Hey, it’s a history blog, so I can refer back to stuff we missed, right?
Especially for teachers, go read this entry in Creating Passionate Users.
The author is a techie, but she’s talking about writing clearly (are you listening Texas teachers whose kids have to write well to get promoted?). She’s also discussing simple presentations, the type any business person does, the kind teachers and professors do all the time. And she has research to back her claims, that informal language improves student learning significantly. Not slang, not slouchy language — just not the formal, stilted stuff found in most textbooks.
Arrgghh! Textbooks! A subject for another rant, another day.
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