SHAKESPEARE flashmob - 12 views
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Leslie Healey on 09 Apr 14Folger Library's great flashmob idea for Will's Bday (data day?)
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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Leslie Healey
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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"haptic dissonance"
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paper vs screen in your brain
The Dark Side of Verbs-as-Nouns - NYTimes.com - 13 views
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great example: interesting AP example?
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take-away
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take-away
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Digital Learning Day :: Splash - 14 views
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Great idea to showcase what your school does across disciplines
Creative Nonfiction: a definition and appreciation - 14 views
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For a while the NEA experimented with “belles-lettres,” a misunderstood term that favors style over substance and did not capture the personal essence and foundation of the literature they were seeking. Eventually one of the NEA members in the meeting that day pointed out that a rebel in his English department was campaigning for the term “creative nonfiction.” That rebel was me.
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literary craft in presenting nonfiction—that is, factually accurate prose about real people and events—in a compelling, vivid manner. To p
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real demarcation points between fiction, which is or can be mostly imagination; traditional nonfiction (journalism and scholarship), which is mostly information; and creative nonfiction, which presents or treats information using the tools of the fiction writer while maintaining allegiance to fact.
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Honor Code - NYTimes.com - 13 views
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David Brooks on how schools are misunderstanding boys. some interesting observations from a non-teacher
The Neuroscience of Your Brain On Fiction - NYTimes.com - 13 views
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Stories,
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stimulate the brain and even change how we act in life.
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nterprets written words. What scientists have come to realize in the last few years is that narratives activate many other parts of our brains as well, suggesting why the experience of reading can feel so alive.
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analysis of impact of reading, novel especially. validates focus on class SSR, even in 11-12th grade (my groups)
Will hyperconnected millennials suffer cognitive consequences? (Audio) | Pew Research C... - 8 views
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multitaskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and who approach problems in a different way from their elders,
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mostly positive between now
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note last line: there will be a change in values as a result of the changes in learning provoked by he internet.We have embarked on the biggest social experiment of the century by accident.
Flavorwire » Charts and Diagrams Drawn by Famous Authors - 23 views
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Great resources for students: charts and maps the writers drew as they planned books or lessons Auden's chart on Romanticism, Nabokov on Ulysses Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, Vonnegut onthe shape of the story, etc. Just wow
SONNET ILLUMINATION project - 16 views
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just finished this with AP juniors and Honors Brit Lit Students: great project for poetry reading skills. they wrote an in class explication about their sonnet after. will memorize and recite their sonnet as well next year. They rocked it! we are ready for the Romantics now.
Reading Digitally Infographic - 23 views
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if you had doubts about the chance to engage more kids with eReaders, this infographic might change your mind. I am planning a digital reading course next year, and will use this to argue my case to administration
Going Short - Lingua Franca - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 8 views
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concise review of what makes cogent, stylish prose. Just addressed this in class last week, and not nearly as succinctly as yagoda!
Computer-Generated Articles Are Gaining Traction - NYTimes.com - 7 views
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Will be interested to see if therevis a connection between this computer generated text and the myriad of bad info from googled "content farms" that gum up my students' research writing
Rookie | » Higher Learning - 6 views
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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)
Teaching Integrity in High School English - 16 views
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if we aren't doing this, we are missing a great opportunity. Robin Bates writes one of the best teaching blogs I read.
How to Become a Break Dancer...or an Expert - 11 views
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great article for you (and your students) from Altucher on how to succeed
Harold Bloom on Literary Criticism | FiveBooks | The Browser - 13 views
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Interview bloom: his 5 fave litcrit books. At the end: nice bit about why we must read
The Secret Language Code: Scientific American - 8 views
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What will my students say about their use of pronouns? Good awareness check.
Educational Twitter Chats Calendar - 9 views
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great way to get started with twitter. For my English teachers friends, Monday nights at 700 is #engchat
Bloom's taxonomy for the ipad!!! APPS - 11 views
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great source of apps for the ipad tablet that correlate to Bloom's
Leslie Healey
I am a high school teacher who loves teens for their sense of humor, imagination, r angst and belief that the world belongs to them. I work with a creative, multigenerational group of readers and writers who are also teachers. Half of us are alums of our school.