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Weblog Webliography | Kairosnews - 1 views

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Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs: Moving to the Public... - 1 views

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Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Simply put, we can’t keep preparing students for a world that doesn’t exist.
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we are blinding ourselves to the world as it is. And then we’re punishing students for our blindness.
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Teachers and professors regularly ask students to write papers. Semester after semester, year after year, “papers” are styled as the highest form of writing. And semester after semester, teachers and professors are freshly appalled when they turn up terrible.
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  Echoes a thought I had recently: What if the reason student writing seems so problematic isn't that we don't ask them to write enough, but that we ask them to write too much?
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Echoes a thought I had recently: What if the reason student writing seems so problematic isn't that we don't ask them to write enough, but that we ask them to write too much?</div>
  
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Ms. Davidson herself was appalled not long ago when her students at Duke, who produced witty and incisive blogs for their peers, turned in disgraceful, unpublishable term papers. But instead of simply carping about students with colleagues in the great faculty-lounge tradition, Ms. Davidson questioned the whole form of the research paper. “What if bad writing is a product of the form of writing required in school — the term paper — and not necessarily intrinsic to a student’s natural writing style or thought process?” She adds: “What if ‘research paper’ is a category that invites, even requires, linguistic and syntactic gobbledygook?”
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“Online blogs directed at peers exhibit fewer typographical and factual errors, less plagiarism, and generally better, more elegant and persuasive prose than classroom assignments by the same writers.”
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Even academically reticent students publish work prolifically, subject it to critique and improve it on the Internet.
- anonymous on 09 Aug 11
  
  For an example, look up the fan fiction movement.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">For an example, look up the fan fiction movement.</div>
  
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A classroom suited to today’s students should deemphasize solitary piecework. It should facilitate the kind of collaboration that helps individuals compensate for their blindnesses, instead of cultivating them.
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The new classroom should teach the huge array of complex skills that come under the heading of digital literacy. And it should make students accountable on the Web
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