Literacy

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• in Technology
  Blog Focus on Apple's Musical Purchase
  A Friday potpourri of tech news, including a possible musical Apple purchase and Google's new dictionary
  by tuffyr / on Dec 4, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Literacy”

• Noam Chomsky: Philosophies of Language & Politics

  
  Dialogic — Authority: 133
  Noam Chomsky: Philosophies of Language & Politics Interviewed by Larry Bensky FORA TV Noam Chomsky has been pushing change in language, politics and culture for decades. The controversial expert on modern language explains why "the smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum ...
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• Creative Destruction

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 129
   This short piece of video has some good possibilities for explaining "creative destruction" (HT to Mark Perry), but it also opens the door to discussions of division of labor, structural unemployment, complements and substitutes, and economic growth. Give it a look. I think you might enjoy it. And please share ...
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• Teaching Economics in Light of the Financial Crisis

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 129
  John Taylor (of "the Taylor Rule") poses a very intriguing question in this post on Economics One from last Saturday . And while the formal implication for many of us (especially at the high school level) is probably some time off, his argument is sound. He proposes dropping the traditional micro/macro division ...
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• An Open Access Journal is Born

  
  open thinking — Authority:
  We have just launched a new, open access journal titled in education . While the journal is set to cover various topics in the field, the first issue is a special volume focused on technology & social media. I was the guest editor of this issue, and you may want to read the editorial that gives an overview ...
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• Story Book Communication Boards (Games and Activities)

  
  Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs — Authority: 123
  This one is for my friends who teach early intervention through the early elementary grades.  Super Duper/Webber has a new product called Story Time Communication Boards.  It looks very similar in design but not theme to one of my all time favorite products Webber Functional Communication Games .  Essentially this ...
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• BookCrossing Release #149

  
  From My Bottom Step — Authority: 142
  Title : Day of Confession Location : Bank of Montreal ATM; Dundas/Wellington; London, Ontario Date : 2009/12/30 Time : 07:00 a.m. To learn more, click here . Four days after Cardinal Rosario Parma is assassinated in Rome, hotshot L.A. entertainment lawyer Harry Addison gets a frantic ...
  16 hours ago

• Survey Suggests U.S. Adults Suffer From Financially Illiteracy

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 435
  Back in April 2008 I wrote about how a Fed survey showed U.S. high school seniors and college students are struggling when it comes to financial literacy. Now, another survey suggests this applies to the adult population in the United States as well. From Gail Buckner, writing on the FOX Business website Monday: ...
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• Free books for secondaries to get pupils hooked on reading

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Each school in England is to receive 15 books from a specially designed list to try to get more pupils reading as a hobby More than 53,000 free books, by authors from Charlotte Brontë to England goalkeeper David James, are to be sent to secondary schools to try to get more pupils interested in reading as a hobby, ...
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• BookCrossing Release #148

  
  From My Bottom Step — Authority: 142
  Title : The Expert Location : LTC Route #20 Date : 2009/12/29 Time : 09:40 a.m. To learn more, click here . Rebecca Verona is a defence attorney. Her client is a computer executive who is charged with treason. Difficult enough under normal circumstances. The last thing that she needed ...
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• Toad Busters banned from gassing pests

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A group fighting to keep cane toads out of Western Australias Kimberley says it is being stopped from using carbon dioxide to gas the pests because bureaucrats have told them it is too cruel. Kimberley Toad Busters has labelled the Department of Environment and Conservations (DEC) refusal to sanction the use of ...
  19 hours ago

• Book Sale

  
  From My Bottom Step — Authority: 142
  Did you grab this great opportunity to stock up on reading material? If not, you’ve still got 1 day left! Personally, I feel like I made off like a bandit
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• MEDIA TECHNOLOGY: HD FLIP VIDEO CAMERA

  
  Hell Burns — Authority: 114
  
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• TeacherMate Improves Students Reading Scores

  
  Personal Money Store — Authority: 599
  TeacherMate excites donors TeacherMate means schools dont have to rely on old, bulky computers anymore. Image from Flickr. Despite the rough economy and the overall drop in charitable donations, Innovations for Learning, a nonprofit that supplies schools with the TeacherMate system, is doing quite well. The ...
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• "Its the empty suit, stupid!"

  
  Remembrance in Spacetime — Authority: 131
  Related Link » Obama and Our Post-Modern Race ProblemThe president always knew that his greatest appeal was not as a leader but as a cultural symbol.“The lie of seeing clothes where there were none amounted to a sophistication — joining oneself to an obvious falsehood in order to achieve social acceptance. In ...
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• What do magazines look like?

  
  SMLXL - Engagement Marketing and Communication principles from Alan Moore — Authority: 471
  
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• TYC launches youth reading program

  
  Grits for Breakfast — Authority: 529
  The title of this post is the headline to a Corsicana Sun story published today which informs us that: An innovative new teaching curriculum designed to significantly improve the reading ability of youth in the Texas Youth Commission (TYC) was recently launched in all TYC facilities. The program, called ...
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• Computer skills linked to math talent

  
  Sciencetext Tech Talk — Authority: 415
  Businesses and the economy as a whole rely increasingly on computing, but many potential users are not entirely confident of the technology. A research study published in January suggests that an individual’s computer self-efficacy is influenced by their competence in mathematics. I asked the author Assistant ...
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• Most loved and hated science stories of 2009

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Washington, December 30 (ANI): A recent article in Live Science has outlined the list of the most loved and hated science stories of the year 2009.At number 9 is the story that boys’ issues are neglected in comparison to girls. Research this year suggested that compared with girls, American boys have lower literacy ...
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• How Do You Help Your Child Learn To Spell?

  
  Value Bookshop's Reading Notes — Authority: 106
  The New Year is fast approaching. Maybe one of your goals is to help your young children learn to spell or to improve their spelling. With my kids, I used both the phonics and whole word approach. I laminated the different alphabets so they could put them together to make words. I thought them how to listen to the ...
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• Are Blacks programmed to fail?

  
  Garrard McClendon Live — Authority: 122
  Today, Phillip Jackson, from the BlackStarProject, sent me a disturbing email with statistics detailing that Illinois colleges and universities have low numbers of Black male students in attendance. Some schools have percentages as low as 1%. This is dismal compared to the astronomical numbers of Black men in jail ...
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