• C.J. Darlington: Author Melanie Wells's ambitious campaign
    Someone asked me recently – why literacy? Why would anyone give away $100000 (100% of my profits from sales of My Soul to Keep) to teach illiterate adults how to read? (Okay – fair question. I admit it sounds a little crazy. …
  • Native Stew: The Ministry of Education Literacy Awards
    He commended the National Literacy Services for their “valiant efforts” over the past ten years “to promote life-long learning and adult literacy among those persons who would have gone onto their adult lives not fully prepared to meet …
  • Feminist Dominated schooling. – antimisandry.com
    From then on, the teacher spent less time talking to the whole class, and pupils spent more time, alone or in groups, pursuing projects such as ‘communication through the ages’ at their own pace”. The Abolition of Britain, Peter Hitchens. … One of the inspectors told me: ‘I spend more time looking in children’s lunchboxes than testing their literacy.’ Someone, she said despairingly, needs to make children sit down, work hard and learn to concentrate. …
  • The Pesky Library Blog: Literacy in a 2.0 world
    President Obama has declared October 2009 as National Information Literacy Awareness Month, saying we must “learn the skills necessary to acquire, collate, and evaluate information for any situation.” President Obama echoed the …
  • CIMA Reports on Media Literacy Released « Paul Mihailidis
    Schools need the necessary resources and educators the requisite expertise and training to teach media literacy. Supporting media literacy education for youth can help prepare children and young adults for lives of active inquiry and …
  • Reading Rockets: Colombian Guerrillas Help Scientists Locate …
    Offers effective teaching strategies, activities, lessons, lesson plans, worksheets, exercises, skills, tests, assessments for reading comprehension, language arts, literacy, fluency, phonics and phonemic awareness for children, especially those with dyslexia and other … The study, funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science and published in Nature, has enabled the researchers to see how brain structure changed after learning to read. …
  • FemaleScienceProfessor: I Could(n't) Teach That
    And surely the best way to ensure scientific literacy in students is to take ownership of the endeavor? Best wishes, (Another) female science teacher. 10/12/2009 12:42:00 AM · Klaas said… I teach a subject in first year that was my …
  • Marinette Literacy Team: Oct. 13 Break-Out Agenda
    Oct. 13-16 – Baseline Data for Literacy 3. Oct. 19-23 – Pop-in/Drop-in or Team Teach 4. Every to submit one sample of student work 5. Goal: Pick 1-2 strategies to use in class for a week. Nov. 9 – Follow up survey …
  • Reading, E-Books and the Brain : The Frontal Cortex
    Although scientists had previously assumed that the dorsal route ceased to be active once we learned how to read, Deheane’s research demonstrates that even literate adults still rely, in some situations, on the same patterns of brain …
  • Students lack healthy food options – Parentcentral.ca
    Now teams of 30 student volunteers, ranging in age from 15 to 20, choose and prepare varied healthy meals – and teach each other to cook them. But increased food literacy is just one educational benefit for the students. …
  • C.J. Darlington: Author Melanie Wells's ambitious campaign
    Someone asked me recently – why literacy? Why would anyone give away $100000 (100% of my profits from sales of My Soul to Keep) to teach illiterate adults how to read? (Okay – fair question. I admit it sounds a little crazy. …
  • Native Stew: The Ministry of Education Literacy Awards
    He commended the National Literacy Services for their “valiant efforts” over the past ten years “to promote life-long learning and adult literacy among those persons who would have gone onto their adult lives not fully prepared to meet …
  • MeTA musings: An “un-technology” response to a technology conference
    “The tool hasn’t changed the way these educators teach. They‘ve just transferred their worksheets to pdfs and made them available to download for students.” The presenter acknowledged this observation and the entire one of his session changed. … Literacy, PLNs and good pedagogy all have something in common: a distinct “un-technology” emphasis. I’ve quoted Larry Cuban once before,. “It is not about technology; it is about learning” (2001, p. 184). …
  • Tweet to That: Twitter Makes Wine for Literacy (OMFG!) – New York …
    The bigger punch-line, however, is that the founders of the social media site that requires its users to write in abbreviated, acronymized snippets have launched their own wine label to raise money for — of all things — literacy. Twitter employees have teamed up with Crushpad, a custom crush facility that allows oenophiles to make their own wine, to produce a Chardonnay and Pinot Noir that will sell for $20 per bottle, with $5 going to non-profit Room to Read. …
  • Sox First: Tweeting wine
    Room to Read, a San Francisco based non-profit, will help us make that happen by bringing libraries and literacy to the world’s poorest regions. Together we’ll be making some awesome wine over the course of a year to benefit @roomtoread …
  • Post-literate – Beyond The Commons – Macleans.ca
    We are a highly literate society and becoming mores all the time. People don’t read and write like we did 3 generations ago, but we are doing more of both than we ever did before. Changes in media are not killing literacy or …
  • Literacy & Libraries in North Texas
    I will be suggesting that rather than integrate technology, that we integrate literacy into education — but that we redefine what it means to be literate when information is increasingly networked, digital, and abundant. …
  • Thank you for literacy – Gratitude Blog
    Thank you for literacy. by stmss @ 2009-10-16 – 09:16:25. Even in the UK we still have students leaving school who can barely read and or write. What an awful place to be. Confidence with words, meanings,spellings, opens up the entire …
  • Creative thinking – Telegraph
    Teacher Theresa O’Connor is using materials she brought back from an expenses-paid, highly competitive conference in Boston to teach and encourage her students to think creatively. O’Connor, who teaches unified arts to sixth- through eighth-graders …
  • Fil-Am Ako: Air Tabigue on Laughs for Literacy
    Fil-Am comedian Air Tabigue is one of the 6 Fil-Am comedians who will be featured on Laughs for Literacy. The following is a blurb from Air Tabigue on why Laughs for Literacy is an important event and for those of you in New York, …
  • literacy volunteers – Troy – timesunion.com – Albany NY
    Tonight, we get a chance to celebrate some of the success stories when Literacy Volunteers hosts its Authors’ Night and Student/Tutor Recognition. People like my friend, Carol, will read stories they have written. Carol will read about …
  • Dave’s scarlet Letterman – New York Post
    Not even

    David Let termanhimself on a randy night could ever have churned as much as those stories about him still churn.

    His new nighttime prayer: “Please, God, You love all Your children. You help nobodies, untalented …

  • UAE Educators Speak Out!
    I normally use stories from here as a launching pad to teach new vocabulary items,grammar, LSRW skills and also visual literacy… The story on Eid Al Fitr … has a task where student can write about their favourite day and post their …
  • Encouraging literacy – Barbados Advocate
    This week, the children of Wesley Hall Junior School inaugurated their new library bus, outfitted with 3 000 donated books. This institution is the latest primary school on the island to install its own library, with the help of private donations. Of …
  • Musings: Children and Education: British Style
    Trying to teach literacy and numeracy at such an early age is “counterproductive” and can put children off school, according to the committee that produced the report. Professor Robin Alexander, the report’s editor, called for a debate …
  • Guerrilla reading – what former revolutionaries tell us about the …
    Ed, back up for a minute- are you saying that as a result of the literacy training, the grey matter in the adult sample increased (you wrote: “had more grey matter in five regions towards the back of their brains”) as in somehow added more neuronal cell bodies, neuropil, etc., … (Interestingly, not only do I currently teach children in a US public school, I was also in the military “in the vicinity of” Colombia, probably at the same time as some of the sample!) …
  • Science Centric | News | Colombian guerrillas help scientists …
    A unique study of former guerrillas in Colombia has helped scientists redefine their understanding of the key regions of the brain involved in literacy. The study, funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Spanish Ministry of Education and … In today’s edition of Nature, researchers from the UK, Spain and Colombia describe a study working with an unusual cohort: former guerrillas in Colombia who are re-integrating into mainstream society and learning to read for the first …
  • Mind Hacks: A brain signature for literacy
    A brain signature for literacy: Not Exactly Rocket Science covers a fantastic study on how the structure of the brain changes as illiterate adults learn to read and write. The research was conducted on rather a novel group of …
  • Mind Hacks: A brain signature for literacy
    While it is possible to do this with children, it is almost impossible to separate out which are the brain changes due specifically to acquiring literacy and which are just part of the massive changes that constantly take place as …
  • Brazil Times: Story: Large grant to help literacy program
    Part of a four-year Federal Even Start Family Literacy Program, the Family Literacy Program began in 2002 and it allows for Adult Basic Education (ABE)/ General Educational Development (GED) and high school classes for parents as well …
  • Students turn teachers to spread literacy – SamayLive
    Ralpur: Other children of their age play video games or surf the internet in their spare time, but a group of students in this Uttar Pradesh village prefer spreading literacy by teaching the poor and downtrodden. Students of Uttar Pradesh’s Ralpur …
  • Literacy & Libraries in North Texas
    If teachers and librarians are work to teach, learn, and work within networked, digital, and abundant information, then the associated technologies may be better utilized. I will also be doing a breakout on what is sometimes called …
  • Acting leads kids to literacy – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    For teacher John Skender, a big part of the magic was listening to his Sto-Rox third-graders read. No longer was it a droning, meaningless march of disconnected words. Suddenly, it was a story. “They don’t read word for word anymore,” Mr. Skender …

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