A reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers. Focuses on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Watch the engaging 15-minute videos and try the online interactive activities.
"Behind the Lesson" provides teachers with information and teaching resources for each strategy. Watch the 10-minute professional development videos, and explore the Web site for lesson plans, video and audio clips, downloads, and more.
the larger percentage of educators never even dressed for it. They are still in their houses sitting around in their pajamas. This does not mean that they are not doing their job. It means that they are not interacting with others at a party.
Tom, are you saying that the vast majority of teachers are sitting around in their pajamas at home, BUT NOT in interactive groups, not in a PLN? I didn't get this on the first read.
We need to deal with PLN’s in Professional Development workshops. We need to Email links to colleagues who do not use Twitter, Nings, or Wikis. We need to have students develop PLN’s as a source of learning. We need to connect those who need to be connected and then we can all learn as professionals in our pajamas.
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4. To how many of these people would you feel comfortable reaching out and mobilizing in a new initiative related to your shared passions and interests
5. For these fifty people, how effectively are you using social media to increase your mutual awareness of each other’s activities?
John Seely Brown’s (and others) new book Pull,
hammering home the continued importance of face to face connections and the value of serendipity in making those connections.