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Welcome to the Home Stretch . . . | Winning the Race
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Performance Tuning for Learning. Welcome to the Home Stretch . . . August 4, 2011. I do not think that we can expect this change into the digital world overnight or even over summer break, this has to be a slow but meaningful process. — Kayla. Schools are conservative institutions by nature, so change does not come fast. We’re well into 2011 and we’re just getting around to developing twenty-first century skills. End of Term Checklist (Note this is also in Moodle below CCI#4). August 2, 8:00 am. I just g...
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August | 2011 | Winning the Race
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Performance Tuning for Learning. Archive for August, 2011. Welcome to the Home Stretch . . . I do not think that we can expect this change into the digital world overnight or even over summer break, this has to be a slow but meaningful process. — Kayla. Schools are conservative institutions by nature, so change does not come fast. We’re well into 2011 and we’re just getting around to developing twenty-first century skills. End of Term Checklist (Note this is also in Moodle below CCI#4). August 2, 8:00 am.
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Week 4: Writing and Study Skills | barbarahaydon
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Just another WordPress.com site. Week 4: Learning the vocabulary. Week 5-Portfolios and Formative Assessment →. Week 4: Writing and Study Skills. July 25, 2011. Also, in the future, I will break the health fair research paper project into smaller components. That may be the key to helping poor writers to improve their style. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Week 4: Learning the vocabulary. Week 5-Portfolios and Formative Assessment →. Week 4: Writing and Study Skills. July 26, 2011 at 3:04 pm.
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Comprehension | mEDUcognition
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Reflections on learning and how to cultivate it in the classroom. Global Studies Action Plan. July 19, 2011. Has been in the form of a trade book read for a content area class. In each of these instances, I will wholeheartedly agree that the trade books were infinitely more interesting than the textbooks, especially for history which I typically have a hard time reading. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. 7 responses to “ Comprehension. July 19, 2011 at 3:52 pm. July 19, 2011 at 5:54 pm. Your point ...
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Session 1: Capitalizing on the Social Nature of Literacy | Winning the Race
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Performance Tuning for Learning. Session 1: Capitalizing on the Social Nature of Literacy. July 7, 2011. Welcome to Session 1: How Do We Capitalize on the Inherently Social Nature of Literacy? I’ll begin by sharing the quote that inspired my new mantra: I am growing . . . 8212; Madeline Hunter. You may have felt some growing pains this week, but I hope you’re feeling good. We’ll meet in our Elluminate room at 8 pm on Monday, July 11. Action Items for the Week. Blog: Due by Tuesday, July 12, 8 am;. Just b...
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Welcome to ECI 541: Reading in the Content Areas | Winning the Race
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Performance Tuning for Learning. Welcome to ECI 541: Reading in the Content Areas. June 23, 2011. You’ll find this ECI 541 Course Blog to be the hub of the course. Here you’ll find links to all student blogs and course updates. Our theme, Winning the Race: Performance Tuning for Learning, is all about preparing ourselves as well as our students to make the most of language, literacy, and literature to learn in our various disciplines and be successful in our digital world. And one ACTION ITEM:. Please re...
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ECI 541: RCA — Let’s Get Started ! | Winning the Race
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Performance Tuning for Learning. ECI 541: RCA — Let’s Get Started! June 30, 2011. Welcome to ECI 541, Reading in the Content Areas! Regardless of where you are on your literacy journey, it’s a good time to stop and consider the roads you’ve taken. A particularly good time when you’re preparing to begin a study of content area literacy. 3 How to get started in Moodle. 4 Action Items for the Session. 5 Leveraging the Social and Connected. 6 LIVE Classes and Personal Conferences. 7 Seeds I’d Like to Sow.
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Welcome to Session 3: The Reading-Writing Connection | Winning the Race
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Performance Tuning for Learning. Welcome to Session 3: The Reading-Writing Connection. July 21, 2011. So I am a believer. We must engage our students to enhance their learning with texts. 8212; Barbara, Blog Post, July 19. What made Barbara a believer? Barbara reported that At the end of the day I asked my students how they liked it. They had only praises for the process and had fun. This stance of personal reflection and viewing the world with a critical eye toward assumptions and biases is vital for ed...
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Welcome to Session 4: What Are the New Literacies? | Winning the Race
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Performance Tuning for Learning. Welcome to Session 4: What Are the New Literacies? July 28, 2011. A part of me worries that I have learned so much I will have difficulty retaining it all for use in the classroom. Then I remember the fact that I have a blog to refer back to so I can see the strategies that I most want to try in class. Cara. And many of you have mentioned using blogging as a strategy for your students. There is no greater motivation for writing than to have a real audience. Participatory ...
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Welcome to Session 2: Building Comprehension | Winning the Race
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Performance Tuning for Learning. Welcome to Session 2: Building Comprehension. July 14, 2011. Welcome to Session 2: How to Build Comprehension? Comprehension is all about creativity. It’s true. The reader co-creates meaning with the author. For your SRE, you’re asked to label your major questions with either Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy of Thinking Skills or the QAR (Question/Answer Relationships). Here’s Andrew’s tweet in response to the news that Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy places to create at the very top.
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