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Dorcas Wonsavage

The Millennials - Pew Research Center - 0 views

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      Dorcas Wonsavage on 11 Aug 12
       
      Beloit College has been doing this every Fall, to remind their faculty of what background knowledge their students do, and do not, have! It's called the "Mindset List," to help academics understand what freshmen know -- and what they don't have a clue about. This list has been prepared each August since 1998 and past lists are available online.Here is this year's list, for the Class of 2010:1. The Soviet Union has never existed and therefore is about as scary as the student union.2. They have known only two presidents.3. For most of their lives, major U.S. airlines have been bankrupt.4. Manuel Noriega has always been in jail in the U.S.5. They have grown up getting lost in "big boxes".6. There has always been only one Germany.7. They have never heard anyone actually "ringand the list goes on  . .
  • through cohort analysis,
    • Dorcas Wonsavage
      Dorcas Wonsavage on 11 Aug 12
       
      Attention and analysis of cohort effects  is one example of what sets the Pew Research Center's analyses beyond gossip and generalization. 
jencarbonneau

Social Networking: Keeping It Clean -- THE Journal - 0 views

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  • "These social media services weren't built with security in mind," says application security expert Gary McGraw. "They grew up and evolved around a focus on communication and ease of use. That's why it was so easy for someone to fake this high school Facebook page. These sites are highly inclusive and inherently open to this kind of mischief."
  • Many districts exclude students from social media as a security measure; some go so far as blocking all network users access to the likes of Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. But other educators think locking down networks and isolating students from social networks is tantamount to shutting them off from the real world.
  • Facebook has become an important communications medium
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  • we would be on it if Facebook could create a situation where teachers and students could use it as a teaching and learning tool securely."
  • No one is arguing about the usefulness of a social network in K-12 education,
  • Miller says. But only in an environment that is secure for students by design can schools comfortably make good use of the technology. And Miller's kids would be too young to collaborate through Facebook anyway.
  • Rather than shielding them from the real world, this gives me an opportunity to train them for it.
jencarbonneau

NCTE Beliefs about the Teaching of Writing - 0 views

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  • Everyone has the capacity to write, writing can be taught, and teachers can help students become better writers.
  • People learn to write by writing.
  • Writing is a process.
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  • Writing is a tool for thinking.
  • Writing grows out of many different purposes.
  • Conventions of finished and edited texts are important to readers and therefore to writers.
  • Writing and reading are related.
  • Writing has a complex relationship to talk.
  • Literate practices are embedded in complicated social relationships.
  • Composing occurs in different modalities and technologies.
  • Assessment of writing involves complex, informed, human judgment.
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