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Using Tech to Support Literacy Across 13.8 Billion Years of History

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Making sure the approach to reading and writing across materials created by a bunch of different people is hard. Making sure the approach to reading and writing across materials created by a bunch of different people is hard. Along the way, there is a heavy focus on writing. Finding time to do that work is even harder.

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Assessing Creative Writing Is Hard, So Here Are Three Ways To Avoid It

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Everyone knows that outside of the school building, creative writing workshops aren’t graded. Whether it’s a group of retirees who cluster in the back of your corner coffee shop or the so-called Ponzi schemes of MFA programs like the famed Iowa Writers’ Workshop, assessment comes in the form of peer feedback—marginalia and discussion.

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SIIA Announces 2023 CODiE Award Winners for Education Technology

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The SIIA CODiE Awards are the industry’s only peer-reviewed awards program. Educators and administrators serve as judges for the first-round review of all nominees. The winners were presented during a virtual awards celebration hosted on the NewSky XR secure online platform on June 22. Founder of BrainPOP.

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How Podcasting Is Changing Teaching and Research

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It was a podcast version of the BBC radio show In Our Time, where a panel of academics discussed the history of ideas. And his fascination with the form led him to write a book about the genre, “ Scholarly Podcasting: Why, What, How? ” Other people do sort of mini-lectures as podcasts and give them to their students.

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SIIA Announces Education Technology Finalists for 2023 CODiE Awards

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The SIIA CODiE Awards are the industry’s only peer-reviewed awards program. Educators and administrators serve as judges for the first-round review of all nominees. “Their innovations stand to improve the teaching and learning experience for teachers and students here in the U.S. and globally.

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3 Favorite Webtools for students (and teachers)

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In response to this, peer feedback is growing in popularity as an approach that balances these two realities for the benefit of the student. A recognized leader in organizing peer reviews is the free online platform called Peergrade. Completed feedback is delivered back to students. Everyone wins. The teacher has more time.

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Want to Boost Reading Scores? Build Silent Reading Stamina.

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Gehsmann, who is professor and chair at the Department of Literacy Studies, English Education, and History Education at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC, says efficiency is one important piece of the silent reading and literacy development puzzle. Teaching Reading and Writing: The Developmental Approach by Drs. Periodicals.

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