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Defining purposes for using literacy tools
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Excellent source: thank you. It will be more powerful for the students, at the start, to begin with advertisements, as Appleman suggest. Advertisements are ubiquitous, so the students feel like it's not a big deal to talk them out. The Othello text…
Carolyn, I really like your idea about adopting different critical perspectives for their different roles. One option would be to use Deborah Appleman's different critical approaches/lens.
Thanks, Richard, for a remarkable workshop session. I came away with numerous ideas for ways I could extend and transform the online composition I have asked my senior honors high school students to do this year. I'm nearly finished with Othello and…
Richard,
The session sounds awesome. Some technology use by teachers reminds me of the Orbitz hovercraft commercial:
-That great but why did you deliver it using a hovercraft
-Because I have one.
Thanks for examining the why and not just the how…
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- At 8:18pm on December 6, 2009,
Daniel Sharkovitz said…
- Richard,
Never did I think about actually waking up in Amerika with a nationalized, centralized, standardized curriculum and testing oligarchy running the show for all of us. Yet here we are tied with ropes to the Central Committee. It is as if Kafka left an addendum to The Trial and we just found it retitled Common Core Standards.
What is there to be done?
Dan
- At 7:28pm on August 14, 2009,
Susan Ohanian said… - Someone quite knowledgeable told me that the Common Core Standards are already done--and have been done since 2007. I find this believable. I've felt all along that this committee is just going through the motions.
Susan
- At 9:25pm on August 9, 2009,
Margaret Yatsevitch (Phinney) said… - Thanks Rick,
I am on sabbatical this fall and spending most of it in the New Hampshire woods in my remote, isolated cabin where I can write in peace and quiet. However, I bought an air card, so can communicate and use the the internet resources. I will probably be back in early November, so will take you up on a lunch date then. I the meantime, I'm glad to participate electronically in any way that makes sense. I'm thrilled to see that you have initiated this discussion.
(^v^) Margaret
- At 11:42pm on August 7, 2009,
Daniel Sharkovitz said…
- Hi Richard,
Thank you for articulating your concerns about the college preparation English Common Core Standards for 49 states that are currently being written primarily by persons associated with Achieve, ACT, and other corporate entities.
These concerns describe the misgivings many teachers have whenever executives in their Caraceni suits pull up to our schools and colleges with their measuring tapes.
My guess about why those with more expert knowledge about teaching and learning have not been invited to work more directly in the development of these "standards" is quite simple. Those who actually understand these issues also understand that "standards" are easy to measure in ways that appear valid and reliable if they are defined first in ways that smooth over the rough edges of anything with depth and complexity.
I mean, if you were a health insurance company, why would you ask doctors to define the protocols of standards of care? Wouldn't you instead ask an actuary?
Thanks for fighting the good fight.
And if you have not taken a look at how these "standards" will be
become institutionalized, check out the sort of tripe that "accrediting agencies" are requiring of schools and colleges.
In my own area, Massachusetts, one accrediting organization, NEASC, is requiring school-wide rubrics for almost all assessment--even though there is a great deal of research disputing the efficacy of rubrics to improve student learning.
Many thanks for interrogating the foppish mis-measurers of men and women.
Dan
- At 2:36pm on November 21, 2008,
elizabeth a boeser said… - RICK! I am on this! I have been having fun at the NWP and NCTE for a couple of days. I'm just taking a little tech break to do more tech stuff! See you soon.
- At 8:36pm on August 19, 2008,
Louann Reid said… - Thank you for your comment on the award. Editing EJ was quite a thrill, and I enjoyed working with you and your co-authors on your helpful and provocative article.
- At 5:03pm on August 19, 2008,
Louann Reid said…
- I see in your comment to Bud that your new book is due before NCTE. I'm looking forward to reading it. I've benefited immensely from your work over the years and am especially interested now in the online and media interests.
- At 11:03am on August 19, 2008,
Bud Hunt said… - Very cool. Looking forward to it!
- At 10:44am on August 19, 2008,
Bud Hunt said…
- So excited to see that you'll be presenting at K12Online!
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Lynette, I've also been to a lecture given by Mrs. Jago and have to agree whole heartedly with your assessment of her work. She is one of several whose message helps keep me renewed as an educator.
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