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[quote=Anonymous]Oh for chr!ssake, don't you have anything better to do with your time than create trolly threads about topics you clearly know nothing about?  :roll:

Promoting Adolescents’ Comprehension of Text (PACT) - stop digesting content for students and go back to having them actively read different types of texts to acquire content knowledge. Essentially, in the age of King Google, if you try to get kids to read an article and then ask comprehension questions, they skip the article and just google answers. Just because someone made a fancy acronym for their study doesn't mean it's anything particularly new. It's just a repackaging of good teaching strategies with data to back up that they are more necessary at this point in time than they have been in the past.

I just had a class of 11th grade students struggle with finding recent news articles on a topic, summarizing the information, and then presenting to the class. They couldn't distinguish a news article from a random webpage, they couldn't summarize information, and they couldn't present out to the class without reading the random lines they grabbed from the article. No synthesis, no evidence they actually read and comprehended the whole thing. Clearly something I need to actively teach how to do this quarter.

The sky isn't falling, chicken little.

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