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Tomlinson article detailing the emotional needs of learners in the classroom.

Kevin Kelly writes about how reading has changed from a silent, individual pastime to one that is collaborative, more physical pursuit.  

These types of things always helped me plan; it's useful to see the possible outcomes laid out in front of you when you are planning.

Although probably not fully appropriate for the students, check out what this writer does with index cards. I love how she uses simple graphs and charts combined with common language and non-math situations.

This blog just cracks me up.

You just have to let your kids go nuts with this one.

While unlikely, this just jumps up at me. As Josh wrote in the diigo notes for the page, what if we did this for schools?

Read this. Now.

How we view online content is fundamentally changing what is important to us as readers. This method really makes sense to me.

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.

this reminds me of connections.

Here is the link to the items from the various RSS feeds I read. These are links to articles that I chose to "share" with whomever might be interested. If you were to do something like this, you could share this with students and mark articles for them to read entirely digitially.

Erica's search engine

Erica created this search engine and invited me to contribute. Try it out--it only searches the sites we want it to.

Erica showed me this. She's planning on doing it with her students.

this article is well worth the read, if not for anything else than for stoking your thoughts about the future of reading and thinking.

This one makes me think.

Print Media and Textbooks: by way of the dodo bird.

Totally ripping off John Becker's latest post for ideas here, but imagine using tag clouds to show meaning in public speeches this election season.

There is some value in this one. See me and I'll explain.

What do you think of this? For the best part of the article, be sure to read the comments.

Interesting article and comments but it all just makes me mad. I work to hard everyday and spend to much time away from my baby to hear constant criticisms about teaching, especially when I go above and beyond to put everything online yet no one ever looks at it. Great now I"m annoyed Thanks Pat :) LOL not your fault.

Danielle, Sorry about that; the intent was not to upset you, but rather to let everyone see that there is a balancing act that is going on all over the country. One of the commentors stated that "this is here to stay, so everyone get used to it," and while I didn't appreciate his or her closed tone, he or she has a point: it's here. Finding a balance between what is communicated, how it is communicated, and how to best maximize the time we spend doing the communicating in addition to the lives that we lead outside of school is now a huge issue. It is now a major discussion point in many of the meetings I attend, and I think the answer will come out after we muddle through it for a little while. There are so many new changes this year regarding openness and transparency, I think we will find that balance after a bit of trial and error with it.

Funny.

This author brings up the question that I've wrestled with before: just because we can, does it mean that we should? Or should our abilities always go to make us more human?

Did you watch the "This American Life' cartoon? That is exactly what you are describing, where even the premise of creating news shows altered how kids behaved in the face of a situation that called for social action. It raises the question for me of "should the kids know more how to operate the high tech camera, or when to step out from behind it and act?"

Yeah I watched the cartoon and saved it in hopes that I can show it to my students one day and have that discussion. I think they NEED to know how to step out and act - being a good person and citizen should always be number one and if they do that then they will use their technology for the best things! I love these diigo posts - thanks!