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27 Apr Most Overused Words in Writing

Posted at 22:22h in education, reading and writing, teaching writing, Writing Ability 4,446 Comments
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Here are ten commonly overused words Day-to-day communication can get boring. There are only so many “Sounds good” and “Let me know” emails, texts, and Slack messages you can send and...

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23 Apr The Writing Revolution – Part Three

Posted at 19:53h in education, reading and writing, Writing Ability, writing curriculum 5,692 Comments
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Revamping A Writing Curriculum Previous blogs on The Writing Revolution highlighted a study conducted a few years ago at New Dorp High School on Staten Island in New York. Nearly 10...

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16 Apr The Writing Revolution – Part Two

Posted at 20:16h in education, interactive learning, personalized learning, teaching writing, Writing Ability 4,588 Comments
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Part Two in this series focuses on identifying the cause of low performing students Although New Dorp (a public high school in Staten Island, New York) teachers had observed students failing...

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06 Apr The Writing Revolution – Part One

Posted at 23:39h in personalized learning, technology in class, Writing Ability 156 Comments
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A Change In Formal Writing Instruction In 2009, when Monica DiBella entered New Dorp, a public high school near a grimy beach on Staten Island, her academic future was cloudy. Monica had struggled...

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28 Mar Technology: Changing Education Paradigms

Posted at 22:01h in education, grade shool, interactive learning, technology in class 539 Comments
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Why schools shouldn’t approach technology like businesses once did While businesses might be excused for initially adopting an efficiency objective when it comes to technology, schools cannot. This objective has already been...

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22 Mar Mobile Devices In The Classroom – Part 2

Posted at 19:34h in Elementary students, Embedded Multimedia, grade shool, interactive learning, mobile devices, personalized learning, Writing Ability 287 Comments
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Mobile device's role in education: what works? Simply using mobile devices in the classroom does not guarantee a rise in comprehension or even the attention of students. So what types of...

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20 Mar Mobile Devices In The Classroom- Part 1

Posted at 19:52h in grade shool, mobile devices, personalized learning 560 Comments
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Do mobile devices really improve learning outcomes? Mobile devices as teaching tools are becoming a more and more common part of the American education experience in classrooms, from preschool through graduate school....

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23 Feb Rethinking Grade Levels

Posted at 23:50h in education, grade levels, grade shool, personalized learning 135 Comments
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Rethinking grade levels & school design for personalized learning A Chicago school’s openness to multiage classrooms gives both students and teachers extra choice and support by TARA GARCÍA MATHEWSON   CHICAGO — At the end...

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19 Feb Effects of Cooperative Writing

Posted at 18:00h in Cooperative Writing, Embedded Multimedia, Video, Writing Ability 4,642 Comments
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The term minimalism is also used to describe a trend in design and architecture where in the subject is reduced to its necessary elements. Minimalist design has been highly influenced...

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15 Feb Children’s Sense of Being a Writer

Posted at 01:05h in Children's Identity, Elementary students, grade shool, Writing Ability, Writing Workshops 247 Comments
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Children's Sense of Being a Writer: Identity Construction in Second Grade Writers Workshop Seban, Demet; Tavsanli, Ömer Faruk International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, March 2015 Journal Excerpt: Writing as a process approach has long...

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