One Post, 5 Links

Instead of filling out your already overloaded RSS account, here's a few things to read:

- Intel wants in on the cheap laptop market; but not that cheap. A story about Intel getting ready to produce a $400 laptop. Not in the same market as MIT's $100 laptop, but with Windows and promising to be more full - featured.  Good for not so under developed developing nations, this one will be interesting to watch.

- Creating Passionate Users looks at a study that says interest and motivation may, in some cases, be 30 times more important than readability in determining reading comprehension. 30 times! Think about our classrooms. How much interest and motivation do students have to read much of what we give them? How much time and effort do we put in allowing our students to choose a lot of their reading material and determining a research path through a topic? This warrants some much deeper thought.

- The Manitoba government has released an interesting new document on the differences in reading habits between adolescent males and females. The document takes into account reading habits, instructional tips and  ways to organize a classroom to help increase the effectiveness of the instructional environment of boys. Something good put out by the provincial department of education....? It's worth the read.

- I did a (what was supposed to be a short, but instead turned into a long and rambling) interview with loadedpun.com, a site focusing on ideas of vlogging and vlogcasting. They had found a few of my posts about vlogging in classrooms and we spent some time talking.

Comments

[Nancy McKeand]

Thanks for the link to the Manitoba article. It is interesting reading. I teach men and there are a lot of things in this for me to think about.