This week, I’m celebrating my students’ work and sharing some of their blog posts that I’ve enjoyed most over the past couple of weeks. If you have a moment to click through and leave a comment, I know they’d be thrilled. Reflections on NCTE15 Kelsey is now my colleague, and I learned so much…
#CyberPD is an online professional development learning community where teachers read and discuss a common professional development text. Visit Reflect & Refine for more details and links to connect with the group. This year’s book is Digital Reading: What’s Essential in Grades 3-8 by Franki Sibberson and Bill Bass. The three chapters this week—about authenticity, intentional decision…
#CyberPD is an online professional development learning community where teachers read and discuss a common professional development text. Visit Reflect & Refine for more details and links to connect with the group. This year’s book is Digital Reading: What’s Essential in Grades 3-8 by Franki Sibberson and Bill Bass. After reading two chapters of Digital Reading,…
Inspired by the final A Month of Favorites prompt, I’m sharing my 5 most popular blog posts from 2014 (surprisingly, one of them was published in 2013!) as well as my own personal favorite posts of the year. 1. Raising a Less Reluctant Reader: 13 Suggestions for Parents was–by far–my most popular post this year. In…
In Digital Literacy class, we’ve been talking about some of Will Richardson’s ideas about transforming education. Richardson argues that we need to transform education because the world our students learn in outside of school–a largely digital world with its abundant information, access to experts, variety of tools, and web of connections–has little resemblance to the…
This week in Digital Literacy, I am singing the praises of my PLN. I have learned more and also had more energy and enthusiasm for teaching in the last three years than perhaps ever before, and I think that’s largely a product of daily participation in my PLN. It’s energizing to connect with other teachers…
Visit Unleashing Readers and Teach Mentor Texts to participate in the kidlit version of this weekly meme. On my blog this week: Sunday Salon should have been called Monday Salon, since it was a day late, but at least I got it posted! I looked forward a couple of weeks to the start of summer…
Last week, I attended the Conference on English Education for the first time. It was close to home…. well, close if you consider a 4.5 hour drive close, which I do. And it was a conference devoted exclusively to the thing I’m most passionate about in my work–educating future English educators. I liked: the low-key…
Shortly before leaving for the NCTE conference, I found out that I need to develop a course on reading and must include digital literacy. I am so glad I discovered this BEFORE the convention, because I was able to attend many sessions on digital literacy and come away with an entirely different view of what…
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