Before the NWP Annual meeting, I had three separate conversations (one by email, one by phone, and one in person) with colleagues from the local, state, and national level about why and how to use digital reading and writing in their classrooms and for professional development. I had many more of these conversations at the [...]
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Another great talk on campus from a leading scholar in English Education and Composition… Notes from George Hillocks’ talk, “Procedural Knowledge and Writing Instruction” Statement about effectiveness of grammar instruction that Mary mentioned– often cited and often ignored The more time that students spend on grammar leads to a negative correlation in writing scores Teachers [...]
MCTE 2006 Originally uploaded by hickstro. Last Friday, Alfie Kohn spoke at the MCTE 2006 Conference. There were many points that he made about standards, assessments, and accountability, most of which I agreed with, some of which I would want to take issue. However, there were a few research studies that he mentioned (and that [...]
David makes an interesting point about blogs and assessment. After noting the old aphorism, “Not everything that is measurable is valuable and not everything that is valuable is measurable,” he adds this: I think the things that are most educationally valuable about blogs and read/write web tools are the hardest to measure. Certainly, the creativity [...]
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