50 Awesome Ways to Use Skype in the Classroom | Teaching Degree.org
This is a fantastic list of ways in which skype can be used in your classroom. How will you use it?
- Guest lecturers. Have guest lecturers come to your classroom via Skype.
What Makes a Good Fourth-Grade Reader? Knowledge. | Britannica Blog - Annotated
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- Once students can decode, background knowledge is crucial to reading comprehension.
- This is a lob to himself here. - post by pjhiggins
- Ensuring that students have wide-ranging knowledge of the world ideally begins at birth, through a rich home environment. Schools must do everything possible to support and expand that knowledge base, and integrating material from other subjects into the reading curriculum is an important step in the right direction.
- Though the statistics above and the analysis of the test are extremely relevant, nothing in this post is as pertinent as these sentences. - post by pjhiggins
The Fischbowl: A Digital Footprint Growth Model
K. Fisch's response to comments from a previous post about using real student names when they publish work online. Compelling argument for full transparency.
The Declaration of Independence: Rewriting the Rough Draft (Library of Congress)
Yes!
"Anglo-Saxons - World’s Worst or Best Linguists?" - Telegraph
Why are English-speakers the worst linguists?
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
