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.
BigFoto - 1 views
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Royalty-free images to use in digital compositions.
The Writing Revolution - Peg Tyre - The Atlantic - 1 views
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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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why teach digital writing? > foreword - 2 views
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Why teach digital writing?
10 Collaborative Brainstorming Web Apps - 0 views
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Here is a brief listing of collaborative/brainstorming tools
8 Great Tools to Create Webinars Online - 0 views
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Possibilities for SMWP as we consider offering webinars...
Education Rethink: Ten Thoughts on Photo Prompts - 0 views
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An idea to generate writing in the classroom.
Google Glasses: Frightening Or Fantastic? : The Two-Way : NPR - 0 views
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Anybody ever read the book _Feed_?
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
Education Week Teacher: Redefining Instruction With Technology: Five Essential Steps - 1 views
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The problem, I began to realize, was my own understanding of how the iPads should be utilized in the classroom. I had seen them as a supplement to my pre-existing curriculum, trying to fit them into the structure of what I’d always do
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ne. This was the wrong approach: To truly change how my classroom worked, I needed a technology-based redefinition of my practice.
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Here are five lessons I’ve learned about redefining classroom instruction with technology—whether iPads or other tools.
Danah Boyd - Cracking Teenagers' Online Codes - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Interesting piece on social networking.
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.
Special-Focus Networks: Continuity & Site Development - 0 views
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This is a quick overview of NWP's Special-Focus Networks.
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.
Writer's Life in Portland, ME - Google Maps - 0 views
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A collection of interesting places to meet and write during the SMWP SI's "Writer's Life" adventure.
4,100 Massachusetts Students Prove Small Isn't Always Better - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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writing, curriculum, education, reform
EITT Project - 0 views
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A description of how one site is using podcasts to help students with reading fluency.
February | 2012 | Evernote as Portfolio - 2 views
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