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Leslie Healey

Teacher Resources | Library of Congress - 9 views

www.loc.gov/teachers

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  • Leslie Healey on 03 Aug 11
     
    comprehensive resources to find and cite primary sources. our senior seminar will visit the Library of Congress next year as the beginning of the research project. Provides citation examples and guides for MLA and Chicago styles.
Leslie Healey

Rookie | » Higher Learning - 6 views

rookiemag.com/...higher-learning

geek teens HIGHSCHOOL bully

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  • Leslie Healey on 05 Sep 11
     
    a new site about teen-dom from one of the coolest teen bloggers on the net. This post about surviving high school would make a great project for my seniors ( for underclassmen)
Clifford Baker

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

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plagiarism

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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.
casey mayfield

InterActive Six Trait Writing Process - 0 views

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Teacher Tools Writing 6Trait

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    6 Trait
anonymous

CaliforniaColleges.edu - Tips on Writing the UC Personal Statement - 0 views

www.californiacolleges.edu/...personal-statement.asp

writing college_essays seniors AP

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    College essay help
anonymous

How to write an Application Essay - 1 views

www.foothill.edu/...essay.html

writing seniors college_essays AP

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    More help on writing college application essays
Adam Babcock

College Applications Continue to Increase. When Is Enough Enough? - NYTimes.com - 4 views

www.nytimes.com/...07HOOVER-t.html

college collegeessays e405

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  • “They want you so they can reject you,” says Mr. Stewart, a senior in Burnsville, Minn., who has a 3.5 grade-point average and scored a 27 (out of 36) on the ACT. Those numbers are well below the freshman averages at some of the big-name colleges that sent him applications along with brochures.
Adam Babcock

Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction - NYTimes.com - 4 views

www.nytimes.com/...21brain.html

edtech education reading

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  • Bypassing Vonnegut, he clicks over to YouTube, meaning that tomorrow he will enter his senior year of high school hoping to see an improvement in his grades, but without having completed his only summer homework. On YouTube, “you can get a whole story in six minutes,” he explains. “A book takes so long. I prefer the immediate gratification.”
  • The risk, they say, is that developing brains can become more easily habituated than adult brains to constantly switching tasks — and less able to sustain attention.
  • “Their brains are rewarded not for staying on task but for jumping to the next thing,” said Michael Rich, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and executive director of the Center on Media and Child Health in Boston. And the effects could linger: “The worry is we’re raising a generation of kids in front of screens whose brains are going to be wired differently.”
Adam Babcock

Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction - NYTimes.com - 3 views

www.nytimes.com/...21brain.html

edtech education reading

shared by Adam Babcock on 21 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Bypassing Vonnegut, he clicks over to YouTube, meaning that tomorrow he will enter his senior year of high school hoping to see an improvement in his grades, but without having completed his only summer homework. On YouTube, “you can get a whole story in six minutes,” he explains. “A book takes so long. I prefer the immediate gratification.”
  • is that developing brains can become more easily habituated than adult brains to constantly switching tasks — and less able to sustain attention.
  • plays video games 10 hours a week
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  • regularly sends Facebook status updates at 2 a.m., even on school nights
  • his best friend calls him a “YouTube bully.”
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