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Preface
- Nellie Bowles’ 2018 articles in The New York Times:
- Pew Internet’s 2019 “Mobile Fact Sheet”
- Audrey Watters’ “The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade.”
- Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice
- Cuban, L. (2020, October 12). Will Pandemic-Driven Remote Instruction* Alter Familiar Teaching Practices in American Schools?
- Cuban, L. (2020, October 25). Does Classroom Use of Computers Cause Gains in Students’ Academic Achievement?
Chapter 1: The Case for Digital Diligence in English Language Arts Classrooms
- Dr. Jean Twenge
- Twenge, J. M. (2017). iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy–and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood–and What That Means for the Rest of Us. Atria Books.
Twenge, J. M. (2017, September). Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? The Atlantic.
- Twenge, J. M. (2017). iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy–and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood–and What That Means for the Rest of Us. Atria Books.
- Tristan Harris
- Harris, T. (2017, April). How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day. TED Talk.
- The Center for Humane Technology
- Jiang, J. (2018, August 22). How Teens and Parents Navigate Screen Time and Device Distractions. Pew Research Center: Internet, Science & Tech.
- Dr. Maryanne Wolf
- Wolf, M. (2018). Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World. Harper.
- Nicholas Carr
- Carr, N. (2008, July 1). Is Google Making Us Stupid? The Atlantic.
- Carr, N. (2010). The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (First Edition). W. W. Norton & Company.
- Mindful Staff. (2014, October 8). What is Mindfulness? Mindful.
- Kreiner, J. (2019, April 24). How to reduce digital distractions: Advice from medieval monks. Aeon.
- Orlowski, J. (2020). The Social Dilemma. Netflix.
- Manoush Zomorodi
- Note to Self Podcast. (2015). Bored and Brilliant Challenge.
- Zomorodi, M. (2017, August 29). How boredom can lead to your most brilliant ideas. TED Talks.
- Zomorodi, M. (2017). Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self. St. Martin’s Press.
- Cal Newport
- Newport, C. (2019). Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World. Portfolio.
- Conniff, R. (2011, March). What the Luddites Really Fought Against. Smithsonian Magazine.
- Kevin Roose
- Roose, K. (2020). Rabbit Hole. The New York Times.
- Roose, K. (2019, June 8). The Making of a YouTube Radical. The New York Times.
- Hicks, T. (2019, July 12). Substantive and Sustainable Digital Pedagogies: The Hidden Curriculum. The Educator Collaborative Community.
- Hodges, C. B., Moore, S., Trust, T., & Bond, M. A. (2020, March 27). The Difference Between Emergency Remote Teaching and Online Learning. Educause.
- Friedman, R. A. (2018, September 8). Opinion | The Big Myth About Teenage Anxiety. The New York Times.
- Levy, D. M. (2017). Mindful Tech: How to Bring Balance to Our Digital Lives. Yale University Press.
- National Council of Teachers of English
- International Society for Technology in Education
- National Association of Media Literacy Education
Chapter 2: Planning for Purposeful Arcs of Instruction
- Catlin Tucker’s Homepage
- “Asynchronous vs. Synchronous: How to Design for Each Type of Learning” (August 19, 2020)
- Additional tools noted in Chapter 2
- 1) Reading and taking notes
- “Reader view” settings in Safari (on Mac OS and iOS), Edge, Firefox, and Opera
- Google Chrome extensions: Mercury Reader, Reader View, Just Read, BeeLine Reader, and Read&Write
- Microsoft’s Immersive Reader
- Annotation tools including Hypothes.is, Kami, Edji, and NowComment
- Note-taking tools including OneNote and Evernote
- 2) Watching Videos for Both Instruction and/or Analysis
- TED-Ed
- CrashCourse
- Interactive lesson design tools for video: EdPuzzle and PlayPosit
- Discussion-based video annotation tools: NowComment, Vialogues, and Video Ant
- Video clipping tools: Reclipped and Timelinely
- 3) Listening to Podcasts
- NPR’s Starting your podcast: A guide for students
- New York Times’ Project audio: Teaching students how to produce their own podcasts
- Serial Podcast
- Listenwise
- Libro FM’s Audiobook Listening Copy Program for Educators
- LibreVox
- 4) Exploring Teacher-Curated Resources
- 5) Engaging in Online Discussion
- Backchannel chat tools: YoTeach, Backchannel Chat, and MIT’s Unhangout
- Messaging apps: Voxer, GroupMe, Signal, WhatsApp, and Slack
- 6) Practicing and Reviewing
- 7) Researching and Exploring
- Google Search Education
- Code Spaces “Power Searching with Google”
- Stanford History Education Group’s (SHEG) Civic Online Reasoning Curriculum
- Mike Caulfield’s “Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers“
- Crash Course, hosted by John Green, entitled “Navigating Digital Information”
- Mozilla’s Pocket
- Zotero and ZoteroBib
- 8) Reflecting and Documenting Learning
- Tools for recording video responses: Flipgrid and Seesaw
- Website builders: Adobe Creative Cloud Express (formerly Adobe Spark), Google Sites, Weebly, Wix, or Canva
- Free slides templates: SlidesCarnival, Slides Mania, and Slidesgo
- Op-Ed Pieces
- Mintz, V. (2020, May 5). Opinion | Why I’m Learning More With Distance Learning Than I Do in School. The New York Times.
- Grant, A., & Grant, A. S. (2020, September 7). Kids Can Learn to Love Learning, Even Over Zoom. The New York Times.
- Stone, E. (2020, August 19). Advice for how to make Zoom classes energizing and community-building (opinion) | Inside Higher Ed.
- Bali, M. (2020, June 22). About That Webcam Obsession You’re Having…. Reflecting Allowed.
- 9) Building Community and Relationships
- Activity ideas from Playmeo, Stanford’s dSchool, Game Storming, and Training for Change
- Flippity: Interactives built in GSheets developed by Steve Fortna
- 10) Leading Interactive Sessions by Providing Instructional Modeling
- Overviewer App (for iOS)
- 11) Differentiating Instruction for Small Groups
- Hicks, T. (2020). “Designing Breakout Rooms for Maximum Engagement”
- 12) Personalizing Instruction and Providing Individual Coaching
- Calendaring Systems: Calendly, YouCanBookMe, Meeting Scheduler for Gmail, and Bookings (Microsoft)
- Recording responses: Flipgrid, Kaizena, Mote, Vocaroo
- Screencasting tools: Screencastify (Chrome), Screencast-o-matic, or Loom
- 13) Guiding Practice and Specific Applications
- Whiteboard.fi and Whiteboard.chat
- Wisemapping
- Ditch That Textbook’s “25 FREE Google Drawings graphic organizers“
- Facing History and Ourselves: “Chunking” strategy
- 14) Facilitating Conversation
- National School Reform Faculty Protocols
- School Reform Initiative Protocols
- Question Formulation Technique (QFT) developed by the Right Question Institute
- Harvard Project Zero’s Visible Thinking Routines
- Sample activity adapted from the 4Cs routine (“Force copy” of GDoc)
- 15) Fostering Collaboration
- Team productivity tools: Trello, Asana, and Microsoft Teams
- 16) Providing Real-Time Feedback on Work in Progress
- Catlin Tucker’s “Station Rotation in an Era of Social Distancing” and virtual station rotation template (June 21, 2020)
- 1) Reading and taking notes
Interlude: Web Browsers and Extensions/Add-Ons
- Google Chrome (with the Chrome Web Store)
- Mozilla’s Firefox (with the Add-Ons directory)
- Microsoft’s Edge (with Extensions)
- Apple’s Safari (with the Safari Extensions through the App Store)
- Opera Software’s Opera Browser (with Opera Add-Ons)
- Mobo Tap Inc’s Dolphin for Android and iOS
Chapter 3: Protecting Privacy
- Chapter Introduction
- The New York Times’ “Privacy Project”
- Mozilla’s partnership with Tactical Tech and their projects, including the “Data Detox Kit,” “Exposing the Invisible,” “The Glass Room,” and “Our Data Our Selves”
- The Center for Humane Technology
- Topic 3.1: The Web and Me
- Pariser, E. (2011, March). Beware online “filter bubbles.” TED Talk.
- Web Historian (developed by Ericka Menchen-Trevino)
- Additional Resources for Exploration of This Topic
- Anderson, M. (2016, January 7). How parents monitor their teen’s digital behavior. Pew Research Center: Internet, Science & Tech.
- Clayson, J. (2017, May 17). Your Search History Shows Your Secret Side. On Point: WBUR.
- Ives, L. (2018, July 19). Screens and teens: Survival tips for parents on the technology battlefield. The Telegraph.
- Matsakis, L. (2019, July 12). On TikTok, Teens Meme Life360, the Safety App Ruining Their Social Lives. Wired.
- PBS Digital Studios, & Above the Noise (KQED). (2017, November 15). 5 Tips to Protect Your Privacy Online.
- Perkov, B. (2017, February 22). What does your browsing history say about you? European Digital Rights.
- Qvist, B. (2015, November 5). Parents, is it OK to spy on your child’s online search history? The Guardian.
- Topic 3.2: (Re)Setting Privacy and Disabling Distraction
- Ad Blocking Tools: AdBlock, AdBlock Plus, and uBlock Origin
- Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
- Cover Your Tracks (originally named Panopticlick)
- Privacy Badger
- HTTPS Everywhere
- Additional Resources for Exploration of This Topic
- Deleon, N. (2018, June 19). What Your Web Browser’s Incognito Mode Really Does. Consumer Reports.
- Nield, D. (2020, August 2). Incognito Mode May Not Work the Way You Think It Does. Wired.
- Sulleyman, A. (2017, November 20). If you use incognito mode, you should read this. The Independent.
- American Physiological Society. (2018, April 13). Though distracted by social media, students are still listening. PHYS.Org.
- Cyberclick. (2016, January 8). Can Digital Advertising Ethics change the world?
- KQED, & PBS Digital Studios. (2017, October 18). Can Procrastination Be a Good Thing? – Above the Noise. KQED / PBS Digital Studios.
- Green, J. (2019, March 5). Click Restraint: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #9.
- Harris, T. (2014, December). How better tech could protect us from distraction. TED Talk.
- Hu, E. (2014, March 27). Pay Attention: Your Frustration Over Smartphone Distraction?. All Tech Considered?: NPR.
- Kohn, S. (2014, July). Don’t like clickbait? Don’t click. TED Talk
- Topic 3.3: (Re)Searching Our Search Engines
- Safiya Umoja Noble
- Noble, S. U. (2017, December 8). Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. UCI Department of Informatics.
- Noble, S. U. (2018). Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. NYU Press.
- Google Search Education
- Duck Duck Go
- Dogpile
- Wikipedia’s list of search engines
- EBSCO’s Points of View Reference Center
- Gale’s Opposing Viewpoints in Context
- ProCon
- AllSides
- Kialo EDU
- “See, Think, Wonder” Visible Thinking Routine from Harvard Project Zero
- Additional Resources for Exploration of This Topic
- Google. (n.d.). How Search Works.
- Bitesize | British Broadcasting Corporation. (n.d.). How do search engines work?
- Digital Garage (Google). (2019, January 14). How search engines work.
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Behind the News. (2018, September 5). The History of Google & How Search Engines Work
- Wikipeda Contributors. (2020). Search engine.
- Bergson-Michelson, T. (2020, May 20). Building Good Search Skills: What Students Need to Know. KQED.
- Common Sense Media. (2014). Smart Online Search Tips.
- Safiya Umoja Noble
Chapter 4: Maximizing Our Own Attention
- Chapter Introduction
- The Center for Humane Technology’s podcast series Your Undivided Attention
- Manoush Zomorodi‘s Note to Self Podcast. (2015). Bored and Brilliant Challenge.
- Common Sense Education’s “Top Tools for Building Mindfulness in the Classroom”
- Topic 4.1: Clearing the Clutter
- Kohn, S. (2014, July). Don’t like clickbait? Don’t click. TED Talk
- Additional Chrome Extensions for reader view
- Lesslab’s Clearly Reader
- EasyReader
- Reader View
- Just Read
- Tab Managers
- Horowitz, M. (2016, May 25). A web page consumes a constant 25% of the CPU — after it has loaded. Computerworld.
- TechStacker. (2018, June 22). How to Stop Chrome From Using All Your CPU.
- Chrome Extensions of Tab Management
- Tools for bookmark management
- Tools for syncing
- Visual bookmarking tools
- Mozilla’s Pocket
- Google Chrome memory cleaners
- Topic 4.2: Feeding Our Own Interests
- Shirky, C. (2005). Institutions vs. Collaboration. TED Talk.
- Wikipedia’s “Web Syndication“
- Pariser, E. (2011, March). Beware online “filter bubbles.” TED Talk.
- Content aggregators
- RSS Search Tools
- Topic 4.3: Self-Monitoring Our Screen Time
- Albergotti, R. (2019, October 15). Teens find circumventing Apple’s parental controls is child’s play. Washington Post.
- Google’s Digital Well-Being Self-Quiz
- Pomodoro Timer by MarinaraTimer
- Chrome Extensions for Time Management
- Framke, C. (2017, December 29). Black Mirror’s “Arkangel” takes parental surveillance to its darkest, most obvious extreme. Vox.
- Center for Humane Technology’s “Take Control”
- Common Sense Media’s “Customizable Device Contract”
- Namechk
- Brands of the World
- The Internet Map
Chapter 5: Popping Filter Bubbles and Breaking Algorithms
- Chapter Introduction
- Hobbs, R. (2020). Mind Over Media: Propaganda Education for a Digital Age. W. W. Norton & Company.
- Claire Wardle
- Wardle, C. (2017, February 16). Fake news. It’s complicated. First Draft.
- Wardle, C. (2019, September 1). Misinformation Has Created a New World Disorder. Scientific American.
- Wardle, C. (2020). Can you outsmart a troll (by thinking like one)? TED-Ed.
- Kevin Roose
- Roose, K. (2020). Rabbit Hole. The New York Times.
- Roose, K. (2019, June 8). The Making of a YouTube Radical. The New York Times.
- Mike Caulfield
- Caulfield, M. (2017). Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers
- Caulfield, M. (2019, May 12). Introducing SIFT, a Four Moves Acronym. Hapgood.
- Stanford History Education Group and Civic Online Reasoning
- Crash Course Navigating Digital Information
- Ad Fontes Media’s Media Bias Chart
- Topic 5.1: Popping Our Own Filter Bubbles
- Pariser, E. (2011, March). Beware online “filter bubbles.” TED Talk.
- NewsCompare
- Saul, I. (n.d.). Tangle.
- Media Education Lab’s “Media Literacy Smartphone”
- Pew Political Typology Quiz
- I Side With
- AllSides’ Rate Your Bias
- Politecho, Ven, Centr, and Escape Your Bubble
- Schena, J., Almiron, N., & Pineda, A. (2018). Mapping press ideology. A methodological proposal to systematise the analysis of political ideologies in newspapers. Observatorio (OBS*), 12(3), 17–47.
- Topic 5.2: Seeking and Seeing Alternative Views
- Rathje, S. (2017, July 20). The power of framing: It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it. The Guardian.
- AllSides
- ProCon
- Kialo and Kialo EDU
- Wineburg, S., & McGrew, S. (2017). Lateral Reading: Reading Less and Learning More When Evaluating Digital Information (SSRN Scholarly Paper ID 3048994). Social Science Research Network.
- Gonchar, M. (2017, March 1). 401 Prompts for Argumentative Writing. The New York Times.
- EBSCO’s Points of View Reference Center
- Gale’s Opposing Viewpoints in Context
- Hi From The Other Side. (2017). Conversation Guide.
- One Small Step. (2020, July 1). Take One Small Step With Ideastream And StoryCorps.
- National Writing Project’s College, Career, and Community Writers Program
- “They Say/I Say” Sentence Templates
- Tom Liam Lynch’s Plotting Plots Website and lesson plan via Google Docs.
- Media Education Lab’s “Media Literacy Smartphone”
- Center for Media Literacy’s “Five Key Questions”
- Three articles for analysis
- Crowe, J. (2020, September 19). Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dead at 87. National Review.
- Bravin, J. (2020, September 19). Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a Pioneering Justice on Supreme Court, Dies at 87. Wall Street Journal.
- Stuart, T. D., Tessa, Dickinson, T., & Stuart, T. (2020, September 18). Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court Justice and Pioneer of Gender Equality, Dead at 87. Rolling Stone.
- Word cloud generators: WordArt.com and Voyant Tools
- Wewers, D. (2007). A Brief Guide to Writing the History Paper. The Writing Center at Harvard.
- Sample Lesson Template created by Troy Hicks (“Force copy” of GDoc)
- Topic 5.3: Creating Civil Conversation
- Turkle, S. (2012). Connected, but alone? TED Talk.
- National Institute for Civil Discourse. Engaging Differences.
- StoryCorps. (n.d.). Great Questions.
- One Small Step. (2020, July 1). Take One Small Step With Ideastream And StoryCorps.
- Hi From The Other Side. (2017). Conversation Guide.
- TweetGen
- Social Media Templates
- McLeod, L. (n.d.). 5 Ways You Don’t Realize You’re Being Negative. The Muse.
Chapter 6: Understanding How Knowledge Gets Created and Circulated
- Chapter Introduction
- Garfield, B. (2005, July 8). Get Me Rewrite. On the Media.
- Clay Shirky
- Shirky, C. (2005). Institutions vs. Collaboration. TED Talk.
- Shirky, C. (2008). Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. Penguin Press HC.
- Shirky, C. (2010). How cognitive surplus will change the world. TED Talk.
- Shirky, C. (2011). Cognitive surplus: How technology makes consumers into collaborators. Penguin Books.
- Association of College and Research Libraries. (2015, February 9). Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education.
- Modern Librarian Memoirs Explanation of the ACRL Framework
- Topic 6.1: Wikipedia: Full of Falsehoods, or a Credible Source?
- Garfield, B. (2005, July 8). Get Me Rewrite. On the Media.
- Wikipedia xTools
- Additional resources:
- John Green’s Crash Course on “Navigating Digital Information,” Episode 5: “Using Wikipedia” especially from 3:00 to 8:14, where he talks about Wikipedia’s content policies. (2019)
- American Libraries Magazine. (2011). Sue Gardner Calls for Librarians to Dive in to the World of Wikipedia. American Libraries Magazine.
- Wales, J. (2005). The birth of Wikipedia. TED Talk.
- Topic 6.2: The Whole Story: Fact-Checking 101
- Levin, D. (2019, October 22). Mimicking Local News, a Network of Michigan Websites Pushes Politics. The New York Times.
- Alba, D., & Nicas, J. (2020, October 18). As Local News Dies, a Pay-for-Play Network Rises in Its Place. The New York Times.
- Graves, L. (2017, August 17). “The most dangerous US company you have never heard of”: Sinclair, a rightwing media giant. The Guardian.
- Schena, J., Almiron, N., & Pineda, A. (2018). Mapping press ideology. A methodological proposal to systematise the analysis of political ideologies in newspapers. Observatorio (OBS*), 12(3), 17–47.
- Society of Professional Journalists. (2014, September 6). SPJ Code of Ethics.
- Caulfield, M. (2019, May 12). Introducing SIFT, a Four Moves Acronym. Hapgood.
- Mike Caulfield’s “Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers“
- Vedantam, S. (2019, July 22). Facts Aren’t Enough: The Psychology Of False Beliefs. Hidden Brain.
- Wardle, C. (2017, February 16). Fake news. It’s complicated. First Draft.
- Fact checking websites
- Topic 6.3: Keeping Tracks: Documenting Our Sources
- Raritan Valley Community College Library. (2013, April 9). “Why We Cite: Understanding Citation Styles“
- Zotero and ZoteroBib
Interlude: Repurposing Existing Materials and a Brief Overview of Copyright, Fair Use, Creative Commons, and the Public Domain
- Larry Lessig
- Lessig, L. (2008). Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. Bloomsbury Academic.
- Lessig, L. (2010). Re-examining the remix. TED Talk.
- Creative Commons
- Renee Hobbs
- Hobbs, R. (2010). Copyright Clarity: How Fair Use Supports Digital Learning. Corwin Press.
- Media Education Lab Copyright Resources
- International Society for Technology in Education. (2015, July 2). Renee Hobbs – Copyright Clarity: How Fair Use Supports Digital Learning.
- Additional sources for public domain and copyright-friendly materials
- Wikimedia Commons
- Internet Archive
- Library of Congress
- Search Tools
- Images and Video
- Audio
Chapter 7: Extending Opportunities for Digital Writing
- Chapter Introduction
- Hicks, T. (2018). The next decade of digital writing. Voices From the Middle, 25(4), 9–14.
- NCTE collection of additional position statements related to 21st century literacies
- Palmeri, J., & McCorkle, B. (2017). A distant view of English Journal, 1912-2012. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 22(2).
- Topic 7.1: Sparking Ideas: From Post to Page and to Video
- Jenkins, H. (2007, March 21). Transmedia Storytelling 101. Confessions of an Aca-Fan.
- Adobe Creative Cloud Express (formerly Adobe Spark)
- The University Writing Center, Texas A&M University. (n.d.). Audience Awareness.
- Topic 7.2: Moving Stories with Mapping
- Google Lit Trips
- Google Earth Storytelling Tools
- Mills, W. D. (2020, August 31). The Map is Never Neutral. The Strategy Bridge.
- Robert E. Kennedy Library, California Polytechnic State University. (2020, October 16). Critical Cartography.
- Harjo, J. (Ed.). (2021). Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry. W. W. Norton & Company. Companion Website.
- Wargo, J., & Brownell, C. (2016). #hearmyhome.
- Mapping Tools
- StoryCenter
- Student Sample of StoryMapJS
- Additional resources related to map making
- Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond. (n.d.). American Panorama: An Atlas of United States History.
- Kaplan, F. (2013). How to build an information time machine. TED Talk.
- KQED. (n.d.). Media-Making Toolkit: Resources for Maps.
- Mattern, S. (2010, August 29). Critiquing Maps. Words In Space.
- Sanderson, E. (2009). New York—Before the City. TED Talk.
- Topic 7.3: Telling Stories with Timelines
- Picard, D., & Bruff, D. (2016, April 20). Digital Timelines. Vanderbilt University.
- Sample multimedia timelines
- Anne Frank House: The Timeline
- George Washington Timeline
- Museum Computer Network. (2020, March 15). The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Museum Resources.
- Timeline Creators
- Infographic Creators
- University of Notre Dame’s resource for creating interactive timelines
- Sample timelines:
Chapter 8: Embracing Opportunities for Connected Reading
- Chapter Introduction
- Turner, K. H., & Hicks, T. (2015a). Connected Reading is the Heart of Research. English Journal, 105(2), 41–48.
- Turner, K. H., & Hicks, T. (2015b). Connected reading: Teaching adolescent readers in a digital world. National Council of Teachers of English.
- Turner, K. H., Hicks, T., & Zucker, L. (2020). Connected Reading: A Framework for Understanding How Adolescents Encounter, Evaluate, and Engage With Texts in the Digital Age. Reading Research Quarterly, 55(2), 291–309.
- Morrell, E. (2019). New Directions in Literacy Teaching: Engaging Readers and Writers in 21st Century K-12 Classrooms (Research into Practice: Literacy). Pearson.
- Aguilera, E. (2017, December). More Than Bits and Bytes: Digital Literacies On, Behind, and Beyond the Screen. Literacy Today, 35(3), 12–13.
- 8.1: Creating Multimedia Analyses
- 1619 Project through The New York Times Magazine
- Branch, J. (2012). Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek. The New York Times.
- Farago, J. (2020, May 28). Taking Lessons From a Bloody Masterpiece. The New York Times.
- Eakins, T. (1875). Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic) [Oil on canvas].
- The New York Times Learning Network
- The Washington Post. (2020, September 24). What if all covid?19 deaths in the United States had happened in your neighborhood? Washington Post.
- Electronic Literature Organization
- Hayles, K. (2020). Teaching Electronic Literature. Teaching Electronic Literature.
- Openly available Lexile-leveled sources
- Library Extension for Chrome
- Joyce Valenza‘s NeverEnding Search Blog
- Valenza, J. (2020, November 8). TeachingBooks Launches Free Chrome Extension. NeverEndingSearch.
- TeachingBooks Site and TeachingBooks Book Connections (Chrome Plugin)
- Screencasting tools: Screencastify (Chrome), Screencast-o-matic, or Loom
- ThingLink
- Learning for Justice. (2014, July 19). Think Aloud.
- Nick Trombley’s ThingLink analysis of a sponsored post on Newsweek
- Original article: Newsweek AMPLIFY. (2020, August 15). Here’s Everything You Need to Know About Keeping Your Dog Safe From COVID-19. Newsweek.
- Trombley’s essay, “Misinformation about COVID-19 on Pets Featuring Newsweek Amplify.”
- 8.2: Creating Space(s) for Talk
- Kalir, R., & Garcia, A. (2019). Chapter 1: Introduction. In Annotation. MIT PubPub.
- Annotation tools
- Discussion Protocols
- National School Reform Faculty Protocols
- School Reform Initiative Protocols
- Harvard Project Zero’s Visible Thinking Routines
- Specific protocols:
- Thompson-Grove, G. (2017). Text-Based Seminar. School Reform Initiative.
- Averette, P. (2017, March 30). Save the Last Word for ME. School Reform Initiative.
- School Reform Initiative adapted from Spencer Kagan. (2017, March 30). Jigsaw Description. School Reform Initiative.
- Baron, D. (n.d.). The Making Meaning Protocol: Adapted for Use with a Text. School Reform Initiative.
- Thompson-Grove, G., & Frazer, E. (n.d.). Pocket Guide to Probing Questions. School Reform Initiative.
- Bambino, D. (n.d.). Tea Party: A Pre-Reading Text-Based Activity. National School Reform Faculty.
- Thompson-Grove, G. (2012). What? So What? Now What? School Reform Initiative.
- School Reform Initiative. (n.d.). Text Rendering Experience. School Reform Initiative.
- Additional visible thinking routines from Harvard Project Zero
- Opportunities for cross-classroom collaborations
- 8.3: Remixing the Classics
- NCTE James R. Squire Office of Policy Research in English Language Arts
- #DisruptTexts
- Borsheim-Black, C., & Sarigianides, S. T. (2019). Letting Go of Literary Whiteness: Antiracist Literature Instruction for White Students. Teachers College Press.
- Project Gutenberg
- MyShakespeare
- Tom Liam Lynch’s Plotting Plots Website and lesson plan via Google Docs.
- Resources for critical theory
- Andy Schoenborn’s “The Basics: Critical Theory” Guide and Tragedy Quick Write Project
- Literary Criticism: Questions for a Variety of Approaches created by English teachers at Hereford High School (Parkton, MD)
- Literary Theories: A Sampling of Critical Lenses created by Rachel Cupryk of Red Mountain High School (Mesa, AZ)
- LibriVox
- Audio Editors
- Slides Templates
Chapter 9: Conclusion
- PDF handout from The Center for the Collaborative Classroom, with materials from Zemelman, Daniels, and Hyde embedded. For a version of the “Increase/Decrease” chart, see page 37 in the PDF.
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