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#lra15 Rebecca: The games that the official sponsor Scholastic made are shockingly bad. They should have used the money and donated books
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#lra15 Rebecca: The offical sponsors create scripted and constrained spaces.
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#lra15 Rebecca: "Agents local or distant, concrete or abstract, who enable, support, teach or model) Brandt, 2010 literary sponsors
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#lra15 Rebecca: What are the entry points into hunger games? Are the official sponsors or fan sponsors?
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#lra15 Rebecca: transmedia stories are whn text, platforms, spaces and activities cut across these
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#lra15 Rebecca: Creative Literacy Practices in Transmedia Storyworlds
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#lra15 Judy: Finished with a quote from Einstein. Lets not do things over and over aging but think about children
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#lra15 Judy: In Mexico the curriculum is national. testing craze is in full swing.
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#lra15 Judy: teaching with technology is more about the teaching than the technology
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#lra15 @jgmac1106: About of third of the students in middle school leave junior high befor 9th grade. Students are the only statistcis
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#lra15 @jgmac1106: @klbz I am trying to live blog the sessions I attend using http://noterlive.com post go up when session ends. #lra15
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#lra15 Judith: We had 20 junior high school teachers across Mexico City. Some techies some n00bs. Soe teachers got their first email.
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#lra15 Judith: teachers appropriation of digital technologies through practice
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#lra15 Judith: They did not think of the ongoing expense. We are in crisis as the cost of oil has collapsed. They find a map and copy.
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#lra15 Judith: The Mexican government is handing out tablets to all 5th and 6th graders. But we didn't realize every year there is new kids
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#lra15 Judith: There is very little that is different when multimodal translates to the classrooms. Its even more reductionist
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#lra15 Judith: World of digital hit Mexico like a storm, but the lessons are "enteractive" not interactive. All the user does is hit enter
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#lra15 @jgmac1106: @zlfalls makes an interesting point: https://x.com/zlfalls/status/672831927259279360
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#lra15 @kevtweet: A reconsideration of boundary-making practices (as types of apparatus)
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#lra15 @kevtweet: We need a new middle way of being with/in material discursive practice
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