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.
Gene Weingarten - Goodbye, cruel words: English. It's dead to me. - 0 views
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The end came quietly on Aug. 21 on the letters page of The Washington Post. A reader castigated the newspaper for having written that Sasha Obama was the "youngest" daughter of the president and first lady, rather than their "younger" daughter. In so doing, however, the letter writer called the first couple the "Obama's." This, too, was published, constituting an illiterate proofreading of an illiterate criticism of an illiteracy. Moments later, already severely weakened, English died of shame.
The Wilderness Downtown - 0 views
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If you are wondering what the future of the web may look like, and how creative people are harnessing the power of interactivity, this is a nice peek.
Reading in a Whole New Way | 40th Anniversary | Smithsonian Magazine - 0 views
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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.
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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.
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?
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.
What makes a great teacher? - Practical Theory - 1 views
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A wonderful post from 2003 by Chris Lehmann.
Beloit College Mindset List - 2 views
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Interesting list of traits for this year's college freshman done by Beloit College.
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.
How Important is Teaching Literacy in All Content Areas? | Edutopia - 0 views
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"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?"
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Content is what we teach, but there is also the how, and this is where literacy instruction comes in.
TEDTalks as of 07.30.10 - 1 views
7 Bad Writing Habits You Learned in School | Copyblogger - 6 views
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Go around citing the sources of all of your ideas and people will start avoiding you, because it’s boring as hell
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What do you think of this?
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Danielle, That's precisely the question I want everyone thinking about. We truly focus so much of our energies on getting the format down and getting the "i's" dotted and "t's" crossed, and for many of the students we teach, that is completely necessary; however, as we begin to look at the next phase of what we'd like to do in the district which includes more than just being "proficient" on some state test, can we blend some of the thinking in this post into what we are doing. And as for making people angry, my advice is that you don't get the results you really want without making a few people angry along the way. Not that you try to, but when you know that what you are doing will make your students better, you just go with it.
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Pat - I'd love to share this post with the kids or incorporate parts of it. I have to say that the best writing that the kids have done is usually the writing they do when we're in class and they just write. One of the hardest parts of teaching English is having to read 130 well constructed essays that follow the rubric but are so dry and boring that I have to restrain myself from stabbing my eyes out with my pen. It all goes back to the fact that in our H.S. the kids can write a great 5 paragraph essay or write persuasively but they have NO VOICE and I feel that the stress on structure and grammar could be why they have no voice. Interesting - we should discuss this a bit at our next Connections meeting!
Dot-to-Dot 2010 - 1 views
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I'd love to get my new students and faculty into something like this.
How Will You Measure Your Life? - Harvard Business Review - 1 views
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You all need to read this.
Free Technology for Teachers: Downloading Videos for Use In the Classroom - 0 views
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