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Student Sample: Cell Mitosis Digital Book/Movie
Here, we turned my student's book into a video, complete with student narration.  
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Kevin Hodgson
2 years 31 weeks ago
Tony Vincent on Mobile Learning
With a variety of tools and resources always available, mobile learning provides increased options for the personalization of learning. Mobile...
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Rita Sorrentino
2 years 31 weeks ago
How does this happen on Youth Voices?
It starts with generative questions that build into inquiries or research projects, which students then develop into discussion posts.Then a group of...
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Paul Allison
2 years 30 weeks ago
Voices on the Gulf
In the Summer of 2010, many of us who have been building Youth Voices began to think about what we could do to support our colleagues and friends who...
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Paul Allison
2 years 30 weeks ago
New networks for authentic conversation
It’s because of our experiences with Youth Voices that we could envision a network of exchange that would grow from the first poems, drawings, notes...
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Paul Allison
2 years 30 weeks ago
Developing an insider's perspective
My hope is that Voices on the Gulf is helping my students to understand why this crisis matters in their own lives. Perhaps they will see that this...
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Paul Allison
2 years 30 weeks ago
Is this the future of Youth Voices?
School started in August on the Gulf Coast, and classes began in New York City soon after Labor Day.  Early in August, singer and teacher, David...
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Paul Allison
2 years 30 weeks ago
Reading the Web - Instapaper
In this short walk through of how I use Instapaper, a text harvesting tool for websites,  I talk about the value there is in being able to...
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Bud Hunt
2 years 30 weeks ago
The Young and the Digital
The Young and the Digital: What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for our Future (Beacon Press...
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Erin Wilkey Oh
2 years 30 weeks ago
YOUmedia @ CPL
YOUmedia is a 21st century learning space for teens housed at the Harold Washington Library Center in downtown Chicago. Designed to inspire...
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Erin Wilkey Oh
2 years 30 weeks ago
Writing as Collaborative Creation
Victor leaves us speechless as his life history, compressed into a two minute digital story, is screened before our class. For the nearly silent boy...
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Dave Boardman
2 years 30 weeks ago
Amplifying Student Voices
Digital Writing Changes Everything As a new teacher 10 years ago, I was a judicious writing instructor. I thought carefully about assignments,...
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Dave Boardman
2 years 30 weeks ago
LOLCat Bible
Launched in July 2007, this wiki-based project translated the entire Bible into LOLspeak, or "kitty pidgin English," the slang made popular by the...
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Erin Wilkey Oh
2 years 30 weeks ago
Book Review: Teaching the New Writing
Teaching the New Writing by Herrington, Hodgson, and Moran is a book that MUST be included in every school’s professional library. Each chapter of...
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Linda Biondi
2 years 30 weeks ago
The Scratch Community
The programming language known as Scratch is a tool that has been used by students and educators throughout the world as a means of expression,...
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Laura Beth Fay
2 years 30 weeks ago
Reading the Web - Evernote
Evernote has become a place where I keep a copy of much of the Internet that I want to refer to later.  This is dangerous as it is handy, as it...
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Bud Hunt
2 years 30 weeks ago
Technology Recipes for English Language Learners
Written by Robert Rivera-Amezola, Joe Bellino, C. Lynn Jacobs, and Judy Rance-Rooney for the 2008 TESOL Pre-Conference Institute ELLs as Writers in a...
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Erin Wilkey Oh
2 years 30 weeks ago
Meeting of Minds: Cross-Generational Dialogues on the Ethics of Digital Life
In April 2009, with support from the MacArthur Foundation, three organizations gathered over 250 parents, teachers, and teens for a three-week online...
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Erin Wilkey Oh
2 years 30 weeks ago
NCTE 21st Century Curriculum and Assessment Framework
In 2008, the NCTE Executive Committee adopted a position statement addressing 21st century literacy skills. The 21st Century Literacy Curriculum...
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Erin Wilkey Oh
2 years 30 weeks ago
The Rise of Apps Culture
This is a pretty remarkable tech-adoption story if you consider that there was no apps culture until two years ago. Every metric we capture shows a...
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Erin Wilkey Oh
2 years 30 weeks ago
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