By spring, nearly all of Brown?s students -- including Baker -- had passed the OGT and demonstrated growth in Lexile reading test scores. In between jobs at fast-food restaurants and school, several were making serious plans to become teachers, underwater welders, construction managers and politicians.
What happened? Technology. Not just any technology, but tools that look and feel like MySpace or Facebook -- integral social networks for most American teens. Using Read 180, a reading intervention program, Brown facilitates differentiated learning for reading and writing through a "wiki," a collection of Web pages and other documents that can be created and edited individually or collectively online.
Vygotsky’s Vision:
Reshaping the Practice of Special Education for the 21st Century
B. Gindis, Ph.D.
Published in: Remedial and Special Education, (1999). Vol.20, No. 6, pp.
32-64.
INTRODUCTION. The last two decades of this century in the USA have
been marked by an upsurge of interest in Lev S. Vygotsky's ideas.
Several volumes of new translations of Vygotsky's writings appeared
recently, the most prominent among them being "The Collected Works
of L. S. Vygotsky" (Vygotsky, 1987-1998) and "The Vygotsky Reader"
(Valsiner & Vanderveer, Eds., 1994). Since the late 1980s, literally
dozens of books, articles and book chapters have been published by
professionals in different fields interpreting, elaborating and expanding
Vygotsky's scientific legacy. Lately, numerous websites and electronic
discussion forums on the Internet have emerged to discuss ideas written
by a fountain pen. Within the last two decades an "invisible college" of
enthusiastic and inspired Vygotskians has formed in this country.
Vygotsky has emerged as one of the major psychologists in the 20th
century (Wertch, 1885, 1998), the "icon" of the "cognitive revolution"
(Haywood & Tzuriel, 1992), post-modern educational progressivism
(Newman & Holzman, 1993), and cultural pluralism (Rogoff, 1990). He is
rightfully considered to be the founder of "cultural psychology": a
psychological theory in which the human being is the subject of cultural,
rather than natural processes (Ratner, 1991).
Grammar Instruction with attitude is their tag line. Some nice exercises, definitions, handouts, and more.
Grammar Girl provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing. Covering the grammar rules and word choice guidelines that can confound even the best writers, Grammar Girl makes complex grammar questions simple with memory tricks to help you recall and apply those troublesome grammar rules. 2007 Winner Best Education Podcast – Podcast Awards, and other awards too.
As simple as it is to see a giant word list describing actions, it resonates quite well. Take a peek.
Remember, writing an email *should* be like writing a formal letter. I cannot tell you how many times I have received fragmented emails where I associate the lack of grammatical care to the sender's laziness...
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By spring, nearly all of Brown?s students -- including Baker -- had passed the OGT and demonstrated growth in Lexile reading test scores. In between jobs at fast-food restaurants and school, several were making serious plans to become teachers, underwater welders, construction managers and politicians. What happened? Technology. Not just any technology, but tools that look and feel like MySpace or Facebook -- integral social networks for most American teens. Using Read 180, a reading intervention program, Brown facilitates differentiated learning for reading and writing through a "wiki," a collection of Web pages and other documents that can be created and edited individually or collectively online.
Grammar Instruction with attitude is their tag line. Some nice exercises, definitions, handouts, and more.
Grammar Girl provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing. Covering the grammar rules and word choice guidelines that can confound even the best writers, Grammar Girl makes complex grammar questions simple with memory tricks to help you recall and apply those troublesome grammar rules. 2007 Winner Best Education Podcast – Podcast Awards, and other awards too.
Brain POP Jr. aimed at K-3rd grade.
As simple as it is to see a giant word list describing actions, it resonates quite well. Take a peek.
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