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anonymous

Blog: This Week In Education (Scholastic) - 0 views

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news reports research administration data

shared by anonymous on 15 Jul 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 15 Jul 09
     
    Useful digest of current educational issues, reports, trends from Scholastic. Intended audience if administrators but is good for all.
Donalyn Miller

From the mixed-up files of middle-grade authors - 11 views

www.fromthemixedupfiles.com

book recommendations authors

shared by Donalyn Miller on 23 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Donalyn Miller on 23 Jul 10
     
    Authors' blog with recommendations, reviews, and book news about titles for middle grade children (3rd-6th).
Leslie Healey

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

www.guardian.co.uk/...-death-of-blogging-exaggerated

blogging technology writers

shared by Leslie Healey on 16 Jul 10 - Cached
  • 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."
  • Leslie Healey on 16 Jul 10
     
    doctorow's take on why we need not just twitter and facebook and diigo but also older methods of socialmedia--blogging
  • Leslie Healey on 16 Jul 10
     
    this is the best analysis on why we need the varied forms of social media in the classroom--and in life
Kim Laird

http://webtoolsinaction.pbworks.com/ - 9 views

webtoolsinaction.pbworks.com

webtoolsinaction

shared by Kim Laird on 20 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Kim Laird on 20 Jul 10
     
    "Web Tools in Action" A wicki where you can post how and why you use a web tool in your classroom. More about implementation than about the tool itself.
Adam Babcock

Does Your Language Shape How You Think? - NYTimes.com - 5 views

www.nytimes.com/...29language-t.html

writing english education reading language culture globe gender

shared by Adam Babcock on 29 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Native American languages impose on their speakers a picture of reality that is totally different from ours, so their speakers would simply not be able to understand some of our most basic concepts, like the flow of time or the distinction between objects
  • rash-landed on hard facts and solid common sense, when it transpired that there had never actually been any evidence to support his fantastic claims
  • new research has revealed that when we learn our mother tongue, we do after all acquire certain habits of thought that shape our experience in significant and often surprising ways.
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  • if different languages influence our minds in different ways, this is not because of what our language allows us to think but rather because of what it habitually obliges us to think about
  • You may well wonder whether my companion was male or female, but I have the right to tell you politely that it’s none of your business. But if we were speaking French or German, I wouldn’t have the privilege to equivocate in this way
  • but I do have to tell you something about the timing of the event: I have to decide whether we dined, have been dining, are dining, will be dining and so on. Chinese, on the other hand, does not oblige its speakers to specify the exact time of the action in this way, because the same verb form can be used for past, present or future actions.
  • When speakers were asked to grade various objects on a range of characteristics, Spanish speakers deemed bridges, clocks and violins to have more “manly properties” like strength, but Germans tended to think of them as more slender or elegant.
  • gendered languages” imprint gender traits for objects so strongly in the mind that these associations obstruct speakers’ ability to commit information to memory
  • When French speakers saw a picture of a fork (la fourchette), most of them wanted it to speak in a woman’s voice, but Spanish speakers, for whom el tenedor is masculine, preferred a gravelly male voice for it.
  • Nonetheless, once gender connotations have been imposed on impressionable young minds, they lead those with a gendered mother tongue to see the inanimate world through lenses tinted with associations and emotional responses that English speakers — stuck in their monochrome desert of “its” — are entirely oblivious to.
Mary Worrell

Google Student Blog: Recent updates to Google Docs - 8 views

googleforstudents.blogspot.com/...nt-updates-to-google-docs.html

google_docs tutorials paperless

shared by Mary Worrell on 22 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Mary Worrell on 22 Sep 10
     
    Updates to Google Docs! Some interesting new features here to aid in collaboration.
Suzanne Rogers

Teacher Guides: Can You Trust the News? - 19 views

newstrust.net/teachers

journalism newstrust

shared by Suzanne Rogers on 06 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Suzanne Rogers on 19 Feb 11
     
    Teaches students to evaluate journalistic quality
Dana Huff

10 Ways to Celebrate Banned Books Week With The New York Times - NYTimes.com - 9 views

learning.blogs.nytimes.com/...to-celebrate-banned-books-week

education english literature books reading

shared by Dana Huff on 25 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Dana Huff on 25 Sep 10
     
    Held annually during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of intellectual freedom and draws attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted banning of books across the United States, including books commonly taught in secondary schools. Here are ideas for celebrating Banned Books Week -- with your students, your children and anyone who believes in having "the freedom to read."
Leslie Healey

'The Social Network': A Review Of Aaron Sorkin's Film About Facebook And Mark Zuckerberg | The New Republic - 1 views

www.tnr.com/...-zuckerberg-the-social-network

socialmedia facebook

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  • Leslie Healey on 04 Oct 10
     
    by Lessig insightful, creepy
Adam Babcock

Google News Timeline by GoogleLabs - 13 views

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journalism research e405 writing

shared by Adam Babcock on 15 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Adam Babcock on 15 Nov 10
     
    Visual timeline of current events.
Dennis OConnor

Report Spotlights Revolutionary Use of Technology in Teaching Writing - National Writing Project - 10 views

www.nwp.org/...3172

writing digital nwp 6-traits technology

shared by Dennis OConnor on 17 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • New York, June 10, 2010 – "If school is supposed to help us in the rest of the world, shouldn't school look like what's going on in the rest of the world?" asks 10th-grade teacher Paige Cole, one of nine classroom teachers profiled in Writing, Learning and Leading in the Digital Age (PDF), a College Board–National Writing Project (NWP)–Phi Delta Kappa International (PDKI) report released today on the state of technology resources in the classroom.
Sheri Edwards

CMS Test results invite scrutiny - CharlotteObserver.com - 0 views

www.charlotteobserver.com/...853533.html

charlotteobserver testing assessment standards national

shared by Sheri Edwards on 27 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Staff at both schools will collect 10- to 15-percent pay hikes based on this year's scores, money that goes away next year. The raises, paid for by county commissioners eager to see kids succeed at low-performing schools, illustrate the rewards and penalties that can hang on test scores.
  • In 2006, a principal split Garinger into five academies with specialized themes. The New Technology school emerged strong, but the rest of the campus struggled.
  • She was convinced the dismal pass rate could change but believed many needed stronger skills to pass exams. “We really had to put the brakes on things,” she said. That meant letting strong students go straight into the EOC classes. But weaker ones took a semester or more of preparatory classes designed to boost their reading, math or science skills.
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  • The Observer analysis shows an unusually large number of Garinger International students sidestepped EOC courses in 2008-09. (See box.)
  • This year the school added juniors, which meant enrollment grew by almost 50 percent. Yet the school gave 46 fewer tests.
  • In English I, which all ninth-graders must take, Garinger International's pass rate went from 67 to 81 percent.
  • the only thing we have to vary is the time it takes to attain the standards. We do not all learn at the same rate.
  • It sounds like the principal is trying to help all her kids be successful. Why must that be cause for suspicion??
  • Sheri Edwards on 27 Jul 09
     
    What do you think?
Dennis OConnor

My New Teaching Partner? Using the Grammar Checker in Writing Instruction - National Writing Project - 13 views

www.nwp.org/...2747

6-traits conventions

shared by Dennis OConnor on 20 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Summary: Reva Potter, a teacher-consultant with the Dakota Writing Project, and colleague Dorothy Fuller report on an action research project which concludes that Grammar Check instruction combined with direct instruction from the teacher can result in significant improvement in student understanding of key grammar concepts.
  • Dennis OConnor on 20 Dec 09
     
    Technology and grammar...
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