thinking about education
My last post was at the end of January, just about the time that I finished the data collection for my dissertation. I spent the next five months analyzing and writing and successfully defended my study on June 3, 2009. It took the rest of the summer to finish it and then I plunged back [...]
There’s been an interesting back and forth in Twitter about 21st century literacy. Tomorrow, it will spill over into an Elluminate session that I am sorry I will have to miss. I’ve written about 21st century skills in the past, equating them with leadership skills and suggesting that Ben Franklin possessed most of the skills [...]
A gloomy day here. The rain brought down the leaves and it is starting to look like winter. The dogs are sprawled around me, snoozing, and I can’t muster the energy for a thoughtful blog post. But, I do have a few sites to share on several different topics so here’s the random Friday round [...]
This article from The Miami Herald was featured in today’s ASCD Smart Brief. Richard Sterling, former director of the National Writing Project discusses the potential for online tools for teaching writing:
Sterling believes blogs, MySpace, Facebook, e-mail, IM and texting all have potential for improving a student’s ability to write. While some critics worry about [...]
As part of a course I am taking this semester, I’m exploring the Horizon Project, mostly focusing on their process for coming up with their technologies. I’ve been having lots of fun exploring the wiki, checking out some of the examples they provide for each of their technologies. One example of collaboration webs–a technology that [...]
I found a link to this multimedia slide show posted at Endicott Redux, a blog about mythic arts. Writer Lynda Berry talks about the writing process and how she work with writers while we see images from her very funky writing workbook. Cool use of the web to talk about writing.
Really interesting review of Richard Posner’s The Little Book of Plagiarism by Jeremy Lott in The New Atlantis: http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/16/lott.htm
Here’s my question: hadn’t any of Kaavya Viswanathan’s editors at Little, Brown read Salman Rushdie or Megan McCafferty?