This post began as a comment to The New Media Literacies by Susan Carter Morgan over at scmorgan: teacher, learner, which, by the way, is my addition to the One Comment Project (#OCP) for today.
I have a hard time with the term ‘media literacies’. These aren’t literacies. Plain and simple. They are tools and networks. [...]
I do.
I know teachers who absolutely refuse to as well. Where do you stand?
At the beginning of the year I tried different online techniques to give out information (homework, resources, etc…) and found more and more that students weren’t using the software or the applications. My facebook status updates usually looked like, “don’t forget to [...]
A cool way to quickly give your words some life.
If you want to disappoint me, however, buy me a gold-plated heavy duty shovel...
Underwater dust storm. Thats what the day felt like. Image by Karen Glaser
I see a lot of talk about how teachers are not doing their duties when it comes to teaching thinking skills. If there is malpractice it is systemic.
Image found on Wikipedia: Hopf Fibration and released into the public domain by its author, Davidarichter
I’ve stayed away from this blog for the past 2 days or so. I’ve been reading a crime novel, making a necklace, playing with my dog, doing suduko, unpacking and organizing, facebooking, and tweeting – basically keeping my mind [...]
Literacy is a topic close to my heart.
I became a teacher 12 years ago because I felt a call to do whatever possible to make sure that all children knew how to read. Since then, the theme has deepened for me, coming to mean much more than just knowing how to read.
Dennis and I recently [...]
Here’s a fun site to create instant tag clouds based on 3 different sets of criteria:
text you type in
url of a site with a feed
del.icio.us user name
Here is one I created with this blog’s url:
I see a few possibilities for this:
Seeing frequently used words in websites or various texts, written by or for students
Vocabulary [...]
Integration by me: I realized this painting was ‘done’ when I had integrated colours from the daffodil’s cup into the petals.
Recently I wrote a post on digital literacy within the wider context of literacy and, in writing, touched on what I realize is central to my own teaching:
an essential question for educators today is how [...]
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