Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Young People and New Media

What Video Games Have To Teach Us About Learning and Literacy

Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives

Inquiry Co-operation

Using Reflection Documents to Assess Student Learning

Effects of High Level Prompts and Peer Assessment on Online Learners' Reflection Levels

From the Writing Process to the Responding Sequence: Incorporating Self-Assessment and Reflection in the Classroom

A Horse Named Hans, a Boy Named Shawn: The Herr von Osten Theory of Response to Writing

Writing and Response: Theory, Practice, and Research

Improving student engagement in learning activities

Behavior Modification. Student-Teacher Contracting with Goal Setting for Maintenance

Motivating Your Students: Before you can teach them, you have to reach them

Essential Motivation in the Classroom

Extreme Students: Challenging All Students and Energizing Learning

Encouraging Children to Learn: The Encouragement Process

The Flickering Mind: The False Promise of Technology in the Classroom and How Learning Can Be Saved

Transforming Schools With Technology

The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30)

The Rationality Debate: Application of Cognitive Psychology to Mathematics Education

What is Metacognition?

Open-start mathematics problems: an approach to assessing problem solving

Representation of problem-solving procedures: A comparative look at China, Singapore, and US mathematics textbooks

Unstructured Collaboration Versus Individual Practice for Complex Problem Solving: A Cautionary Tale

Problem solving in the mathematics classroom: the German perspective

Monday, September 28, 2009

How Service Learning Affects Students

Civic Education, Community Norms, and Political Indoctrination

A Time to Serve, A Time to Learn: Service- Learning and the Promise of Democracy

Do Goals Affect the Structure of Students' Argumentative Writing Strategies?

Teaching Writing as Reflective Practice

Assessing the Portfolio: Principles for Practice, Theory, and Research

Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons

Multiple Intelligences: Best Ideas from Research and Practice

Integrating Differentiated Instruction & Understanding by Design

The Global Achievement Gap

Creating Lesson Plans for All Learners

Myth 16: High-Stakes Tests Are Synonmous With Rigor and Difficulty

Myth 12: Gifted Programs Should Stick Out Like a Sore Thumb

Myth 18: It is Fair to Teach all children the Same Way

Looking in the Mirror: Helping Adolescents Talk More Reflectively During Portfolio Presentations

Beyond Writing Next: A Discussion of Writing Research and Instructional Uncertainty

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Community Connection and Change: A Different Conceptualization of School Leadership

Learning To Teach in an Age of Accountability

The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach

A Study of Differentiated Instructional Change Over 3 Years

Beyond Tracking: Multiple Pathways to College, Career, and Civic Participation

The Socioaffective Impact of Acceleration and Ability Grouping: Recommendations for Best Practice

Teaching as Inquiry: Asking Hard Questions to Improve Practice and Student Achievement

Engaging Children's Minds: The Project Approach

Challenge in Mathematics Classroom: Students' Motivation and Strategies in Project-Based Learning

Motivating Project-Based Learning Sustaining the Doing, Supporting the Learning