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Aaron Davis

http://www.danah.org/books/ItsComplicated.pdf - 0 views

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  • Aaron Davis on 01 Mar 14
     
    A digital copy of Danah Boyd's new book on social lives of teens.
Aaron Davis

Look! The art of Australian picture books today | State Library of Victoria - 0 views

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  • Aaron Davis on 10 Dec 13
     
    A great collection of videos from a range of picture book artists as a part of the Look! exhibition. "
Aaron Davis

ELMORE LEONARD ON WRITING; Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hoopt... - 0 views

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  • Aaron Davis on 28 Nov 13
     
    An interesting collection of tips associated with the art of writing from Elmore Leonard. Definitely gets you thinking. 1. Never open a book with weather. 2. Avoid prologues. 3. Never use a verb other than ''said'' to carry dialogue. 4. Never use an adverb to modify the verb ''said'' . . . 5. Keep your exclamation points under control. 6. Never use the words ''suddenly'' or ''all hell broke loose.'' 7. Use regional dialect, patois, sparingly. 8. Avoid detailed descriptions of characters. 9. Don't go into great detail describing places and things. 10. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip. 11. If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.
  • Aaron Davis on 28 Nov 13
     
    An interesting collection of tips associated with the art of writing from Elmore Leonard: 1. Never open a book with weather. 2. Avoid prologues. 3. Never use a verb other than ''said'' to carry dialogue. 4. Never use an adverb to modify the verb ''said'' . . . 5. Keep your exclamation points under control. 6. Never use the words ''suddenly'' or ''all hell broke loose.'' 7. Use regional dialect, patois, sparingly. 8. Avoid detailed descriptions of characters. 9. Don't go into great detail describing places and things. 10. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip. 11. If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.
Sherie Halil

Victorian Premier's Reading Challenge Book List - 0 views

www.education.vic.gov.au/...books

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shared by Sherie Halil on 13 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Sherie Halil on 13 Dec 13
     
    A list of books organised into different age groups.
Aaron Davis

And they said I was too adventurous? | Miss Spink on Tech - 0 views

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  • Aaron Davis on 09 Oct 14
     
    An investigation into iPads and Book Creator in Prep
Aaron Davis

The perils of “Growth Mindset” education: Why we’re trying to fix our... - 0 views

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  • By now, the growth mindset has approached the status of a cultural meme.
  • Regardless of their track record, kids tend to do better in the future if they believe that how well they did in the past was primarily a result of effort.But “how well they did” at what?
  • even some people who are educators would rather convince students they need to adopt a more positive attitude than address the quality of the curriculum (what the students are being taught) or the pedagogy (how they’re being taught it).
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  • An awful lot of schooling still consists of making kids cram forgettable facts into short-term memory. And the kids themselves are seldom consulted about what they’re doing, even though genuine excitement about (and proficiency at) learning rises when they’re brought into the process, invited to search for answers to their own questions and to engage in extended projects.
  • the most salient feature of a positive judgment is not that it’s positive but that it’s a judgment; i
  • the first problem with this seductively simple script change is that praising children for their effort carries problems of its own, as several studies have confirmed: It can communicate that they’re really not very capable and therefore unlikely to succeed at future tasks. (“If you’re complimenting me just for trying hard, I must really be a loser.”)
  • what’s really problematic is praise itself. It’s a verbal reward, an extrinsic inducement, and, like other rewards, is often construed by the recipient as manipulation.
  • books, articles, TED talks, and teacher-training sessions devoted to the wonders of adopting a growth mindset rarely bother to ask whether the curriculum is meaningful, whether the pedagogy is thoughtful, or whether the assessment of students’ learning is authentic (as opposed to defining success merely as higher scores on dreadful standardized tests).
  • the series of Dweck’s studies on which she still relies to support the idea of praising effort, which she conducted with Claudia Mueller in the 1990s, included no condition in which students received nonevaluative feedback. Other researchers have found that just such a response — information about how they’ve done without a judgment attached — is preferable to any sort of praise.
  • We need to attend to deeper differences: between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, and between “doing to” and “working with” strategies.
  • Dweck’s work nestles comfortably in a long self-help tradition, the American can-do, just-adopt-a-positive-attitude spirit.(“I think I can, I think I can…”) The message of that tradition has always been to adjust yourself to conditions as you find them because those conditions are immutable; all you can do is decide on the spirit in which to approach them. Ironically, the more we occupy ourselves with getting kids to attribute outcomes to their own effort, the more we communicate that the conditions they face are, well, fixed.
  • It isn’t entirely coincidental that someone who is basically telling us that attitudes matter more than structures, or that persistence is a good in itself, has also bought into a conservative social critique. But why have so many educators who don’t share that sensibility endorsed a focus on mindset (or grit) whose premises and implications they’d likely find troubling on reflection?
  • the real alternative to that isn’t a different attitude about oneself; it’s a willingness to go beyond individual attitudes, to realize that no mindset is a magic elixir that can dissolve the toxicity of structural arrangements. Until those arrangements have been changed, mindset will get you only so far. And too much focus on mindset discourages us from making such changes.
  • Aaron Davis on 11 Feb 16
     
    "An awful lot of schooling still consists of making kids cram forgettable facts into short-term memory. And the kids themselves are seldom consulted about what they're doing, even though genuine excitement about (and proficiency at) learning rises when they're brought into the process, invited to search for answers to their own questions and to engage in extended projects. Outstanding classrooms and schools - with a rich documentary record of their successes - show that the quality of education itself can be improved. But books, articles, TED talks, and teacher-training sessions devoted to the wonders of adopting a growth mindset rarely bother to ask whether the curriculum is meaningful, whether the pedagogy is thoughtful, or whether the assessment of students' learning is authentic (as opposed to defining success merely as higher scores on dreadful standardized tests). "
Aaron Davis

The Need to Connect Remains the Same | CTQ - 0 views

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  • the driving force behind teen use of digital tools is the desire to connect with one another:
  • Aaron Davis on 02 Mar 14
     
    A great discussion of Danah Boyd's book 'It's Complicated' and the need for teens to connect.
Aaron Davis

The Danger of the "Just Right" Books and Other Helpful Reading Interventions - 0 views

pernillesripp.com/...elpful-reading-interventions-2

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  • Aaron Davis on 28 Nov 13
     
    Great blog post from Pernille Ripp where she argues that we need to give students the freedom to read so that they may want to read.
  • Aaron Davis on 28 Nov 13
     
    Great blog post from Pernille Ripp where she argues that we need to give students the freedom to read so that they may want to read.
fiona houston

Into the Book: Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies - 0 views

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  • fiona houston on 26 Nov 13
     
    Into the Book focuses on eight reading comprehension strategies for grades 1-4. Kids area has interactive activities for each strategy, teacher area features teacher guides, lesson plans, posters, video and audio clips, downloads, and more.
Shey Obremski

Storylands - 3 views

www.storylands.com.au

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shared by Shey Obremski on 12 Sep 13 - Cached
  • Shey Obremski on 12 Sep 13
     
    Students can go and read a number of online books at different levels.
Manisha Saini

Read Write and Think - 5 views

www.readwritethink.org/...puzzle-words-a-30820.html

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shared by Manisha Saini on 07 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Manisha Saini on 07 Nov 13
     
    Engaging ways to introduce children to reading or to encourage them to write. Provides age-appropriate book suggestions and rainy day activities. The site is fun, educational, and easy to use.
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