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This year, I admitted a hard truth to myself. I wasn't having my students write enough. In an attempt to follow Kelly Gallagher’s advice that students should write more than we can assess, I decided to have them blog weekly. One Assignment, Many Objectives After giving students some practice and solidifying my ideas by talking to a colleague and past student, I developed this assignment. I tried to ensure that the assignment would: Address multiple Common Core standardsHold students accountable while minimizing stressBe structured enough to provide clarity while giving freedom to experimentBe varied enough to keep students engagedGet students to write for multiple purposes
Students read and respond to Billy Collins' poem "Introduction to Poetry." Students then write about a favorite poem and imagine the perfect way to read it.
photo of T by Mary McHenry Back in January, I wrote a rambling, terribly earnest post titled How Does a Child REALLY Learn to Write? That post generated a slew of thoughtful and heartfelt comments.
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.What I am about to talk about in terms of this week’s reading will likely not be a popular viewpoint. Seeing as we are in a digital literacy class, my assumption is that many of you have a defined viewpoint on what extent you think technology should be involved in the teaching of composition. I am assuming also that many of you believe digital literacy should be wholly integrated into composition pedagogy. While I do not disagree that the world is moving towards and ever rapid pace of information consumption, I do not agree that as composition instructors we should jump on the band wagon and be touting that others are Luddite’s just because they have varying opinions on the application of this technology in the classroom. Yet, this is what J. Elizabeth Clark does in her article, The Digital Imperative: Making the Case for a 21st Century Pedagogy, when she states: “Myopic, Luddite fantasies of returning to pencil and paper, the disavowal of the role of technology in the classroom, and the supposition that technology is a passing fad are tired arguments now giving way to a new era of digital rhetoric…”(Clark, 27). Teaching Writing in a Digital Age. "is there still room for pencil and paper? Room for thought? Can we let our students loose on the internet to write their own blogs? How do you learn unless you practice?" Pippa Davies
Practical lessons from 35 years of writing poetry to help individuals and teams deliver more innovative products, processes, and services.
An in-depth conversation on lesson planning for a High School ELA class. Using a popular text, watch as Mr. Hanify discusses his lesson planning for reading and writing, identifying main ideas and developing arguments.
Romance writer Danielle Steel is one of the highest paid authors in the world, topping $35 million in 2011, with Nicholas Sparks not far behind. I'm not a romance writer or reader but I am keen for the genre to be represented ...
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Let me start with this: We need poetry. We really do. Poetry promotes literacy, builds community, and fosters emotional resilience. It can cross boundaries that little else can. April is National Poetry Month.
A resource from the Academy of American Poets with thousands of poems, essays, biographies, weekly features, and poems for love and every occasion
Choosing between the iPad or Chromebook leads one to ask many questions. EdTechTeacher's Beth Holland attempts to answer a few.
Great ideas for sharing literacy techniques in novel study and writing.
Now that text talk is widely accepted as a legitimate form of communication, we are left wondering: Will text talk become our main form of communication in the future? Will the widespread use of text talk negatively impact the way we communicate? Or are we engaged in the creation of a colorful new language every time we text?
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As more schools begin allowing students to bring their own devices and actually use them in class, the debate around the value of “digital writing” — texting, taking notes on mobile devices, tweeting, etc. — is heating up. Some educators (and even a linguistic expert) believe kids who text are exercising a different, additional muscle when texting, writing, and note-taking — and that skill is actually adding to a student’s growing and changing repertoire. Mindshft.
Teacher Dayyl Esswein shares technology tools daily with lesson plans from his fifth grade classroom. This one encompasses poetry and iPad apps!
Cool Tools for the 21st Century Classroom ... Instead inspire students to write interesting and colorful e-books that can be created individually or collaboratively with a real-world tool that will keep them coming back for more!
In the wake of the revelations that Jonah Lehrer is a serial self-plagiarist, Josh Levin declares that if you're an "ideas man", you shouldn't be a blogger. Discover the basics of blogging while linking to other articles.
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