One of my consistent educational mantras is that students have to read independently to get smarter. The stats on this are clear: According to the U.S. Department of Education, of the 8th-grade students who scored in the top one-quarter on a national reading test in 2011, 36 percent read for fun almost every day. Of the… Read more »
Posts Tagged: ebooks
I read that book on my phone! Don’t remember it at all.
I can distinctly remember studying for finals in college and pouring over academic articles I’d read and carefully annotated. For certain material that I knew well, I could recall the specific place on the page where I’d read a fact or quotation–upper right corner, middle of the page, just after a chapter heading, etc. These… Read more »
Tools for Testing Time (or Any Day of the Year)
Maybe you’re at a similar point on your school calendar: standardized testing is on the horizon. In Maryland, the state assessments for grades 3-8 are just a couple of short weeks away. They begin March 13. Between now and then, we’ll be reviewing material from our first units; activating knowledge from last spring, when my… Read more »
Getting eBooks Into iBooks
As I have written about before, I’m a big proponent of getting eBooks into my scholars’ hands. Previously, I cast my vote for Stanza as my favorite app for reading eBooks on an iPad or other iOS device, but I’ve recently changed my mind. Here’s why you should go with Apple’s own iBooks. (And it’s… Read more »
Hi, I'm Andrew Plemmons Pratt. I am the Program Manager for New Classrooms in Washington, DC. (Though opinions expressed on this site are entirely my own.) I taught 7th-grade English in Prince George’s County, Maryland as a member of the 2010 Teach For America corps. I write about literacy & edtech here—along with stuff like industrial archeology and bread baking.