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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Leslie Healey

Leslie Healey

I am a teacher et cetera: Interesting Links on Assessment, Grading, and Mastery - 13 views

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    great list of resources for grading and assessment
Leslie Healey

I am the sum of the total parts I control « - 3 views

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    virtual worlds: not the future, but the present of education. I am not prepared
Leslie Healey

The illustrated guide to a Ph.D. - 14 views

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    This puts it all in perspective, lest we begin to believe that what we know is more important than what they experience
Leslie Healey

Beloit College Mindset List - 11 views

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    I read this every year: reminds me to reset my expectations for "what we all ought to know"
Leslie Healey

This is your brain on books - 20 views

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    Haha. I'd like to say this to my juniors! And some adults could benefit
Leslie Healey

Pushing the Boundaries of Text and Sensual Curriculum | Metanoia - 4 views

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    the new layers of literacy, as our children will need it
Leslie Healey

BBC News - Internet has 'not become the great leveller' - 8 views

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    this is what happens when we look to prioritize our news by what's trending instead of perusing all of it and then deciding.  This supports my efforts to add contemporary texts to my World Lit course.
Leslie Healey

Free Technology for Teachers: Create Augmented Reality Layers Without Coding - 5 views

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    augmented reality w/out coding for teachers
Leslie Healey

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann - 3 views

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    I'm on page 199 of 349 of Let the Great World Spin: "there's a high that you get when you're writing code. It's cool. It's easy to do. You forget your mom, your dad, everything. You've got the whole country onboard. This is America. You hit the frontier. You can go anywhere, Its about begin connected, access, gateways, like a whispering games where if you get one thing wrong you've got to go all the way back to the beginning."   quote from a teen hacker in the novel--it captures adolescence, hacking, learning, delight, beauty, everything: I want to remember this when I meet my new students in September
Leslie Healey

Reading in a whole new way - 15 views

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    First time I have seen the way reading changes when reading on a screen. I can use this info with my students, understand how critical reading is changing but not disintegrating
Leslie Healey

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

  • 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."
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    doctorow's take on why we need not just twitter and facebook and diigo but also older methods of socialmedia--blogging
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    this is the best analysis on why we need the varied forms of social media in the classroom--and in life
Leslie Healey

Rereading: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee | Books | The Guardian - 3 views

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    ADICHIE review of TKAM
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