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Steve Ransom

iPod, iListen, iRead | Edutopia - 0 views

  • 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."
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    projects integrating ipods and voice recording to support reading fluency, english language learners, ... leading to large gains in reading achievement
Steve Ransom

How to Create Nonreaders - 0 views

  • It takes insight and guts to catch oneself at what amounts to an exercise in pseudodemocracy.
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    A must-read. But everything by Alfie Kohn is a must-read.
Istvan Rozanich

JSTOR: The Reading Teacher, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Oct., 1973), pp. 6-12 - 2 views

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    Dialect barriers to reading comprehension... very interesting. Do Canadian dialects qualify? ;-)
Steve Ransom

SocialSmarts: Privacy, the Internet and You - 0 views

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    Check out the graphic novel (PDF Version) linked at the bottom. Learn while reading the comics!
Steve Ransom

Press Release | National Association for the Education of Young Children | NAEYC - 0 views

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    An important resource for those in early childhood to read. NAEYC and the Fred Rogers Center Release New Guidance on the Use of Media and Interactive Technology in Early Childhood Programs
Steve Ransom

Slicereader - Easy reading for Mac - 0 views

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    A great, free text chunking app for those who need textual information processing accommodations or those with short attention spans or distractability... Mac-only
Jessica Vacchetto

Study: Reading novels makes us better thinkers - Salon.com - 1 views

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    Time to push back in favor of fiction?
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    No kidding. Common core swings the pendulum far in the other direction with document-based evidence, informational/expository texts, and sapping the love of the printed word right out of learning.
Steve Ransom

We Need Teachers, Not Facilitators! : Stager-to-Go - 0 views

  • Teachers expert in inspiring long-term, personally meaningful and interdisciplinary projects or thematic instruction regularly exceed the standards, but that realization is lost on facilitators.
  • New teachers have little or no experience with classroom centers, independent work, student projects and the sorts of agency that allow children to enjoy the “flow” experiences that build upon their obsessions and lead to understanding. Even when teachers are not lecturing from bell-to-bell, the classroom agenda is top-down and leaves little chance for serendipity or student initiative.
  • Great teachers know their students in deeper ways than any data can provide. They ask kids about their weekends. They chat about what kids are reading and console them when their hamster dies
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  • They learn continuously for themselves and their students. Teachers share their love of reading and are patrons of the arts. They are active citizens and engage students in current events. Outstanding teachers are not afraid to appear silly or create a whimsical classroom environment. They play in the snow with kindergarteners like Maria Knee.
  • great teachers need to be passionate, competent and interesting humans beyond the scope and sequence of the curriculum.
  • oday, new teachers truly are facilitators. They are “trained” to manage classrooms and deliver the curriculum handed to them.
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    An important post about teaching to reflect on.
Steve Ransom

Setting up MS Word for APA 6th Ed. - YouTube - 1 views

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    Error noted in this screencast. The title page should read Running head: with a lower case h
Steve Ransom

Meet the man behind "Is Twitter Wrong?" who helped debunk fake pictures during Hurrican... - 0 views

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    Great example of the new challenges of a read-write web. New skills/literacies are required to practice informed citizenship.
Steve Ransom

Salman Khan on the YouTube lectures and teaching tools that power the Khan Academy's mi... - 0 views

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    Be sure to read parts 2 and 3 for multiple perspectives on Khan Academy
Steve Ransom

talking word processor | Free Resources from the Net for EVERY Learner - 0 views

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    WordTalk is a powerful free tool that ought to be on every computer in every school where Microsoft Word is installed on a Windows computer! This is a tool that has the potential to benefit ALL learners, especially any who struggle with reading or writing. I'm adding WordTalk to my list of Extra Special Learning Resourses.  WordTalk is a high quality free add-in that provides convenient, versatile and customizable text-to-speech for any document written or opened in Microsoft Word. It works in every version of MS Word, from Word 97 through Word 2010; and it's available to run on every version of Windows from Windows 98 through Windows 7.
Steve Ransom

SmartBlog on Education - Bullying prevention from the ground up - SmartBrief, Inc. Smar... - 0 views

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    One of the best articles I've read on combatting the many forms of bullying in schools.
Steve Ransom

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

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    A nice collection of interactive, literacy-based activities and books for early readers
Istvan Rozanich

Books in Ruins: Ebooks, temporality, and tension » Cyborgology - 1 views

  • physical spaces in all states of maintenance are by necessity temporal spaces; we orient
  • Time is a background-level context that we assume is there.
  • there are some spaces – and indeed, some object – that we perceive as more temporally-laden than others, regardless of whether or not those spaces and objects are in a state of ruin
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  • Books are another object that we tend to perceive as temporally-laden
  • books have time, and the reasons for this have a tremendous amount to do with our cultural history of books and what books are.
  • Books exist within these spaces; books are also of these spaces. Contemporary mass-market paperbacks aside, the default quintessential Book is old, hard-bound, possibly large and heavy, frequently dusty
  • It took a lot of time to make books, and books themselves contained a lot of time within them as part of their content. Though none of the books we read now are produced in that way, the past of books still works to shape our present imagining of them.
  • When we hold an ereader, we are aware – if only subconsciously – that time is not there in the same way that it is with a dead tree book. It doesn’t connect to all the temporally-laden ideas of Bookness that we carry around in our collective cultural memory.
Istvan Rozanich

Cyborgology » humanity meets technology - 3 views

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    Thanks for that. Thoroughly enjoyed reading the piece on friendship and social media.
Alyssa Crawford

TheDailyCafe.com - 1 views

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    Thanks for sharing that, Alyssa. I love the podcasts that are available there.
Steve Ransom

Clive Thompson on Why Kids Can't Search | Magazine - 0 views

  • Who’s to blame? Not the students. If they’re naive at Googling, it’s because the ability to judge information is almost never taught in school.
  • And by the time kids get to college, professors assume they already have this skill.
  • Students quickly gain the ability to detect if a top-ranked page about Martin Luther King Jr. was actually posted by white supremacists.
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  • “crap detection 101,” as digital guru Howard Rheingold dubs it, isn’t easy. One prerequisite is that you already know a lot about the world.
  • group of college students
  • Pan grimly concluded that students aren’t assessing information sources on their own merit—they’re putting too much trust in the machine.
  • High school and college students may be “digital natives,” but they’re wretched at searching.
  • In 1955, we wondered why Johnny can’t read. Today the question is, why can’t Johnny search?
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    "Google makes broad-based knowledge more important, not less. A good education is the true key to effective search. But until our kids have that, let's make sure they don't always take PageRank at its word."
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