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Resources from the people I follow on Twitter, professional emails, and my own surfing
Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It by Kelly Gallagher (©2009, Stenhouse Publishers: Portland, ME) explains how most schools teach reading in a way that kills most students love or reading. It also gives advice on how to fix the problem. Educators at the middle school and elementary levels along with parents should read this.
Read entire post...The June 2010 Issue of Wired Magazine brings us a review of a new book by Nicholas Carr titled The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. It should be out some time in June 2010 from W. W. Norton and Company. The message I get is that we should balance the time […]
Read entire post...I am now a guest blogger at Dangerously Irrelevant, which is a popular blog devoted to technology, leadership, and the future of schools. The author is Scott McLeod, L. D., Ph. D. who is a professor at Iowa State University. The post is an article that I did on the idea that districts should think […]
Read entire post...Here is a review of an Edited book by Goldhaber and Hannaway that looks at a wide variety of human resource issues in education. Everyone who does any teacher hiring, evaluation, or staff development should have this book. It is also essential for policy makers. The bottom line is that we have an outmoded system […]
Read entire post...For four decades Jamie McKenzie has been stressing the importance of engaging students in challenges that require original thought as they deal with new technology. This book takes on that challenge directly. It is designed to support teachers and leaders intent on raising a generation of thinkers capable of asking tough questions while generating good […]
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