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Terry Elliott

Unboxed - Yes, People Still Read, but Now It's Social - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • “THE point of books is to combat loneliness,” David Foster Wallace observes near the beginning of “Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself,” David Lipsky’s recently published, book-length interview with him.
  • other readers have highlighted the passage on their Kindles, making it one of the more “popular” passages in the book.
  • Thanks to e-mail, Twitter and the blogosphere, I regularly exchange information with hundreds of people in a single day: scheduling meetings, sharing political gossip, trading edits on a book chapter, planning a family vacation, reading tech punditry. How many of those exchanges could happen were I limited exclusively to the technologies of the phone, the post office and the face-to-face meeting? I suspect that the number would be a small fraction of my current rate.
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  • high-level thinking when the culture migrates from the page to the screen.
  • Mr. Carr’s original essay, published in The Atlantic — along with Clay Shirky’s more optimistic account, which led to the book “Cognitive Surplus”
  • The intellectual tools for assessing the media, once the province of academics and professional critics, are now far more accessible to the masses.
  • The question is not whether our brains are being changed. (Of course new experiences change your brain — that’s what experience is, on some basic level.) The question is whether the rewards of the change are worth the liabilities.
  • Quiet contemplation has led to its fair share of important thoughts. But it cannot be denied that good ideas also emerge in networks.
Terry Elliott

"Angry Birds" - A Lesson in Assessment FOR Learning | Learning is Growing - 2 views

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  • Some areas that Instructional Coaches can assist schools with are referred to as the Big Four: Classroom Management, Content, Instruction, and Formative Assessment. While the presenters facilitated dialogue around the topic of formative assessment the analogy was made to video gaming; and specifically Angry Birds.
  • ‘formative assessment
  • it is an integral part of the learning and teaching process; and assessment evidence is actually used to: modify teaching to meet the needs of pupils; and improve learning.”
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