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Walatka, Todd – Teaching Theology & Religion, 2012
This essay argues for a particular form of student blogging as a powerful tool for generating and sustaining student engagement and conversation. After a brief discussion of pedagogical principles, "hub-and-spoke" blogging is presented as a means to facilitate a more student and discussion-centered classroom. Based upon recent research and the…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Classroom Techniques, Educational Principles, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
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Thomas, P. L. – English Journal, 2012
Literary criticism in the form of the so-called book report, may, therefore, wrote Stephen Bloore in 1934, "be a most valuable aid to independent thought if it is not used merely to check up on the books supposedly read by a student". For a century, "English Journal" has been a map and a narrative of the discourse about teaching ELA as well as the…
Descriptors: Literary Criticism, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, Teaching Methods