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An English teacher describes her experiences teaching a large-scale, book-club wiki project she designed for her students. Via Karen LaBonte 
Discover the tools and techniques today's teachers and classrooms are using to prepare students for tomorrow -- and how you can get involved. 
Where did the term transliteracy come from? The Transliteracies Research Project, directed by Alan Liu from the Department of English at the University of California at Santa Barbara, first introdu... 
"We just want these young writers to see how empowering it is to be able to share your ideas.” Continue reading →... 
"This paper criticizes the checklist model approach (authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency, coverage) to teaching undergraduates how to evaluate Web sites. The checklist model rests on faulty assumptions about the nature of information available through the Web, mistaken beliefs about student evaluation skills, and an exaggerated sense of librarian expertise in evaluating information. The checklist model is difficult to implement in practice and encourages a mechanistic way of evaluating that is at odds with critical thinking. A contextual approach is offered as an alternative. A contextual approach uses three techniques: promoting peer- and editorially-reviewed resources, comparison, and corroboration. The contextual approach promotes library resources, teaches information literacy, and encourages reasoned judgments of information quality." Via Howard Rheingold, Karen LaBonte 
"Google Docs is such an incredible tool for college students, offering collaboration, portability, ease of use, and widespread acceptance. But there are so many options, both hidden and obvious, that there’s a good chance you’re not using Google Docs to its fullest capability." Via Karen LaBonte 
A growing number of self-publishing companies have inspired writers of all ages to bypass the traditional gatekeeping system for determining who could call themselves published authors. 
For the past three weeks the students in First Grade have been studying the authors/illustrators Jan Brett and Eric Carle. |
Eric Mazur, a Harvard University professor, says learning interests him far more than teaching, and he encourages a shift from teaching to helping students learn. 
"We are trying to teach students to read increasingly complex texts, but they are complex only on the sentence level — not because the ideas they present are complex, not because they are symbolic, allusive or ambiguous. These are literary qualities, and they are more or less absent from testing materials....
[W]e should abandon altogether the multiple-choice tests, which are in vogue not because they are an effective tool for judging teachers or students but because they are an efficient means of producing data. Instead, we should move toward extensive written exams, in which students could grapple with literary passages and books they have read in class, along with assessments of students’ reports and projects from throughout the year. This kind of system would be less objective and probably more time-consuming for administrators, but it would also free teachers from endless test preparation and let students focus on real learning. ...We may succeed in raising test scores by relying on these methods, but we will fail to teach them that reading can be transformative and that it belongs to them." Via anna smith 
Based on my experience using Google Docs for the past two years, I have come up with a strategy that I think may help anyone who plans on using Google Docs with students next year. The purpose of this strategy is two fold:
1. Stay Organized (both teacher & student) Via Dennis T OConnor 
Hybrid Pedagogy is an academic and networked journal on teaching and technology that combines the strands of critical and digital pedagogy to arrive at the best social and civil uses of technology and digital media in education. 
Web search can be a remarkable tool for students, and a bit of instruction in how to search for academic sources will help your students become critical thinkers and independent learners. 
Malcolm X was once asked by an interviewer "What's your alma mater?" His answer: "Books." I'm also a drop out like Malcolm (but of college instead of middle school) who found a far better education in books than in the classroom. Via Susan Bainbridge Free Technology for Teachers: Google Docs for Teachers - A Free eBook http://t.co/TwCISBlq... Via Karen LaBonte 
Neuroscience may seem like an advanced subject of study, perhaps best reserved for college or even graduate school. Two researchers from Temple University in Philadelphia propose that it be taught earlier, however—much earlier. As in first grade. Flash Rosenberg imagines how the ideas in IMAGINE are tackled, tickled and teased-out by the author Jonah Lehrer. Via anna smith 
A few posts back I wrote about starting our Explore More projects. Over the last few days Michelle and I have been guiding the students in coming up with a wide variety and range of questions to ... |
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