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Mark Smith

Philip Larkin, the Impossible Man - Magazine - The Atlantic - 3 views

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poetry orwell larkin

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  • In somewhat different ways, Orwell and Larkin were phlegmatically pessimistic and at times almost misanthropic, not to say misogynistic. Both also originated from dire family backgrounds that inculcated prejudice against Jews, the colored subjects of the British Empire, and the working class.
  • In somewhat different ways, Orwell and Larkin were phlegmatically pessimistic and at times almost misanthropic, not to say misogynistic. Both also originated from dire family backgrounds that inculcated prejudice against Jews, the colored subjects of the British Empire, and the working class.
  • In somewhat different ways, Orwell and Larkin were phlegmatically pessimistic and at times almost misanthropic, not to say misogynistic. Both also originated from dire family backgrounds that inculcated prejudice against Jews, the colored subjects of the British Empire, and the working class.
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  • In somewhat different ways, Orwell and Larkin were phlegmatically pessimistic and at times almost misanthropic, not to say misogynistic. Both also originated from dire family backgrounds that inculcated prejudice against Jews, the colored subjects of the British Empire, and the working class.
  • In somewhat different ways, Orwell and Larkin were phlegmatically pessimistic and at times almost misanthropic, not to say misogynistic. Both also originated from dire family backgrounds that inculcated prejudice against Jews, the colored subjects of the British Empire, and the working class.
  • In somewhat different ways, Orwell and Larkin were phlegmatically pessimistic and at times almost misanthropic, not to say misogynistic. Both also originated from dire family backgrounds that inculcated prejudice against Jews, the colored subjects of the British Empire, and the working class.
  • In somewhat different ways, Orwell and Larkin were phlegmatically pessimistic and at times almost misanthropic, not to say misogynistic. Both also originated from dire family backgrounds that inculcated prejudice against Jews, the colored subjects of the British Empire, and the working class.
  • In somewhat different ways, Orwell and Larkin were phlegmatically pessimistic and at times almost misanthropic, not to say misogynistic. Both also originated from dire family backgrounds that inculcated prejudice against Jews, the colored subjects of the British Empire, and the working class.
  • In somewhat different ways, Orwell and Larkin were phlegmatically pessimistic and at times almost misanthropic, not to say misogynistic. Both also originated from dire family backgrounds that inculcated prejudice against Jews, the colored subjects of the British Empire, and the working class.
  • In somewhat different ways, Orwell and Larkin were phlegmatically pessimistic and at times almost misanthropic, not to say misogynistic. Both also originated from dire family backgrounds that inculcated prejudice against Jews, the colored subjects of the British Empire, and the working class.
  • This is the world of wretched, tasteless food and watery drinks, dreary and crowded lodgings, outrageous plumbing, surly cynicism, long queues, shocking hygiene, and dismal, rain-lashed holidays, continually punctuated by rudeness and philistinism. In Orwell’s early fiction, all this is most graphically distilled in Keep the Aspidistra Flying, but it is an essential element of the texture of Nineteen Eighty-Four, and was quarried from the “down and out” journalism of which he produced so much
Karen LaBonte

Phrase Finder - 22 views

www.phrases.org.uk/index.html

phrases sayings reference

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  • Karen LaBonte on 14 Aug 10
     
    The meanings and origins of over 1,600 English sayings, phrases and idioms. This writers' resource spawns ideas for headlines, advertising copy, song lyrics, poetry etc. Journalists, advertising copywriters, songwriters, or anyone interested in creative writing in English, can benefit from this ideas generator.
Dana Huff

Books That Shaped America - National Book Festival (Library of Congress) - 5 views

www.loc.gov/...books-that-shaped-america

literature books american literature america american english

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  • Dana Huff on 08 Jul 12
     
    The Library of Congress shares an exhibition of "Books that Shaped America." Librarian of Congress James H. Billington says that the list is "intended to spark a national conversation on books written by Americans that have influenced our lives, whether they appear on this initial list or not."
Suzanne Rogers

The Birthday Party by Katherine Brush - 10 views

www.aptoshs.net/~sdudek/AP English Handouts/Birthday Party,The by Katherine Brush.htm

aplit Shortstory POV

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  • Suzanne Rogers on 22 Jun 10
     
    The Birthday Party by Katherine Brush     They were a couple in their late thirties, and they looked unmistakably married. They sat on the banquette opposite us in a little narrow restaurant, having dinner. The man had a round, self-satisfied face, with glasses on it; the woman was fadingly pretty, in a big hat. There was nothing conspicuous about them, nothing particularly noticeable, until the end of their meal, when it suddenly became obvious that this was an occasion-in fact, the husband's birthday. And the wife had planned a little surprise for him.     It arrived, in the form of a small but glossy birthday cake, with one pink candle burning in the center. The headwaiter brought it in and placed it before the husband, and meanwhile the violin-and-piano orchestra played "Happy Birthday to You" and the wife beamed with shy pride over her little surprise, and such few people as there were in the restaurant tried to help out with a pattering of applause. It became clear at once that help was needed, because the husband was not pleased. Instead he was hotly embarrassed, and indignant at his wife for embarrassing him.     You looked at him and you saw this and you thought, "Oh, now don't be like that!" But he was like that, and as soon as the little cake had been deposited on the table, and the orchestra had finished the birthday piece, and the general attention had shifted from the man and the woman, I saw him say something to her under his breath-some punishing thing, quick and curt and unkind. I couldn't bear to look at the woman then, so I stared at my plate and waited for quite a long time. Not long enough, though. She was still crying when I finally glanced over there again. Crying quietly and heartbrokenly and hopelessly, all to herself, under the gay big brim of her best hat.  
Clifford Baker

Weblogg-ed » The Obama Speech - 0 views

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  • Clifford Baker on 05 Sep 09
     
    In the midst of all of the "uproar" over the President's planned speech to school kids on Tuesday, I keep thinking about what all of this says about schools, about what they are for, and about the perception that a lot of people in this country have of them.
anonymous

'Teach Naked' Effort Strips Computers From Classrooms - Technology - The Chronicle of H... - 0 views

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  • Here's the kicker, though: The biggest resistance to Mr. Bowen's ideas has come from students, some of whom have groused about taking a more active role during those 50-minute class periods.
  • Introduce issues of debate within the discipline and get the students to weigh in based on the knowledge they have from those lecture podcasts, Mr. Bowen says.
  • "Strangely enough, the people who are most resistant to this model are the students, who are used to being spoon-fed material that is going to be quote unquote on the test," says Mr. Heffernan. "Students have been socialized to view the educational process as essentially passive. The only way we're going to stop that is by radically refiguring the classroom in precisely the way José wants to do it."
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  • "inverted classroom."
  • 'I paid for a college education and you're not going to lecture?'"
  • PowerPoint is not the problem. It is how PPt is used.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 24 Jul 09
       
      That's exactly the point. Of course we do need discussions in classrooms, but we also need to enable students to perform well in them, and here is where technology comes in: You can facilitate it in the learning process. - The headline of this article makes things far too easy...
  • Patrick Higgins on 23 Jul 09
     
    I like how Bowen is questioning the use of tech for tech's sake. This further shows how it's not about the technology, but about the teaching.
anonymous

NCEE (National Center on Education and the Economy) - 0 views

www.skillscommission.org/executive.htm

literacy flat_world skills reports workforce

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  • anonymous on 15 Jul 09
     
    Goes directly to the Tough Choices Tough Times report (a summary of it) which is the latest version of the SCANS report several decades ago. Tough Times looks at what the workplace says kids need to graduate knowing how to do if we are to remain economica
James Miscavish

Promoting Twitteracy in the Classroom | Apace of Change - 0 views

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twitter Classroom twitteracy education

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  • James Miscavish on 16 Jul 09
     
    i think a great way to use twitter is to go to twitter search - see what people are saying about a topic. i know i've used it in the last week to get up to date info on internet safety restrictions and how to break through some of the barriers keeping us from good educational web activities.
James Miscavish

Threat for Big Media: Guerrilla Video Sites - WSJ.com - 0 views

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article download English internet online sharing video movie

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  • James Miscavish on 16 Jul 09
     
    Mr. Martinez read aloud an email from a YouTVpc user saying that the link to the film "Old School" didn't work anymore. He said he would track down a working link. Another user wrote, "I want to know whether this service is legal or not," and asked whethe
Leslie Healey

Reports of blogging's death have been greatly exaggerated | Cory Doctorow | Technology ... - 6 views

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blogging technology writers

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  • t was coined in 1913 by Wolfgang Riepl. It's as true now as it was then.
  • Science fiction writer Bruce Sterling says: "The future composts the past." There's even a law to describe this, Riepl's Law – which says "new, further developed types of media never replace the existing modes of media and their usage patterns. Instead, a convergence takes place in their field, leading to a different way and field of use for these older forms."
  • Leslie Healey on 16 Jul 10
     
    doctorow's take on why we need not just twitter and facebook and diigo but also older methods of socialmedia--blogging
  • Leslie Healey on 16 Jul 10
     
    this is the best analysis on why we need the varied forms of social media in the classroom--and in life
Leslie Healey

This is your brain on books - 20 views

www.bookninja.com/?p=8512

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  • Leslie Healey on 16 Aug 10
     
    Haha. I'd like to say this to my juniors! And some adults could benefit
Mary Worrell

Nameless, Faceless Children (Blogs & Internet Safety) | Julie A. Cunningham - 7 views

www.julieacunningham.com/?p=129

technology children privacy_issues digital_citizenship

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  • I would say that they primarily need protected from themselves… that they need help moderating their web presence until they understand the full ramifications of things they say online.  I don’t think that means they need to be anonymous.  I do think that anonymity tends to foster less responsible behavior, in both children and adults alike
    • Mary Worrell
      Mary Worrell on 21 Sep 10
       
      Hear hear! Boogeyman tactics don't work. Educators and parents should be online, modeling the sort of digital citizenship we hope for our children and students - the kind that will keep them safe.
  • Mary Worrell on 21 Sep 10
     
    Great article demonstrating the threats of real life and juxtaposing them with the threats of having an active, online life.
  • Mary Worrell on 21 Sep 10
     
    Great article demonstrating the threats of real life and juxtaposing them with the threats of having an active, online life. Might be a good conversation starter with tech facilitators at your school.
Leslie Healey

Gates and Hewlett Foundations Focus on Online Learning - NYTimes.com - 3 views

www.nytimes.com/...11online.html

education teachertech

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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.
  • 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.”
  • Leslie Healey on 12 Oct 10
     
    Bill Gates says some surprising things about need for tech in schools!
Adam Babcock

The Texting Revolution Is Here - WSJ.com - 2 views

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writing edtech mobile research

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  • We default to text to relay difficult information. We stare at our phone when we want to avoid eye contact.
  • has named "micro-coordination"—"I'll txt u in 10mins when I know wh/ restrnt."
  • 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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  • If I were to call someone, it would have to be urgent," she says. "Otherwise, it's sort of rude and invasive.
  • "American Idol put texting on the map," says AT&T's Mr. Collins.
Adam Babcock

"Monster" analysis by Shmoop - 12 views

www.shmoop.com/kanye-monster

music hiphop

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  • Keith Schoch on 19 Mar 11
     
    I'm all for using pop culture references in teaching, and I did read what Shmoop had to say on this particular video, but would you really feel comfortable sharing this video in class and having a discourse on it? I'm a Jay-Z fan and a hip hop lover from its earliest days, but this video and song are reprehensible on so many levels. With so much else that we can "source" for instruction, why this? Please help me understand. And don't say it's a gangsta thang.
  • Adam Babcock on 20 Mar 11
     
    To answer your first question about showing the music video: absolutely not. Why this? I'm still struggling with it. We're in an age where we are entertained by self destruction. Kanye (unfortunately, because I was a fan of his earlier work) is definitely becoming one of the monster / Charlie Sheen / Jersey Shore / reality TV burnouts. And yet, there is an audience for it... When I first skimmed the analysis, I thought I'd go back to see if Schmoop was established enough to have a worthy application of Freud to Kanye. Alas, I was mistaken. I haven't become a fan of Schmoop; they've got some work to do. I'm sorry I misplaced my "under investigation" tag in ECN's collection.
Leslie Healey

The Secret Language Code: Scientific American - 8 views

www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm

grammar pronoun voice teachingwriting

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  • Leslie Healey on 20 Aug 11
     
    What will my students say about their use of pronouns? Good awareness check.
Tom McHale

Things We Say Today And Owe To Shakespeare : The Two-Way : NPR - 11 views

www.npr.org/...y-today-and-owe-to-shakespeare

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  • Tom McHale on 18 Sep 11
     
    Two websites that illustrate how Shakespeare has influenced our language.
Adam Babcock

If Romeo and Juliet had mobile phones | Networked - 13 views

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    • Adam Babcock
      Adam Babcock on 21 Jul 12
       
      Yeah... but "wherefore" translates to "why" in our contemporary language...
  • would have allowed Romeo and Juliet to move around, liberated from locale and parental surveillance. They would have been less worried about their families when they were figuring out where to meet. At the same time, their parents would have felt reassured because they could call their children and ask where they were and what they were doing. But, would Romeo and Juliet have told the truth? A location-aware app would also have been useful for parents in tracking them. Or they might have prowled friends’ Facebook updates or photo albums for clues.
  • Romeo and Juliet could find each other now because mobility means accessibility and availability. They’d be on each other’s top-five speed dial. And they would probably have had a location-aware app that that showed exactly where each other were: no wandering the streets of Verona looking for each other.
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  • Public spaces have become more silent, as people concentrate on their text messages, while downwardly-peering texters have limited eye contact.
  • Imagine Romeo making plans to meet Juliet in the park, but his father calls to say that he has to come home immediately. At least, the mobile connection would have allowed Romeo to alert Juliet to his role conflict and possible absence.
  • As long as they talked or texted in private, neither the Montagues nor the Capulets would know – unless, of course, they snuck peeks at the list of previous calls and texts on the phones. Instead of a phone ringing in a home—where all would hear it and possibly become part of the conversation—internet communication and mobile communication are usually exchanges between two individuals.
  • Mobile contact has become multigenerational, as teens—and even children—are increasingly getting their own mobile phones. This affords people of all ages opportunities to become more autonomous agents.
  • As they grew up, Romeo and Juliet had gotten past their childhoods of being household and neighborhood bound.  They made contact by encounters in public places. Teens still do that—the shopping mall is the new agora—but their mobile phones also afford continuous contact with their homes and distant friends.
  • If they are right, Romeo and Juliet might never look up from their mobile phones to see each other. Or, would the course of true love have led them away from their screens and into each other’s arms?
  • The story of Romeo and Juliet is the story of two individuals escaping the bounds of their densely knit groups. It is a story of the social network revolution that began well before Facebook: the move from group-bound societies to networked individuals. This turn to networked individualism transforms communication from being place-based to person-based.
Mark Smith

Don't mention the mockingbird! Meet Harper Lee the reclusive novelist who wrote the cla... - 9 views

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literature

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  • In the novel, Scout lives in fear of a ‘malevolent phantom’, a psychologically disturbed neighbour called Boo Radley, who ultimately saves her life. While it is clear that the character is in part based on a reclusive neighbour, in reality, it was Harper’s mother Frances who was the source of much terror and unhappiness.Suffering from depression and violent mood swings, friends in the close-knit Alabama town say that Frances allegedly twice tried to drown her daughter in the bath. As a result, perhaps, the young Harper was regarded as a difficult and aggressive child who would think nothing of punching other children who annoyed her.
Dana Huff

TwitVid - @alyankovic I like the ones that say "SLOW CHILDREN PLAYING". RT @alyankovic ... - 0 views

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twitvid alyankovic grammar

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  • Dana Huff on 16 Aug 09
     
    Fun video of Weird Al Yankovic changing street sign with improper grammar.
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