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Usborne Books Online Sales
Great work-from-home or part-time income opportunity for parents and/or educators. Promotes literacy and reading at home -- high-quality and educational children's books.
Freebies! : UBAM Young Readers Blog
Free resources and links to ways to get free books for children.
How Parents Can Encourage Reading : UBAM Young Readers Blog
Tips for parents to encourage reading and increase literacy.
Read-Aloud With Your Children : UBAM Young Readers Blog
If you aren’t familiar with the book “The Read-Aloud Handbook: Sixth Edition” by Jim Trelease, you could be missing some valuable information about how to read aloud with your child in a way that fosters their own reading ability.
Creating Readers for Life : UBAM Young Readers Blog
Notes from Danny Brassell's presentation in Houston (August 2008)
What About 21st Century Literacy & Technology? : UBAM Young Readers Blog
Books are also a form of technology
Word Generation - Developing Academic Language
the website for Word Generation, a middle school academic language program developed under the direction of Harvard University Professor Catherine Snow
Technology and Informal Education: What Is Taught, What Is Learned -- Greenfield 323 (5910): 69 -- Science
The informal learning environments of television, video games, and the Internet are producing learners with a new profile of cognitive skills.
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The informal learning environments of television, video games, and the Internet are producing learners with a new profile of cognitive skills.
Is Technology Producing A Decline In Critical Thinking And Analysis?
How much should schools use new media, versus older techniques such as reading and classroom discussion?
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- Too many sweeping generalizations and no explanation of how the studies were conducted (methodology). This article may be severely misused by administrators to justify cutting edtech budgets and reducing emphasis on use of tech in classroom instruction. Rather than allowing this kind of "research" to be published, we should be finding ways to teach students how to effectively use technology in their learning so that it enhances and strengthens their comprehension and critical-thinking skills. - on 2009-01-29
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according to research by Patricia Greenfield, UCLA distinguished professor of psychology and director of the Children's Digital Media Center, Los Angeles.
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Literacy study: 1 in 7 U.S. adults are unable to read this story - USATODAY.com
Wow - depressing and disturbing...
ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan: QARs + Tables = Successful Comprehension of Math Word Problems
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