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The Massachusetts New Literacies Institute successfully complete the first non-grant funded conference. Sixty-three educators attended the week long Institute July 30-August 3 with three follow-up session in Oct, Nov, and Dec. 

The Lower Pioneer Valley Educational Collaborative managed and funded the Institute and would like to thank the New Literacies Collaborative for…

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The Lower Pioneer Valley Educational Collaborative was awarded a DESE grant to organize, plan and run the 2011 Massachusetts New Literacies Institute. This year it will once again be held at the Microsoft Research Center in Cambridge MA. the week of July 18-22. Polly Parker and Greg McVeery are the co-chairs of the 7 member content development team, who are all Massachusetts educators. Don Leu, who is one of the original oragizers of the New Literacies Teacher Leader Institute will start us…

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On Oct 15, 2010 the Massachusetts New Literacies Institute had its first follow-up session at the Microsoft offices in Waltham, MA. 88 teachers attended the all day session. Tom Daccord from EdTechTeacher gave a keynote that has us thinking more deeply about technology integration in the curriculum.

During the morning session each of the 10 teacher leaders gave a 2 minute introduction to a Cool Tool. Teachers then broke into groups according to… Continue

Clay Burell's blog post "The New York Times is Always Right" points to how even news sources of great stature slant the news depending on what country the story is about.