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Pamela Stevens

Education Today - Reading with iPads - the difference makes a difference - 0 views

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  • generally positive attitude
  • 16% of the total group reporting they spent no time reading for enjoyment.
  • majority
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  • believed strongly that reading was important.
  • boys read frequently online.
  • 40%) reported they never or almost never use online chat or online messages.
  • he low group read more regularly than the other two groups.
  • strong correlation between higher levels of achievement and a more favourable attitude to reading,
  • end of each text, an achievement test was administered to the two classes.
  • results of these tests showed little difference between the ability levels, with the exception of the low group’s responses to the “Knowledge” category.
  • When using the iPad, the scores of the students in this group were lower than when they were reading a traditional text
  • two-thirds of the students recorded negative or no growth when using the iPad.
  • the same for a little over 50% of the Analysis category
  • howed majority positive growth was the Low group
Pamela Stevens

The American Scholar: Orson Welles on Reading Shakespeare Aloud - Paula Marantz Cohen - 0 views

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  • Young minds—in high school and college—need to feel personally connected, excited, and moved by what they read. They have a thirst for beauty, and will respond to poetry and prose that speaks to the human condition. To pitch too soon into a theoretical approach risks destroying this visceral connection.
  • ascendancy of science, which has turned the study of literature into a scientific endeavor.
  • eading Shakespeare aloud is key to appreciating his work.
Matt Lane

Why teens should read 'adult' fiction - and vice-versa - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

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  • Matt Lane on 22 Mar 12
     
    Next year, I may start the Lit course with this essay.
Pamela Stevens

PDF Expert - Fill forms, annotate PDFs for iPad on the iTunes App Store - 0 views

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shared by Pamela Stevens on 09 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Pamela Stevens on 09 Dec 11
     
    PDF Expert is the ultimate solution for all your PDF needs. It lets you read and annotate PDF documents, highlight text, make notes, draw with your finger and save these changes being compatible with Preview and Adobe Acrobat. Moreover, PDF Expert is the only iPad application that can fill PDF forms!
Pamela Stevens

NCTE's Position on the Teaching of English: Assumptions and Practices - 0 views

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  • read whole texts in their original versions, sharing written and oral meanings, not simply supplying workbook answers or responses to predetermined questions
  • learn grammar and usage by studying how their own language works in context
  • experience the interaction of reading, speaking, listening, and writing as reasoning and communicating acts
Pamela Stevens

Donald L. Luskin: Remembering the Real Ayn Rand - WSJ.com - 1 views

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  • Matt Lane on 15 Apr 11
     
    So you've read The Giving Tree, right? What happens with Objectivism and Rand cross paths... "Would Rand have cried reading the book for the first time? I doubt it. She would have said that the boy was noble to take all he could (though she may have been puzzled by the fact that he did not make a fortune off the apples, house and boat)."
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