Posted in Policy, Practice, Research on Jun 15th, 2008 4 Comments »
I was having a brief discussion on Skype today with Scott McLeod where I shared some things that are going down at my school site, and he ended up asking me a hard, but good questions about it. Here is the background…
Next year, my school site will be getting “help” from outsiders. There is displeasure [...]
Posted in Research on Apr 23rd, 2008 1 Comment »
Just a quick post to add to the recent conversation here. I know I’ve been beating this drum a lot lately, but only because these different studies and reports have been popping up and coming to my attention. Here is the latest: Poverty May Impair Growth Of Brain - by Lex Alexander - News & Record - Greensboro, NC
”Poverty can [...]
Posted in Policy, Practice, Research, Theory on Apr 12th, 2008 3 Comments »
Since being named a blogger that Deserves a Bigger Audience, I’ve taken to reading eduwonkette, which received the same accolade. I thought of two pieces recently when reading posts here from Doug Noon, and Michaele Sommerville. Michaele thought I was eating too much paste, or something when I said I was going to tie in [...]
Posted in Lessons Learned, Research on Apr 8th, 2008 1 Comment »
I spent today in a Lesson Study. My school district has adopted this model for Professional Development. I am not exactly sure how it relates to Japanese Lesson Study. Most of our training has centered around curricular programs and how they are implemented. One of the ideas that we have experimented with in our school [...]
Posted in Research, Web 2.0, technology on Apr 6th, 2008 1 Comment »
Crossposted on Borderland:
Once upon a time I looked forward to seeing mainline literacy journals take an interest in blogging. So, it was good to see an article in this month’s Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy on using of blogs for literature study, Weblogs and Literary Response: Socially Situated Identities and Hybrid Social Languages in [...]
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