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SAMPLE REALITY · Teaching Technologies for Large Classes

    • The problem with 40 students is that there is no way to read (much less comment upon) every post if every student is posting every week. I am toying then with a rotation model (inspired by Randy Bass),  in which students are divided into five groups of  eight students, cycling through these five roles:


      • Role 1 – Students are “first readers,” posting initial questions and insights about the reading to the class blog by Monday morning
      • Role 2 - Students are “respondents,” building upon, disagreeing with, or clarifying the first readers’ posts by class time on Tuesday
      • Role 3 - Students are “synthesizers,” mediating and synthesizing the dialogue between first readers and respondents by Thursday
      • Role 4 - Students are responsible for the week’s class notes (see next section on Wikis)
      • Role  5 – Students have this week “off” in terms of blogging and the wiki

      I like the rotation model because each group of students is reading for and reacting to something different. The shifting positionality affords them greater traction, offers greater variety, and guarantees a dialogue without comments from myself.

22 Oct 09

Education Week: Stress, Control, and the Deprofessionalizing of Teaching

This one is really making me think about school change. I relate totally to the powerlessness aspect of Newkirk's argument; I can see it in some of the classes we have created.

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26 Aug 09

Between Classes...living a balanced life as a quality teacher

I really like the piece she infuses here about the limits on student writing--there shouldn't be. Too often we only allow students to write that which we can grade. Why?

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21 Aug 09

Teaching and Learning Resources

This is shocking that it's put out by the government, but nonetheless they are incredible resources.

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23 Jul 09

'Teach Naked' Effort Strips Computers From Classrooms - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education

I like how Bowen is questioning the use of tech for tech's sake. This further shows how it's not about the technology, but about the teaching.

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  • Here's the kicker, though: The biggest resistance to Mr. Bowen's ideas has come from students, some of whom have groused about taking a more active role during those 50-minute class periods.
  • Introduce issues of debate within the discipline and get the students to weigh in based on the knowledge they have from those lecture podcasts, Mr. Bowen says.
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15 Jul 09

30 Ideas for Teaching Writing - National Writing Project

Outstanding ideas for Langauge arts teachers

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  • Erin (Pirnot) Ciccone, teacher-consultant with the Pennsylvania
    Writing and Literature Project    ,
    found a way to make more productive the "Monday morning gab fest"
    she used as a warm-up with her fifth grade students. She conceived of "Headline
    News." As students entered the classroom on Monday mornings, they wrote
    personal headlines about their weekends and posted them on the bulletin board.
    A headline might read "Fifth-Grader Stranded at Movie Theatre" or
    "Girl Takes on Responsibility as Mother's Helper."
    • This is a fantastic idea. Why not use what they did on the weekends to promote writing that matters to them. The headline styles would also lead to some comical responses, especially as you rise in grade leve. - on 2009-07-15
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06 Jul 09

50 Awesome Ways to Use Skype in the Classroom | Teaching Degree.org

This is a fantastic list of ways in which skype can be used in your classroom. How will you use it?

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