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'Teach Naked' Effort Strips Computers From Classrooms - Technology - The Chronicle of H... - 0 views

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  • Here's the kicker, though: The biggest resistance to Mr. Bowen's ideas has come from students, some of whom have groused about taking a more active role during those 50-minute class periods.
  • Introduce issues of debate within the discipline and get the students to weigh in based on the knowledge they have from those lecture podcasts, Mr. Bowen says.
  • "Strangely enough, the people who are most resistant to this model are the students, who are used to being spoon-fed material that is going to be quote unquote on the test," says Mr. Heffernan. "Students have been socialized to view the educational process as essentially passive. The only way we're going to stop that is by radically refiguring the classroom in precisely the way José wants to do it."
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  • "inverted classroom."
  • 'I paid for a college education and you're not going to lecture?'"
  • PowerPoint is not the problem. It is how PPt is used.
    • anonymous
       
      That's exactly the point. Of course we do need discussions in classrooms, but we also need to enable students to perform well in them, and here is where technology comes in: You can facilitate it in the learning process. - The headline of this article makes things far too easy...
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    I like how Bowen is questioning the use of tech for tech's sake. This further shows how it's not about the technology, but about the teaching.
anonymous

Inspiration: Pat Conroy on the value and magnificence of English teachers - 1 views

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    This is an inspired letter to the editor Conroy wrote in response to an effort to ban Beach Music. Keep it close; read it often. Food for your English teacher soul.
Meredith Stewart

News - For Teachers (Library of Congress) - 0 views

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    Call from LoC for students to help archive the internet. Also link to new LoC teachers' page
anonymous

Research: New 'science of learning' could reinvent teaching techniques - 0 views

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    New "science of learning" shows initial, useful results teachers can use daily in designing and delivering instruction.
Patrick Higgins

Welcome! ‎(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)‎ - 0 views

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    Example of a student using Google Sites to do his sophomore research paper. Note the traditional aspects and new aspects of research.
Patrick Higgins

REFLECTIONS ON CREATIVE WRITING CLASS: THE TEACHER; How to confront 30,000 words a week... - 1 views

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    Frank McCourt's 2002 essay on teaching creative writing.
anonymous

Article: What educators can learn from brain research - 0 views

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    Excellent summary with useful headers of the latest key ideas from brain research and how they apply to classroom instruction.
nlandon

61 essential postmodern reads: an annotated list | Jacket Copy | Los Angeles Times - 0 views

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    Nice little list of some texts that could be described as postmodern.
Gayle Hobbs

ReadingGroupGuides.com - Blog - 0 views

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    Reading Group questions and ideas
Gayle Hobbs

BookDaily - Book Samples for Book Lovers - 0 views

shared by Gayle Hobbs on 20 Jul 09 - Cached
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    Chapter One Introductions to assorted books
Mary Worrell

REFLECTIONS ON CREATIVE WRITING CLASS: THE TEACHER; How to confront 30,000 words a week... - 0 views

  • What I learned, most of all, was that if you're teaching and not learning then you're not teaching, and if you don't enjoy yourself in the classroom, you might as well be driving a taxi.
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    A great article by the late Frank McCourt about teaching creative writing and learning alongside his students.
anonymous

Resource: John Seely Brown: Chief of Confusion - 0 views

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    John Seely Brown is a remarkable thinker. His book The Social Life of Information and his article "Growing Up DIgital" are the result of deep and patient thought about society, education, human nature. This is his homepage that brings together in one place his work, his ideas. Highly recommended reading: 'Growing Up Digital."
Karlana Kulseth

WatchKnow.org - 0 views

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    Professional development ideas in different content areas
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