed stronger skills to pass exams. “We really had to put the brakes on things,” she said. That meant letting strong students go straight into the EOC classes. But weaker ones took a semester or more of preparatory classes designed to boost their reading, math or science skills.
  • ...5 more annotations...
  • The Observer analysis shows an unusually large number of Garinger International students sidestepped EOC courses in 2008-09. (See box.)
  • This year the school added juniors, which meant enrollment grew by almost 50 percent. Yet the school gave 46 fewer tests.
  • In English I, which all ninth-graders must take, Garinger International's pass rate went from 67 to 81 percent.
  • the only thing we have to vary is the time it takes to attain the standards. We do not all learn at the same rate.
  • It sounds like the principal is trying to help all her kids be successful. Why must that be cause for suspicion??
  • Sheri Edwards on 27 Jul 09
     
    What do you think?
Meredith Stewart

The Stacks for Kids | Scholastic.com - 12 views

www.scholastic.com/stacks

books reviews reading

shared by Meredith Stewart on 27 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Meredith Stewart on 27 Nov 09
     
    Create profile page and share book reviews
Jeff See

TeachPaperless: Best Practices in a Twitter-enhanced High School Classroom - 10 views

teachpaperless.blogspot.com/...-in-twitter-enhanced-high.html

Truth Paperless Classroom Book Club Discussion

shared by Jeff See on 13 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Jeff See on 13 Jan 10
     
    Cool idea. I might look into this next week when I take my kids into the lab to wrap up the semester. Perhaps a twitter discussion on "What is truth?"
Leslie Healey

Phil Zimbardo and the Heroic Imagination Project: TED - 13 views

blog.ted.com/...oject-ted-blog-exclusive-video

TED heroic britlit resources teaching charactereducation

shared by Leslie Healey on 13 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Leslie Healey on 13 Feb 11
     
    great project to implement with kids: can match it with British LIt theme of the hero
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