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The0d0re Shatagin

The New Writing Pedagogy - 23 views

www.districtadministration.com/viewarticle.aspx

writing reading english

shared by The0d0re Shatagin on 28 Jan 10 - Cached
  • The0d0re Shatagin on 28 Jan 10
     
    English Teachers
Dana Huff

8 of Shakespeare's Hidden Dirty Jokes (And their Modern Music Equivalents) - 14 views

www.shmoop.com/...shakespeare-dirty-jokes

shakespeare literature english

shared by Dana Huff on 24 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Dana Huff on 24 Apr 10
     
    Certainly the bard was a fan of the bawdy joke. Here Shmoop explains them along with modern song equivalents.
Dana Huff

Dickens daren't tell the truth about the real Oliver Twist workhouses | Mail Online - 0 views

www.dailymail.co.uk/...l-Oliver-Twist-workhouses.html

dickens workhouse workhouses poor london england history

shared by Dana Huff on 25 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Dana Huff on 25 Mar 11
     
    This article describes conditions in workhouses for the poor in Victorian England. It would be great to pair with Oliver Twist or with Blake's two "Chimney Sweep" poems.
Adam Babcock

The Failure of American Schools - Magazine - The Atlantic - 3 views

www.theatlantic.com/...8497

education politics

shared by Adam Babcock on 01 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • recalcitrant
  • From 1960 to 1980, our supply of college graduates increased at almost 4 percent a year; since then, the increase has been about half as fast. The net effect is that we’re rapidly moving toward two Americas—a wealthy elite, and an increasingly large underclass that lacks the skills to succeed.
  • in education, despite massive increases in expenditure, we don’t see improved results
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  • That leads too many people to suspect that poverty is destiny, that schools can make only a small difference, and that therefore we’re unable to fix this problem, regardless of its seriousness. So why try?
  • That Kafkaesque outcome demonstrates precisely the way the system is run: for the adults. The school system doesn’t want to change, because it serves the needs of the adult stakeholders quite well, both politically and financially.
  • “Listen, they’re trying to get rid of a principal in my district who runs a Democratic club for us. If you protect him, you’ll never have a problem with me.” This kind of encounter was not rare.
  • President Obama was on to something in 2008 when he said: “The single most important factor in determining [student] achievement is not the color of [students’] skin or where they come from. It’s not who their parents are or how much money they have. It’s who their teacher is.” Yet, rather than create a system that attracts and rewards excellent teachers—and that imposes consequences for ineffective or lazy ones—we treat all teachers as if they were identical widgets and their performance didn’t matter.
  • The result: too few effective math and science teachers in high-poverty schools.
  • Many have candidly told me they are burned out, but they can’t afford to leave until their pension fully vests. So they go through the motions until they can retire with the total package.
  • And why give all teachers making $80,000, or more, a 10 percent raise? They’re not going to leave, since they’re close to vesting their lifetime pensions. By contrast, increasing starting salaries by $8,000 (rather than $4,000) would help attract and retain better new teachers.
Dennis OConnor

Beyond Words: Meaning in Motion | Digital Is ... - 13 views

digitalis.nwp.org/...beyond-words-meaning-motion

visual literacy words meaning

shared by Dennis OConnor on 05 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • 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?
floratorculas

Brain Blinkers - 11 views

www.seekingmedia.com.au/news.php

health ability IQ book writing self help book development

shared by floratorculas on 08 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • floratorculas on 08 Jun 11
     
    Introduces Easy To Use Bullet-Point Approach To Take Control Of Your Beliefs And Thoughts.
Mark Smith

We Can't Teach Students to Love Reading - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 14 views

chronicle.com/...128400

reading

shared by Mark Smith on 07 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • My hyper-attentive habits were alienating me further and further from the much older and (one would have thought) more firmly established habits of deep attention. I was rapidly becoming a victim of my own mind's plasticity, until a new technology helped me to remember how to do something that for years had been instinctive, unconscious, natural.
Leslie Healey

Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade - NYTimes.com - 17 views

opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/...on-needs-a-digital-age-upgrade

21stcenturylearning teaching digitalcitizenship

shared by Leslie Healey on 08 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • What if, indeed. After studying the matter, Ms. Davidson concluded, “Online blogs directed at peers exhibit fewer typographical and factual errors, less plagiarism, and generally better, more elegant and persuasive prose than classroom assignments by the same writers.”
  • Ms. Davidson cites the elite Socratic system of questions and answers, the agrarian method of problem-solving and the apprenticeship program of imitating a master. It’s possible that any of these educational approaches
  • A classroom suited to today’s students should deemphasize solitary piecework. It should facilitate the kind of collaboration that helps individuals compensate for their blindnesses, instead of cultivating them. That classroom needs new ways of measuring progress, tailored to digital times — rather than to the industrial age or to some artsy utopia where everyone gets an Awesome for effort.
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  • students accountable on the Web
  • Leslie Healey on 08 Aug 11
     
    Coherent, concise assessment of the reactionary nature of school, not "learning"
Tracee Orman

The Potter Games - 12 views

www.thepottergames.com

harry potter hunger games choose-your-own-adventure internet activities reading

shared by Tracee Orman on 31 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Tracee Orman on 31 Jul 11
     
    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
Caroline Bachmann

Five Questions That Will Improve Your Teaching - 13 views

www.edweek.org/...ferlazzo_fiveways.html

education teaching methods approaches

shared by Caroline Bachmann on 18 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • "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?"
  • "Is what I am doing (or about to do) going to connect to the student's self-interest?"
  • "Who's doing the work?"
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  • "Is what I'm doing connected to higher-order thinking?"
  • processing
Dennis OConnor

Education Week: E-Learning for Special Populations - 3 views

www.edweek.org/...index.html

E-Learning special populations ell special education online at risk online

shared by Dennis OConnor on 31 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • This special report, another installment in Education Week's series on virtual education, examines the growing e-learning opportunities for students with disabilities, English-language learners, gifted and talented students, and those at risk of failing in school. It shows the barriers that exist for greater participation among special populations, as well as the benefits and drawbacks of this approach. It also looks at the funding tactics schools are using to build virtual education programs for special populations and the evolving professional-development needs for these efforts.
  • Download the interactive PDF version of the report, E-Learning for Special Populations.
anonymous

Rolling Stone Cover - Boston bombing suspect - 1 views

www.today.com/...ton-bombing-suspect-6C10660674

visual rhetoric

shared by anonymous on 18 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 18 Jul 13
     
    This would be a great piece of controversial visual rhetoric to explore with students. It could be compared to the controversy created with the photograph of "The Falling Man" - http://www.esquire.com/features/ESQ0903-SEP_FALLINGMAN
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