Skip to main content

Home/ Groups/ Southern Maine Writing Project
Rss Feed
Sort By: Most Recent | Popular Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
1More

Lesson Plan | Writing Fiction Based on Real Science - NYTimes.com - 2 views

learning.blogs.nytimes.com/...-fiction-based-on-real-science literacy science writing
shared by Rebecca Redlon on 10 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Rebecca Redlon on 10 Dec 12
     
    A great way to infuse science classes with literacy and writing
5More

How My Learning Has Changed « - 1 views

cultureofyes.ca/...how-my-learning-changed PD conferences education
shared by seth_mitchell on 05 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • So, having also recently attended an EdCamp, I can say there is something between that and a traditional conference that would be best for how I want to learn.  And, I am okay with giving up a Saturday (with the promise of a bagged lunch) to sit in a high school to talk teaching and learning.
    • seth_mitchell
      seth_mitchell on 05 Dec 12
       
      Boy, this sounds a whole lot like SMWP's upcoming tech conference.
  •  If I am going to travel to conferences, then I need it to add value — not only to come away with new ideas, but new tools that I have had the chance to try, and the experience I couldn’t have had if I were not there.
  • What I need now is a chance to spend time making sense of what I am hearing — I crave the opportunity to engage with the smart people who are with me in the room.
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • Focussed visits to districts, schools and classes are very powerful, with specific objectives and learning in action and not only in a presentation.  I also find the traditional ‘study group’ to continue to have a huge impact on my learning.
1More

Common Core State Standards in English spark war over words - The Washington Post - 1 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...2-8a97-363b0f9a0ab3_story.html commoncore reading standards literacy
shared by Susan Inman on 04 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Susan Inman on 04 Dec 12
     
    To teach or not to teach fiction...according to the Common Core.  An interesting read...
1More

Education Week Teacher: How Blogging Can Improve Student Writing - 2 views

www.edweek.org/...tln_curran.html education blogging technology writing
shared by Rebecca Redlon on 29 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Rebecca Redlon on 29 Nov 12
     
    affirmation of what we already know -- good fodder
3More

How Teens Do Research in the Digital World | Pew Research Center's Internet & American ... - 2 views

pewinternet.org/...Student-Research Internet Research
shared by seth_mitchell on 26 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Some 77% of advanced placement (AP) and National Writing Project (NWP) teachers surveyed say that the internet and digital search tools have had a “mostly positive” impact on their students’ research work.
    • seth_mitchell
      seth_mitchell on 26 Nov 12
       
      Something to say.
  • seth_mitchell on 26 Nov 12
     
    Interesting study about students and research.
1More

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

www.thethinkingstick.com/failing-by-not-teaching-search technology research digital literacy
shared by Susan Inman on 26 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Susan Inman on 26 Nov 12
     
    Interesting article about teaching students how to search on the web...with k-12 lesson plans for teaching search techniques
2More

inkle » inklewriter - 1 views

www.inklestudios.com/inklewriter writing interactive story
shared by thebda on 25 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • 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/
5More

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

opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/...what-should-children-read non-fiction CommonCore reading nytimes
shared by thebda on 26 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • 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,
  • ...2 more annotations...
  • 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.
1More

Wrong Focus: Teacher-Centered Classrooms and Technology - 3 views

www.ryanbretag.com/blog technology writing teaching student-centered learning
shared by seth_mitchell on 27 Oct 12 - No Cached
    • seth_mitchell
      seth_mitchell on 27 Oct 12
       
      Agreed.  Not sure this is always the teacher's fault, however.  This is usually a result of decisions made by administrators.
7More

The False Digital Imperative | Teaching Writing in a Digital Age - 7 views

twinada.wordpress.com/...the-false-digital-imperative digitalliteracy writing literacy blogging digital writing
shared by thebda on 16 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Digital media supplies information, but it also shapes the process of thought. 
  • My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles.
  • Literary figures are openly admitting that they cannot engage in sustained critical reading, in a sense, they can no longer read for a purpose
  • ...4 more annotations...
  • we should be moving towards, “a carefully employed pedagogy aimed at furthering students digital literacy, just as earlier, process-based composition emerged as a dominant pedagogical model”
  • being wary of public writing in the classroom.  He suggests that if not implemented properly, this public writing can have far reaching consequences.
  • “Before students can engage in the new participatory culture, they must be able to read and write
  • this intentional move towards brevity and away from sustained critical reading/writing is sure to negatively impact the future of our students, thereby impacting the future of our country. 
1More

Excite Young Writers with Blogging - The Inspired Classroom | The Inspired Cl... - 6 views

theinspiredclassroom.com/...te-young-writers-with-blogging writers blogging classroom
shared by thebda on 10 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • thebda on 10 Oct 12
     
    A concrete way to begin a conversation re:blogging and digital citizenship
5More

The Writing Revolution - Peg Tyre - The Atlantic - 1 views

www.theatlantic.com/...3
shared by Kelly Brown on 24 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • 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.
  • ...1 more annotation...
    • 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.
12More

The Writing Revolution - Peg Tyre - The Atlantic - 4 views

www.theatlantic.com/...2
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? 
  • ...5 more annotations...
    • 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)
  • understanding
  • don’t learn how to teach writing
« First ‹ Previous 81 - 100 of 225 Next › Last »
Showing 20▼ items per page