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Critical literacy must acknowledge the self
I think educators need to broaden their approach to developing student critical thinking skills as applied to online content. I was reminded of what has become my new perspective when I read Alice Keelor’s recent post complaining about the tendency … Continue reading
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More than STEM
Prioritizing STEM within K12 may seem a significant departure from past priorities. Has this happened before? I must have been part of the post Sputnik push. There was certainly a great awareness of the Russian accomplishment and great concern, but … Continue reading
Analyzing and authoring arguments
Argumentation is a skill area I think is underdeveloped in students. It is not that they don’t argue, it is that their arguments function in the manner recent political arguments in this country go. Folks talk louder and repeat themselves, … Continue reading
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CROWDLAAERS
CROWDLAAERS (crowd layers) is an online tool for examining the annotation data generated by Hyposthes.is. Hypothes.is is a tool for highlighting and annotating online pages as an individual or as a member of a group. CROWDLAAERS, a service developed and … Continue reading
Citizen (student) science
This story from the local paper (Star Tribune) describes the identification of animals located through the use of a trail camera. What is described here could easily be adapted by a class with some type of access to an area … Continue reading
Layering guidance (update)
This is my second update. This one was encouraged because it exemplifies an existing post that might confuse readers if rediscovered. In this case because a service, DocentEDU, has been renamed as InsertLearning. I have been thinking about a way … Continue reading