My latest post over at Middleweb is about using a Dr. Seuss story for allegory and a history/current events discussion about echoes of the Cold War infecting the world today.
Peace (in the sharing),
Kevin
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Category Archives: Middleweb
At Middleweb: Considering It’s Complicated
My latest blog post over at Middleweb is a consideration of danah boyd’s It’s Complicated book, which is a must-read for parents and teachers. In my post, I consider a few take-away ideas from boyd’s research and observations of teenagers and social media.
Peace (in understanding today’s kids),
Kevin
At Middleweb: Technology Autobiographies
I have a new post up over at my blog at Middleweb, in which I talk about teachers sharing their “technology autobiographies.” I share mine (it has to do with email and butterflies) and I invite you to share yours, too.
Peace (in the web ),
Kevin
Over at MiddleWeb: Observing Digital Lives
I have a new post up over at my Middleweb blog that comes from Digital Learning Day, in which I surveyed my students about their digital lives and then used Voicethread to narrate what I noticed. I invite you to add your thoughts, too.
Peace (in the observation tower),
Kevin
At Middleweb: An Annotated Writing Resource
My latest blog post over at Middleweb (which got a nifty new design overhaul and looks great) is about an annotated writing resource that my state of Massachusetts put out around looking at student writing. It’s very handy and well-done.
Peace (in the notes),
Kevin
At Middleweb: Why We Were Coding
I wrote over at by blog over at Middleweb about why we were doing programming and coding in our writing class. What do you think of my justification?
Peace (in the code),
Kevin
At MiddleWeb: Writing about the #Nerdlution
My latest blog post for MiddleWeb is all about the #nerdlution movement through the lens of community and connections. Come read what I wrote.
Peace (in the reflective stance),
Kevin
At MiddleWeb: Using Game Design to Reach Reluctant Writers, and Reviewing Close Reading
Some of you know that I also blog over at MiddleWeb and my most recent post was an offshoot of a vignette I shared at NCTE during NCTE President Sandy Hayes’s speech. The post has to do with reaching a reluctant boy writer with our game design unit, and how he was so inspired, he began writing a novel.
The second is a book review of Falling in Love with Close Reading, which I highly recommend.
Peace (in the web),
Kevin
At MiddleWeb: Teaching Visual Literacy and Considering the Heart of Nonfiction
I am writing fairly regularly over at MiddleWeb these days and I like to point folks to what I have been up to lately.
If you have time, check out the review I did for the new book, Finding the Heart of Non-Fiction by Georgia Heard. I really enjoyed this book, on a few levels (including the production values of the book itself).
And I just added a new blog post about teaching the reading and writing of diagrams with my sixth graders. Check out how I went about this teaching of visual literacy and what they were learning, and why.
Peace (on the web),
Kevin
Nice to Get Recognized (even in a newsletter)
A post I wrote about journal writing with students, and teachers as writers, for my blog over at Middleweb got a nice mention in the electronic newsletter of the ASCD (I tried to look up what ASCD stands for — I know it is an association of superintendents and curriculum coordinators and such because my wife is an administrator and we get their materials in the mail — and this is what their website says ASCD stands for “formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development” — now it is just called ASCD.)
Maybe if enough school administrators read the post, they will better understand the power of writing in a natural setting, and not for test taking purposes. Hopeful? You bet.
You can read my piece here at Working Draft at Middleweb, and feel free to add comments to the blog post. Maybe your administrator will read it.
Peace (in the sharing),
Kevin