The fact that students today almost always write for an audience (something virtually no one in my generation did) gives them a different sense of what constitutes good writing. In interviews, they defined good prose as something that had an effect on the world. For them, writing is about persuading and organizing and debating, even if it's over something as quotidian as what movie to go see. The Stanford students were almost always less enthusiastic about their in-class writing because it had no audience but the professor: It didn't serve any purpose other than to get them a grade.
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Clive Thompson on the New Literacy - 0 views
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The brevity of texting and status updating teaches young people to deploy haiku-like concision.
NZ Interface Magazine | If you can't use technology get out of teaching! - 10 views
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Is a lack of PD a barrier? Professional development is a barrier, although I think they can teach themselves much of what teachers need to be learning to be able to modernise their classrooms. The worst thing a teacher can say is: "who's going to teach me how to do that?" Teachers are teachers and should be able to teach themselves what they need to know. If they can't then they probably shouldn't be teaching. You want a teacher who can keep up. There are networks of other educators out there that can connect you with new skills. Professional development doesn't have to be something that is done to teachers - it can be just ongoing conversations they're having with other professionals that they're learning from every day.
Findings - Ethnographic Study Looks at Gossip in the Workplace - NYTimes.com - 4 views
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once someone made a negative comment about a person who wasn’t there, the conversation would get meaner unless someone immediately defended the target.
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gossip in the workplace also tended to be overwhelmingly negative, but the insults were more subtle and the conversations less predictable, says Tim Hallett, a sociologist at Indiana University.
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Office gossip can be a form of reputational warfare
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Office gossip (this study on an elementary school and their gossip against a principal) hurts EVERYONE including your school and in this case, test scores declined. Remember that when you gossip, you also hurt yourself and if you didn't already know this, take a read here about office gossip and how to intervene and stop it.
#WW Twitter Welcome Wednesday -just the "Guidelines" | Kalinago English - 1 views
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For example, do this#WW welcome @Craig an English Language Teacher based in Dubai, #ELT ~ interested in #dogme and chocolate. #TEFL#WW @Jenny - she's a Teen Fiction author based in Ireland. Open to being interviewed by your students. #fiction #ireland #education #younglearners #WW shout out 2 @Bob a good buddy of mine, help me welcome him! - #mlearning evangelist #edublogger and head of #edtech at @UniversityofMiami But please don't do this:#WW @Jenny @Craig @Bob @June @Alice @TomatoHead @eLearningGuru as this is unhelpful to everyone.
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Great idea to help colleagues get started on Twitter with a #WW ~ "Welcome Wednesday"
"Reboelje!" - Invisible Learning in the Netherlands | Education Futures - 2 views
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The purpose of the Invisible Learning Tour is to raise awareness for the need for innovation in education.
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