education
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Hanging up my Mask and Fins
I came to this “wreck” with a book of myths, too. I thought I knew what literacy, teaching, and media “ought” to look like, which stories get told in classrooms and which stay underwater, unread. Threadbare Beauty became my way of climbing down the ladder anyway—“face down in the ladder and the ladder is always there”—to see…
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Is it possible to grow readers who are also digitally savvy?
A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to hear Penny Kittle speak about reading and how complex it is for intermediate/senior teachers to teach. Kittle estimates that in 1st year college/university that the average pages a student reads is 500. She proposed that the #1 reason that students drop out after first year…
authentic audience, books, children’s literature, critical thinking, definition of literacy, digital literacy, Don Tapscott, education, Grown Up Digital, Heather Durnin, inquiry-based learning, literacy promotion, Literature Circles, Penny Kittle, reading, struggling reader, student-centred learning, Vygotzky, young adult fiction
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