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Articles I Found Interesting in the Last Two Weeks

These are just a few of the articles I found interesting last week.

• Articulating some thoughts on Literacy and Writing

  Kevin Hodgson ponders literacy and Language Arts in school.

  Technology and multi-media should be components of Language Arts. Students are highly engaged and very aware of audience when they start using technology for showcasing their knowledge and understanding. They rise to the occaision when they realize that they are in the high stakes field of writing — the web is the world. The Web 2.0 opportunities opens up many doors for collaboration, integration of resources and multiple angles for students of all diverse learning backgrounds. Even the NCTE has come out strongly in favor of this kind of literacy. Given the world today and the world unfolding for tomorrow, to ignore this possibility to help show students how to “create” and “compose” (a better term) with technology would have terrible consequences.

• One Way Accountability?

  Jason Flom wonders, how can we hold education policymakers accountable?

  In the end, I think teachers, parents and administrators want the same thing: graduates who can think in multifaceted and independent ways, whose education backgrounds include experiences in real problem solving, and who are not only able to read, but who want to read. The question is how do we get there?

• NCLB Deserves to Die

  Tim Stahmer reacts to an Education Week article about ‘No Child Left Behind’.

  Finally, Ravitch closes with this simple conclusion that the president, his education secretary, and every member of Congress needs to understand.

  “No amount of tinkering can repair this poorly designed law. The time has come for fresh thinking about the best way for Washington to help improve the nation’s schools.“

  Read the whole thing! Send it to your Congress critter.

• Literacy Lava, Get It While It’s HOT!

  A free digital magazine that’s worth checking out.

  Literacy Lava is a free digital magazine (in pdf format) for you to read, download and use, share with others, or print and keep. The combined work of a brilliance of bloggers, Literacy Lava is erupting with great tips for parents, and suggestions for literacy activities to share with kids.

• How the Web and the Weblog have changed Writing

  An article that discusses how writing itself has changed because of the availability of the Web and the Weblog.

  Suppose that an idea merited 20 pages, no more and no less? A handful of long-copy magazines, such as the old New Yorker would print 20-page essays, but an author who wished his or her work to be distributed would generally be forced to cut it down to a meaningless 5-page magazine piece or add 180 pages of filler until it reached the minimum size to fit into the book distribution system.

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