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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

Langwitches Blog » What does it Mean to be Literate? - 0 views

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    What do we think of our current definition of literacy? Does it effectively encompass all of the changes we have undergone as readers and thinkers?
Patrick Higgins

Welcome to the Tri-State Education Technology Conference (TSETC) | TSETC 2010 - 0 views

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    Excellent opportunity for learning very close to home. Mark the date: October 2nd, 2010 @New Milford High School.
Patrick Higgins

What makes a great teacher? - Practical Theory - 1 views

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    A wonderful post from 2003 by Chris Lehmann.
Patrick Higgins

Beloit College Mindset List - 2 views

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    Interesting list of traits for this year's college freshman done by Beloit College.
Patrick Higgins

cooltoolsforschools - Presentation Tools - 0 views

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    I thought some of you might want to let students play around with these next year. Also, there is a section on the page called "Publishing Tools" that shows you how to create class online magazines.
Patrick Higgins

How Important is Teaching Literacy in All Content Areas? | Edutopia - 0 views

  • "Adolescents entering the adult world in the 21st century will read and write more than at any other time in human history. They will need advanced levels of literacy to perform their jobs, run their households, act as citizens, and conduct their personal lives."
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      Let's not forget, also, about the "why?"
  • Content is what we teach, but there is also the how, and this is where literacy instruction comes in.
Patrick Higgins

Dot-to-Dot 2010 - 1 views

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    I'd love to get my new students and faculty into something like this.
Patrick Higgins

How Will You Measure Your Life? - Harvard Business Review - 1 views

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    You all need to read this.
Patrick Higgins

An Open Letter to School Administrators | The Principal of Change - 1 views

  • It is not how well you can speak, or the knowledge that you bring to your school, but it is how you empower those around you to do amazing things.
Patrick Higgins

The Lily Pad - 1 views

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    An outstanding take on Google Forms by David Wees. Great use of the format of creating multiple pages to make a choose-your-own-ending story. Will be sharing this one.
Patrick Higgins

Why I Returned My iPad - Peter Bregman - Harvard Business Review - 0 views

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    this would work well for some of the units, especially in 8th grade, that deal with the pros and cons of technology.
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