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As technology becomes more prevalent in the lives of students, educators must evolve their digital citizenship curriculum. Learn why incorporating digital literacy, cyber hygiene, and cyber civility into classrooms are changing.
No one has argued more strenuously than me for devoting scads of time to reading and writing instruction. But even I agree that content knowledge is important in reading and that time is needed to develop such knowledge. Unfortunately, time for reading instruction all too often comes at the expense of content learning.
What can be done to turn this around? Here are 10 suggestions. I wonder which ones will be most controversial in your schools.
1. Make sure reading texts present high-quality content (including excellent literature, as well as informational texts that explore our natural and social worlds).
It is often asserted that, “It doesn’t matter what they read, just that they read.”
Poppycock!
As a student, father, grandparent, citizen, scientist, member of the human race… I couldn’t disagree more. It’s like claiming that, “It doesn’t matter what they eat, just that they eat.”
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There are three main areas of teaching that need to align in order for students to feel empowered to discover and share their voices: learning spaces, teaching strategies, and assessments.
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The Trial Urban District Assessment of the Nation's Report Card expanded for 2017, by adding both new districts and a measure of all large school districts. While relatively few districts saw significant gains over 2015, urban districts as a whole seem to be gaining faster than the national average.
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Want to know how to practice emotional intelligence? Here are 10 expert tips from our worldwide network to choose yourself more effectively.
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"President Trump is committed to reducing the federal footprint in education, and that is reflected in this budget," Secretary of Education DeVos told members of a key House subcommittee.
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A high school improvement group pushes for federal law to incorporate a comprehensive approach to literacy instruction.
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Students are easily distracted, but regular, short breaks can help them focus, increase their productivity, and reduce their stress.
Using a representative sample of U.S. schools and their students, they found that students doing two twenty-five minute online lessons about a growth mindset resulted in a small but important academic gain (measured by GPA’s), with larger improvements found among students who had a track record of experiencing academic and socio/economic challenges.
They also found greater gains in schools they say “support greater challenge-seeking or academic effort.” That makes sense to me, though their measurement of that climate seems a little odd (if students chose to do more challenging math problems on a test).
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According to research, intellectual curiosity is the hidden force that drives learning, critical thinking, and reasoning. Curiosity helps children seek and acquire new knowledge, skills, and ways of understanding the world. It is at the heart of what motivates young people to learn and what keeps them learning throughout their lives.
Most of us know that many children can achieve good grades without being curious — by understanding the system of test-taking and dutifully doing their homework.
Curious children, on the other hand, spend a great deal of time reading and acquiring knowledge. Why? Because they sense a gap between what they know and what they want to know — not because they are motivated by grades.
When kids are in curiosity’s grip, they often forget the immediate goals at hand because they are preoccupied with learning. This was the case with young people I interviewed for my book, Tomorrows Change Makers: Reclaiming the Power of Citizenship for a New Generation. Many of them were so focused on public service that they missed school deadlines or didn’t have time to study for exams.
The young people I interviewed defined their success differently than many of today’s youth. They wanted to learn, not just achieve good grades.
Wow. What a concept.
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I was asked this morning on Twitter how we move students beyond wanting hand-picked recommendations every time they book shop. How do they move beyond needing someone, typically, the adult or trusted reading role model to help them find the next book to read? The truth is there is no simple answer, however, there are…
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... and the movies and TV shows we watch
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Who suffers when our literacy rates are low? In this blog post by Tamara Bashore-Berg, we dive into the startling reality of Michigan’s literacy crisis and explore Dr. Nell Duke's argument that this issue is, at its heart, a public health crisis.
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Using project-based learning in support of clear curriculum goals leads to deeper learning and engagement for these school systems.
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A joint research project at several universities found that the "persistent presence" of smartphones comes at a "cognitive cost." Researchers in the schools of management at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of California, San Diego as well as the Department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon ran two experiments to attempt to measure how well people finish tasks when their smartphones are nearby — even if the phones aren't in use.
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Michigan schools continue to trail most states in academic achievement, according to the national NAEP test.
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A new study shows that students improve more on tests in their second year with the same teacher and the benefits are largest for students of color.
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By Tom Vander Ark - Student agency may be as important an outcome of schooling as basic skills according to a new Harvard study.
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It is harder now for high school students to focus on and make sense of long, complex texts, particularly the underserved students who were already struggling with reading. The 24-hour news and entertainment cycle, cellphones, work schedules and family problems are just a few of the pressures competing for teens’ attention. That means when teachers …
Support every student by breaking learning up into chunks and providing a concrete structure for each.
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Children often struggle to pay attention, but when they are given a task they view as challenging or hard, they are even more likely to give up before truly trying. If you notice a child that is regularly losing focus during challenging tasks, here are some strategies that might help increase that attention span and improve the overall outcome of tasks.
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They weren’t the first victims of a mass shooting the Florida radiologist had seen—but their wounds were radically different.
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Great point and easy to put into conversation