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10 Collaborative Brainstorming Web Apps - 0 views

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    Here is a brief listing of collaborative/brainstorming tools 
thebda

Storify your English classroom | Lucacept - intercepting the Web - 0 views

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    A curation tool that enables student to make multi-dimensional presentations
thebda

What Should Children Read? - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • careful reading can advance great writing.
  • Common Core dictates that by fourth grade, public school students devote half of their reading time in class to historical documents, scientific tracts, maps and other “informational texts” — like recipes and train schedules
  • What schools really need isn’t more nonfiction but better nonfiction,
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  • Most students could use greater familiarity with what newspaper, magazine and book editors call “narrative nonfiction”: writing that tells a factual story, sometimes even a personal one, but also makes an argument and conveys information in vivid, effective ways.
  • Web sites, which have begun providing online lesson plans using articles for younger readers, and on ProPublica.org.
Susan Inman

Why K-12 schools are failing by not teaching SEARCH | The Thinking Stick - 3 views

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    Interesting article about teaching students how to search on the web...with k-12 lesson plans for teaching search techniques
seth_mitchell

Education Week Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook: Writing Re-Launched: Teachi... - 1 views

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    Great shout-out to NWP.
seth_mitchell

14 Steps to Meaningful Student Blogging - 2 views

  • 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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      This is such a crucial step.  My own failed attempts at creating a classroom of bloggers can be traced back to this missing step. The paper idea is worth exploring.
  • 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
  • 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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      There's an untaught rhetoric here.
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  • Don't grade!
seth_mitchell

25 Ways Teachers Can Integrate Social Media Into Education | Edudemic - 1 views

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    Interesting infographic.  Might be useful for PD.
seth_mitchell

digitalwritingworkshop - Websites_And_Apps - 2 views

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    Digital tools for writing. Comprehensive list.
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