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ten grrl

Teaching Writing - Resource Topics - National Writing Project - 1 views

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shared by ten grrl on 07 Sep 09 - Cached
  • ten grrl on 07 Sep 09
     
    Sorted collection of links to resources on teaching writing from the National Writing Project.
Dennis OConnor

Storybird - Collaborative storytelling - 11 views

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storybird digital storytelling collaborative web2.0

shared by Dennis OConnor on 01 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print. Read them like books, play them like games, and send them like greeting cards. They’re curiously fun.
Leslie Healey

Lesson Plan: Analyzing and Designing Book Apps for Works of Literature - NYTimes.com - 16 views

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ipad ereader english literature reading

shared by Leslie Healey on 30 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Leslie Healey on 30 Oct 10
     
    how reading changes on an iPAD or tablet. How could we being using this? when will my school get ereaders? Even I resist carrying my 4 pound book home.
Dennis OConnor

Report Spotlights Revolutionary Use of Technology in Teaching Writing - National Writin... - 10 views

www.nwp.org/...3172

writing digital nwp 6-traits technology

shared by Dennis OConnor on 17 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • New York, June 10, 2010 – "If school is supposed to help us in the rest of the world, shouldn't school look like what's going on in the rest of the world?" asks 10th-grade teacher Paige Cole, one of nine classroom teachers profiled in Writing, Learning and Leading in the Digital Age (PDF), a College Board–National Writing Project (NWP)–Phi Delta Kappa International (PDKI) report released today on the state of technology resources in the classroom.
Nik Peachey

Authors - ELT and the Crisis in Education: Digital Reading Skills | Delta Publishing - ... - 3 views

www.deltapublishing.co.uk/...ucation-digital-reading-skills

ICT education technology elt reading digital literacy

shared by Nik Peachey on 08 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Nik Peachey on 08 Dec 10
     
    We take it for granted as English language teachers that we need to develop our students' reading skills, but in most cases the nearest our students get to reading online is a printed version of a web page pre selected by their teacher. At best they may actually get to see a pre selected page on the screen of a computer, but is this enough to really develop their digital literacies?
Dennis OConnor

My New Teaching Partner? Using the Grammar Checker in Writing Instruction - National Wr... - 13 views

www.nwp.org/...2747

6-traits conventions

shared by Dennis OConnor on 20 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Summary: Reva Potter, a teacher-consultant with the Dakota Writing Project, and colleague Dorothy Fuller report on an action research project which concludes that Grammar Check instruction combined with direct instruction from the teacher can result in significant improvement in student understanding of key grammar concepts.
  • Dennis OConnor on 20 Dec 09
     
    Technology and grammar...
Dennis OConnor

Praising, Questioning, Wishing: An Approach to Responding to Writing - National Writing... - 12 views

www.nwp.org/...2868

writing nwp 6-traits

shared by Dennis OConnor on 20 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Summary: Responding to another's writing is always a challenging task. As a member of the E-Team behind NWP's E-Anthology, Brian Slusher discovered an effective response strategy: Praise, Question, and Wish.
Todd Finley

Share More! Wiki | Anthology / Diigo the Web for Education - From TeleGatherer to TeleP... - 5 views

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diigo teleplanter telegatherer education english

shared by Todd Finley on 09 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Todd Finley on 09 Jan 10
     
    "# Supporting Diigo-based fine-grained discussions connected to a specific part of a webpage - which opens up the possibility for more meaningful exchanges where teachers can embed all kinds of scaffolding into web-based materials with Diigo: * sharing questions for discussion (either online, or to prepare students for an in-class discussion); * highlighting critical features; asking students to define words, terms, or concepts in their own words/language; providing definitions of difficult/new terms (in various media, such as embedding an image in the sticky note); * providing models of interpreting materials. * using the highlighting/sticky note feature to "mark up" our "textbook" (blog) with comments, observations and corrections to specific words, phrases or paragraphs of each post. * Aggregating bookmarks the students make of websites valuable to their learning, and use the highlighting feature and sticky notes as if they were like the Track Changes feature in MS Word which lends itself more towards collaboration and the iterative process. "
andrew bendelow

Starting the Fire: Motivating Readers - National Writing Project - 10 views

www.nwp.org/...497

readers english literature constructivist vygotsky wilhelm action strategies tools teaching

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  • andrew bendelow on 02 Feb 10
     
    Enacting literature with students to motivate reading Wilhelm describes action strategies
  • andrew bendelow on 02 Feb 10
     
    Using "action strategies" invigorates the English class
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.
Suzanne Rogers

Schumpeter: The angel and the monster | The Economist - 4 views

www.economist.com/...18772204

Schumpeter AoW APlang reading resources

shared by Suzanne Rogers on 28 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Suzanne Rogers on 28 Aug 11
     
    Interesting correlation between leadership styles of Mother Teresa and Lady Gaga.
casey mayfield

Online Books, Poems, Short Stories - Read Print Library - 17 views

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Online Books Gatsby Books Literature Canterbury

shared by casey mayfield on 07 Oct 09 - Cached
  • casey mayfield on 07 Oct 09
     
    Free online books library for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast.
Mark Smith

Truthdig - Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System - 7 views

www.truthdig.com/..._her_education_system_20110410

shared by Mark Smith on 12 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • “For human beings, thinking of past matters means moving in the dimension of depth, striking roots and thus stabilizing themselves, so as not to be swept away by whatever may occur—the Zeitgeist or History or simple temptation. The greatest evil is not radical, it has no roots, and because it has no roots it has no limitations, it can go to unthinkable extremes and sweep over the whole world.”
    • Mark Smith
      Mark Smith on 12 Apr 11
       
      This is as profoundly true now as it ever was.
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