October 29, 2016

My latest Diigo links (weekly)

  • "For all humans—and especially teens and young teens—whatever enters our brains as we learn activates emotional responses, even before we process it cognitively. Even if teachers deliver curriculum content with an inert, unemotional lens, our students' internal monologue takes it to an emotional level—'This is so tight/wrong/bad/cool/radical/wild/dope/stupid/GOAT (Greatest of All Time)!'"

    tags: learnerConsiderations

  • A collection of instructional strategies, i.e. "tools," and templates and videos for implementation of the tools. From the site homepage: "For every tool you'll find: An explanation of how and when to use it, a template students can use to implement the tool, a place to take notes about how you use each tool."

    tags: educ3210 educ4500 EDUC5630 strategies

  • "During a Gallery Walk, students explore multiple texts or images that are placed around the room. Teachers often use this strategy as a way to have students share their work with peers, examine multiple historical documents, or respond to a collection of quotations. Because this strategy requires students to physically move around the room, it can be especially engaging to kinesthetic learners."

    tags: strategies

  • A succinct introduction to what it means to apprentice youth in the disciplinary literacies

    tags: disciplinaryLiteracy educ3210 EDUC5630 video youth readIng red

  • An introduction to "retrieval practice" with links to research and related resources and advice for quick implementation. For example: "...[S]imply encourage it as a study strategy to students. Ask students to stop reading their books or notes and start pulling information from their brains. Have them retrieve what they’ve learned quietly in their minds, verbally out loud or written on paper. It makes sense — if we’re going to retrieve information from our brains during a test, why wouldn’t we rehearse that way beforehand?" Seems like thinking aloud, annotating, and comprehension coding, then, are all forms of "retrieval practice."

    tags: retrievalPractice assessment formativeAssessment metacognition strategies

  • "...[A] list that touches on everything from sports to travel, education, gender roles, video games, fashion, family, pop culture, social media and more. ...[E]ach links to a related Times article and includes a series of follow-up questions....So dive into this admittedly overwhelming list and pick the questions that most inspire you to tell an interesting story, describe a memorable event, observe the details in your world, imagine a possibility, or reflect on who you are and what you believe."

    tags: writing educ4500

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.


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