Finding the time to write in a public space has been very difficult and I have been way out the loop and neglecting to read the many blogs I subscribe to. I am very fearful to look at my Google Reader to see all the many neglect blog post. January 3 of this year I [...]
Entries Tagged as 'literacy'
Ramblings about Literacy and Blogging
December 2, 2011 · No Comments · Blogging, Common Core Standards, connective writing, Content-Area Writing, Digital Literacies, learning, literacy, Literacy in Social Studies
I can only write about blogging from my point of view and what I have learned about the bloggers that I follow in my Google Reader and blog post that are recommended through my Twitter feed. In some ways I feel uncomfortable writing about it here, but after reading posts at Langwitches about the posts [...]
Tags: Blogging·common core standards·early literacy·langwitches·learning·literacy·social studies
Literacy in Action: Malcolm Gladwell
November 19, 2011 · No Comments · Disciplinary Literacy, Education Reform, learning, literacy
When can we begin to be honest about where we are at the moment! The four walls need to be broken down! Read on…. “ Malcolm Gladwell explained during a presentation at the American Association of School Administrators’ 2010 superintendents’’ conference that educators have worked within the safety of four walls that education has erected [...]
iPad in Education Series- Digital Documentary
November 9, 2011 · 1 Comment · digital writing, iPad in Education
This is an overview of a classroom literacy project where students used iPads to create their own Digital Documentary. All of the student-created animal videos can be viewed at: http://vimeo.com/channels/animalproject. This is interesting until it reached the point where the teacher talked about the technology and the skills needed. We have move away from talking [...]
Tags: literacy·Mercer University
iPad Video Series- “The 3R’s” Using iPad in Reading”
November 2, 2011 · No Comments · iPad in Education
This video features the process of students using iOS devices (iPad, iPod Touch) to help build reading fluency skills. Students in the classroom use “The 3 R’s” — reread, record and reflect, to help build meta cognitive behaviors to asses their own literacy.
iPad Video Series- iPad in Literacy
November 1, 2011 · No Comments · iPad in Education
In this video you’ll see how a first grade classroom uses the iPad to learn literacy skills.
Tags: iPad·iPad in Education·literacy
Recommended Readings…….Tools for Disciplinary Literacy
October 29, 2011 · 1 Comment · Literacy in Social Studies
I was just have a conversation about the powerful potential of Twitter in the classroom and today I ran across Using Twitter in High School Classrooms by Bill Ferriter. Great article! If we are going to prepare our students to be effective participants in this changing political landscape, shouldn’t we be showing them how to [...]
A New Age!
October 22, 2011 · No Comments · 21st Century
This too good not to share in my digital space! This is a good example of how literacy has change.
Think-Pair-Share- Literacy Strategy
October 14, 2011 · No Comments · 21st Century, literacy, Miscellaneous
“Think-Pair-Share is a strategy designed to provide students with “food for thought” on a given topics enabling them to formulate individual ideas and share these ideas with another student.” http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/DE/PD/instr/strats/think/ In our most recent TAH workshops on Art, Music, and Movement in Social Studies it was noted that participants were talking while instruction was happening. [...]
Literacy in Social Studies (part 2)
October 9, 2011 · No Comments · 21st Century Literacies
Literacy is the key to effective social studies instruction. “Next to languge arts, social stuides is perhaps the most intensively literate of the disciplines.” (Schmoker, pg. 133) Social studies promotes the deep understanding of the human condition. It requires us to read closely and to move way beyond the literal meaning. In no other discipline [...]
