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Integrative Density
Another dissertation insight post. I’ve been thinking a great deal about how to measure or index integration of ideas that students have read about from multiple, multi-modal Internet texts. I’ve developed a rubric for my dissertation study. It’s fine. Like any first draft, it could surely be better but for now, it will have to…
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Do we cite our sources?
This is the first in a series of “dissertation insight” posts that I plan to record in this space. I hope the insights generate some discussion and also turn into words (very soon) that look like a publishable piece of work! Miss, do we cite our sources? Prompted by (a) a series of students who…
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Seventeen years later, evidence for “a pedagogy of multiliteracies” remains elusive
Yesterday, I had two professional exchanges that highlighted, for me, the pressing importance of expanding students’ understanding of what an informational source can be while reading on the Internet or using digital tools in school. I blogged about this idea a while back…but my conversations yesterday have prompted me to revisit it. Back in 1996,…
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A real first…
This email goes on the list of best emails ever. Here’s what it said: Good Evening! I attended your presentation at MRA, and was so excited to take your thinking back to the team in our district that is redefining our former Summer School program. We would love to try out the pst2ic3 this summer…
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Michigan Reading Association Conference
I am looking forward to presenting with my esteemed colleagues, Amber White, Anne Sherrieb and Cindy Lewis from Ruth Fox Elementary School at the Michigan Reading Association Conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan, this coming Saturday. The focus of our talk will be on instructional implications of the [(PST)2 + iC3] framework that I developed to…
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A formula for strategic online synthesis
The anchor standards for reading and writing in the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science and Technical Subjects (2010) place significant emphasis on the construction of meaning from multiple texts in print and digital formats. To date, however, the evidence for instructional methods that support “synthesis” skills…