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Dennis OConnor

10 Digital Writing Opportunities You Probably Know and 10 You Probably Don't | edte.ch - 13 views

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  • It was a meeting all about ideas (my favourite) and we discussed the best ways that technology could support the process of writing and drive the eventual outcomes. In this post I have included a list of 10 literacy/writing tools or outcomes that, in my opinion, teachers should currently be aware of. Many of them are basic yet still powerful tools in the classroom that support children’s writing. They are in no particular order.
  • Dennis OConnor on 28 Feb 10
     
    "It was a meeting all about ideas (my favourite) and we discussed the best ways that technology could support the process of writing and drive the eventual outcomes. In this post I have included a list of 10 literacy/writing tools or outcomes that, in my opinion, teachers should currently be aware of. Many of them are basic yet still powerful tools in the classroom that support children's writing. They are in no particular order."
  • Melody Velasco on 27 Mar 10
     
    "...10 alternative tools that either offer a different perspective on digital writing or are a little known tool, that may have huge potential in the classroom. Not everything is free nor is it online - but the list will hopefully provide food for thought when you are looking at your next non-fiction or narrative unit with your class."
Wanda Terral

Awesome Stories - 16 views

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  • Wanda Terral on 15 Dec 11
     
    AwesomeStories is a gathering place of primary-source information. Its purpose - since the site was first launched in 1999 - is to help educators and individuals find original sources, located at national archives, libraries, universities, museums, historical societies and government-created web sites. Sources held in archives, which document so much important first-hand information, are often not searchable by popular search engines. One needs to search within those institutional sites directly, using specific search phrases not readily discernible to non-scholars. The experience can be frustrating, resulting in researchers leaving key sites without finding needed information. AwesomeStories is about primary sources. The stories exist as a way to place original materials in context and to hold those links together in an interesting, cohesive way (thereby encouraging people to look at them). It is a totally different kind of web site in that its purpose is to place primary sources at the forefront - not the opinions of a writer. Its objective is to take the site's users to places where those primary sources are located. The author of each story is listed on the preface page of the story. A link to the author provides more detailed information. This educational teaching/learning tool is also designed to support state and national standards. Each story on the site links to online primary-source materials which are positioned in context to enhance reading comprehension, understanding and enjoyment.
Dennis OConnor

150 Questions to Write or Talk About - NYTimes.com - 30 views

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shared by Dennis OConnor on 01 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • For almost two years now, we’ve posted a fresh Student Opinion question every weekday.Each question was originally inspired by something in that week’s New York Times, and all of them are still open to comment by anyone between the ages of 13 and 25.Teachers tell us they use them as “bell-ringers,” as inspiration for lessons, as jumping-off points for student research and journalism, or just to help students practice writing persuasively and responding to others around the world. (We don’t allow last names, and we read each and every comment ourselves before we make it public, so it’s a pretty civil, and safe, place to post.)Below, 1
Suzanne Rogers

Everything Makes Them Sick - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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  • Suzanne Rogers on 18 Sep 11
     
    Photo essay on chemical sensitivities
Tom Cornell

From the Birthplace of Big Brother - NYTimes.com - 10 views

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  • Tom Cornell on 16 Apr 12
     
    Excellent connection to 1984
Leslie Healey

The Neuroscience of Your Brain On Fiction - NYTimes.com - 13 views

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  • Stories,
  • stimulate the brain and even change how we act in life.
  • nterprets written words. What scientists have come to realize in the last few years is that narratives activate many other parts of our brains as well, suggesting why the experience of reading can feel so alive.
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  • The brain, it seems, does not make much of a distinction between reading about an experience and encountering it in real life; in each case, the same neurological regions are stimulated.
  • The novel, of course, is an unequaled medium for the exploration of human social and emotional life.
  • substantial overlap in the brain networks used to understand stories and the networks used to navigate interactions with other individuals
  • “theory of mind
  • other people’s intenti
  • comparing a plucky young woman to Elizabeth Bennet or a tiresome pedant to Edward Casaubon. Reading great literature, it has long been averred, enlarges and improves us as human beings. Brain science shows this claim is truer than we imagined.
  • Leslie Healey on 18 Mar 12
     
    analysis of impact of reading, novel especially. validates focus on class SSR, even in 11-12th grade (my groups)
Leslie Healey

Honor Code - NYTimes.com - 13 views

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  • Leslie Healey on 06 Jul 12
     
    David Brooks on how schools are misunderstanding boys. some interesting observations from a non-teacher
Clifford Baker

Editorial Observer - Cutting and Pasting - A Senior Thesis by (Insert Name) - NYTimes.com - 9 views

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  • “This represents a shift away from the view of education as the process of intellectual engagement through which we learn to think critically and toward the view of education as mere training. In training, you are trying to find the right answer at any cost, not trying to improve your mind.”
  • Not everyone who gets caught knows enough about what they did to be remorseful.
  • “The big sleeping dog here is not the moral issue. The problem is that kids don’t learn if they don’t do the work.”
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  • The Pritchard axiom — that repetitive cheating undermines learning — has ominous implications for a world in which even junior high school students cut and paste from the Internet instead of producing their own writing.
  • When many young people think of writing, they don’t think of fashioning original sentences into a sustained thought. They think of making something like a collage of found passages and ideas from the Internet.
Mary Worrell

Learning Shouldn't Be Dictated by the School Calendar - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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  • Mary Worrell on 31 Aug 09
     
    What do you all think of this? Is the calendar to blame for many of our problems? Is year-round school the answer?
James Miscavish

Welcome to PulseIt Community - 0 views

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  • Susan Payne on 14 Aug 09
     
    A free, dedicated social networking site for teens ages 14-18 where members can not only read new S&S teen titles online, but also share their enthusiasm for books with fellow members of the site, communicate with authors, and use a wide variety of up-to-date digital tools to express their interests and opinions.
  • James Miscavish on 15 Aug 09
     
    free books every month for teens...pretty sweet
Mary Worrell

The Future Of Reading | Wired Science | Wired.com - 7 views

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  • I sometimes wonder why I’m only able to edit my own writing after it has been printed out, in 3-D form. My prose will always look so flawless on the screen, but then I read the same words on the physical page and I suddenly see all my clichés and banalities and excesses
    • Mary Worrell
      Mary Worrell on 09 Sep 10
       
      I have the same issue. As a business reporter out of college, my first copy editor pushed me to start printing out my drafts for my first round of edits. My editing was much more in-depth and thoughtful, which made her job a lot easier.
  • Mary Worrell on 09 Sep 10
     
    Just another person's opinion on the future of reading and the future of books, but I found it interesting!
Leslie Healey

Op-Ed at 40 - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com - 8 views

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  • Leslie Healey on 28 Sep 10
     
    too much in here to list. great source for critical reading and writing exercises, even SAT reivew
MIchael Heneghan

Let Kids Rule the School - NYTimes.com - 16 views

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      MIchael Heneghan on 16 Mar 11
       
      The motivating power of choice.
  • Leslie Healey on 16 Mar 11
     
    I think I need to try a few of these strategies--I especially liked the independent project that each student undertook.
Leslie Healey

Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade - NYTimes.com - 17 views

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  • What if, indeed. After studying the matter, Ms. Davidson concluded, “Online blogs directed at peers exhibit fewer typographical and factual errors, less plagiarism, and generally better, more elegant and persuasive prose than classroom assignments by the same writers.”
  • Ms. Davidson cites the elite Socratic system of questions and answers, the agrarian method of problem-solving and the apprenticeship program of imitating a master. It’s possible that any of these educational approaches
  • A classroom suited to today’s students should deemphasize solitary piecework. It should facilitate the kind of collaboration that helps individuals compensate for their blindnesses, instead of cultivating them. That classroom needs new ways of measuring progress, tailored to digital times — rather than to the industrial age or to some artsy utopia where everyone gets an Awesome for effort.
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  • students accountable on the Web
  • Leslie Healey on 08 Aug 11
     
    Coherent, concise assessment of the reactionary nature of school, not "learning"
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