Interesting articles

Interesting articles
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/10/studentnews/sn-content-fri/index.html

• Reading in a Whole New Way

• Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants
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• Engage me or enrage me(Mark Prensky)
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• http://www.tdmagazine.itd.cnr.it/files/pdfarticles/PDF50/2_Prensky.pdf

Geometric Poetry

How to create "geometric" poems using online tools ?
Come creare poesie "geometriche usando strumenti online? 
This is an interesting tool: an automatic  square generator, six lines with six words based on Lewis Carrol's style, CLICK AND TRY

SQUARE-POEM-GENERATOR

My Square Poem

I	often	play	Candy Crush	I	curse it
often	hate	wherever	I	saw it	first
play	wherever	stupid	really	such	game
Candy Crush	I	really	feel	imprisoned	in it
I	saw it	such	imprisoned	be kind	free
curse it	first	game	in it	free	me

POEM COLLAGE

Poem Collage is a tool that gives you the opportunity to write your 

own poem and then clicking  on the GENERATE button to obtain 

a series of draggable lines you can rearrange as you want. You can 

also use it to recreate a poem.

POEM COLLAGE

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Basic G.O.s

 There are lots of sites on which you can learn how to use the different types of G.O.s, some of the best  are:

http://www.somers.k12.ny.us/intranet/skills/thinkmaps.html or

http://www.writedesignonline.com/organizers/

This is the shortest way to understand how to use some basic G.O.s, this post is taken from the site:

 http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/learning/lr1grorg.htm

A graphic organizer is an instructional tool used to illustrate a student or class's prior knowledge about a topic or section of text; specific examples include the K-W-L-H Technique and the Anticipation/Reaction Guide. Other organizers include the:

Spider Map Used to describe a central idea: a thing (a geographic region), process (meiosis), concept (altruism), or proposition with support (experimental drugs should be available to AIDS victims). Key frame questions: What is the central idea? What are its attributes? What are its functions?

Series of Events Chain Used to describe the stages of something (the life cycle of a primate); the steps in a linear procedure (how to neutralize an acid); a sequence of events (how feudalism led to the formation of nation states); or the goals, actions, and outcomes of a historical figure or character in a novel (the rise and fall of Napoleon). Key frame questions: What is the object, procedure, or initiating event? What are the stages or steps? How do they lead to one another? What is the final outcome?

Continuum Scale Used for time lines showing historical events or ages (grade levels in school), degrees of something (weight), shades of meaning (Likert scales), or ratings scales (achievement in school). Key frame questions: What is being scaled? What are the end points?

Compare/Contrast Matrix
 

	Name 1	Name 2
Attribute 1
Attribute 2
Attribute 3

 

Used to show similarities and differences between two things (people, places, events, ideas, etc.). Key frame question: What things are being compared? How are they similar? How are they different?

Problem/Solution Outline Used to represent a problem, attempted solutions, and results (the national debt). Key frame questions: What was the problem? Who had the problem? Why was it a problem? What attempts were made to solve the problem? Did those attempts succeed?

Network Tree Used to show causal information (causes of poverty), a hierarchy (types of insects), or branching procedures (the circulatory system). Key frame questions: What is the superordinate category? What are the subordinate categories? How are they related? How many levels are there?

Human Interaction Outline Used to show the nature of an interaction between persons or groups (Europeans settlers and American Indians). Key frame questions: Who are the persons or groups? What were their goals? Did they conflict or cooperate? What was the outcome for each person or group?

Fishbone Map Used to show the causal interaction of a complex event (an election, a nuclear explosion) or complex phenomenon (juvenile delinquency, learning disabilities). Key frame questions: What are the factors that cause X ? How do they interrelate? Are the factors that cause X the same as those that cause X to persist?

Cycle Used to show how a series of events interact to produce a set of results again and again (weather phenomena, cycles of achievement and failure, the life cycle). Key frame questions: What are the critical events in the cycle? How are they related? In what ways are they self-reinforcing?