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Melissa Tredenick

Project LA Language Arts Activities - 10 views

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LA grammar tools resources teaching

shared by Melissa Tredenick on 25 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Melissa Tredenick on 25 Oct 09
     
    Great collection of Language Arts grammar PowerPoints, worksheets, online activities, and games for grades 3-5
  • Melissa Tredenick on 25 Oct 09
     
    Great collection of Language Arts grammar PowerPoints, worksheets, online activities, and games for grades 3-5
Kristin Bergsagel

How To Do Things With Words : Learning Diversity - 4 views

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shared by Kristin Bergsagel on 14 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • the RRSG theory of reading comprehension is predominantly cognitive rather than cultural. It depicts the text as an encoded representation of a specific situation.
  • Making and having meaning, then, transcend cognition and involve a commitment to values and the pursuit of ideals.
  • These moral qualities are essential to human life, yet they seem to be completely redundant in the case of the aforementioned reader of “the cat is on the mat.”
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  • Could it be that teachers who are allegedly so obstinately unfaithful to the received theory of reading comprehension do in fact apply it in their classrooms, but fail to achieve adequate outcomes because the theory fails to explain reading as a meaningful human activity?
  • the most authoritative theory of reading comprehension misleads her into performing a futile cognitive exercise.
  • namely, instruct students to read the text creatively by transforming it into a model for exploring ideas such as self-deception, hubris, or the unintended negative consequences of well-intended parenting.
  • it doesn’t address texts adequately as media of communication between purposeful, goal-oriented actors.
  • The meaning of a message, then, is its use by the interacting parties and is therefore always much more than a mental representation. When we treat words or statements as mere representations, we fail to communicate.
  • A theory that fails to enhance communication undermines education, because education is a special form of communication dedicated to the transmission of learning.
  • The words remain his rather than theirs, conveying facts about his dream rather than becoming resources useful to them. These readers have missed yet another opportunity to make sense of the history of their nation and of their own lives in relation to it.
  • hopeful vision coupled to a darker prophecy and a threatening message.
  • This reading, then, intertwines American political history with the history of literature in a way that renders the reader herself an active participant in their making.
  • creativity, diversity, and agency
  • Readers, we propose, ought to associate the meaning of the text with its use. The texts students typically read in school, more specifically, ought to be used for the purpose of exploring ideas. Reading for this purpose is necessarily a creative endeavor because it entails transforming the text into a model of inquiry into certain aspects of the reader’s life experiences.
  • In other words, because they use the text in diverse ways, its meaning varies accordingly.
  • What is at stake is nothing less than how students relate themselves to cultural achievements that have shaped the world in which they live and the society in which they gradually mature.
  • Conversely, education researchers in universities and other research institutes are often insufficiently familiar with how children learn at school, and therefore simply do not have an adequate understanding of the problems their research should solve
Caroline Bachmann

SearchStories Youtube Video Maker - 2 views

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google youtube DigitalStorytelling searchstories web2.0 education teaching tools resources English

shared by Caroline Bachmann on 12 Apr 11 - Cached
  • Caroline Bachmann on 12 Apr 11
     
    Create your own Google Search Story
Caroline Bachmann

Video Writing Prompts - Teach Hub - 11 views

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writing lessons prompts language education writingprompts English video teachhub teach tools resources

shared by Caroline Bachmann on 12 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Caroline Bachmann on 12 Apr 11
     
    Video writing prompts for teaching with response questions
Teresa Ilgunas

Bookmarklets | Readability - 11 views

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resources web2.0 education tools free readability classroom reading languagearts

shared by Teresa Ilgunas on 21 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Teresa Ilgunas on 21 Apr 11
     
    This tool is fantastic when I want to have the class read a paper version of an internet article, OR when the ads are so distracting that I can't concentrate on what I'm reading.
Daniel Bruno

News: Calibrating Students' B.S. Meters - Inside Higher Ed - 8 views

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literacy students education academic information_literacy resources teaching english web2.0

shared by Daniel Bruno on 20 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Daniel Bruno on 20 Apr 11
     
    Great article on critical literacy
andrew bendelow

Digital Youth Network: Creating New Media Citizens through the Affinity Learning Model ... - 9 views

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IJLM affinity model network youth new media creating media citizens web2.0 resources writing tools teaching reading

shared by andrew bendelow on 14 Jul 11 - No Cached
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    Composing online is not writing alone, as students have done. When he produces an artifact, the networked student creates a communal effort on the Internet.
aunt tammie

E-verything! - 16 views

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web2.0 tools resources blog

shared by aunt tammie on 25 Jun 11 - Cached
  • aunt tammie on 25 Jun 11
     
    jo hart website
Suzanne Rogers

Speech to the Virginia Convention (Patrick Henry) Teachers guide! - 4 views

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aplang americanliterature

shared by Suzanne Rogers on 23 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Suzanne Rogers on 23 Jun 11
     
    common core mapping project
Leslie Healey

The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens: Scientific A... - 18 views

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reading

shared by Leslie Healey on 12 May 13 - No Cached
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      Leslie Healey on 12 May 13
       
      on the other hand, I just tried to change the color of my highlighter, and redo a highlight that supported a different conclusion, and Diigo would not let me--I learned that on my iPad
  • no obvious shape or thickness.
  • "haptic dissonance"
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  • e screen-based reading is more physically and mentally taxing than reading on pape
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      Leslie Healey on 12 May 13
       
      this is the big problem for me
  • t scrolling
  • drains more mental resources than turning or clicking a page, which are simpler and more automatic gestures.
  • people reading on screens take a lot of shortcuts—they spend more time browsing, scanning and hunting for keywords compared with people reading on paper, and are more likely to read a document once, and only once.
  • When reading on screens, people seem less inclined
  • metacognitive learning regulation—strategies such as setting specific goals, rereading difficult sections and checking how much one has understood
  • Sellen has learned that many people do not feel much ownership of e-books because of their impermanence and intangibility: "They think of using an e-book, not owning an e-book," s
  • Participants in her studies say that when they really like an electronic book, they go out and get the paper version.
  • Why not keep paper and evolve screen-based reading into something else entirely?
  • Some Web comics and infographics turn scrolling into a strength rather than a weakness. S
  • e Scale of the Universe tool
  • Atavist o
  • Leslie Healey on 12 May 13
     
    paper vs screen in your brain
Mrs. Dawson

Digital Writing Workshop - Troy Hicks - 15 views

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writing teaching English resources web2.0 tools

shared by Mrs. Dawson on 03 Aug 13 - Cached
  • Mrs. Dawson on 03 Aug 13
     
    Companion site for THE DIGITAL WRITING WORKSHOP and CRAFTING DIGITAL WRITING
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