Cybersecurity Workshops for Educators The Graduate Center, City University of New York General Description Introduction Teaching and doing research in academia offers the opportunity to work with students from a diverse range of backgrounds. While this range of experiences enriches any educational context, it is also important to acknowledge that with it comes a range […]

  This proposal explores digital annotation as an opportunity for making solitary reading practices more visible and social. I aim to modify an existing annotation tool to use in my English 220: Introduction to Writing about Literature class at Hunter College. As an instructor for this course, I learned the difficulty of modelling, scaffolding, and […]

  Jing Zhao Narrative: This project serves as a precursor to the following question: what are some of the affordances of collaborative writing technology that second language instructors use to teach Chinese writing skills in U.S. colleges?   As a Chinese language instructor at Hunter College, I am curious about how writing skills are taught […]

Teacher Questions as Scaffolded Assistance in an ESL Classroom Dawn E. McCormick, Richard Donato   Teacher Questions as Scaffolded Assistance in an ESL Classroom   Scaffolding is the process teachers use achieve classroom goals.  There are six levels to scaffolding. The researchers used teacher interviews and videotapes of the lessons throughout the length of a […]

How Culture Affects on English Language Learners’ (ELL’s) Outcomes, with Chinese and Middle Eastern Immigrant Students   EQ: What are immigrant English language learners’ main challenges related to English literacy acquisition?   Just like at Kingsbridge International High School this study proposes that parents are likely providing little to no support at home for school […]

drew.pecunia.article1 Vygotsky L. (1978). Interaction Between Learning and Development. In Gauvin & Cole (Eds.) Readings on the Development of Children.  New York: Scientific American Books pp. 34-40.       The essential view proposed in this paper is that there exists a zone of proximal development or (ZPD).  That is that learning occurs best when […]

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Brooklyn ENGL 1012, freshman, public institution, real with elements of the aspirational. Instructor: Zachary Lloyd. Zine librarian: Jenna Freedman