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Why Literacy? | Mighty Writers - 0 views

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"It's a national crisis. "Writing to Read: Evidence for How Writing Can Improve Reading," an April 2010 report from Carnegie Corporation of New York (published by the Alliance for Excellent Education), states that the consequences of poor reading and writing skills not only threaten the well-being of individual Americans, but the country as a whole."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"It's a national crisis. "Writing to Read: Evidence for How Writing Can Improve Reading," an April 2010 report from Carnegie Corporation of New York (published by the Alliance for Excellent Education), states that the consequences of poor reading and writing skills not only threaten the well-being of individual Americans, but the country as a whole."</div>

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Figment: Write yourself in. - 0 views

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Tom Lucas on 09 Dec 10

"Figment is a community where you can share your writing, connect with other readers, and discover new stories and authors. Whatever you're into, from sonnets to mysteries, from sci-fi stories to cell phone novels, you can find it all here."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Figment is a community where you can share your writing, connect with other readers, and discover new stories and authors. Whatever you're into, from sonnets to mysteries, from sci-fi stories to cell phone novels, you can find it all here."</div>

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Books, Stories, Writing Contests and Publishing for Kids | KidPub Press - 0 views

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"Books, Stories, Writing Contests and Publishing for Kids"

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Awww yeah. You found Humble Voice. The best community for art, photography, music, vide... - 0 views

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You found Humble Voice. The best community for art, photography, music, video and writing.

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Derek's Blog » Creativity vs. stress - 0 views

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an article from Newsweek titled “the Creativity Crisis“. It begins with the assertion that for the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining.
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The Newsweek article cites a recent IBM poll of 1,500 CEOs identified creativity as the No. 1 “leadership competency” of the future. And yet it is declining (apparently), both in society as a whole, and in our schools in particular. The authors identify two of the possible reasons for the decline…
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the impact of television and the number of hours kids now spend in front of the TV and playing videogames rather than engaging in creative activities
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the lack of creativity development in our schools, there’s no concerted effort to nurture the creativity of all children.
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n her writing about The Neuroscience of Joyful Education, Judy Willis highlights the importance of novelty in our teaching, stress-free classrooms, and pleasurable associations linked with learning as essential pre-cursors to joyful learning and the development of creativity. She goes on to suggest that when planning for the ideal emotional atmosphere we should be mindful of the following;
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Allow independent discovery learning – students are more likely to remember and understand what they learn if they find it compelling or have a part in figuring it out for themselves.
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Give them a break – students can reduce stress by enjoying hobbies, time with friends, exercise, or music.
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Create positive associations – by avoiding stressful practices like calling on students who have not raised their hands, teachers can dampen the stress association.
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Prioritize information – helping students learn how to prioritize and therefore reduce the amount of information they need to deal with is a valuable stress-buster.
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Make it relevant – when stress in the classroom is getting high, it is often because a lesson is overly abstract or seems irrelevant to students.
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Others, including Richard Millwood who has written about ‘delight’ in learning, emphasise similar conditions for learning – minimising stress and allowing for more risk-taking, learning from mistakes, discovery and so forth.
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Andrew Barras on 01 Sep 10

Nice article about classroom environments

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Survey Tips: How to write a good survey questionnaire - 0 views

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Purdue OWL APA 6th Edition

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A 'Stealth Assessment' Turns to Video Games to Measure Thinking Skills - Technology - T... - 0 views

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Colleges no longer simply want to know what their students know, but how they think.
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Higher-order thinking skills are "something that schools are paying a little bit more attention to these days," says Jeffrey Steedle, a measurement scientist at the Council for Aid to Education, whose Collegiate Learning Assessment essays are used at several hundred colleges to test students' abilities to synthesize arguments and write persuasively. "It's largely in response to the recognition that these skills are needed to be competitive in the global marketplace."
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But educators also say that paper-and-pencil examinations have limits—for one thing, knowing that you are being tested can drag down performance—and they are looking for new methods to measure skills like critical thinking, creativity, and persistence.
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Valerie J. Shute, an associate professor of educational psychology and learning systems at Florida State University, believes she has a solution in "stealth assessment"—the administering of tests without students' knowing.
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To do that, Ms. Shute and other stealth-assessment researchers have turned to video games, which let educators watch students solve complex tasks while immersed in virtual worlds.
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"Everybody likes to play," she says. "And so much could be done using games."
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Andrew Barras on 12 Nov 10

Great article about using video games to assess students

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Tom Lucas on 30 Nov 10

Great for story generating.

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Storybird - Collaborative storytelling - 0 views

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Storybird - Collaborative storytelling

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elf Publishing and Book Printing Solutions - Books, EBooks, Photo books and Calendars at Lulu.com

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"Sync.in is a web based word processor for people to collaborate in real-time. When multiple people edit the same document simultaneously, any changes are instantly reflected on everyone's screen. The result is a new and productive way to collaborate with text documents, useful for meeting notes, brainstorming, project planning, training, and more."

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