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Innovate: Why Professor Johnny Can’t Read: Understanding the Net Generation’s Texts
Essential reading: “we suggest that today’s instructors are missing an opportunity by not learning to read the texts of the Net Generation. Failing to recognize these texts as valuable tools in the teaching and learning process, professors dismiss an entire constellation of literacy skills.”
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“An autobiographical art game.
Assemble lectures to present. If you do well enough, you can unlock invitations to travel and speak. ” via Jeff Young
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Wired Campus: Why Computer-Aided Teaching Works Best in Large Classes – Chronicle.com
“Insofar as computer-assisted instruction is valuable, the scholars suggest, it is because it allows more individually tailored instruction in large, diverse classrooms where teachers find it hard to target each student with the appropriate level of work.” via The Wired Campus/The Chronicle of Higher Education
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hidden pain | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
“This is what makes a teacher’s job so tough, we don’t teach ’students’ we teach human beings with real-life issues. We ’see’ a lot, but we miss a lot too!” – IMHO – How all teachers should think!
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Presentation Literacies for the 21st Century | Work Literacy
“I think that we’re all in agreement that the ability to present information to an audience in a way that conveys meaning and thought is a critical literacy skill. Where we may have a difference of opinion, though, is in what constitutes “literate” presentation of that information to an audience.” via Michele Martin
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