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Creativity Becomes an Academic Discipline - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...es-an-academic-discipline.html creativity
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  • thebda on 06 Feb 14
     
    Learning to Think Outside the Box
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inkle » inklewriter - 1 views

www.inklestudios.com/inklewriter writing interactive story
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  • thebda on 25 Jul 12
     
    Allows students and teachers to create a "choose your own adventure" style story.  I see possibilities existing for creative writing and assessments.  I also see this as a possible template for multi genre writing with the "choices" being the gateways to other pieces.  Of course, I have yet to fully explore the tool.  
  • thebda on 26 Nov 12
     
    Here is a blog entry connected to inklewriter with a link to an example: http://dougpete.wordpress.com/2012/11/24/creating-interactive-stories/
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The Writing Revolution - Peg Tyre - The Atlantic - 1 views

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  • The school’s success suggests that perhaps certain instructional fundamentals—fundamentals that schools have devalued or forgotten—need to be rediscovered, updated, and reintroduced. And if that can be done correctly, traditional instruction delivered by the teachers already in classrooms may turn out to be the most powerful lever we have for improving school performance after all.
    • Suzanne Tighe
      Suzanne Tighe on 29 Sep 12
       
      It is all about balance.  Some students need more help with understanding how to write.  Others need less.  I would not want writing to be reduced to a formula but we need to have ways to support student in their writing journey.  It is hard to write well if you believe you cannot write because you lack success.  The focus needs to be on what students need in the format that they need.
    • jeff brookes
      jeff brookes on 29 Sep 12
       
      So now the proverbial pendulum is threatening to swing back, back to the basics of writing instruction. Is there a way we can learn from the mistakes of our past over-reactions and consider the possibility that both the technical and creative aspects of writing can (and should) be taught? And that the qualities and skills involved in both can (and should) be taught explicitly and through immersion in the best examples of each genre.
    • Kelly Brown
      Kelly Brown on 29 Sep 12
       
      One strategy to use with ELLs is to provide them with sentence starters, similar to the ones the teachers at New Dorp are now using. The SIOP Model, a way to create lesson plans that encompasses strategies that support ELLs, benefits not only them but all students as well.
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    • Kelly Brown
      Kelly Brown on 29 Sep 12
       
      One strategy to use with ELLs is to provide them with sentence starters, similar to the ones the teachers at New Dorp are now using. The SIOP Model, a way to create lesson plans that encompasses strategies that support ELLs, benefits not only them but all students as well.
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Why American Students Can't Write - The Atlantic - 3 views

www.theatlantic.com/...education writing creative expository
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  • thebda on 26 Sep 12
     
    This is one perspective.
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Moving at the Speed of Creativity - 30 in 60: 30 Tools for Tech-Savvy Teachers - 0 views

www.speedofcreativity.org/...ch-savvy-teachers-blackfootetc technology tools
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  • seth_mitchell on 07 Aug 12
     
    Tons to explore here.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Find Free Music in the Free Music Archive - 0 views

www.freetech4teachers.com/...sic-in-free-music-archive.html technology music creative commons Digital Storytelling podcasting video
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  • seth_mitchell on 08 Aug 12
     
    Music for podcasts,videos, and digital stories.
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The Writing Revolution - Peg Tyre - The Atlantic - 4 views

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shared by Suzanne Tighe on 29 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • “How could they get passed along and end up in high school without understanding how to use the word although?”
    • Elizabeth Tewksbury
      Elizabeth Tewksbury on 29 Sep 12
       
      EXACTLY
  • Literacy, which once consisted of the ability to read for knowledge, write coherently, and express complex thoughts about the written word, has become synonymous with reading. Formal writing instruction has become even more of an after­thought.
    • Elizabeth Tewksbury
      Elizabeth Tewksbury on 29 Sep 12
       
      SO sad.
    • Hannah Rohner
      Hannah Rohner on 29 Sep 12
       
      What a bummer. 
    • Alyssa Littlefield
      Alyssa Littlefield on 29 Sep 12
       
      I think it's interesting that the focus is only on expository and grammar. Isn't there room for everything? 
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    • Alyssa Littlefield
      Alyssa Littlefield on 29 Sep 12
       
      I agree with early instruction, the how to, for writing. I can't help but allow creativity in there as well. 
  • Kids who come from poverty, who had weak early instruction, or who have learning difficulties, he explains, “can’t catch anywhere near what they need” to write an essay.
  • The harder they looked, the teachers began to realize, the harder it was to determine whether the students were smart or not—the tools they had to express their thoughts were so limited that such a judgment was nearly impossible.
    • Suzanne Tighe
      Suzanne Tighe on 29 Sep 12
       
      Sometimes its not whether a child is "smart" or not, but if they have the ability to express their thinking (verbally or written)
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  • don’t learn how to teach writing
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OMG! Survey, like, says digital-savvy students are good at writing! - latimes.com - 0 views

www.latimes.com/...study-20130716,0,1391238.story technology texting writing collaboration digital writing twitter Social Networking
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  • more than two-thirds of their students had fair or poor abilities to digest long and complicated texts and understand plagiarism issues
  • found such advantages as greater creativity, personal expression and increased collaboration
  • promoted a deeper interest in writing because students could see their works published in such online forums as http://www.figment.com
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  • Sometimes, good old-fashioned pen and paper are the best way
  • English teachers were far more positive toward digital tools for writing — nearly two-thirds said it made teaching easier — than colleagues teaching math, science and social studies.
  • technology is not the most important element in promoting good student writing
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Digital posters: Composing with an online canvas - 1 views

blogs.learnnc.org/...ine-canvas-glogster-creativity Glogster Tech Digital Composition
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  • Southern Maine Writing Project on 14 Apr 10
     
    NWP guru Kevin Hodgson discusses Glogster and crafting digital posters.
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