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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Presentations in the High School English Classroom - 27 views
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Utecht provides great guidelines, tools, and models for student-created presentations.
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they (students and teachers) did this at Educon 2.3 and it was inspiring. We are going to try it 4th quarter 20th century short fiction.
Reading and the Web - Texts Without Context - NYTimes.com - 14 views
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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.
Reading Rockets: The Six Ts of Effective Elementary Literacy Instruction - 7 views
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The issue is less stuff vs. reading than it is a question of what sorts of and how much of stuff. When stuff dominates instructional time, warning flags should go up.
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In less-effective classrooms, there is a lot of stuff going on for which no reliable evidence exists to support their use (e.g., test-preparation workbooks, copying vocabulary definitions from a dictionary, completing after-reading comprehension worksheets).
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In these classrooms, lower-achieving students spent their days with books they could successfully read.
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Let Kids Rule the School - NYTimes.com - 16 views
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The motivating power of choice.
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I think I need to try a few of these strategies--I especially liked the independent project that each student undertook.
Beyond Words: Meaning in Motion | Digital Is ... - 13 views
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Watching text in motion is nothing new for readers of all levels. We watch words travel across screens of various shapes and sizes, and we set words in motions as we move throughout our daily lives reading text in various places and contexts. What happens, then, when we become more deliberate in our thinking about placing text in motion and the direction suggested by the text itself? How does motion affect meaning and our interpretative process?
The Potter Games - 12 views
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This is an interactive website based on the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books/games. The characters of Harry Potter have been thrown into The Hunger Games (as tributes or mentors) by Lord Voldemort. The player chooses one of the characters and must read each passage, then makes a decision for that character, which could result in becoming the Victor...or "Reenervate" to try again. If you have students who like Harry Potter or The Hunger Games, they will have fun on this website. New characters are unlocked daily & we plan on writing more stories - one with the characters rebelling against Lord Voldemort and breaking out of the arena. It is great practice for reading skills - some characters have longer passages, some shorter. Some have up to 144 different scenarios (that's 144 pages of text). The least amount of reading for a player is 19 pages. So think about your low readers - that may be more than they read in a week by just playing one character. The writers who have/are contributing to this non-profit project include teachers, high school students, college students, professional writers, graphic artists, musicians, librarians, and so many more. We're all fans of both series, of course. :) (For grades 7 and up) I have a free download of lesson ideas for using The Potter Games in your classroom here: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-Potter-Games-Using-Interactive-Fiction-to-Improve-Reading
Five Questions That Will Improve Your Teaching - 13 views
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"Will what I am about to do or say bring me closer to the person with whom I am communicating—or will it push me further away?"
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"Is what I am doing (or about to do) going to connect to the student's self-interest?"
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"Who's doing the work?"
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oneword.com - 21 views
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simple. you’ll see one word at the top of the following screen. you have sixty seconds to write about it. click ‘go’ and the page will load with the cursor in place. don’t think. just write.
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Looks like a fun way to spark journal writing. Fit's Natalie Goldberg's great advice about first draft writing: Just keep your hand moving!
Truthdig - Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System - 7 views
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“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.”
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This is as profoundly true now as it ever was.
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The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almost Everything : Monkey See : NPR - 5 views
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What I've observed in recent years is that many people, in cultural conversations, are far more interested in culling than in surrender. And they want to cull as aggressively as they can.
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It is the recognition that well-read is not a destination; there is nowhere to get to, and if you assume there is somewhere to get to, you'd have to live a thousand years to even think about getting there, and by the time you got there, there would be a thousand years to catch up on.
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If "well-read" means "not missing anything," then nobody has a chance. If "well-read" means "making a genuine effort to explore thoughtfully," then yes, we can all be well-read. But what we've seen is always going to be a very small cup dipped out of a very big ocean, and turning your back on the ocean to stare into the cup can't change that.
7 Brilliant Book Trailers | Brain Pickings - 12 views
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7 Brilliant Book Trailers
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I found these exciting projects, too. I would ask teachers to require kids NOT SPOIL the plot -- or, at least to warn viewers of spoilers. My students could not watch any of the SPEAK trailers for this reason.
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5 trailers for unique books-- great to inspire reading, or to serve as examples of the clear thinking that goes into creating a great review. My kids were fascinated, great discussion ensued as we plan our PechaKucha book reports
The Wikiness - 10 views
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it seems clear that Project-based learning (PBL) groups—I'm thinking literature circles--should be an excellent vehicle for their learning in a large classroom (next year 30+ sizes)
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Who the Millennials are, and how Gen-X English teachers might best work with them
The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens: Scientific A... - 18 views
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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
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no obvious shape or thickness.
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"haptic dissonance"
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paper vs screen in your brain
Transcript | This American Life - 4 views
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the story I'm working on
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Right now it's just a story she's working on; the audience is separate. Within a short time frame, she'll bring the audience on board and we'll feel as though we're on the journey with her.
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apparently I do,
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feels undignified
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