Posted in Lessons Learned, Practice, Research, Theory on Mar 13th, 2008 2 Comments »
Reading comprehension tends to be an area in need of improvement in many schools with high concentrations of English Language Learners, Standard English Learners, and even some “high performing” schools admit that students can read but they don’t know what they’re reading. We tend to teach the same way we’ve been taught. However, [...]
Posted in Policy, Practice, Theory, Web 2.0, technology on Jan 14th, 2008 6 Comments »
Hey, a girls entitled to change her mind…
Earlier, I talked about why Larry Ferlazzo got it right when he said face to face relationships have a quality that can’t be replicated online. Now, I’ll bring some thoughts up to the contrary.
Here are some caveats to that point…Larry himself, has already had to eat his words [...]
Posted in Practice, Theory, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, technology on Jan 10th, 2008 7 Comments »
I was recently reading a post in the excellent blog The Tempered Radical, which was quoting another teacher as saying other teachers “…believe that you can’t truly know someone unless you have face-to-face opportunities to get to know them.” The post questioned that belief, and wondered if that was primarily because online relationships were generally [...]
Posted in Policy, Practice, Theory on Dec 28th, 2007 1 Comment »
Okay, (now you know it’s Alice writing) since there was a mixup with authorship, I wanted to say that this post will be from both Michaele and me whatever the credits come up with…This starts from an email I got from Michaele today about phonics based instruction, and the [...]
Posted in Research, Theory, Web 2.0 on Dec 21st, 2007 1 Comment »
Well, the title was definitely my style in, Wonder If This Is Going to Work, a post that Larry Ferlazzo recently had me assist in adding to the blog. The problem was that although the original post was put up with me as the author for only a minute or two, it went out on [...]
