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E-learning in practice
No full textDifferent resources can be used via virtual learning environments (VLEs) to support teaching and learning. Discussion forums, self-assessment resources, videos, and podcasts can all form part of such 'E-learning' software systems. But what are the potential benefits of VLEs and what constitutes best practice
Road to the diggings [picture].
No full textRex Nan Kivell Collection NK11291/E.; S4754; U7998 NK11291/E.; Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK11291/E.; S4754; U7998 NK11291/E
Using Multicultural Children\u27s Literature to Address Social Issues: The Power of Interactive Read Aloud
No full textAs the demographics of U.S. schools are changing, educators have to embrace this change and prepare students to adopt diversity and inclusivity as a means to increase students’ understanding of their peers. Not only are race and ethnicity identities at the forefront of these changes, gender identity and ability identity must also be supported, as more students are challenging traditional gender roles and as more students are mainstreamed into regular education classes. This article seeks to address usage of interactive read alouds of multicultural literature as a means to help bridge students who need inclusiveand equitable pedagogical practices in race, gender, and ability identity and those who need to understand those who identify as one or more of the aforementioned. A recommended list of multicultural literature is included withdiscussion starters to assist educators in establishing critical conversations with students who identify as one of the listed identities or for those students who need to understand those students who identify differently than them
The problem with maths
No full textAs an admissions tutor for chemistry at Southampton University I read last issue's Endpoint from David Smith with much interest. I agree with him that we should admit onto our courses only students who are capable of meeting the challenges of a degree in chemistry. Mathematics is an integral part of our discipline and we have always been open about this in discussions with potential students. Any chemistry graduate will confirm the range of skills needed to survive the rigours of topics as diverse as organic synthesis and quantum mechanics is broad and requires hard work. But how do we ensure that our incoming students are equipped to meet these challenges
Reading in the mobile era
No full textMobile technology can advance literacy and learning in underserved communities around the world.
Summary
Millions of people do not read for one reason: they do not have access to text. But today mobile phones and cellular networks are transforming a scarce resource into an abundant one.
Drawing on the analysis of over 4,000 surveys collected in seven developing countries and corresponding qualitative interviews, this report paints the most detailed picture to date of who reads books and stories on mobile devices and why.
The findings illuminate, for the first time, the habits, beliefs and profiles of mobile readers. This information points to strategies to expand mobile reading and, by extension, the educational, social and economic benefits associated with increased reading.
Mobile technology can advance literacy and learning in underserved communities around the world. This report shows how
Using Authentic Literature to Enrich Young Children\u27s Literacy Experiences
No full textThis article focuses on the five components (phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension) needed to effectively teach children to read. Early childhood educators can teach these five skills through the use of authentic literature. To be classified as authentic literature, books and texts need to utilize “real life” writing that is written to engage the reader. Authentic narrative texts generally appeal to the reader and offers a theme and a moral to the story. The article explains the five components needed to teach children to read and offers some authentic texts, synopses, and lesson ideas specifically for each of the components. Although children may not be able to read the texts, the texts selected are at the child’s listen-ing comprehension level. In addition, the selected texts will aid early childhood educators and parents in infusing these skills for engaging implementation
Reading the Word and the World in Haiti: Literacy Education for Social Justice
No full textThe first author traveled to Haiti as a member of a group of volunteers from the U.S. whose goals were to provide assistance to children in a privately operated primary school located in the rural community of Lamardelle. For the first author, assistance primarily focused on training in literacy education, with an emphasis on reading comprehension strategies for students who struggle to read. We examine literacy education as a tool of social justice. This paper describes the components of the first summer of this teacher development program and explains how our work was undergirded by the Freirean ideas regarding liberatory education (Frire,2000). A second aim is to analyze ways language impacts the practice of education in Haiti. In so doing we hope to present a model of how literacy education can be a tool for social justice in similar contexts
Sarah Read Adamson to Elijah F. Pennypacker
No full textLetter from Sarah Read Adamson to her first cousin, Elijah F. Pennypacker. Pennypacker was a Quaker abolitionist involved in the Underground Railroad. Adamson was one of the first women to receive a medical degree. She was the niece of Dr. Hiram Corson, and Corson served as her preceptor. Her married name was Dolley
You Mean that Really Happened?!: Using Nonfiction to Engage Struggling Readers
No full textNonfiction texts used in a middle school classroom encouraged struggling readers to explore other nonfiction texts and to write about the world around them. Rosenblatt’s (1978) transactional theory of reader response posits that an interaction takes place among reader, author, and text during reading. The nonfiction texts Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books (Paulsen, 2001) and Night (Wiesel, 2006) sparked students’ interest in real-life stories of survival and prompted struggling readers to read other nonfiction stories and to reflect upon and share text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections through discussion and writing
Jenny Holzer : Dust Paintings
No full textExhibition Dust Paintings by Jenny Holzer at Cheim & Read Gallery, New-York. -- Publisher's websit
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