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Space | Middle School students share their work - 0 views

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shared by Erica Hartman on 04 May 10 - Cached

The Media Literacy Clearinghouse - 0 views

www.frankwbaker.com/default1.htm

medialiteracy critical thinking Literacy currentevents contemporaryissues

shared by Patrick Higgins on 11 May 09 - Cached

Patrick Higgins on 11 May 09

Frank Baker's Media LIteracy site. Full of amazing links and resources for teachers and students. I plan to use this for a couple of classes at both the middle and high schools.

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Can You Become a Creature of New Habits? - New York Times - 0 views

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shared by Patrick Higgins on 27 May 08 - No Cached

“The first thing needed for innovation is a fascination with wonder,” says Dawna Markova, author of “The Open Mind” and an executive change consultant for Professional Thinking Partners. “But we are taught instead to ‘decide,’ just as our president calls himself ‘the Decider.’ ” She adds, however, that “to decide is to kill off all possibilities but one. A good innovational thinker is always exploring the many other possibilities.”
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- Patrick Higgins on 27 May 08
  
  This is the part that we can really instill in our students: a sense of wonder that permeates all they do. How do we do it? My idea would be to tap into their passions. What do they go for? Also, one of the jobs of schools is to expose students to things they would not normally be exposed to. This can create new habits and new wonder.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This is the part that we can really instill in our students: a sense of wonder that permeates all they do. How do we do it? My idea would be to tap into their passions. What do they go for? Also, one of the jobs of schools is to expose students to things they would not normally be exposed to. This can create new habits and new wonder.</div>
  
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The current emphasis on standardized testing highlights analysis and procedure, meaning that few of us inherently use our innovative and collaborative modes of thought.
- Patrick Higgins on 27 May 08
  
  This is where we come in.
  
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Ms. Ryan and Ms. Markova have found what they call three zones of existence: comfort, stretch and stress. Comfort is the realm of existing habit. Stress occurs when a challenge is so far beyond current experience as to be overwhelming. It’s that stretch zone in the middle — activities that feel a bit awkward and unfamiliar — where true change occurs.
- Patrick Higgins on 27 May 08
  
  This is Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development where our students are stressed to the point of learning, but not beyond it.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This is Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development where our students are stressed to the point of learning, but not beyond it.</div>
  
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Patrick Higgins on 27 May 08

I am dropping this in your mailboxes today.

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National Student/Parent Mock Election - 0 views

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shared by Erica Hartman on 13 Sep 08 - Cached

Erica Hartman on 13 Sep 08

we should get the pto involved and do this at the middle school

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Education Podcast Signup - 0 views

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shared by Erica Hartman on 20 Aug 08 - Cached

Erica Hartman on 20 Aug 08

great podcasting tool for middle school

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Writing in the Middle Grades, 6-8 - 0 views

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shared by Patrick Higgins on 09 May 08 - Cached

Students possess knowledge about written language and a variety of forms of writing; quality instruction reflects students’ experience and knowledge.
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Writing is a social activity; writing instruction should be embedded in social contexts. Students can take responsibility in shaping the classroom structures that facilitate their work.
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Writing is effectively used as a tool for thinking and learning throughout the curriculum.
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Assessment that both benefits individual writers and their teachers’ instructional planning is embedded within curricular experiences and represented by collections of key pieces of writing created over time.
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Authors and teachers who write can offer valuable insights to students by mentoring them into process and making their own writing processes more visible.
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Technology provides writers the opportunity to create and present writing in new and increasingly flexible ways, particularly in combination with other media.
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