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Patrick Higgins

web.mov (video/quicktime Object) - 0 views

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    This is hysterical, but useful.
Patrick Higgins

wikiHow - The How-to Manual That You Can Edit - 0 views

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    Really love the idea behind this. Very practical
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    Can we use this?
Patrick Higgins

The Committed Sardine - blog - 1 views

  • Phonological awareness – a child's ability to detect and use patterns of sound in speech – is one of the early signs of successful development of reading and writing skills. Researchers said the ability to contract, clip and manipulate words for texting relies on good phonological awareness, and that doing so can help develop literacy.
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    Hmmm.  How would this go over with our peers?
Patrick Higgins

Behind the Scenes: Child's-Eye View of Haiti - Lens Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • For two weeks, 28 young Haitians used their perspective as citizens to create a distinctive document: pictures of Haiti, as it regenerates, through the eyes of insiders.
Patrick Higgins

Class Struggle - When teachers reject the Internet - 2 views

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

Tools for Reading, Writing, & Thinking - 1 views

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    great resources for thinking and writing.
Erica Hartman

Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology | Video on TED.com - 1 views

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    This one is really cool to watch, and kind of presents us with that "Minority Report" feeling.
Patrick Higgins

Daily Media Use Among Children and Teens Up Dramatically From Five Years Ago - Kaiser F... - 1 views

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    If we ever thought we didn't need to help kids understand context and meaning in media, we were mistaken.
Patrick Higgins

The New Writing Pedagogy - 0 views

  • Moving to a new pedagogy is not easy for many district administrators, however, as the Web as a writing space is still primarily an unknown, scary place to put students. But as research is showing, students are flocking to online networks in droves, and they are doing a great deal of writing there already, some of it creative and thoughtful and inspiring, but much of it outside the traditional expectations of “good writing” that classrooms require
  • That change is spelled out clearly by the National Council of Teachers of English, which last year published “new literacies” for readers and writers in the 21st century. Among those literacies are the ability to “build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally,” to “design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes,” and to “create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts.” Very little of that kind of work is possible to achieve without expanding the way we think about writing instruction in the context of online social tools.
  • “Using online writing tools will allow students to write whenever and wherever they feel inspired, and to be able to speak to an audience that is larger and more important to them than the traditional classroom,” Childers says. “There is a reason why we should constantly be looking for ways to incorporate more innovative writing opportunities into our curriculum.”
Patrick Higgins

YouTube - Digital Dossier - 0 views

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    Very useful.
Patrick Higgins

Get_Better_Search_Results - 0 views

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    always useful.
Patrick Higgins

Statistics | Race to Nowhere - 0 views

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    I've been really into research like this lately. This might be interesting to do poll your students about the questions they use in the film.
Patrick Higgins

Symbaloo - start simple - 1 views

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    hmm.
Patrick Higgins

Wordle Blog: How to make Wordle safe for classroom use. - 0 views

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    no more offensive wordles
Patrick Higgins

Hodgsonwriting - 0 views

  • The act of writing is an important way for students to learn by processing their ideas into coherent and organized form;Writing should be done across various curriculum areas and not be taught in isolation;Students should write for various audiences; At times, they may write just for themselves, for the classroom or, sometimes, for the world;Technology can be a useful tool for composing various forms of writing and media, including audio podcasts and video;Writing should be authentic and allow students to make connections between school and the world outside of school;Artistic elements and the concept of design play a role in the way that young people compose writing and other media;Reading quality books and stories of various genres provide an insight into the writing process and allow students to reflect, connect and utilize critical thinking skills;All students can succeed and improve as writers and readers and composers of multimedia.
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      I love these! Regardless of whether or not you feel that you will stick to them, I think it's good to have a set of guiding principles, and have them be publicly viewable, so that your beliefs are clearly stated.
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