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Excellent opportunity for learning very close to home. Mark the date: October 2nd, 2010 @New Milford High School.

this would work well for some of the units, especially in 8th grade, that deal with the pros and cons of technology.

You all need to read this.

I'd love to get my new students and faculty into something like this.

What do we think of our current definition of literacy? Does it effectively encompass all of the changes we have undergone as readers and thinkers?

The end came quietly on Aug. 21 on the letters page of The Washington Post. A reader castigated the newspaper for having written that Sasha Obama was the "youngest" daughter of the president and first lady, rather than their "younger" daughter. In so doing, however, the letter writer called the first couple the "Obama's." This, too, was published, constituting an illiterate proofreading of an illiterate criticism of an illiteracy. Moments later, already severely weakened, English died of shame.

A great toolkit if you are looking for alternative/performance-based assessment.  

Hope everyone is doing well. I am still sharing things through here if you are interested. This article is fantastic in terms of how we should be learning.