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The American Revolution and Constitution Nonfiction [book review from MiddleWeb]
Book by Harvey & Goudvis for social studies
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April 25, 2015
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April 18, 2015
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Student Helpers in the High School Classroom [form Scholastic.com]
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Provides units, lessons, and authentic, leveled non-fiction and literary passages directly to educators online, for free, to be shared broadly
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April 11, 2015
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Teaching for the 21st Century: Navigating the Cs of Change [from Educational Leadership]
McVerry, Zawlinski & O'Byrne describe how to adapt Palincsar & Brown's (1984) reciprocal teaching model for teaching online research and reading comprehension in this 2009 article.
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Calvin & Hobbes Search Engine [by Bing]
Yay!
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"Learning in Hand is an educator's resource for mobile and digital learning."
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April 4, 2015
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More evidence of "striking differences in the role of technology in wealthier school districts compared with poorer school districts." The technology gap in education has more to do with practices and pedagogy than hardware and networks.
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25 Attention-Grabbing Tips for the Classroom [from Edutopia]
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Connecting Readers With Reads Online [from the ILA's Literacy Daily]
"Savvy teachers build upon the power of reading recommendations. Although face-to-face conversations about favorite selections can serve as powerful reading motivators for many students, social cataloging websites allow readers to connect, share, discuss, and archive their reading suggestions within and beyond their school settings."
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Beyond Wizards and Vampires, to Sex [from NYTimes.com]
The publishing industry is reporting a sales spurt in books aimed at 18-to-25-year-olds. The "new adult" genre is longer, darker, more emotionally intense, and often more sexually explicit.
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Why are so many adults reading YA and teen fiction? [from The Guardian]
A survey in 2012 showed that 55% of YA readers are actually adults - why is this the case and is it a problem?
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March 14, 2015
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Apps That Rise to the Top: Tested and Approved By Teachers | MindShift
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The searchable archive of the electronic journal published by the ILA between May 1997 and June 2005
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Disciplinary literacy [YouTube video]
Brief explanation of disciplinary literacy by Cynthia Shanahan
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4 Things You'll Miss by Banning Cellphones In Your Classroom [from CTQ]
Model responsible use and talk about consequences. And this: "Remember everything about that cell phone in your student’s pocket is vastly more powerful than the computer (link is external) used by Neil Armstrong to land on the Moon. Take advantage of that power!"
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Age of Distraction: Why It's Crucial for Students to Learn to Focus | MindShift
A rationale discussion about the myth of multitasking and the reality of partitioned attention and the importance of focus ("mindfulness"). Rather than naively condemning digital devices as a detriment to developing executive functioning and focus, the expert quoted in this post discussed the educational imperative of teaching kids "concentration abilities as part of the school curriculum." Goleman said, “The more children and teens are natural focusers, the better able they’ll be to use the digital tool for what they have to get done and then to use it in ways that they enjoy.”
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Why Teaching Mindfulness Benefits Students’ Learning | MindShift
A curriculum for helping shape and grow adolescents' prefrontal cortex, where attention ("mindfulness") and executive functioning take place. A sample mindfulness exercise is described at the end of the post.
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March 7, 2015
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"Facing History and Ourselves provides ideas, methods, and tools that support the practical needs, and the spirits, of educators worldwide who share the goal of creating a better, more informed, and more thoughtful society."
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TeachingBooks.net | Author & Book Resources to Support Reading Education
This is a proprietary Web-based service for K-12 schools, school districts, libraries, and universities. The collection contains thousands of children's and young adult books, searchable by title, author, and topic. Once you locate a book, you can click "Text Complexity Results" to see a full range of numeric leveling results. That is about all that is available for free, however. You must have a license to access all the other multimedia resources (videos, audio files), Web links (author interviews, press clippings), and PDFs (book guides, lesson plans, activities) attached to the book. It appears only family and institutional subscriptions are available and cost several hundreds of dollars.From the home page: "If you read fiction and nonfiction books in any discipline or setting, TeachingBooks.net's database of instructional materials will enliven your K-12 reading and library activities."
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Drawing Words Writing Pictures
The home site of Jessica Abel and Matt Madden, teachers and scholars of the graphic novel genre
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February 28, 2015
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Common Core’s unintended consequence? [from The Hechinger Report]
“I think the end result in five years could be a lot more flexibility for teachers to bring different sets of resources together and create from those a curriculum and set of lesson plans that really serve their kids more effectively,” said Nancy Gannon, director of State and District Instructional Materials at Student Achievement Partners.
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Failing Forward: 21 Ideas To Use It In Your Classroom [from TeachThought]
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A Conversation about Implementing Text Sets in K-12 Classrooms | Literacy in Learning Exchange
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Taking Organized Thoughts to the Cloud
"In this age of accessible digital resources, there are a variety of easy graphic organizer applications to support our students’ thinking. Students can use these tools to create graphic organizers to facilitate brainstorming ideas, create outlines, illustrate topics or concepts, and plan presentations. Many applications are either cloud-based or available for download to your iPad, iPhone, or Android, making the apps readily accessible to students."
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