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Sean McHugh

The Scientific Case For Teaching Cursive Handwriting to Your Kids Is Weaker Than You Think - 2 views

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teaching handwriting research

shared by Sean McHugh on 01 Oct 16 - No Cached
  • here is ample evidence that writing by hand aids cognition in ways that typing does not: It’s well worth teaching. And I confess I’m old-fashioned enough to think that, regardless of proven cognitive benefits, a good handwriting style is an important and valuable skill, not only when your laptop batteries run out but as an expression of personality and character.
  • if they have the time and inclination.
    • Sean McHugh
      Sean McHugh on 01 Oct 16
       
      But should we be dedicating swathes of curriculum time towards this? Surely not.
  • what teachers “know” about how children learn is sometimes more a product of the culture in which they’re immersed than a result of research and data.
    • Sean McHugh
      Sean McHugh on 01 Oct 16
       
      Never were truer words written.
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  • What does research say on these issues? It has consistently failed to find any real advantage of cursive over other forms of handwriting
  • our real understanding of how children respond to different writing styles is surprisingly patchy and woefully inadequate
  • Evidence supports teaching both formats of handwriting and then letting each student choose which works best for him or her
    • Sean McHugh
      Sean McHugh on 01 Oct 16
       
      Shouldn't we include touch typing here as well?
  • So was cursive faster than manuscript? No, it was slower. But fastest of all was a personalized mixture of cursive and manuscript developed spontaneously by pupils around the fourth to fifth grade
  • They had apparently imbibed manuscript style from their reading experience (it more closely resembles print), even without being taught it explicitly
  • While pupils writing in cursive were slower on average, their handwriting was also typically more legible than that of pupils taught only manuscript. But the mixed style allowed for greater speed with barely any deficit in legibility.
  • The grip that cursive has on teaching is sustained by folklore and prejudice
  • freeing up cognitive resources that are otherwise devoted to the challenge of simply making the more elaborate cursive forms on paper will leave children more articulate and accurate in what they write
    • Sean McHugh
      Sean McHugh on 01 Oct 16
       
      Likewise if they can touch-type instead of wrestling with ascenders and descenders...
  • for typical children, there’s some reason to think manuscript has advantages
  • the difference in appearance between cursive and manuscript could inhibit the acquisition of reading skills, making it harder for children to transfer skills between learning to read and learning to write because they simply don’t see cursive in books.
  • There’s good evidence, both behavioral and neurological, that a “haptic” (touch-related) sense of letter shapes can aid early reading skills, indicating a cognitive interaction between motor production and visual recognition of letters. That’s one reason, incidentally, why it’s valuable to train children to write by hand at all, not just to use a keyboard.
  • even if being taught both styles might have some advantages, it’s not clear that those cognitive resources and classroom hours couldn’t be better deployed in other ways.
    • Sean McHugh
      Sean McHugh on 01 Oct 16
       
      In other ways... the time it takes for kids to learn cursive, spread over years, compared to the relatively short time it takes to master touch-typing being a case in point.
  • that cursive is still taught primarily because of parental demand and tradition, rather than because there is any scientific basis for its superiority in learning
  • inertia and preconceptions seem to distort perception and policy at the expense of the scientific evidence
  • How much else in education is determined by what’s “right,” rather than what’s supported by evidence?
  • Beliefs about cursive are something of a hydra: You cut off one head, and another sprouts. These beliefs propagate through both the popular and the scientific literature, in a strange mixture of uncritical reporting and outright invention, which depends on myths often impossible to track to a reliable source.
  • the reasons to reject cursive handwriting as a formal part of the curriculum far outweigh the reasons to keep it.
  • This must surely lead us to wonder how much else in education is determined by a belief in what is “right,” unsupported by evidence.
  • it’s often the case that the very lack of hard, objective evidence about an issue, especially in the social sciences, encourages a reliance on dogma instead
  • There needs to be wider examination of the extent to which evidence informs education. Do we heed it enough? Or is what children learn determined more by precedent and cultural or institutional norms?
  • Sean McHugh on 01 Oct 16
     
    There needs to be wider examination of the extent to which evidence informs education. Do we heed it enough? Or is what children learn determined more by precedent and cultural or institutional norms?
Louise Phinney

The Time-Tested Dos and Don'ts of Using Classroom Technology | Fluency21 - Committed Sa... - 2 views

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fluency technology tech

shared by Louise Phinney on 14 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Louise Phinney on 14 Mar 13
     
    Throughout my nine years in the classroom, I've been eager to test out possibilities for improving teaching and learning through technology use. It's a messy process. Back in February 2010, I broadcast my eagerness to use cell phones in the classroom inEducation Week. Then I changed my stance, arguing in May 2012 that too much social media and gimmicky technology application in the classroom could lead teachers to neglect teaching students substantial skills. Since then, I've tested out Edmodo and continued to explore. After years of experimentation and reflection, here's my current take on smart-and not-so-smart-ways to use technology in the classroom:
Louise Phinney

Scott Steinberg: Teaching Technology: 10 Lessons Every School Should Share - 0 views

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technology education

shared by Louise Phinney on 27 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Louise Phinney on 27 Jan 13
     
    online etiquette, privacy and safety, permanence, digital citizenship, texting and messaging basics, tech isn't everything, addiction, when mistakes are made, tech as a teaching tool, the value of tech
Jeffrey Plaman

Digital Is...what exactly? | NWP Digital Is - 0 views

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writing literacy technology tech integration digital story

shared by Jeffrey Plaman on 23 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Jeffrey Plaman on 23 Mar 12
     
    "What is Digital Is? The Digital Is website hosts a growing collection of stories, reflections, and resources about teaching and learning writing in a digital age. As the collection grows, we hope to maintain a certain point of view about teaching and the practice of writing: heavy on reflection, open to inquiry, focused on authentic student accomplishment. Here we collect five takes on the Digital Is point of view. "
Louise Phinney

The Innovative Educator: 2 critical things to do & remember each day as a teacher - 0 views

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educator

shared by Louise Phinney on 29 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Louise Phinney on 29 Mar 12
     
    Teachers must remember: 1) we are not teaching subjects, we teach children 2) children are more than test scores. Teachers must also do two things: 1) support your students in doing work that is worthy of the world 2) ensure each child knows they matter
Katie Day

Remembering Mahmoud Darwish - Zinn Education Project - 1 views

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lesson_ideas poetry politics palestine

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  • Katie Day on 25 Jul 12
     
    Teaching Activity PDF. By Naomi Shihab Nye and Linda Christensen. 4 pages. A teaching idea utilizing famous Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish's work to inspire students.
Jeffrey Plaman

How to Fuel Students' Learning Through Their Interests | MindShift - 0 views

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learning inquiry challenge based

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  • Jeffrey Plaman on 20 Sep 14
     
    ""I still teach with standards in mind," he said. "I just teach inductively from the standards instead of using them as the ceiling.""
lv_white

3 Reasons why teachers should Film Themselves Teaching - 0 views

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reflection Jim_Knight Micro-teaching education professional_development

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  • lv_white on 25 Aug 15
     
    Teacher self - Reflection on teaching practices
Keri-Lee Beasley

Being a Better Online Reader - The New Yorker - 2 views

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digital_reading online digital literacy reading technology professional_development

shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 13 Aug 15 - No Cached
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  • Maybe the decline of deep reading isn’t due to reading skill atrophy but to the need to develop a very different sort of skill, that of teaching yourself to focus your attention. (Interestingly, Coiro found that gamers were often better online readers: they were more comfortable in the medium and better able to stay on task.)
  • no difference in accuracy between students who edited a six-hundred-word paper on the screen and those who worked on paper. Those who edited on-screen did so faster, but their performance didn’t suffer.
  • It wasn’t the screen that disrupted the fuller synthesis of deep reading; it was the allure of multitasking on the Internet and a failure to properly mitigate its impact.
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  • students performed equally well on a twenty-question multiple-choice comprehension test whether they had read a chapter on-screen or on paper. Given a second test one week later, the two groups’ performances were still indistinguishable.
  • “We cannot go backwards. As children move more toward an immersion in digital media, we have to figure out ways to read deeply there.”
  • Maybe her letter writers’ students weren’t victims of digitization so much as victims of insufficient training—and insufficient care—in the tools of managing a shifting landscape of reading and thinking.
  • In a new study, the introduction of an interactive annotation component helped improve comprehension and reading strategy use in a group of fifth graders. It turns out that they could read deeply. They just had to be taught how.
  • multitasking while reading on a computer or a tablet slowed readers down, but their comprehension remained unaffected.
  • Maybe the decline of deep reading isn’t due to reading skill atrophy but to the need to develop a very different sort of skill, that of teaching yourself to focus your attention.
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 13 Aug 15
     
    Really interesting information on being a better online reader. The author suggests the following: "Maybe the decline of deep reading isn't due to reading skill atrophy but to the need to develop a very different sort of skill, that of teaching yourself to focus your attention. (Interestingly, Coiro found that gamers were often better online readers: they were more comfortable in the medium and better able to stay on task.)"
Keri-Lee Beasley

YouTube - ipad day 3.5 - 0 views

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shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 29 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 29 Nov 10
     
    ipad pilot in Pre-K by fellow ADE Reece Lennon. 3 yo teaching a 3yo teaching her teacher.
anonymous

Inquiry | Teaching Mahollitz - 1 views

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teaching mahollitz inquiry pyp grade3 light sound multiplication

shared by anonymous on 17 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 17 Mar 11
     
    A great blog from a PYP Grade 3 teacher. Ideas for teaching Light and Sound.
Katie Day

iLearn Technology » Blog Archive » Using Angry Birds to teach math, history a... - 2 views

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teaching mathematics science games primary_school

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  • Katie Day on 27 May 11
     
    interesting blog post of how to use Angry Birds to teach a variety of things... also, I didn't realize you could play Angry Birds via Chrome - http://chrome.angrybirds.com/
  • Miles Beasley on 05 Jun 11
     
    love it - G7 intro to Humanities?
Jeffrey Plaman

Tips and Tricks for Teaching in the Online Classroom - Faculty Focus | Faculty Focus - 0 views

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teaching online pedagogy bestpractice

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  • Jeffrey Plaman on 20 Sep 11
     
    Some nice general tips for teaching with blogs, studywiz, etc.
Louise Phinney

Really? It's My Job To Teach Technology? | The Thinking Stick - 1 views

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technology teaching edtech

shared by Louise Phinney on 13 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Louise Phinney on 13 Nov 12
     
    Interesting blog post from Jeff Utecht
Sean McHugh

Anne Murphy Paul: Why Floundering Makes Learning Better | TIME.com - 0 views

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learning teaching research floundering grappling

shared by Sean McHugh on 24 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • the “learning paradox”: the more you struggle and even fail while you’re trying to master new information, the better you’re likely to recall and apply that information later.
  • let the neophytes wrestle with the material on their own for a while, refraining from giving them any assistance at the start.
  • These students weren’t able to complete the problems correctly. But in the course of trying to do so, they generated a lot of ideas about the nature of the problems and about what potential solutions would look like. And when the two groups were tested on what they’d learned, the second group “significantly outperformed” the first.
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  • The apparent struggles of the floundering group have what Kapur calls a “hidden efficacy”: they lead people to understand the deep structure of problems, not simply their correct solutions.
  • they’re able to transfer the knowledge they’ve gathered more effectively than those who were the passive recipients of someone else’s expertise.
  • “design for productive failure” by building it into the learning process.
  • Sean McHugh on 24 Mar 13
     
    " Kapur has identified three conditions that promote this kind of beneficial struggle. First, choose problems to work on that "challenge but do not frustrate." Second, provide learners with opportunities to explain and elaborate on what they're doing. Third, give learners the chance to compare and contrast good and bad solutions to the problems. And to those students and workers who protest this tough-love teaching style: you'll thank me later." Originally shared by JPL! Still awesome. (yes, you Jeff, and this article)
maureen_thomson

Teaching Casts to Little Ones - YouTube - 0 views

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PE - gymnastics bars

shared by maureen_thomson on 08 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • maureen_thomson on 08 Feb 13
     
    Great drills for teaching casts
Katie Day

Physics with Portals - 2 views

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science physics games gaming teaching valve portals

shared by Katie Day on 03 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Katie Day on 03 Feb 13
     
    a high school teacher's blog about teaching physics with Valve's Portal 2.... He creates physics simulation videos - and the students do too.
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