Now that I’ve left schooling, it’s wonderful to explore things for teaching. Case in point: Annenberg Media / Learner.org’s A Biography of America series. It’s an astonishingly media-rich 26-part series - count ‘em, 26 half-hour PBS episodes featuring leading US historians, plus transcripts of each episode, plus interactive maps, photos, primary sources, and more for […]
In my third month of writing here about 21st century education, way back in March 2007, I put the pom-poms down, stopped cheerleading, and started thinking about all the ways schools can kill the learning that is possible when students have a simple laptop and a blog. This snippet from a post from back […]
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 […]
By Clay Burell
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Also posted in 1to1 laptop, blogging, creativity, language arts, lessons, project-based learning, school reform, teaching, web2.0, writing
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Tagged blogging, Pew Center, research, Thomas Jefferson, writing
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April 25, 2008 – 10:12 am
[Update 2: Most of the clarification promised in the update below is in the comment thread. I still don’t hear a lot of testimonies that RSS is really sticky with non-geeks, though, even from its strongest defenders. So I’m still wondering if we shouldn’t be looking for other paths to conversion in our PD sessions […]
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 […]
