Sentence Fluency | WriteToLearn Reinventing #socialmedia #video #edtech20 #semanticweb #web30 #socialweb | semanticweb30andcurationedtoolswith@web20education TeacherTube - Teach the World A 13-Year-Old's Slavery Analogy Raises Some Uncomfortable Truths in School - Education In a bold comparative analysis of The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Jada Williams, a 13-year old eighth grader at School #3 in Rochester, New York, asserted that in her experience, today's education system is a modern-day version of slavery. According to the Fredrick Douglass Foundation of New York, the schools' teachers and administrators were so offended by Williams' essay that they began a campaign of harassment—kicking her out of class and trying to suspend her—that ultimately forced her parents to withdraw her from the school. In her essay, which was written for a contest, Williams reflected on what Douglass heard his slave master, Mr. Williams wrote that overcrowded, poorly managed classrooms prevent real learning from happening and thus produces the same results as Mr. Instead of truly teaching, most teachers simply "pass out pamphlets and packets" and then expect students to complete them independently, Williams wrote. Photo via Wikimedia Commons
Tasks, Units & Student Work - Common Core Library Keywords (optional) Enter keywords (e.g., K.OA.3, informational text, arguments, quadratic equations, etc.) Grade (select at least one) Subject (select one) NYC educators and national experts are developing Common Core-aligned tasks embedded in a unit of study to support schools in implementing the Citywide Instructional Expectations. Search a growing assortment of Common Core-aligned tasks, units and student work by keyword, grade level, subject area and Common Core Learning Standard. The components of the Common Core-aligned tasks with instructional supports include: Unit overview and task description Teacher-annotated student work representing a range of performance levels Rubrics used to assess student work Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles Other instructional support materials To learn more about the components of these tasks and units and for help navigating the interactive student work, watch our virtual training modules. NEW!
Kate Hart: Citing Sources: A Quick and Graphic Guide Academia has lots and lots and lots of systems in place for assuring that credit is always given where credit is due. If you're writing a paper, there are particular ways to cite internet sources-- even tweets and Facebook posts. But what about on the internet? We know we're supposed to cite sources, but a standardized system hasn't developed, and in the meantime, you could face a lawsuit if you steal someone else's work, even by accident. Does that mean you can't ever elaborate on someone else's ideas or repeat a little of what someone else said? Of course not. *click to expand As always, a couple of notes: - Because of space/design limitations, I didn't include an important guideline: Never repost someone's article in its entirety. - Remember that in addition to credits, citations are there to help others track down information they need. - Media and academic sites have their own in-house rules, and so should you. However.
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NoodleTools : MLA, APA, and Chicago/Turabian Bibliography Composer, Online Notecards 1. Nonfiction Narrative and the Yellow Test Draft is a series about the art and craft of writing. I went to see Carrie a week after her accident. Her shoulder had been broken, the bone shattered, and 24 stitches were needed to sew the cuts on her face. Her arm was in a sling. The accident occurred on a weeklong 325-mile bike ride. Suddenly her wheels lost traction on the wet, slippery surface, and she felt the bike slip out from under her as she flew off the seat. Milan Bozic They left their bikes in the rain and trudged a mile to the Paw Paw Tunnel, a more than 3,000-foot-long passageway built to bypass several horseshoe bends in the Potomac River. “That’s the plot of scene 2,” I told her. Carrie is a professor at a university. There’s been a lot of research published about the effectiveness of stories. I told Carrie about the exercise I assign my students: “The Yellow Test.” There are different approaches to writing in scenes. Scenes can also recreate what happened to someone else — in the recent or distant past.
1. Writers use narrative, informative, and opinion modes of writing across genres. « TWO WRITING TEACHERS A slide from my key note, “Mandates, Standards, and Evaluations: Can Teachers Still Change the World? (All Write Summer Institute, Warsaw, IN June 2012) Along with this slide, I said these words in the section of my key note called, “Using narrative, informative, and persuasion to tell your Story.” One of the things unsettling to me is the segregation of the text types. Even though the text types appear to be separate, segregated into nice neat boxes, divided into narrative and informative standards, we know they aren’t separate little packages. This weekend Sam and I had a conversation that reminded me of this. He thought and said, “Probably that they are a good animal and interesting.” “What makes you say that?” A little more thinking, and then, “Well, all the pictures show cool stuff about them. “He’s right, Mom. We pulled in the garage and the day went on. Stephanie brought SHARK-A-PHOBIA by Grace Norwich (Scholastic, 2011) to the couch. We all paused and looked at the cover.
Emerging America · The Common Core Can Boost History Education Last summer, a distressed teacher friend shared an all too common story. Throughout the school year, she had sparked students’ skills and passions with a cross-curricular exploration of slavery. It was heady, demanding, and bang-on target for both state content standards and her 4th graders’ interests in fairness, difference, and understanding where we come from. No longer. The release of the Common Core State Standards in 2010 requires that states and school districts reverse the slide. What are the Common Core State Standards? What these standards are not, is the project of any one person or agency. Nor is the Common Core a national curriculum. What the Common Core standards DO require is that ALL teachers take literacy seriously. Nearly all states adopted the standards and joined one of two consortia that are developing new assessments for pilot (2013-2014) and implementation (2014-2015). Supporting Implementation of the Common Core * Sample Application of a Standard
Gatsby and Show Me App Introducing Markup a paperless grading app Login · Signup 'The Great Gatsby' 7: Gatsby & Daisy meet again by SCC English, The English Department of St... Share Like Topics Literature English The Great Gatsby 83 people liked this ShowMe Posted 2 years ago Viewed after searching for: © 2013 ShowMe. Top 10 Picture Books for the Secondary Classroom As a teacher of future English teachers, I am always trying to open my students’ eyes to the wonder and power of the picture book, both as an art form and as a terrific instructional tool for the secondary classroom. Being students of capital-L literature, my teacher-babies sometimes forget to consider these compact and powerful texts. It’s the best way I know to get numerous, diverse and COMPLETE texts into students’ minds. It’s hard enough to squeeze out the time in the overcrowded middle and high school English curriculum to read young adult and classic novels, but with picture books, you can read the entire work aloud, model the focus you want students to concentrate on, let them explore the craft, have the discussion, and even try it out in their own writing–all in one period! So here, in no particular order: my top ten. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Nerdy friends, you are never too old for picture books–I feel like you know that!
Best Practices For Writing For Online Readers I have less than 30 seconds to capture your attention with this post, so here goes: if you read some, most or all of the next 750 words or so, you will know how to write Web copy that is more useful to readers of your blog or Web site. As we reported yesterday visual content is continuing its steady rise in dominance over written content. But that doesn't mean we should give up on good writing: if anything, it means we need to think harder about how we write for online readers. Online Readers Are Different Seems pretty obvious, right? With offline readers, we can take our time and develop points with long blocks of text and narrative, and with fewer visual elements. In Plain English, Please Your writing - offline or online - is effective when readers take away your message. People who read our blog posts come from all over, and from a wide range of backgrounds. Best Practices Write compelling but clear headlines: Don't get cute. How long should it be?