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Valuable Voices: Increasing Student Buy In Through Allowing Them To Be Involved In Planning, Erika Watts

New Jersey English Journal

This piece is on the research that surrounds the benefits of incorporating student voices into the classroom to improve student scores and also the student buy in. This allows students to feel included and as though their voices are being heard.

Preparing Tomorrow’S Leaders For Yesterday: Ai And Standardized Grammar Assessment, Jason C. Toncic

New Jersey English Journal

Following breakthroughs in machine learning over the past decade, artificial intelligence (AI) has been integrated into major aspects of schooling. One such subject matter is grammar, which has seen the advent of AI-based grammar checking. Through a critical lens, AI-grammar checking reveals inequitable prescriptivist grammar practices reified by standardized assessment.

Using Positionality To Dismantle The Missy Anne Syndrome In English Methods Classrooms, Darlene Russell

New Jersey English Journal

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I Don’T Have The Answers, Sway! Teaching Secondary Literacy Methods Course Using An Inquiry Model Of Instruction, Kisha Porcher

New Jersey English Journal

In the era of high stakes testing, students have become conditioned to find the “right answer”and earn an “A” as opposed to engaging in critical thinking and productive struggle. In an effort to break this cycle, I restructured the literacy methods course to an inquiry model; Launch-Explore-Discuss.

Helping Students Choose A Reading Frame: Three Ways Of Teaching Jacqueline Woodson’S Harbor Me, Emily S. Meixner, Anne Peel

New Jersey English Journal

Choice and autonomy in ways of reading are just as important as choice and autonomy in what to read. Teaching students different frames for reading novels provides students with essential tools for making meaning of texts. This article explores three frames using the middle grade novel Harbor Me.

Helping Students Improve The Quality Of Their Sentences, Michael Laser

New Jersey English Journal

This article shares some of the teaching methods I've devised to address awkwardness and other sentence-level issues in student writing.

Left To Their Own Devices, Hugh Kesson

New Jersey English Journal

How do students use digital mobile devices as part of their learning? This study is a case based investigation of five students in two ELA classrooms, the full ELL population in two high school honors classes, in a comprehensive public high school in the United States. It adds to what we know about how students use digital mobile devices, and suggests the ways students need to be supported.

Draw Your Own Confusions: Cultivating Ambient Awareness In The Literature Classroom, Jesse Kavadlo

New Jersey English Journal

While students strive to avoid ambiguity, exploring it can lead to understanding challenging texts. Rather than beginning in-class discussions by learning what students think, we can use what social media theorists refer to as “ambient awareness” to start at a more advanced stage to cultivate student confusion for pedagogical purposes.

The Enemy Of Digital Literacy Is Digital Marketing, Erika Hurth

New Jersey English Journal

This article considers the role that targeted advertising might play in reading comprehension. It is concerned with how the addictive design of online platforms may influence adolescent learning and well-being.

The Gift Of Choice, Maria Geiger

New Jersey English Journal

This reflective paper describes how my teaching methods have evolved from my first semester teaching at the college level to the present; I learned to respect and work with the actual interests and needs of first-year composition students.

Beyond Man Vs. Nature: Utilizing Book Clubs On Nature And Climate Change To Create Engaged Citizens Of The Anthropocene, Shannon Falkner, Ryan Skardal

New Jersey English Journal

In this article, we consider the following question: "What’s next for ELA? Over the next 10 years, how will our students change? How might we need to change? Which traditions and practices will (or should) grow obsolete, and which should be preserved?" Our aim is to help teachers find ways to bring "climate literacy" into their classrooms and to help teachers recognize the central role that ELA as a discipline can play in educating students about the environment and climate change. We see this topic as highly engaging for students, and we want teachers to reconsider and reanimate older approaches …

Leading Change: Microplanning To Customize Student Learning, Kara B. Douma, Kathleen Adler

New Jersey English Journal

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Book Challenges And Bannings: Young Adult Literature Censorship In Yakima County Secondary Schools, Elizabeth Daley

New Jersey English Journal

Even though young adult literature (YAL) is known to reflect current issues and have few boundaries, it is challenged and banned on an almost-daily basis. Using data from the American Library Association and primary research from Yakima, Washington, this article explores YAL censorship trends on nationwide, statewide, and countywide levels.

The Balancing Act: Using Mindfulness In A Technology Driven World, Eileen D'Elia, Jennifer Landa

New Jersey English Journal

Even though technology is a great resource, with increased use of it, there is greater need for human connection through kinetic activities and mindfulness. This article will explore quick and easy mindful practices that can revolutionize your classroom, your relationship with your students, and your teaching practice.

At The Corner Of Technology And Student-Centeredness, Maheen Ahmad

New Jersey English Journal

Middle school English teacher reflects on how the advent and proliferation technology impacted her student-centered approach in the classroom.

Diverse Avatars And Inclusive Narratives In Virtual Reality Biology Simulations, Amy L. Pate

The Emerging Learning Design Journal

Virtual reality lab simulations were reviewed using a process that encouraged the use of diverse avatars and inclusive environments. In a partnership between the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, ASU EdPlus, and Labster collaborated on a process for developing online content that was built with a cultural values framework for language, empathy, and diversity and guided the development of new simulations. This resulted in a proactive process for creating content that was more supportive of ASU’s diverse and online student population.

Embedding Self-Management Into Mobile Learning Experiences, Kinta D. Montilus, Tiantian Jin

The Emerging Learning Design Journal

Today’s college students have become increasingly reliant on mobile devices, using them to remain connected, knowledgeable, and social on the go. Undoubtedly, self-management skills play a critical role in students’ ability to independently set goals, monitor their progress, and evaluate and assess their performance while engaging with mobile devices for their learning. This paper will provide an overview of a survey study of mobile learning and offer some self-management recommendations to leverage and support students’ mobile learning experiences.

Working 'Failure' Into Your Learning Design, Nilanjana Saxena Ms.

The Emerging Learning Design Journal

The world is grappling with education failing to meet industry demands for skills. We’re constantly striving to design for learning that is able to meet with the emerging societal and Industrial needs. Against this background what should the learning design strategy be?

Of particular relevance is Productive Failure (PF) a deeper learning design strategy, which runs counter to a traditional Direct Instruction methodology and demonstrates the affordances of experiencing and learning from failure. This brief elaborates on PF, select use cases and applications as well as key design features in operationalising PF.

Schools As Providing Transformational Goods, Sasha Barab

The Emerging Learning Design Journal

In an age of radical innovation, transforming societies, and globalized relationships, our opportunity to unlock human potential has never been more salient. While a variety of approaches have shown promise in this area, achieving this goal at scale has been hampered by thinking and designs that position learning as a process of knowledge transmission and content acquisition. Clearly content has a significant role in increase people potential, but many designs treat context acquisition as necessary and sufficient, neglecting meaningful engagement with one’s life possibilities as an integral part of the learning process. Instead, herein I posit that relevance, use, and …

Graphic Novels In The Pedagogical Literacy Landscape: Perspepolis & "The Cannon", Nimisha Patel

New Jersey English Journal

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Education, Not Standardization: (What If High-Stakes Testing Were To Be Abolished?), Joseph S. Pizzo

New Jersey English Journal

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An Imaginary Party Sparks Academic Conversation, Lauren Zucker

New Jersey English Journal

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New Jersey English Journal

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Winter, Patricia Bender

New Jersey English Journal

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I Said Poetry, Sara Debeer

New Jersey English Journal

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A Conversation About Overcoming Barriers To Using Social Justice In The Classroom Through Critical Literacy, Rebecca Maldonado, Allison Wynhoff Olsen

New Jersey English Journal

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Conflict On March 24th, Liz Debeer, 2018 Njcte Spring Conference Attendees

New Jersey English Journal

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The Politics Of Classroom Engagement: Practicing Nonpartisanship In A First-Year Writing Classroom, Maria Geiger

New Jersey English Journal

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Choice Reading And The Intersection Of Literacy And Democracy, Scott Hebenstreit

New Jersey English Journal

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Picture Books Teach Empathy And Much More, Sheryl Lain

New Jersey English Journal

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