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Tom McHale

Why American Students Can't Write - The Atlantic - 1 views

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writing

shared by Tom McHale on 26 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Tom McHale on 26 Sep 12
     
    Debate on teaching writing in public schools
Brendan McIsaac

Education Week: Ed-Tech PD Focuses on Student Learning Needs - 0 views

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education engagement technology

shared by Brendan McIsaac on 19 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Brendan McIsaac on 19 Mar 13
     
    Good reminders on skills first, technology second and the ongoing PD peer support needed
Jessica Long

Be Better: Using Class Time to Give Better Feedback - 0 views

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shared by Jessica Long on 27 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Jessica Long on 27 Jan 13
     
    How often should you give feedback? This is a question I've wrestled with for a decade. As a high-school English teacher, I try my best to write thoughtful comments on all my students' summative assessments, but the volume in my particular field is soul-crushing. It's not uncommon for me to have 50 three-page essays to...
Michele B.

Open Badges - 0 views

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badges achievement

shared by Michele B. on 28 Nov 12 - No Cached
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      Michele B. on 28 Nov 12
       
      Love the idea of badges.  Will be working over the next semester to figure out how I can use them in my English replacement classes as a way to both let students know what skills there are that need to be mastered and as a way to keep track of their achievements.
Jeremy Long

The Wrong Way to Teach Grammar - 0 views

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writing

shared by Jeremy Long on 25 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • Jeremy Long on 25 Feb 14
     
    A century of research shows that traditional grammar lessons-those hours spent diagramming sentences and memorizing parts of speech-don't help and may even hinder students' efforts to become better writers. Yes, they need to learn grammar, but the old-fashioned way does not work.
Tom McHale

Diigo in Education - 0 views

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diigo education

shared by Tom McHale on 01 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Diigo
  • Diigo
  • Diigo is an effective tool for teaching as well. Diigo's features allow teachers to highlight critical features within text and images and write comments directly on the web pages, to collect and organize series of web pages and web sites into coherent and thematic sets, and to facilitate online conversations within the context of the materials themselves.  Diigo also allows teachers to collaborate and share resources among themselves.
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  • The 21st century calls for knowledge workers who can effectively utilize the vast array of information that resides on the internet and who are capable of processing the information collaboratively with others
  • In the education setting, we all know that project-based learning is an effective way to teach students and cultivate their skills of finding, organizing, synthesizing, and presenting information, as well as the social skills of working in groups, all of which are necessary in the knowledge-based economy. Among the web 2.0 technologies, Diigo is a great tool for this kind of exploratory and collaborative learning.
Tom McHale

Using Poetry to Record What Teachers and Students Learned During the Pandemic | Edutopia - 0 views

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poetry

shared by Tom McHale on 15 Jul 21 - No Cached
  • Tom McHale on 15 Jul 21
     
    "An assignment that focuses on learning gains rather than losses can get the new year off to a good start."
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