10 Collaborative Brainstorming Web Apps - 0 views
What Should Children Read? - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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careful reading can advance great writing.
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Common Core dictates that by fourth grade, public school students devote half of their reading time in class to historical documents, scientific tracts, maps and other “informational texts” — like recipes and train schedules
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What schools really need isn’t more nonfiction but better nonfiction,
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Why K-12 schools are failing by not teaching SEARCH | The Thinking Stick - 3 views
Jux. Simply the best showcase for you - 2 views
Tagxedo - Word Cloud with Styles - 1 views
MapSkip - Places Have Stories! - 1 views
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14 Steps to Meaningful Student Blogging - 2 views
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Teach them how to blog first. We did an excellent paper blogging lesson first (found on the blog of McTeach), which brought up why we were blogging and how to do it appropriately. This got the students excited, interested as well as got them thinking about what great comments look and sound like.
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Talk safety!
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It would be worth offering some of Common Sense Media's lessons here: http://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/curriculum
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They taught each other how to do anything fancy and also let each other know when font or color choices were poor.
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