Discuss the research-based perspectives on the relationship between students' use of informal textese/textisms and students' learning and use of formal English.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers vary and include: The majority of studies reviewed by Verheijen (2013) indicated that text messaging positively correlates with formal literacy. Another study (van Dijk et al., 2016) indicates textese is a completely different register and thus, is unrelated to academic literacy. Yet, this same study (van Dijk et al., 2016) found crafting shortened texts with dropped words was correlated with better grammar proficiency.
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An integral setting is a setting that
A. is incidental to the story. B. is essential to the story. C. is backdrop and mood to the story. D. is based upon an actual location.
According to Nel Noddings, happiness and joy are:
a. irrelevant to the early childhood curricular goals because they do not support cognitive learning. b. not a part of the history of education in the United States. c. usually addressed in early childhood curricula. d. a relevant wider goal for early childhood education beyond academics.
Give an example of children’s ideas being converted into curriculum, and name the type of curriculum that stresses doing this. Avoid giving examples presented in the text.
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following might happen in David Perkins' Smart Schools?
a. At the center of the curriculum is the belief that if students are taught as many facts as possible, they can use this knowledge to problem solve. b. Thinking is at the center of the teaching and learning process. c. The school is structured so that students work collaboratively. d. Both b and c.