Teachers Say Tech Is Killing Reading. The Story Is Bigger.
Teachers are right that reading is in trouble, but technology is only one cause. Harvard researchers also point to the pandemic, chronic absenteeism and…
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Learning to Read Digital Text
During presentations the comment: “So you think we should do away with all physical books?” comes up from time to time. Do I? When…
NYT Summer Reading Contest…What If
A teacher brought this contest ran by the New York Times to my attention the other day as they were starting to prepare for…
Tracking Independent Reading in high school
As I started talking about in my last post, we’re in the process of setting every high school student up with a blog to…
At the speed of a click
(Scribefire, my blogging platform finally updated to work with Firefox Beta 4 so now I’m back!) I had the most incredible experience today. First…
The niche of books
One thing is for sure. When you work with a powerful team like Tara and Kim you have conversations that end up turning into…
Focusing on reading in the 21st Century
Off to a great year at ISB. I find myself starting our fourth week of school and still standing…which is a good thing. The…
Changing Reading Habits
David Jakes took the recent talk around School 2.0 and did a nice mash-up on the techlearning blog. So here is my attempt at…