Scribbling in the Margins - NYTimes.com - 21 views
George Saunders's Advice to Graduates - NYTimes.com - 10 views
A Short History of the Highrise - 2 views
Summer Must-Read for Kids? Any Book - Well Blog - NYTimes.com - 11 views
The Library, Through Students' Eyes - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com - 15 views
Do School Libraries Need Books? - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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constant need to acquire new books
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more efficient to work online
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went beyond stacks and stacks of underutilized books.
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The Elusive Big Idea - NYTimes.com - 7 views
Teachers Teaching Teachers, on Twitter: Q. and A. on 'Edchats' - NYTimes.com - 6 views
Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade - NYTimes.com - 20 views
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Simply put, we can’t keep preparing students for a world that doesn’t exist. We can’t keep ignoring the formidable cognitive skills they’re developing on their own. And above all, we must stop disparaging digital prowess just because some of us over 40 don’t happen to possess it. An institutional grudge match with the young can sabotage an entire culture.
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A classroom suited to today’s students should deemphasize solitary piecework. It should facilitate the kind of collaboration that helps individuals compensate for their blindnesses, instead of cultivating them. That classroom needs new ways of measuring progress, tailored to digital times — rather than to the industrial age or to some artsy utopia where everyone gets an Awesome for effort.
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The new classroom should teach the huge array of complex skills that come under the heading of digital literacy. And it should make students accountable on the Web, where they should regularly be aiming, from grade-school on, to contribute to a wide range of wiki projects.
Al Gore Invents a Showpiece E-Book - NYTimes.com - 0 views
The Neuroscience of Your Brain on Fiction - NYTimes.com - 28 views
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"AMID the squawks and pings of our digital devices, the old-fashioned virtues of reading novels can seem faded, even futile. But new support for the value of fiction is arriving from an unexpected quarter: neuroscience. Brain scans are revealing what happens in our heads when we read a detailed description, an evocative metaphor or an emotional exchange between characters. Stories, this research is showing, stimulate the brain and even change how we act in life."
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