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Critical Race Theory | #literacies chat

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Join us on the 1st Thursday of each month at 9:00 PM ET. Suggest a Topic or Host. Next #literacies Chat 9PM ET. June 2nd, 2015. July 7, 2014. This month, we will consider Critical Race Theory. On Thursday (7/10) 8 PM EST:. Join us on Twitter. As we begin this conversation via our #literacies chat! If you are new to #literacies chat, more info on how to get involved is available here. 1 How are people conceptualizing CRT? 3 How does CRT help broaden the literacies that can students enact? If you are new t...

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Deep Learning From the Trenches - concerted chaos

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Deep Learning From the Trenches. In response to a journal topic that asked, in part, “Is it possible to create opportunities for deep learning in your own high school career? Rdquo;, a student wrote the following:. And that is completely heartbreaking to me, for two reasons. First, this student has had the desire to learn new, exciting things (and learn them deeply) kind of beaten out of her by waves of busy work. This is a problem. And it’s a personal problem for me. Deep learning is the pulse...Here is...

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Normalizing The Weird.  - concerted chaos

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We had Saturday school this weekend to make up a snow/ice day from earlier in the week last week. We had a puppet-making workshop in AP Language for the two thirds of the students who made it out of the house by the time class started. Do weird things every day. Change up your routine. Watch things/talk about things that are interesting to you. Show your outside-of-class interests. Get students talking to each other. Get students to explicitly connect your class to things happening in the outside world.

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The Infection Suggestion: #youredustory, Week 10 - concerted chaos

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The Infection Suggestion: #youredustory, Week 10. Prompt: How do you infect students with a passion for learning? Let's start here: I take issue with the idea of intentionally infecting anyone with anything. The connotation of the word "infect" is inherently negative, and more importantly, it suggests a lack of agency on the part of the infected individual. Let's not suggest that students don't already have a passion for learning. At worst, they don't have a passion for learning THAT or THIS.

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Blog Archives - concerted chaos

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Five Reasons to Use LessonPaths in Your Class. One tool that we use in lots of different ways is LessonPaths (formerly MentorMob, now found at lessonpaths.com). It allows you to create and organise content into playlists that go in a fixed order. We have been using it for the last few years to archive all the work in a particular unit so students can easily find assignments they missed or need to revise. This is the playlist. From our first unit last year, and here is the one from Gatsby. Another big sel...

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Blog Archives - concerted chaos

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Building Relationships Is The Best Thing: #youredustory, week 4. Prompt: What is the best thing you do in your classroom/school/district/job? It's hard to brag. I also have dozens of assignments and structures in my own classroom that I'm proud of, as well as lots of things I've screwed up (that you could charitably call "learning experiences"). I like the student-centered infrastructure, which is not dissimilar to the one Karl. Didn't work out too well. But my two favorite assignments are these:. Unfort...

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How To Successfully Go To Conferences And Actually Get Something Out Of Them You Can Use In Class - concerted chaos

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How To Successfully Go To Conferences And Actually Get Something Out Of Them You Can Use In Class. There tend to be two different types of conference presentations- presentations intended to inspire, and presentations intended to give the participant things they can take back to their classrooms and use immediately. (I guess there are also sessions that try to sell products, but we can just ignore/not go to those.). And the more we present, the more we drift towards the second. I don’t like hol...Thanks ...

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Why I Lie To My Students Every Day - concerted chaos

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Why I Lie To My Students Every Day. My class, at some kind of fundamental level, is based on a lie. Not a lie, the kind that some teachers tell, about how much this worksheet is going to help you when you’re an engineer or an inventor or a programmer or a museum curator. And not the kind of lie about. Work hard and jump through just one more hoop, and the next, and the next, and everything will be okay. It’s a much simpler lie:. I don’t know. This is a big change for me, the whole “not needing to k...

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Web - Welcome to Packwoman's Tech in Progress!

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Welcome to Packwoman's Tech in Progress! Establishing a Web Presence. Having a professional presence on the web is important. Find out how to leverage social media, blogging, website building, and web tools to expand your classroom repertoire. Building a Professional Web Presence. As teachers, we have many amazing opportunities to connect with other educators around the world via social media and blogs. Teaching in isolation never has to be an option again! Using Instagram in an Educational Context.