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.
Students possess knowledge about written language and a variety of forms of writing; quality instruction reflects students’ experience and knowledge.
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.
Writing is effectively used as a tool for thinking and learning throughout the curriculum.
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.
Authors and teachers who write can offer valuable insights to students by mentoring them into process and making their own writing processes more visible.
Technology provides writers the opportunity to create and present writing in new and increasingly flexible ways, particularly in combination with other media.
Perhaps no more than half of those who began a four-year bachelor’s degree program in the fall of 2006 will get that degree within six years, according to the latest projections from the Department of Education.
Of the 30 jobs projected to grow at the fastest rate over the next decade in the United States, only seven typically require a bachelor’s degree, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Among the top 10 growing job categories, two require college degrees: accounting (a bachelor’s) and postsecondary teachers (a doctorate)
this growth is expected to be dwarfed by the need for registered nurses, home health aides, customer service representatives and store clerks. None of those jobs require a bachelor’s degree.