A week from tomorrow begins Critical Approaches to Literature–a month-long course I teach at Teachers College that examines both critical and uncritical ways in which literature has been taught historically and currently. It occurred to me several times recently that the "tried-and-true" way we respond to literature is in essay writing. I think there are [...]
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New Literacies, Adolescent Literacy, & Teaching Literature
28
Jun
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24
Jun
As lawyers and authors argue over the legality of an unsanctioned spin-off of Catcher in the Rye, questions are raised about who makes a work of literature "literary". If the author is dead, as Barthes said, and if it is the reader who creates the text, as Rosenblatt discusses, it seems like it’s the readers [...]
17
Jun
Between the use of Twitter in recent revolts in Iran and now U of C, San Diego creating an iPhone app for its students, I am becoming more and more certain that the value of new literacies is greatly in the finding and sending of information. It has a clear practical value, a bottom line. [...]
16
Jun
Academic Earth offers free streaming lectures from some of the world’s most respected professors. It’s open source at its best. The trick is how to get this kind of instruction to count for high school credit. I imagine a course in which students are given iPhones with downloaded lectures, post their responses through the Wordpress [...]
15
Jun
A school in Stamford is integrating students with mixed abilities into the same classroom. On the one hand the issues with behavior and focus seem to be improving; on the other hand some students report being bored. I’m interested in how much support the teachers at the school have received in teaching in such a [...]
11
Jun
A professor in Texas used Twitter in her course recently in a way I admire. Rather than saturating students in unrealistic Tweet-for-homework kinds of assignments, she set up a basic computer and projector in class. As class went on, students were encouraged to Tweet responses and questions. By doing so, the professor avoided making students [...]
10
Jun
Apple computers has unveiled a new price plan, which seems to be appealing to technology educators. The possibilities for technologies like iPhones in classrooms is of course exciting. I would also warn colleagues that sleek technology does not supplant sound teaching. Technology is a tool.
That having been said, here are a list of things [...]
9
Jun
Go to the Edjurist to learn about education law for free. The site is kept up by two professors–one of law and the other of education. It’s easy to navigate, current, and written in accessible English:
http://www.edjurist.com
9
Jun
A school district in Westport, CT recently built its own customized math curriculum that spends less time on more essential concepts, rather than broadly covering more topics. The argument of the school is that it can go more deeply into certain ideas using tried-and-true tactics from their classrooms than any textbook could hope to. Textbook [...]
8
Jun
NPR has a project called Place+Memory in which people can recreate places they recall from the past–places that had a great effect on them–and both record a story about it for radio as well as plot it on a map. I have to imagine that this might be adapted for our pasts as readers. What [...]
7
Jun
I don’t pretend otherwise: I would rather make $125K teaching than what I currently make. The Equity Project, set to open in Washington Heights in September, pays teachers six figures in an experiment to see if the pay is really the issue we think it is. The Times describes it thus:
The Equity Project will [...]
6
Jun
Rented Readings
Posted by tomliamlynch Published in Academic Culture, New Literacies, Teaching Literature, reading; illiteracy; adolescent literacyThere is quite a bit of excitement and pedagogical anticipation surrounding eBooks nowadays, especially for English teachers. Wesley Fryer, for instance, writes with glee:
How amazing it was and is to:
Think of a book I’d like to obtain for my son to read.
Perform a quick search in the Project Gutenberg database via the Internet for the [...]
Tags: eBooks, literature, readicide, reading
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