Posted in Education, English on Aug 27th, 2009 No Comments »
I stumbled across a great post from Vicki Davis recently. Please just click on the link if you are at home. I have reposted her entire post below, since it is blocked if you school uses Bess. I think that this post and the link to the wiki show one version of how a wiki [...]
Posted in Education, English, Technology on Aug 25th, 2009 1 Comment »
Clive Thompson writes an interesting article in this month’s Wired magazine where he discusses the literacy habits of students. I found some of his findings to be quite remarkable. The study he cites throughout the article is the Stanford Study of Writing, which collected 14,672 writing samples from students over the course of five years. [...]
Posted in Education, English, Technology on Nov 25th, 2008 2 Comments »
NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) and The Partnership for 21st Century Skills have just released a map (here it is) that demonstrates how they envision 4th, 8th, and 12th grade students utilizing Web 2.0 tools to enhance their learning. In their words:
The Partnership has forged alliances with key national organizations that represent [...]
