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Dennis OConnor

150 Questions to Write or Talk About - NYTimes.com - 30 views

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shared by Dennis OConnor on 01 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • For almost two years now, we’ve posted a fresh Student Opinion question every weekday.Each question was originally inspired by something in that week’s New York Times, and all of them are still open to comment by anyone between the ages of 13 and 25.Teachers tell us they use them as “bell-ringers,” as inspiration for lessons, as jumping-off points for student research and journalism, or just to help students practice writing persuasively and responding to others around the world. (We don’t allow last names, and we read each and every comment ourselves before we make it public, so it’s a pretty civil, and safe, place to post.)Below, 1
Dennis OConnor

Information Investigator 3 by Carl Heine on Prezi - 14 views

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21cif Information fluency selflearning self-paced online learning research

shared by Dennis OConnor on 30 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Dennis OConnor on 30 Sep 11
     
    What if every student (and educator) was a good online researcher?  I know, you don't have the time to teach information fluency skills.  What if you could get a significant advance is skills with just a 2 -3  hour time commitment?  Here's a great Prezi 'fly by" of the new Information Investigator 3.1 online self paced class.  Watch the presentation carefully to find the link to a free code to take the class for evaluation purposes. 
suzain johan

English Assignment Help - 10 views

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english-assignment-help english-assignment english-assignment-tips assignment-tips Example-English-Assignment English-Assignment-Help-Online english-assignment-topics

shared by suzain johan on 13 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • suzain johan on 13 Sep 11
     
    Assignment of English is the important part of the life of each student and preparation. These missions can be totally different, but they all aim to develop specific skills for students of English and other areas related to it
Leslie Healey

Computer-Generated Articles Are Gaining Traction - NYTimes.com - 7 views

www.nytimes.com/...cles-are-gaining-traction.html

content farms composition

shared by Leslie Healey on 11 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Leslie Healey on 11 Sep 11
     
    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
Dennis OConnor

Education Week Teacher: High-Tech Teaching in a Low-Tech Classroom - 6 views

www.edweek.org/...barnett_hightechteaching.html

education Low-Tech 21st century skills ed-tech blended learning

shared by Dennis OConnor on 04 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • How can we best use limited resources to support learning and familiarize students with technology?
  • get creative with lesson structure
  • Take advantage of any time that your students have access to a computer lab with multiple computers.
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  • Relieve yourself from the pressure of knowing all the ins and outs of every tool. Instead, empower your students by challenging them to become experts who teach one another (and you!) how to use new programs.
  • "Pass it On" Buddy Method
  • Students assist one another in creating digital products that represent or reflect their new learning. It’s a great way to spread technological skills in a one-computer classroom.
  • Group Consensus Method
  • Small groups of students engage in dialogue on a particular topic, then a member uses a digital tool to report on the group's consensus.
  • Rotating Scribe Method
  • Each day, one student uses technology to record the lesson for other students.
  • Whole Class Method
  • Teachers in one-computer classrooms often invite large groups of students to gather around the computer. Here are a few suggestions for making the most of these activities
  • When we are faced with limited resources, it is tempting to throw up our hands and say, "I just don't have what I need to do this!" However, do not underestimate your ability to make it work.
  • Dennis OConnor on 04 Sep 11
     
    Might help create a blended classroom, even when you have to share the blender.  Common sense advise for the real world of underequipped classrooms and stretched thin teachers.
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.
Leslie Healey

How to Become a Break Dancer...or an Expert - 11 views

www.jamesaltucher.com/...breakdancing_universe

teens AP motivation

shared by Leslie Healey on 21 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Leslie Healey on 21 Aug 11
     
    great article for you (and your students) from Altucher on how to succeed
Leslie Healey

The Secret Language Code: Scientific American - 8 views

www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm

grammar pronoun voice teachingwriting

shared by Leslie Healey on 20 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Leslie Healey on 20 Aug 11
     
    What will my students say about their use of pronouns? Good awareness check.
Leslie Healey

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

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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"
Mark Smith

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

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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.
Mark Smith

SpeEdChange: The Big Lies (Part Two) - 9 views

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common core

shared by Mark Smith on 06 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Why is a second grader "comparing and contrasting"? Because the Common Core is designed to preserve education as a self-contained hazing ritual for wealth and power maintenance. From the start we are preparing students to write the worthless five paragraph essay, so that those who comply best succeed best.
  • It is, of course, within those "extras" that the human spirit lies. Why learn to read if you cannot read about the things which matter most to you? Why learn to write if you can not write a song? Why learn to count if you do not appreciate the value of what you are counting?
  • The reason we must abandon "core subjects" and embrace Passion-Based Learning is that today we give students absolutely no reason to learn anything. We have turned school into a series of chores with no purpose. Eight-year-olds hate books and reading because they've spent three years drilling in decoding - literacy is pointless effort, not a path to passions. Sixteen-year-olds hate mathematics because they've spent eleven years drilling with numbers, x-s and y-s - maths are totally irrelevant, not a link to a magical world of real and virtual construction.
  • Mark Smith on 06 Aug 11
     
    Tell it, brother!
Adam Babcock

Sistine Chapel - Cappella Sistina - Photosynth - 4 views

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history culture art literature bible

shared by Adam Babcock on 05 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Adam Babcock on 05 Aug 11
     
    Great tool that encourages users/students to explore the different stages of the Sistine Chapel. Could work well with a Genesis lesson.
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
andrew bendelow

Digital Youth Network: Creating New Media Citizens through the Affinity Learning Model | IJLM - 9 views

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IJLM affinity model network youth new media creating media citizens web2.0 resources writing tools teaching reading

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  • andrew bendelow on 14 Jul 11
     
    Composing online is not writing alone, as students have done. When he produces an artifact, the networked student creates a communal effort on the Internet.
Susan Martin

Shmoop: Homework Help, Teacher Resources, Test Prep - 4 views

www.shmoop.com

literature resources history education poetry English research shmoop

shared by Susan Martin on 20 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Teresa Ilgunas on 20 Jul 10
     
    Great resource for teachers and students...you'll find analysis of theme, characters and study guides. History study guides as well!
  • Susan Martin on 29 Jun 11
     
    Very interesting site with lots of info - summerization, theme
Dana Huff

Evolving English Teacher: "How to Forge a Jane Austen Manuscript": Teaching Students Austen's Style w/ a Quill and Paper - 13 views

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english teaching style writing composition

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  • Dana Huff on 08 Jun 11
     
    Glenda teaches us how to teach students to mimic one of the masters of prose-Jane Austen. Mimicry is often a great writing exercise for students who need to examine style.
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.
Leslie Healey

Students Speak Up in Class, Silently, via Social Media - NYTimes.com - 10 views

www.nytimes.com/...13social.html

web2.0 socialmedia teaching lifeonthenet

shared by Leslie Healey on 13 May 11 - No Cached
  • Leslie Healey on 13 May 11
     
    Though this is not true in my school, I know this must be MY tribe... and it must be true, cause it is in the NYT (in joke in my worldlit class).
Adam Babcock

Better Book Titles blog - 11 views

betterbooktitles.com

literature humor satire

shared by Adam Babcock on 13 May 11 - Cached
  • Adam Babcock on 13 May 11
     
    Note: some of the titles are a little nsfw, so use the website in the classroom with caution.  Know what titles you want to use and perhaps don't leave students to wander on their own.
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