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Jenny Gilbert

Things You Really Need to Learn ~ Stephen's Web - 0 views

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vce study_skills learning

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  • But while you are in school, you should always be taking the opportunity to ask yourself, "what will happen next?" Watch situations and interactions unfold in the environment around you and try to predict the outcome. Write down or blog your predictions. With practice, you will become expert at predicting consequences.
  • The four major types of writing are: description, argument, explanation and definition. I have written about these elsewhere. You should learn to recognize these different types of writing by learning to watch for indicators or keywords.
  • learn how sentences are joined together to form these types of writing.
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  • A lot of writing is fill - wasted words intended to make the author look good, to distract your attention, or to simply fill more space. Being able to cut through the crap and get straight to what is actually being said, without being distracted, is an important skill.
  • find a basic book on informal logic (it will have a title like 'critical thinking' or something like that).
  • The first thing to learn is to actually question what you are told, what you read, and what you see on television. Do not simply accept what you are told. Always ask, how can you know that this is true? What evidence would lead you to believe that it is false?
  • Every day, subject at least one piece of information (a newspaper column, a blog post, a classroom lecture) to thorough scrutiny. Analyze each sentence, analyze every word, and ask yourself what you are expected to believe and how you are expected to feel.
  • you need to repeat it over and over, in order to grow this neural connection.
  • Part of this process involves seeing things through someone else's eyes.
  • When you are empathetic you will begin to seek out and understand ways that help bridge the gap between you and other people. Being polite and considerate, for example, will become more important to you. You will be able to feel someone's hurt if you are rude to them.
  • The trick is to understand how creativity works. Sometimes people think that creative ideas spring out of nothing (like the proverbial 'blank page' staring back at the writer) but creativity is in fact the result of using and manipulating your knowledge in certain ways.
  • Creativity also arises in response to a specific problem: how to rescue a cat, how to cross a gap, how to hang laundry.
  • earn to look for problems to solve, things that merit a response, needs that need to be filled.
  • Creativity, in other words, often operates by metaphor, which means you need to learn how to find things in common between the current situation and other things you know.
  • Knowing what to say is often a matter of structure.
  • Inside this overall structure, writers provide arguments, explanations, descriptions or definitions, sometimes in combination.
  • Learning to write clearly is a matter of learning about the tools, and then practice in their application. Probably the best way to learn how to structure your writing is to learn how to give speeches without notes. This will force you to employ a clear structure (one you can remember!) and to keep it straightforward. I have written more on this, and also, check out Keith Spicer's book, Winging It.
  • Then practice your writing every day.
  • When you learn, you are trying to create patterns of connectivity in your brain.
  • But it is important to at least recognize that there are other people, and that they live in their own world as well.
  • Think about learning how to throw a baseball. Someone can explain everything about it, and you can understand all of that, but you still have to throw the ball several thousand times before you get good at it. You have to grow your neural connections in just the same way you grow your muscles.
  • but learning is more like recognition than remembering.
  • you should be asking, "what is the pattern" (and not merely "what are the facts")
  • Learning to learn is the same as learning anything else. It takes practice.
  • Think, always, about how you are learning and what you are learning at any given moment. Remember,
  • Every day, seek to be active in some way
  • Advertisers make you feel badly so you'll buy their product, politicians make you feel incapable so you'll depend on their policies and programs, even your friends and acquaintances may seek to make you doubt yourself in order to seek an edge in a competition.
  • but they are meaningless if you do not feel personally empowered to use them; it's like owning a Lamborghini and not having a driver's license.
  • Valuing yourself is partially a matter of personal development, and partially a matter of choice.
  • How we think about ourselves is as much a matter of learning as anything else.
  • But if you repeat, and believe, and behave in such a way as to say to yourself over and over, I am valuable, then that's what you will come to believe.
  • For example, it's the belief that you are good enough to have an opinion, have a voice, and have a say, that your contributions do matter. It's the belief that you are capable, that you can learn to do new things and to be creative. It is your ability to be independent, and to not rely on some particular person or institution for personal well-being, and autonomous, capable of making your own decisions and living your live in your own way.
  • Tell yourself that you are smart, you are cool, you are strong, you are good, and whatever else you want to be. Say it out loud, in the morning - hidden in the noise of the shower, if need be, but say it. Then, practice these attributes. Be smart by (say) solving a crossword puzzle. Be cool by making your own fashion statement. Be strong by doing something you said to yourself you were going to do. Be good by doing a good deed. And every time you do it, remind yourself that you have, in fact, done it.
  • your dedication to some purpose or goal. But it is also your sense of appreciation and dedication to the here and now.
  • What is worth doing? That is up to you to decide.
  • If you don't decide what is worth doing, someone will decide for you,
  • you control your thoughts. Your thoughts have no power over you;
  • Another aspect of this is the following: what you are doing right now is the thing that you most want to do. Now you may be thinking, "No way! I'd rather be on Malibu Beach!" But if you really wanted to be on Malibu Beach, you'd be there. The reason you are not is because you have chosen other priorities in your life - to your family, to your job, to your country.
  • Jenny Gilbert on 23 Nov 10
     
    Really usefull advice for all students but especially VCE students
Jenny Gilbert

Lesson Planning and the Common Core: A Unit Based on TED.com | Edutopia - 0 views

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lesson ted com speeches oral resources

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  • On my own website, you can learn about how students chose topics and you can download the worksheet that I used to guide them towards their choice.
  • The first thing I did was get the students familiar with the Persuasive/Memoir speech patterns that so many of the TED speeches possess. Many of the presentations, regardless of the length, whether they are 3 minutes or 23 minutes, tend to some share key common traits like: Hook Background Information Narrative Evidence Commentary Theme Call to Action Visuals
  • 1. Metasearching using dogpile What I like about this is that on the page where your results are listed, it categorizes your results in ways that might behoove better research. If the student types in "global warming," then it asks if you would also like results that only focus on "causes of global warming," "effects of global warming," and so on. 2. Google Advanced Search Obviously, the more specific you search, the less work you have to do. Let Google do the work by spending just a little time creating parameters for your results. 3. Google Scholar This can be a little heady, but it has also led to some really interesting results. 4. Reading URLs What does a .org mean? .gov? .edu? What symbols may indicate personal sites? Reading the sentences of the URL is the first step in reliable searching online.
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  • Breaking the Google Homepage Habit
  • Of course, there are also ways to do this same activity online using social bookmarks like CiteUlike , Diigo ,
  • Jenny Gilbert on 23 Nov 11
     
    some good tips and ideas for preparing and researching your oral presentation in this blog post. 
Jenny Gilbert

Study Guides and Strategies - 0 views

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learning education study studying english students

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  • Jenny Gilbert on 14 Jan 09
     
    Study guides, strategies, skills, tips and habits for learners and students in 30 languages
Jenny Gilbert

George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," 1946 - 0 views

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linguistics language orwell essays labgu language_analysis

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  • Jenny Gilbert on 14 Nov 11
     
    orwell essay on poor language use - very detailed - upper level students may gain something from it
Jenny Gilbert

Emmanuel on xfactor - 0 views

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encountering-conflict VCE_English_students

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  • Jenny Gilbert on 06 Mar 12
     
    Emmanuel was a baby born in a war zone. His is physically disabled. Here he sings 'Imagine' on the x-factor. It is very humbling and provides an example of responding to conflict for students - both from the point of view of emmanuel, his mother, the audience and the judges. This performance provides a good discussion starter, Tissues may be required.
Jenny Gilbert

Xeromag | Franklin's Grammar Cheat Sheet - 0 views

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grammar Reference resources

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  • Jenny Gilbert on 12 Aug 10
     
    good resource for student bookmarks
Jenny Gilbert

Tools & Resources: English Grammar Glossary - CliffsNotes - 0 views

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grammar english resources tools Reference

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  • Jenny Gilbert on 12 Aug 10
     
    another great resource for students
Jenny Gilbert

Blind Conscience | Margot O'Neill - 0 views

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conscience Year12 encountering_conflict assylum refugees

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  • Jenny Gilbert on 14 Aug 10
     
    a book related to refugees students may be interested in as supplementary reading for context
Jenny Gilbert

Learn Your Damn Homophones - 0 views

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grammar writing

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  • Jenny Gilbert on 29 Jul 10
     
    would be nce is we could share this with students!
Jenny Gilbert

Yr 12 VCE Encountering Conflict Context Blog: The exam is on the way! - 1 views

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vce conflict resources Year12 encountering-conflict

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  • Jenny Gilbert on 18 Sep 10
     
    resource for students
Jenny Gilbert

ThinkTutorial Free Computer Tutorials and Lessons, Basic Computer Training, Computer Kn... - 0 views

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tutorials technology thinktutorial education computer howto web2.0 MS Office

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    teacher and student ICT - MS word Powerpoint Microsoft Office
Jenny Gilbert

Half an Hour: How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly - 1 views

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resources English Year12 writing styles journal

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  • Jenny Gilbert on 23 Nov 10
     
    useful writing advice for VCE students
Jenny Gilbert

Ms G's Resource Room - A resource community for teachers and students - 0 views

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engkish KLA students

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  • Jenny Gilbert on 14 Jan 09
     
    This community is primarily to support my work as English teacher and Coordinator of my current school.
Jenny Gilbert

EditorialCartoonists.com, Cartoons (AAEC - The Association of American Editorial Cartoo... - 0 views

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cartoons english teaching

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  • Jenny Gilbert on 14 Jan 09
     
    download cartoon evaluation worksheet - useful for all countries. The rest is less useful to aussie classrooms. US history students would get something here though. Wish we had one of these for australian cartoons!!!
Jenny Gilbert

Encountering Conflict by nenifoofer - 0 views

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information_literacy research writing education resources Web2.0 brainstorming conflict encountering english

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  • Jenny Gilbert on 18 Jan 11
     
    interactive notetaking board - could be really useful. Would like to see students develop this.
Jenny Gilbert

200 Homonyms, Homophones, and Homographs (A - B) - List of Common Homonyms, Homophones,... - 0 views

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homonyms homophones resources writing

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  • Jenny Gilbert on 17 Jan 11
     
    This is a handy list for teachers and students alike.
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