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More education. Less schooliness. Open Invitation to Join the Conversation at Our AP Literature Ning without commentsPrint This Post Print This Post Last week, I mentioned reading Jeff Wasserman's post about how schools teach bad writing (the 5-Paragraph Essay and other abominations). I mentioned how it made me "want to make my AP Lit class Ning public. We're having forum discussions about Organic Form v. Mechanical." The more I thought about atomizing those Ning walls and welcoming the world of people who like to talk about reading, writing, and how schooliness creates lifelong non-readers and non-writers, the more attractive the idea became. So whoever you are, if conversations such as the one below entice you to share your thoughts with my students about literacy in schools versus the literacy so many of us adults managed to grow into despite them (okay, maybe you were lucky and had good teachers, which would be interesting to hear about), then come on in. My students gave me permission to invite you.

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Neurologist and teacher Judy Willis will be presenting a 4-part series on how young brains develop neurologically.

Exploration of team teaching and it's challenges.

Sue Waters wiki about PLNs - this page is how to set up your ning profile.

"I stumbled across Classroom 2.0 after reading an interesting article in the Village Voice on innovating learning efforts in the New York City Public Schools. These schools, instead of keeping kids out of social networking spaces and prohibiting the use of cell phones, were teaching kids how to use technology in an effective and relevant way."

blog post about why nings are a good thing in schools

"I've been doing a few presentations on building your own personal learning network (PLN) and wanted to demonstrated the power of a PLN in action. My focus on PLNs was for two main reasons: 1. If our aim is to use online tools with our students we first need to be using these tools for our own learning to appreciate how they benefit our learning and to ensure we use them effectively with our students 2. Ability to receive and give advice in our normal f2f interactions is mostly limited. Personal learning networks greatly enhance our ability to get assistance, increase our learning, reflection and innovation. "

Interesting interview with Brad Bird of Pixar that might have implication for how schools are designed.

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