For the first time, elementary-school students—who today mostly learn writing by constructing personal narratives, memoirs, and small works of fiction—will be required to write informative and persuasive essays. By high school, students will be expected to produce mature and thoughtful essays, not just in English class but in history and science classes as well.
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The Writing Revolution - Peg Tyre - The Atlantic - 3 views
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I love this, because usually when a student cannot write, everyone (including fellow teachers) simply point fingers at the English teachers and blame us.
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Where does the information for the Nation's Report Card come from?
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he new writing standards are meant to reverse a pedagogical pendulum that has swung too far, favoring self-expression and emotion over lucid communication.
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Interesting conversation starter.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Educational Leadership:Technology-Rich Learning:Students First, Not Stuff - 2 views
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Technological change is not additive; it is ecological, which means, it changes everything. —Neil Postman
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If we see technology simply as additive, our questions will be about the technology
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it's about addressing the new needs of modern learners in entirely new ways
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5 Essential Questions About ePortfolios - Getting Smart by Susan Lucille Davis - edchat... - 18 views
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Look twitter!
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digital portfolios could be used as a “parking lot”
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Interesting concept.
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for college applications or the parking lot?
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Yes, yes and yes. I think that is why students really buy into the portfolio process. They get to choose!!
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Teaching Technology to Teachers: I Used to Think... but Now I Think... - EdTech Researc... - 4 views
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workshops should begin and end by having people think and write about their learning goals. Workshops and series should be named after learning goals rather than tools.
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involves introducing tools not by the unconscionably boring "click-along-with-the-presenter" method, but by giving participants a logical series of steps to perform and having them figure out how to do them through play, exploration, peer and facilitator support.
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professional development plans ultimately need to build towards creating environments where teachers are coaching, guiding, supporting and inspiring one another.
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http://advocacy.collegeboard.org/sites/default/files/2010-cb-advocacy-teachers-are-cent... - 1 views
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A report (produced by the College Board, NWP, and PDK International) that focuses on the teacher's role in "writing, learning and leading in the digital age"
Free Technology for Teachers: 47 Page Guide to Google Sites for Teachers - 4 views
Shaping Tech for the Classroom | Edutopia - 7 views
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I'm all for students having access to email. What I hear about instant messaging in the classroom, however, makes me wonder. Some pro-tech writing teachers who have the benefit of 1:1 have talked about how challenging it can be to keep kids from being distracted by IMing.
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The number-one technology request of today's students is to have email and instant messaging always available and part of school.
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Many teachers, under pressure from all sides, are often so afraid to experiment and to trust their kids with technology that they demand extensive training before they will try anything new. All these factors impede even the many schools trying to change.
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Doing old things in new ways
inkle » inklewriter - 1 views
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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.
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Here is a blog entry connected to inklewriter with a link to an example: http://dougpete.wordpress.com/2012/11/24/creating-interactive-stories/
For 'Connected Educator Month,' Tips From 33 Educators We Admire - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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Tips from teachers on keeping connected
25 Ways Teachers Can Integrate Social Media Into Education | Edudemic - 1 views
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Interesting infographic. Might be useful for PD.
Moving at the Speed of Creativity - 30 in 60: 30 Tools for Tech-Savvy Teachers - 0 views
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Tons to explore here.
syded - 1 views
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Great recommendations for the teacher ready to roll out iPads in the classroom.
Free Technology for Teachers: Find Free Music in the Free Music Archive - 0 views
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Music for podcasts,videos, and digital stories.
The five most powerful ways teachers aren't using Google Drive (yet) - 3 views
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Drive just keeps getting better! There's a movement here to catch up with some of Evernote's features. Excited to see WeVideo as a third-party app extension.