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Contents contributed and discussions participated by andrew bendelow

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NEA - Sample Quotes - 18 views

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    education quotations
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SpeEdChange: Lord of the Flies: How Adults Create Bullying - 7 views

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    Fascinating re-think of LOTF instruction
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Byliner - 17 views

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    Nice site full of interesting articles old and new--non-fiction
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Educational Leadership:Reading to Learn:Summarizing to Comprehend - 18 views

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    Something to focus on in English class:  good summarizing
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Digital Youth Network: Creating New Media Citizens through the Affinity Learning Model ... - 9 views

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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.
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The Wikiness - 10 views

  • 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
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Education Week: Why Core Standards Must Embrace Media Literacy - 5 views

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    Problems with CC media literacy standards: " focus marginalizes uses of a range of other media/digital literacies associated with social-networking sites, blogs, wikis, digital images/videos, smartphone/tablet apps, video games, podcasts, etc., for constructing media content, building social networks, engaging audiences, and critiquing status quo problems.And, other than a mention of the need to "evaluate information from multiple oral, visual, or multimodal sources," there is no specific reference in the common standards to critical analysis and production of film, television, advertising, radio, news, music, popular culture, video games, media remixes, and so on. Nor is there explicit attention on fostering critical analysis of media messages and representations."
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2010 Horizon Report: The K12 Edition - 2 views

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    New Media Consortium's 2010 predictions on the immense k-12 learning changes and challenges from technology
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Icebreakers | Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age - 7 views

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    A comprehensive set of group warm ups.
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Icebreakers, Warmups, Energerizers, & Deinhibitizers: Activities for getting groups going - 7 views

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    nice set of group activity warm-ups
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My Languages: Social Media And Creativity In The Language Classroom - 3 views

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    Isabella Jones' excellent slides on social networking creative ideas for the language classroom--pertinent to Eng teachers, too.
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NCTE Secondary Section: Tara Seale - 2 views

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    Using wordle in English --TKMB
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The Digital Writing Workshop | Enhanced English Teacher - 5 views

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    Books like this may guide writing teachers in the e-classrooms of tomorrow
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Teachers as Classroom Coaches :: How to Motivate Students Across the Content Areas - 6 views

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    coaching is the new teaching
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Videora - Free Video Converter - 6 views

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    for schools, another online free video file converter--not bad as long as your school won't block it
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Online Writing Teacher - 6 views

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    the expert from Drexel, letting us know how to teach writing online--the same amount of work, but perhaps better results (more and better student writing)
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The Tempered Radical: New Slide: Digital Storytelling - 5 views

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    "Storytelling is changing" Has today's English teacher? Bill Ferriter always has good info.
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Teaching Jobs | K12 Jobspot - 4 views

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    Nice database of school jobs help wanted
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Starting the Fire: Motivating Readers - National Writing Project - 10 views

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    Enacting literature with students to motivate reading Wilhelm describes action strategies
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    Using "action strategies" invigorates the English class
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gladwell dot com - cocksure - 12 views

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    TKAM supplement; Kinda throws a rock in the church of St. Atticus; my soph's can probably read at this level
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