Conducting Primary Research - 9 views
Does Your Language Shape How You Think? - NYTimes.com - 5 views
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Native American languages impose on their speakers a picture of reality that is totally different from ours, so their speakers would simply not be able to understand some of our most basic concepts, like the flow of time or the distinction between objects
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rash-landed on hard facts and solid common sense, when it transpired that there had never actually been any evidence to support his fantastic claims
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new research has revealed that when we learn our mother tongue, we do after all acquire certain habits of thought that shape our experience in significant and often surprising ways.
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Gates and Hewlett Foundations Focus on Online Learning - NYTimes.com - 3 views
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To date, education research shows that good teachers matter a lot, class size may be less important than once thought and nothing improves student performance as much as one-on-one human tutoring.
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The potential benefits of technology are greater as students become older, more independent learners. Making that point, Mr. Gates said in an interview that for children from kindergarten to about fifth grade “the idea that you stick them in front of a computer is ludicrous.”
The Texting Revolution Is Here - WSJ.com - 2 views
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We default to text to relay difficult information. We stare at our phone when we want to avoid eye contact.
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has named "micro-coordination"—"I'll txt u in 10mins when I know wh/ restrnt."
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it steals from quiet reflection. "When people have a mobile device and have even the smallest increment of extra time, they will communicate with someone in their life,"
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Google News Timeline by GoogleLabs - 13 views
My New Teaching Partner? Using the Grammar Checker in Writing Instruction - National Wr... - 13 views
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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.
Welcome to MICDL - 2 views
Reading and the Web - Texts Without Context - NYTimes.com - 14 views
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We all may read books the way we increasingly read magazines and newspapers: a little bit here, a little bit there.
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People tweet and text one another during plays and movies, forming judgments before seeing the arc of the entire work.
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Recent books by respected authors like Malcolm Gladwell (“Outliers”), Susan Faludi (“The Terror Dream”) and Jane Jacobs (“Dark Age Ahead”) rely far more heavily on cherry-picked anecdotes — instead of broader-based evidence and assiduous analysis — than the books that first established their reputations. And online research enables scholars to power-search for nuggets of information that might support their theses, saving them the time of wading through stacks of material that might prove marginal but that might have also prompted them to reconsider or refine their original thinking.
Qwiki - 12 views
150 Questions to Write or Talk About - NYTimes.com - 30 views
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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
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