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Patrick Higgins

Reading in a Whole New Way | 40th Anniversary | Smithsonian Magazine - 0 views

  • We can agree or disagree with Kevin, but the world keeps spinning. Screens are made and used in instructive and destructive ways. As an educator I need to learn to use screens as learning platforms so that I can model constructive informative behavior for the students I interact with. So here is how I came to write this post. I subscribe to Will Richardson's blog weblog-ed in my Google Reader. He shared a link to Kevin Kelly's blog Technium. As I read the blog post I used Diigo to underline and add sticky notes. I now have this annotation in my Diigo groups. I will Twitter this and add a link in the New Literacies Institute Ning at newlit.org. Kevin will sell a few more books, which I have hundreds of, and add more readers of his blog.
  • This article is very interesting because it made me think.And I thougt that I was right when I bought a computer for my 81st birthday.It has a wide screen,and I could enlarge the letters to be able to read it because my eyes are bad. I felt that I was not anymore excluded of the world.I had entered the 21st century. The last 12 or some years I spend writing a book by hand.Nobody would ever read a single word of the more than 400 pages.No editor would have accepted it.But is has been typed and now it is on the web.Everybody can read it,and sites of military history,dutch and french,published it or parts of it(I wrote it in french)because it is about the 1940-campaign. Thank you,dear author,you made me feel I was right.
  • Bring on the technology, we have plenty of idle brain space waiting to make use of it.
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    Kevin Kelly writes about how reading has changed from a silent, individual pastime to one that is collaborative, more physical pursuit.  
Patrick Higgins

Is Google Making Us Stupid? - 0 views

  • hen the Net absorbs a medium, that medium is re-created in the Net’s image. It injects the medium’s content with hyperlinks, blinking ads, and other digital gewgaws, and it surrounds the content with the content of all the other media it has absorbed. A new e-mail message, for instance, may announce its arrival as we’re glancing over the latest headlines at a newspaper’s site. The result is to scatter our attention and diffuse our concentration.
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      This shows me that new skills are necessary, or in the least, old ones need to be reconstituted. What jobs or tasks become prioritized? Can we not turn off all of our notifiers and our distractors while we indeed focus on what needs to be done? These are skills, not just simple behaviors.
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    this article is well worth the read, if not for anything else than for stoking your thoughts about the future of reading and thinking.
Patrick Higgins

A GeekyMomma's Blog: Read Like Your Hair's on Fire: An Educator's Summer Reading List - 0 views

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    A wonderful summer reading list for educators.
Patrick Higgins

Digital Writing, Digital Teaching - Integrating New Literacies into the Teach... - 1 views

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    Essential reading for anyone teaching students to write today.
Patrick Higgins

Top 10 Superhero Comic Books Your Kids Should Be Reading | GeekDad | Wired.com - 0 views

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    List of 10 comics that may help hook boys and girls on reading at a young age.
Patrick Higgins

spreeder.com - Free online speed reading application - 0 views

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    Speed reading trainer.
Patrick Higgins

Independent Reading Podcasts « Mr. Mayo's Class - 0 views

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    Mr. Mayo's student podcasts. Why aren't more people providing audiences for their students like George?
Patrick Higgins

Top News - Blogging helps encourage teen writing - 0 views

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    A great reason to get your students blogging!! Or just an interesting read.
Patrick Higgins

ASCD - 0 views

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    This one is a no-brainer--meaning that not only should we be reading it, we should also be creating our schools in its likeness.
Patrick Higgins

Google Reader -Patrick's shared items - 0 views

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    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.
Patrick Higgins

theitclassroom: Magical Moments - 0 views

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    Look what Erica is up to; better yet, what her students have found in their collaborative work.
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    Please read this. I love this stuff.
Patrick Higgins

Caveat Viewer: A Consumer's Guide to Drug Ads | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Can you use drug ads to enhance critical reading analysis.
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    Drug ads and language. Deconstruct with your student.
Patrick Higgins

ASCD - 0 views

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    This one is a no-brainer--meaning that not only should we be reading it, we should also be creating our schools in its likeness.
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    I'd like to think that we are doing this through the Connections class.
Patrick Higgins

21st_century_skills_education_and_competitiveness_guide.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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    Check out this report from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. It is loaded with support for the types of thinking and writing we are doing.
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    Partnership for 21st Century Skills new publication. Worth reading.
Patrick Higgins

Big Ideas - Exploring the Essential Questions of Education - 0 views

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    Lesson idea.
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    Lesson idea for deeper reading.
Erica Hartman

Web 2.0 Is the Future of Education - 0 views

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    I believe that the read/write Web, or what we are calling Web 2.0, will culturally, socially, intellectually, and ...
Patrick Higgins

My Report Card, 08-09 | The Line - 0 views

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    Great read by Dina Strasser about setting goals and providing feedback for yourself.
Patrick Higgins

Paperless Tiger « buckenglish - 0 views

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    Excellent read about a teacher really going paperless.
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