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Fontaine, D. ( 2008, May/June). Welcome to the age of the wikitext! MultiMedia & internet @ schools. Vol. 15, Iss. 3. An Annotation by Jeffery […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]