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12/29/2011

Using the Workshop Approach in the High School English Classroom: Modeling Effective Writing, Reading, and Thinking Strategies for Student Success Review

Using the Workshop Approach in the High School English Classroom: Modeling Effective Writing, Reading, and Thinking Strategies for Student Success
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Without being reductive, this text is an excellent resource for High School English Teachers and secondary language/arts majors. I cannot recommend this text more highly. - Todd Finley

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Take a peek into an effective workshop-based classroom and discover how you can enhance adolescents' technical and creative abilities in reading, writing, and thinking.

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8/13/2011

Modeling with Technology: Mindtools for Conceptual Change (3rd Edition) Review

Modeling with Technology: Mindtools for Conceptual Change (3rd Edition)
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I'm an instructional designer and I've chosen to use this book as both for a text in classes I instruct and as a handbook for working with faculty members at my university. The book focuses on ways to help students think better using technology tools, many of which are commonly available (such as spreadsheets). Many such books focus on ways to use technology first, with practical applications for teaching and learning second. Not so in this case. If you have to buy just one book on instructional technology, this is the one.

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Well-known foraddressing the use of computers to foster critical-thinking and problem solving, this text was written to teach current and future teachers how to better engage learners more mindfully and meaningfully in the process oflearning.Available now in it's Third Edition, it focuses on how to use technology to support meaningful learning through model building, providing powerful strategies for engaging, supporting, and assessing coonceptual change in learners.

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