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ELPC Part 3: Redefining writing? What next!
I used to think that I worked best on my own, down at the coast with my own emerging thoughts and the world shut out. It was never true, I now realize. Even when I was writing my PhD thesis … Continue reading
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Tagged assessment, community, education, literacy, MichaelWesch, Ning, questions, teacher training, thinking, university, Web 2.0, writing
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Some thoughts on the fly
It’s been a while since I’ve posted. A lot has happened, is happening, and I keep trying to find time to write about it. There’s no substantial time right now, with journals to read, schools to visit and lessons to … Continue reading
Cris Tovani’s ‘Do I really have to teach reading?
This blog post is a bit different from all the others. The subject is Cris Tovani’s book Do I really have to teach reading?, the set text book for the postgraduate students doing my unit ‘Literacy across the curriculum’. The … Continue reading
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Tagged assessment, classroom, Cris Tovani, education, Josh, literacy, questions, teacher training, texts, thinking, university, writing
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On the nature of literacy (with a nod to Spinoza)
In my last post, I suggested (following a lead inspired by Neil Postman) that we’re waging war on illiteracy. But this is wrong. We’re battling ignorance. Our enemy (at whatever level we teach and in whatever discipline we teach it) … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Beauty, classroom, community, education, literacy, questions, reading, Spinoza, teacher training, teaching, thinking, Truth, university, writing
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What do the students want to know?
First day of the new school year today. First class, Year 10 English, a class of pretty switched on boys. We’re starting a semester-long unit on satire, and I’d prepared reasonably carefully: a unit plan outlining where we would go … Continue reading
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Tagged classroom, English, questions, satire, school students, student expectations, teaching
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Birds fly, fish swim 