What a teacher can do – all a teacher can
do – is work with students to create a classroom culture, a climate, a
curriculum that will nourish and sustain the fundamental inclinations that
everyone starts out with: to make sense of oneself and the world, to become
increasingly competent at tasks that are regarded as consequential, to
connect with (and express oneself to) other people.
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Big Think - 0 views
Resource: The Western Tradition - 1 views
Podcast Tutorial | Open Culture - 1 views
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How to Create Nonreaders - 0 views
Will Richardson: My Kids are Illiterate. Most Likely, Yours Are Too - 1 views
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they're not "designing and sharing information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes." Nor are they "building relationships with others to solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally." And as far as "managing, analyzing and synthesizing multiple streams of information?"
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National Council of Teachers of English feels a "literate person" should be able to do right now
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If we don't talk about how learning is changing first, the schools we create will continue to be places of "tinkering on the edges" instead of truly changed spaces.
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Professional Learning Communities and Networks « The Cheeky Lit Teacher - 0 views
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Personal Learning Communities
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the administration is going to be actively involved in the groups as participants with teachers still being the leaders. It’s their intent to be an equal participant in the process. Teachers have been asked to choose which of the four groups they would like to join. The topics are differentiated instruction, cross-curricular projects, teaching with technology, and school culture – character education. All are meaningful, current topic areas that are connected to our school and board’s SMART goals.
Google's privacy counsel surprised at how few people change settings - Winnipeg Free Press - 0 views
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The facility is reachable by searching for "ads preference manager," by clicking on "ads by Google" buttons that appear along with certain targeted ads, and through a somewhat cumbersome process via Google's home page.
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It tells me that privacy is very much also culturally defined
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There's certainly much more privacy debate in the U.S. now than ever in my two decades of being involved in privacy law
Factory Schools? A Debate | Redu: Rethink / Reform / Rebuild Education - 0 views
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that factory-model schooling was not just ineffective but actually harmful to most students—a message which had been so radical and out of the mainstream twenty years ago, actually sounded very much like the messages of my other guests.
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the Internet has become an unparalleled platform for learning, intitiative, participation, productivity, and creativity, almost all of this happens outside of formal educational institutions
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technology as a liberating force
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Worlds End, Worlds Begin: Bang a Gong, Walter Ong: After Orality and Literacy - 0 views
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But first, a caveat: there are exceptions to every generalization I am about to make.
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irresolvable paradox that, without writing, we would not have Plato's staging of this discussion nor any record at all of Socrates' encounter with Phaedrus or of the Socratic method, nor indeed would there have been an Athens, as such, to remember.
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Plato’s struggle with the relatively new technology of writing
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The Children of Cyberspace: Old Fogies by Their 20s - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Researchers are exploring this notion too. They theorize that the ever-accelerating pace of technological change may be minting a series of mini-generation gaps, with each group of children uniquely influenced by the tech tools available in their formative stages of development.
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Net Generation, born in the 1980s, and the iGeneration, born in the ’90s and this decade.
FRONTLINE: growing up online | PBS - 0 views
The problem with 'sext' ed - 1 views
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Sexting is just the silent canary in the coal mine. It's the sign, not the cause, of the dangerously cavalier attitudes toward sex and sexuality that have been building up in teen culture for years now. The only surefire cure is a full-blown evacuation -- a complete retreat from the mainstream movies, videos, video games and songs of the day that sexualize kids before they've even reached puberty (or, in some cases, potty training).
Teacher Magazine: Schools Face Texting Explosion Among Teens - 0 views
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“Most of the students in our classrooms have grown up in a participatory culture,”
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