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Mary Worrell

Teacher Magazine: Giving Classrooms a Purpose - 11 views

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classroom theory education educational_reform student_choice teaching learning instruction

shared by Mary Worrell on 21 Jan 10 - Cached
  • “Never do for someone what they can do for themselves. Never.”
    • Mary Worrell
      Mary Worrell on 21 Jan 10
       
      This is something every teacher, myself included, should keep in mind when students struggle. Help them, but only enough so they can finish the race on their own. Zone of proximal development.
  • On our overhead, I enter the choices in side-by-side columns and give examples of the difference between the two.
    • Mary Worrell
      Mary Worrell on 21 Jan 10
       
      I love this idea! Making our teaching processes and decisions transparent to students gives them more ownership in the classroom.
  • Mary Worrell on 21 Jan 10
     
    I really enjoyed this post by Larry Ferlazzo (thanks to Meredith Stewart's retweet). Got me thinking about the sort of classroom culture I'd like to help create with my students.
Adam Babcock

Education Week's Digital Directions: Classroom-Tested Tech Tools Used to Boost Literacy - 10 views

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reading edtech literacy fluency

shared by Adam Babcock on 09 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • English-language learners
  • audio recorders to have student-teachers read sets of vocabulary words, then she creates matching PowerPoint presentations with the words and burns them onto DVDs
  • 2nd through 4th graders over 16 weeks as they used webcams to see themselves reading and then he identified their mistakes.
  • ...5 more annotations...
  • at least two fewer mistakes per minute.
  • podcasting to help her students practice fluency.
  • Then they can literally see the pauses or mistakes they made in the editing program and correct them.
  • Using VoiceThread, for instance—which allows users to create collaborative, multimedia slide shows with images, documents, and videos
  • Storybird, allows students to tap into a library of illustrations to create digital books, says Lovely.
Dana Huff

Massive List of Phrases That Shakespeare Created That We Still Use Today | Anglotopia -... - 18 views

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shakespeare literature english reading

shared by Dana Huff on 24 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Dana Huff on 24 Feb 11
     
    Shakespeare coined a lot of phrases and words we still commonly use today.
Mark Smith

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

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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.
Mrs. Lenker

American Lit: Quick and Dirty (Part 2 of 2) - YouTube - 11 views

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AMERICANLIT

shared by Mrs. Lenker on 06 Sep 11 - Cached
  • Mrs. Lenker on 06 Sep 11
     
    Great video--a bit PG-13.
  • anonymous on 11 Sep 11
     
    I love it! I use it, too. It is a little racy here and there, but nothing over the top.
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