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posted by: Cindy Omlin
| March 07, 2012, 06:50 pm
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As we highlighted recently on the AAE blog, technology, social media, and texting are having an impact on students and the art of teaching proper English grammar. While educators debate the overall effect of technology on our language, it should be noted that technology can also be helpful in providing educators new online tools and resources.
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posted by: Cindy Omlin
| March 07, 2012, 06:38 pm
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With social media and technology expanding daily, students and the general public are beginning to embrace shortened "text-speak" as part of an overall trend of using bad grammar, bad punctuation and bad spelling–all for the sake of convenience and speed. While social media lingo may send English teachers into a tailspin, experts have pondered whether proper English grammar may be on a road to extinction in the brave new world of emoticons, texts, tweets, and short Facebook posts.
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posted by: Cindy Omlin
| March 05, 2012, 05:16 pm
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Congratulations to Ashlee Burke, a 6th grade teacher of math, science and western civilization at Ammon Elementary School in the Bonneville Joint School District. Ms. Burke has been awarded a $250 New Classroom Start-Up Grant from Northwest Professional Educators (NWPE). Charlotte Shearer presented the award on behalf of NWPE at a staff meeting on February 29, 2012. Ms. Burke, a first year classroom teacher, said that this NWPE grant would be an amazing help with every penny to be used to enhance her students' education. She'll use the funds to purchase lab equipment and supplies to increase student achievement in science.
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posted by: Cindy Omlin
| March 05, 2012, 04:55 pm
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Over a year ago, Sarah Walters* was a well‐liked virtual school teacher living in a small community in Colorado. Sarah had taught at a suburban school in her close knit community for more than five years, and then transferred to new virtual school for increased career flexibility where she received many awards. It was in this position that the rug was swiftly pulled from under her after she was fired for contact deemed "inappropriate" by school administrators.
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posted by: Cindy Omlin
| March 02, 2012, 03:53 pm
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Jan Berenstain, who with her late husband Sam, made up one of the most successful husband-wife teams in children's literature died last week at the age of 88. After half a century of books, videos and TV shows about the everyday problems of a family of bears, the Berenstain Bears titles have become the standard for children's books in America.
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