If You Need it, Get it! Do-It-Yourself Professional Development in the 21st Century
By Rita Platt In my work as a teacher-leader, I often hear teachers lament that they need more training on various methods, strategies, ideas, and […]
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Real or Fiction? On the Internet it’s Not Always Easy to Tell!
By Todd Fitzpatrick and Rita Platt We all know that the internet is a mix of the best and worst information on any given topic. […]
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“Slant” it: An Alternative to the Flipped Classroom for Practical Teachers
By: Rita Platt The “Flipped Classroom” is all the rage these days. Educational journals, blogs, and chat rooms, are flooded with the concept of “flipping.” […]
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Is technology hindering our ability to persevere?
Good teachers are great communicators, and great communicators understand that the responsibility of communication lies with the communicator—the person sharing the information. Good teachers, and […]
Read more ›Blogs, wikis, podcasts, and other powerful web tools for classrooms.
An Annotation by Jeff Ayer Will Richardson does a phenomenal job of laying out everything needed to both initiate and defend the use of blogs […]
Read more ›Welcome to the blogosphere: the educational use of blogs.
An Annotation by Jeff Ayer Ray covers the basics of using a weblog (blog) in the classroom at literally any educational level, K-12. Dubbing them […]
Read more ›Research on writing conventions: U R what U write.
An Annotation by Jeff Ayer Nelson and Feinstein focus on “Netspeak,” which they define as “a blend of speech and writing” (1). Their greatest point, […]
Read more ›New literacies: enrichment or essential?
An Annotation by Jeffery Ayer Jakes outlines three ways in which the new literacies seem to be upon us, including, “learning with the Web as […]
Read more ›Sepia no more. Heffernan, V.
Heffernan, V. (2008, April 27). Sepia no more. The New York Times. Retrieved from http//:www.nytimes.com. An Annotation by Jeffery Ayer This article almost entirely […]
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