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Kim Vint

The Power of eMentorship in Student Literacy: An Interview with Nina Zolt | Edutopia - 0 views

  • We talk a lot in schools about wishing we were somehow more supported by our communities, but schools also need to be more encouraging of that relationship. To address this, Zolt envisioned, and made real, In2Books, ePals’ flagship literacy program. In a nutshell, In2Books selects a carefully screened volunteer, let’s say a business exec from AOL, and pairs that professional with a student to discuss books through letter writing that is teacher-guided and teacher-approved. It’s as simple as that. It’s book buddies brought into the 21st Century.
    • Kim Vint
       
      This sounds like an excellent idea!
Kim Vint

Literacy is Priceless - 0 views

  • Education, after all, isn’t an acquisitive process, an exercise in procuring and storing information. Instead, learning is a social process, one in which people get from point A – ignorance – to point B – enlightenment – through a messy combination of challenge, failure and consolidation. While there might be a few people who can (and should) take advantage of open-source learning models, there are, I suspect, far more who can’t. Information, in the absence of the ability to apply it, isn’t very valuable, as anybody who’s ever tried to fix their own car using only the supplied factory manual understands only too well”.
    • Kim Vint
       
      This seems to be what we're working toward in our class!
Laura Clausen

Starfall's Learn to Read with phonics - 0 views

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