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Five Questions That Will Improve Your Teaching - 13 views

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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
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Video Games Are Ruled Protected Speech, Now What? - 2 views

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shared by Leslie Healey on 27 Jun 11 - No Cached
    • Leslie Healey
      Leslie Healey on 27 Jun 11
       
      this is true! why gaming is legitimately a path fro educators to formulate learning strategies
    • Leslie Healey
      Leslie Healey on 27 Jun 11
       
      also--they ask why there are not more erudite games, just as there is "classic" literature--I think games are still a new art form. And aren't there are many fluff books as there are fluff or violent games
  • More important than that historic ruling is the reminder by a U.S. Supreme Court Justice that video games, like books, plays and movies, communicate ideas.
  • Reading Dante is unquestionably more cultured and intellectually edifying than playing Mortal Kombat," Scalia wrote. "But these cultural and intellectual differences are not constitutional." It raises the question, what video games live up to that legacy of great literary works? And why aren't there more of them?
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  • Now that this distraction is out of the way, lets see the creation of more games like Bioshock, like Shadow of the Colossus, like Flower, games that make you think, that explore new ideas, that shake up preconceived notions.
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The Dark Side of Verbs-as-Nouns - NYTimes.com - 13 views

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shared by Leslie Healey on 07 Apr 13 - No Cached
    • Leslie Healey
      Leslie Healey on 07 Apr 13
       
      great example: interesting AP example?
  • take-away
  • take-away
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  • unders
  • e specialist vocabulary of a particular profession or community
  • n software
  • real estate agent
    • Leslie Healey
      Leslie Healey on 07 Apr 13
       
      attorneys' "word of art" cease and desist
    • Leslie Healey
      Leslie Healey on 07 Apr 13
       
      great tweet!
  • It’s not just that nominalization can sap the vitality of one’s speech or prose; it can also eliminate context and mask any sense of agency.
  • : nouns get verbed as often as verbs get nouned.
  • nebulous or fuzzy seem stable, mechanical and precisely defined
  • repudiating ambiguity and complexity.
  • priority to actions rather than to the people responsible for them.
  • t often they conceal power relationships and reduce our sense of what’s truly involved in a transaction.
  • instrument of manipulatio
  • instrument of manipulation,
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