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Online literacy and new literacy

Online literacy and new literacy

Action Research, Education 2.0 June 4, 2010 at 11:14 pm 4 comments

This article is the 2nd 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 leverage that impact for the good of our students. Before I was introduced to wikis in April 2008, I never would have envisioned how much my teaching could use these new technologies. More importantly, my students could not be more ready to take their education to a new level that I sincerely hope will better connect them to the world and prepare them to participate in a digital world. The time is now, and while students have been hungry for this opportunity, the reinforcing research is thorough enough to justify using wikis,blogs, podcasts, Flickr, Moodle, and online writing technologies that I feel can significantly improve students’ writing, and perhaps more importantly, prepare them for digital citizenship.

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Web 2.0: Pedagogical Evidence and Brain Research

Action Research, Education 2.0 May 28, 2010 at 4:36 pm 13 comments

Before I was introduced to wikis in April 2008, I never would have envisioned how much my teaching could use these new technologies. More importantly, my students could not be more ready to take their education to a new level that I sincerely hope will better connect them to the world and prepare them to participate in a digital world. The time is now, and while students have been hungry for this opportunity, the reinforcing research is thorough enough to justify using wikis,blogs, podcasts, Flickr, Moodle, and online writing technologies that I feel can significantly improve students’ writing, and perhaps more importantly, prepare them for digital citizenship. This 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 leverage that impact for the good of our students.

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3 Techniques for Brain Based Differentiation

3 Techniques for Brain Based Differentiation

Action Research, Got Brains? May 27, 2010 at 1:39 pm 2 comments

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.

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Notes from the battlefield: toward a theory of why people write. Fox, M.

Annotations February 4, 2010 at 10:55 pm Comments are Disabled

Fox, M. (1993).  Notes from the battlefield: toward a theory of why people write. In Radical Reflections (pp 1-22).  New York, NY: Harcourt Publishing. An […]

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Reading, writing and gender: Instructional strategies and classroom activities that work for boys and girls. Goldberg, G., Roswell, B

Annotations February 3, 2010 at 10:36 pm Comments are Disabled

Goldberg, G., Roswell, B. (2002).  Reading, writing and gender: Instructional strategies and classroom activities that work for boys and girls.  Larchmont, NY: Eye On Education. […]

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Listen up!  Boys and girls hear, read, learn differently

Listen up! Boys and girls hear, read, learn differently

Action Research, Featured Articles, The Shift January 20, 2010 at 9:19 pm 9 comments

New research is proving that gender differences are real. Boys and girls are different. From the way their brains are organized to the types of cells in their eyes, groundbreaking studies are showing us just how different the genders really are. In this article, Chris Wondra explains how boys and girls hear differently, and what this means for the way our children and students learn to speak and read.

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Web 2.0 technologies and online writing tools

Action Research, Education 2.0 November 2, 2009 at 10:45 pm Comments are Disabled

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 […]

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The Future: Where “winging it” becomes best practice

The Future: Where “winging it” becomes best practice

Featured Articles, The Shift July 2, 2009 at 11:47 pm 37 comments

The problem with blind spots is that you don’t know you’ve got them. I mean, it’s obvious to us today that students weren’t going to need a slate or homemade ink in order to be successful. But imagine living in that time. There was no way those people could have foreseen the changes that make us snicker at those statements today.

Might we also be clinging to faulty beliefs about what will make our students successful? But how do we identify them? What beliefs do we throw out? Which ones do we keep? What skills and content are we teaching that will be irrelevant in five years? What tools are we still using that are already outdated?

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Wordle:  The Anti-Muddle

Wordle: The Anti-Muddle

Education 2.0 May 16, 2009 at 10:06 pm 1 comment

Heard of Wordle? Check the newest “Technology in the Classroom” minute to implement Wordle with a few clicks. The blog post is itself “Wordled,” so not only will you better understand what the site can do, but you will see application and ways in which the site can be used in the classroom. Click now!

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