Procrastadabbler

No offense to English teachers, but you make me nuts. I can say this because I earned an undergraduate degree in English, hold a certification in English education, and was an English teacher. But I am so very sick of all the kvetching about the wretched state of youth writing skills and how they are [...]

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I’ve been working for a very long time on an article about what I’m calling the deletion of participation. One of the major assumptions that I’m challenging is the idea that all youth are automatically facile with digital technology. The idea was bounced around quite a bit at several of the sessions I was at [...]

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I’ve taken the past three days to write. It’s hard work, but I’m feeling as if I’m accomplishing something. Now, I’ll probably pay big time for it in that I won’t be as prepared for my classes as I’d like to be, but c’est le vie.
Here’s what I experience as a writer though.

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I have been working with a teacher and her students in a bilingual urban high school. We started out with the essential question of “what happens when cultures meet?”  We started by reading the book, Morning Girl and discussing the differences between Puerto Rico of 1492, Puerto Rico of today, and Rochester. We wanted the [...]

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I gotta admit, I’m pretty clueless when it comes to a lot of pop culture stuff. I don’t have a tv, so my exposure to television shows is limited to whatever is available online (which is a lot admittedly). And now that NBC is making shows available for download–whoo hoo.  I’ll be able to feed [...]

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