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Steve Ransom

Excellent Sites for Young Learners: Reading - LiveBinder - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 10 Oct 11
     
    A nice collection of interactive, literacy-based activities and books for early readers
Steve Ransom

College Librarians Can Help with Student Research Assignments | Faculty Focus - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 17 Oct 11
     
    As discussed in class, college students are struggling more and more with information literacy skills related to research. Ask a librarian for help!!
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Meet the man behind "Is Twitter Wrong?" who helped debunk fake pictures during Hurrican... - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 01 Nov 12
     
    Great example of the new challenges of a read-write web. New skills/literacies are required to practice informed citizenship.
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The History of Typography - Animated Short - YouTube - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 06 May 13
     
    A creative look at the history/evolution of print/typeface/fonts
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Why some kids can't spell and why spelling tests won't help - 0 views

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Spelling literacy research instruction pedagogy

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  • The people who don’t benefit from spelling tests are those who are poor at spelling. They struggled with spelling before the test, and they still struggle after the test. Testing is not teaching.
  • Are all children learning to love words from their very first years at school?
  • Are they being fascinated by stories about where words come from and what those stories tell us about the spelling of those words?
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  • re they being excited by breaking the code, figuring how words are making their meanings and thrilled to find that what they’ve learned about one word helps them solve another word?
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iPod, iListen, iRead | Edutopia - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 25 May 10 - Cached
  • students are leading their own reading. They want to practice their speed, accuracy, and comprehension. The iPod makes personal a process that has been painfully public. No struggling reader likes to have his or her weaknesses exposed in a group, in front of the entire class or their reading circle. The iPod enables more intimate, 1:1 reading instruction between a student and a teacher listening to each other's voices in audio files.
  • Success becomes contagious
  • "There's less of me talking and more of them doing."
  • Steve Ransom on 25 May 10
     
    projects integrating ipods and voice recording to support reading fluency, english language learners, ... leading to large gains in reading achievement
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