AFT - Publications - American Educator - 2 views
U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time - 11 views
Literacy Creep at The Core Knowledge Blog - 13 views
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An article in last week's Education Week looks at the increasingly common practice of reading aloud to middle and high school students. In discussing the practice with Mary Ann Zehr (I'm quoted briefly in the piece) I made the point that while there is certainly nothing wrong with reading out loud to teenagers, it is symptomatic of what I call "literacy creep" - the tendency of elementary school-style instructional techniques to find their way deeper into K-12 education across all content areas.
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Yet another beautiful analysis of a major problem in education today by the good people at Core Knowledge.
Some Biologists Find an Urge in Human Nature to Help - NYTimes.com - 3 views
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This could have happened at some point early in human evolution, when in order to survive, people were forced to cooperate in hunting game or gathering fruit. The path to obligatory cooperation — one that other primates did not take — led to social rules and their enforcement, to human altruism and to language. “Humans putting their heads together in shared cooperative activities are thus the originators of human culture,” Dr. Tomasello writes.
eTwinning - Homepage - 7 views
hickstro - What's_the_Matter_with_Wikis - 16 views
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Details last edit Nov 21, 2009 5:20 am by hickstro hickstro - 5 revisions hide details Tags * edit * Type a tag name. Press comma or enter to add another. Cancel Edit This Page What's the Matter with Wikis? Exploring the Social Space of Wikis as a Collaborative Writing Tool
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Details last edit Nov 21, 2009 5:20 am by hickstro hickstro - 5 revisions hide details Tags * edit * Type a tag name. Press comma or enter to add another. Cancel Edit This Page What's the Matter with Wikis? Exploring the Social Space of Wikis as a Collaborative Writing Tool
Classpress.net - 19 views
School:Education - Wikiversity - 10 views
Welcome to the William Blake Archive - 5 views
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The Andrew Blake (1757-1827) Archive in North Carlolina, USA, is "not a physical repository of Blake's collected works, nor is it a clearinghouse through which users can obtain reproductions of those works. [...]" It is "an online hypermedia environment that allows its users to access high-quality electronic reproductions of a growing portion of Blake's work.
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Useful for literature or modern history classes.
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