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Sarah Hanawald

Study: Teens See Disconnect Between Personal and School Writing : April 2008 : THE Journal - 0 views

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english teaching technology web2.0 writing

shared by Sarah Hanawald on 30 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Study: Teens See Disconnect Between Personal and School Writing by Dave Nagel Extra Credit Student Writing and Internet Usage According to the Pew/National Commission on Writing study, 50 percent of teens write something for school every day. Ninety-four percent use the Internet for research for their school assignments at least occasionally, and 48 percent sad they use the Internet for research at least once per week. More Information Study: Writing, Technology and Teens (PDF) --D. Nagel Students see a distinction between the writing they do for school and the writing they do in their personal lives. While the vast majority of 12- to 17-year-olds (85 percent) engage in some form of electronic writing--IM, e-mail, blog posts, text messages, etc.--most (60 percent) don't consider this actual writing. That's one of the findings from a study released last week by the Pew Internet & American Life Project and the National Commission on Writing for America’s Families, Schools and Colleges.
Lorri Carroll

CAIS Commission on Professional Development | CPD Blog for CAIS Colleagues to Share Pro... - 2 views

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via:packrati.us professionaldevelopment PD CAIS PDBlog professional_development

shared by Lorri Carroll on 07 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • This post, written by Justine Fellows, is the first of a series of posts written by members of the CAIS Commission on Technology. 
  • Lorri Carroll on 07 Dec 11
     
    You are invited to join our new professional development blog; enter the conversation and write posts about important issues that focus your learning and help other CAIS colleagues. Think of our blog as a faculty lounge for all CAIS educators. It's our venue to share professional learning, ask questions, and give advice:  [ http://caisct.wordpress.com/ ]http://caisct.wordpress.com/ Just as an "unconference" moves forward with a participant driven spirit, the Commission of Professional Development created this blog to be a forum for CAIS educators to exchange thoughts, questions and insights about important issues in our learning communities. Email [ mailto:bsullivan@suffieldacademy.org ]bsullivan@suffieldacademy.org for a simple step to becoming a member of this blog. What do we hope this blog will become? An opportunity for CAIS educators to jettison inhibitions that they may have about "writing in the social media" world and break into the digital forum by sharing the wisdom we know exists among CAIS minds. Click on this Edutopia link for an example of a dynamic blog for educators:  [ http://www.edutopia.org/blog/balancing-work-and-life-teacher-elena-aguilar ]http://www.edutopia.org/blog/balancing-work-and-life-teacher-elena-aguilar Imagine that the above content of that post and comments were specific to CAIS educators-perhaps from a colleague! The content would be so useful. Moving forward, the CAIS blog will host interesting topics with comment threads that relate to the contexts of CAIS learning communities because CAIS educators know a great deal about teaching and learning. The blog will also be another lens to design professional development programs. The CPD wants to read your posts. Also sign up for updates by clicking on the "Follow Blog via Email" hyperlink so that you can follow your colleagues: [ http://caisct.wordpress.com/ ]http://caisct.wordpress.com/
susan carter morgan

A New Type of University Writing Course - 0 views

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university writing

shared by susan carter morgan on 10 Sep 08 - Cached
  • susan carter morgan on 10 Sep 08
     
    When I tell people I'm a writing professor, I see first-hand how their anxieties about grammar instruction and the "red pen" live on years after their experiences with freshman composition have ended. When talking about what I do, people start clarifying their diction, altering their grammar, even avoiding eye contact.
Demetri Orlando

how we use diigo - 16 views

Hello everyone, I've been asked to write a short article about Diigo for possible publication. If you would be willing to help me write it, I would enjoy the experience of collaborating in that wa...

started by Demetri Orlando on 25 Nov 08 no follow-up yet
susan carter morgan

Listening to the Written Word - 3 views

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listening writing

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  • susan carter morgan on 14 Aug 12
     
    writing about strengths
susan carter morgan

Power of Strategy Instruction - 3 views

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writing

shared by susan carter morgan on 10 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • susan carter morgan on 10 Feb 12
     
    SRSD for writing for all students
Sarah Hanawald

Obama's inauguration: Class rules the streets of D.C. - Posted - 0 views

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obama inauguration web2.0

shared by Sarah Hanawald on 14 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Obama's inauguration is providing students with the option to experience, share and report on a collection of days that are destined to be recorded for a museum or archive.
  • they were required them write their thoughts and to create a one-minute YouTube video.
  • "If you are not connected with social media, chances are you wont win the election,
  • Sarah Hanawald on 14 Jan 09
     
    Nice write up of how 11 students are going on a reporting trip from Worcester Academy in Mass to DC as reporters for their school. They will be reporting back to campus via flckr, twitter, youtube, and blogs.
Art Gelwicks

In Test, Few Students Are Proficient Writers - New York Times - 0 views

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proficiency schools writing

shared by Art Gelwicks on 03 Apr 08 - Cached
  • About one-third of America’s eighth-grade students, and about one in four high school seniors, are proficient writers, according to results of a nationwide test released on Thursday.
  • Girls far outperformed boys in the test, with 41 percent of eighth-grade girls scoring at or above the proficient level, compared with 20 percent of eighth-grade boys.
  • Authorities in the federal government’s school testing program said they were encouraged by the results, especially since they seemed to counter other recent indicators suggesting a decline in Americans’ writing abilities.
Demetri Orlando

State Of the Art - Cell Services Keep It Easy, and Free - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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cell phone

shared by Demetri Orlando on 06 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Demetri Orlando on 06 Jun 08
     
    NY Times, David Pogue writes up free services for phones: Goog411, Jott, free411. pretty neat stuff.
susan carter morgan

Sometimes "bookmark" does not work - 21 views

Hi Demetri, I agree, but I couldn't figure out a quick way to remove the file without removing the post. I usually check for copyright issues, but I was so interested in the possible discussion, I ...

diigo problem

started by Demetri Orlando on 22 Jun 08 3 follow-ups, last by susan carter morgan on 23 Jun 08
susan carter morgan

The New Writing Pedagogy - 2 views

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writing pedagogy

shared by susan carter morgan on 27 Nov 09 - Cached
  • susan carter morgan on 27 Nov 09
     
    Using social networking tools to keep up with student interests.
Demetri Orlando

CampusAccess.com - Study Skills - 0 views

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study_skills

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  • Demetri Orlando on 05 May 09
     
    Includes pages on exam prep, note-taking, test-taking, essay writing, time management, and stress management.
Marti Weston

They're learning to write, and they've got readers - TwinCities.com - 1 views

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learning writing blogs blogging

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  • Marti Weston on 28 Mar 11
     
    blogging in the classroom
Sarah Hanawald

Web 2.0 Is the Future of Education (Techlearning blog) - 0 views

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21stcentury literacy

shared by Sarah Hanawald on 25 Apr 08 - Cached
  • I believe that the read/write Web, or what we are calling Web 2.0, will culturally, socially, intellectually, and politically have a greater impact than the advent of the printing press.
  • Because it is in the act of our becoming a creator that our relationship with content changes, and we become more engaged and more capable at the same time. In a world of overwhelming content, we must swim with the current or tide (enough with water analogies!).
  • You may think that you don't have anything to teach the generation of students who seem so tech-savvy, but they really, really need you. For centuries we have had to teach students how to seek out information – now we have to teach them how to sort from an overabundance of information. We've spent the last ten years teaching students how to protect themselves from inappropriate content – now we have to teach them to create appropriate content. They may be "digital natives," but their knowledge is surface level, and they desperately need training in real thinking skills.
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  • We may be afraid to enter that world, but enter it we must, for they often swim in uncharted waters without the benefit of adult guidance.
  • Sarah Hanawald on 25 Apr 08
     
    This is why literacy still matters more than anything else.
Demetri Orlando

Is Google Making Us Stupid? - 0 views

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attention distractions reading

shared by Demetri Orlando on 11 Jun 08 - Cached
  • They found that people using the sites exhibited “a form of skimming activity,” hopping from one source to another and rarely returning to any source they’d already visited.
  • The more they use the Web, the more they have to fight to stay focused on long pieces of writing.
  • Demetri Orlando on 17 Jun 08
     
    Interesting discussion of the impact of the net on reading.
Sarah Hanawald

Diablo Valley School, a Concord California Sudbury School - Serving Elementary Middle a... - 0 views

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education independent teaching

shared by Sarah Hanawald on 03 May 08 - Cached
  • I heard a vice-president of IBM tell an audience of people assembled to redesign the process of teacher certification that in his opinion this country became computer-literate by self-teaching, not through any action of schools. He said 45 million people were comfortable with computers who had learned through dozens of non-systematic strategies, none of them very formal; if schools had pre-empted the right to teach computer use we would be in a horrible mess right now instead of leading the world in this literacy.
  • In modern society, said Dewey, people would be defined by their associations--not by their own individual accomplishments. It such a world people who read too well or too early are dangerous because they become privately empowered, they know too much, and know how to find out what they don't know by themselves, without consulting experts
  • Dewey said the great mistake of traditional pedagogy was to make reading and writing constitute the bulk of early schoolwork.
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  • New York State, for instance, employs more school administrators than all of the European Economic Community nations combined.
  • rederich Froebel, the inventor of kindergarten in 19th century Germany, fashioned his idea he did not have a "garden for children" in mind, but a metaphor of teachers as gardeners and children as the vegetables.
  • Kindergarten was created to be a way to break the influence of mothers on their children.
  • Violence, narcotic addictions, divorce, alcoholism, loneliness...all these are but tangible measures of a poverty in education.
  • Sarah Hanawald on 03 May 08
     
    Interesting. John Taylor Gotto on education and the value of less rather than more school. He mentions that the best programmers are self-taught.
Sarah Hanawald

Why Schools Don't Educate - The Natural Child Project - 0 views

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education independent teaching

shared by Sarah Hanawald on 03 May 08 - Cached
  • The world's narcotic economy is based upon our own consumption of the commodity, if we didn't buy so many powdered dreams the business would collapse - and schools are an important sales outlet.
  • Senator Ted Kennedy's office released a paper not too long ago claiming that prior to compulsory education the state literacy rate was 98% and after it the figure never again reached above 91% where it stands in 1990
  • in the United States almost nobody who reads, writes or does arithmetic gets much respect. We are a land of talkers,
  • Sarah Hanawald on 03 May 08
     
    More John Gotto--his speech as he accepted the Teacher of the Year award. Written in 1990, but spot on today.
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