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I love to worship Jesus, snuggle my husband, build fort tents with my kids, consume copious amounts of chocolate and read for pleasure. I am simply complicated.

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We want to dance to #braves3

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@BruceTa84721610 @melissa49141016 It does feel like a tension...

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@spadivito @ksarrima Exactly! I've used it for designating groups on the board before (Group #3) and they're like, "Group Hashtag Three?"

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@Heather00655371 So true! I left the classroom in 2007 to stay home with my kiddos and when I returned in 2016, it was a whole new landscape!

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@ksarrima @spadivito Haha, I had a students last year who filled her personal narratives with hashtags 🤣 #READ6265-2019

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@BruceTa84721610 @melissa49141016 "You trust the design and learning of that Halo game more than you trust the design and learning of that Algebra class." WHOA. Mind-blown.

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@BruceTa84721610 @melissa49141016 Also, his idea that to change education, we need to "change the test" is spot on. Our hands our kinda tied in some of these things because come April/May, it comes down to what our kids do on that test. 😫

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@BruceTa84721610 @melissa49141016 This is a fascinating way to consider video games. I have never considered how they are teaching problem-solving. I tend to lump them all in as "negative" technology because I don't want my sons to be addicted to them.

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#READ6265-2019 "Reading the screen requires considerable navigational effort." (p. 15) It's true. It takes a different set of skills than reading a paperback book takes. As teachers, we need to be teaching BOTH sets of skills in order for our students to be successful.

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@melissa49141016 Exactly my thoughts! Old literacy was more about taking in information and building knowledge where these "new literacies" are much more focused on involvement and participation-- output instead of input. #READ6265-2019

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...and even, perhaps, new forms of identity and personality." Whoa, so true. Our world is different than 10 years ago! Jobs exist today that didn't then, and students are finding their identity wrapped up in their social media accounts. How do teachers prepare them for this?

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#READ6265-2019 "With these new communication practices, new literacies have emerged. And these new literacies are embodied in new social practices-- ways of working in new or transformed forms of employment, new ways of participating as a citizen in public spaces...

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Whitestone’s 20th Anniversary – Giveaway https://t.co/JeTTYxVdE5 via @whitestoneinn

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A Christmas Love Story https://t.co/4umHWQGYGA

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Gotcha + One Year https://t.co/rpC2SROeMA

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The balance of adoption https://t.co/voqAk5Azrj

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Six Months of Love(bug) https://t.co/YLq0Ykp9Wz

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Got her! https://t.co/uPxK8mowzQ

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Advent for Mommies https://t.co/bXYX1sjlbO