Carolyn Foote wrote this week about the new Pew study on the effects of technology on teen writing. An article about the study in eSchool News (free subscription - well worth it - required) pulls out a few details that for me, at least, suggest some weird thinking. The “news” that
[t]eens who […]
Category Archives: language arts
For the Roses: My Latest Position on Classroom Blogging
May 1, 2008 – 5:29 am
Diigo “Jury” Needed on 74-Comment Assessment Post Debate
April 28, 2008 – 10:41 pm
First, a mini-photo essay on my own point of view about privileging writing over speaking when grading in the collaborative, networking, multimedia century:
Three weeks after the Diigo stampede, I’ve been concerned that the new trend of putting Diigo annotations on posts instead of leaving comments in the thread was a negative thing. Only Diigo […]
Unschooly Students on Teachers Teaching Teachers
April 28, 2008 – 6:34 am
I promised in an earlier post to give the link when Teachers Teaching Teachers posted its podcast with students weighing in on “How to Be Unschooly” in blogs, Twitter, and more. Consider it done. It is so worth a listen.
There’s something to say, too, about the back-story on this. Soojin, the Korean student who […]
Education as Pretense: Schooly “Speeches” versus Real “Talks”
April 23, 2008 – 12:01 pm
The always-interesting Doug Noon of Borderlands wrote a post recently that’s worth a click, but here’s the gist:
This post is about the talking part of student presentations, and helping kids to develop an actual public speaking voice. I discovered last week, by accident, just how much my students have to learn about talking in front […]
Students Respond: “Should Lolita Be Banned from High School AP Classes?”
April 22, 2008 – 11:45 pm
[Since my students just finished reading Nabokov’s Lolita, I thought I’d give their responses to the notion that it shouldn’t be taught in upper secondary. This is the third in the Why We Should Teach Lolita in High School series. See Number One here, Number Two here, with many interesting comments. If you […]
