I wanted to drop in a quick plug for familiarizing ourselves with the Mozilla Web Literacy Standards and 21st Century Skills. Though edtechies have lots of great tools that are focused on education, it’s also good to have a more fundamental understanding of basic web skills. These are skills a...
A friend is moving to Korea to start teaching a digital storytelling class to high school age students. He asked for some thoughts to get started, a...
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Even in the upper grades, students are struggling to make the transition from “learning‐to‐read” to “reading‐to‐learn”. Give a struggling reader a context‐reduced novel written in old, antiquated language and you will realize that students need as much life‐like context as w...
This is a paper I wrote for my Master’s in Ed. at National University, Summer 2007. It discusses how the effects of socioeconomic class on students’ language ability are actually part of a much wider spectrum spanning from pre‐literate cultures (where most learning is transmitted through speech) to...
