Fontaine, D. ( 2008, May/June). Welcome to the age of the wikitext! MultiMedia & internet @ schools. Vol. 15, Iss. 3. An Annotation by Jeffery Ayer Funds are difficult to acquire in districts these days, with budget cutting, economic downturn, [...]
I had accepted a job as a 7th grade language arts teacher, and I was ecstatic to have a job where I could share my love for reading. However, I had no idea how to best teach these early adolescents who everyone seemed to be scared of. This lead me to the action research project I undertook for my Master’s Degree: brain based differentiation. This series of articles outlines what I learned.
Bransford, J.D., A. L. Brown, and R.R. Cocking, eds. (2000). How people learn: brain, mind, experience, and school. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 206-230. An Annotation by Jeff Ayer Although this particular chapter, entitled “Technology to Support Learning,” is extremely [...]
Friedman, T. (2005). The world is flat: A brief history of the twenty-first century. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. An Annotation This is a book about globalization and how world economies, networks, and technology have converged to level [...]
Pink, D., Friedman, T. (2008). Tom Friedman on education in the ‘flat world.’ The School Administrator. February, 12-18. An Annotation This article is actually an interview or conversation between Daniel Pink, author of A Whole New Mind, and Thomas Friedman, [...]
Zhao, Y. (2008). What knowledge has the most worth? The School Administrator. February, 20-26. An Annotation An outstanding article relating how America can and should continue to flourish in a global economy—by continuing to nurture more right-brained thinkers—in short to [...]
Burke, J. (2007). Teaching English language arts in a “flat” world. In Adolescent Literacy: Turning Promise into Practice (149-165). Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. An Annotation A good article relating relevant literacy skills in the 21st century and how today’s students are [...]
Question: Is this kind of presentation even that paradigm shifting anymore? Personally, I’m ready to move past this visionary type of discussion and into one of logistics.
By Jeff Ayers This article is the 3rd in a series, based on action research I collected while studying for my M.Ed, explores the impact digital technology can have on how our students learn, and how we, as educators, can [...]
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