Dr Anne Davies
Anne Davis is a Canadian Lady, who is a a beautiful and inspiring woman, I really tuned into her story about when she broke her ankle. When she went to A&E the doctor made the initial assessment on her injury but did not give her steps to recovery. It was her own personal doctor who made another assessment and gave her a list of criteria for her to do to heal her ankle. Therefore, it is not enough just to assess kids without giving them explicit criteria to achieve to ‘heal’ or in this case learn or to better our final piece. Writing assessment in Hawaii for Year 12 students where they got into groups to read previous essays to find out what is good writing? The teacher was amazing. I'm not sure what school it was. assessment4learning.com www.annedavies.com www.connect2learning.com In summary: Students need to know the destination so well so that when the teacher is absent they can self-monitor themselves. What’s important so that my classroom is engaging for everyone? Self monitor your way to success! Murray GaddI was lucky enough to sit in on Murray Gadd's workshops when he took College Street School on their journey to become better reader teachers. So when I saw his name on the conference speakers list I jumped at it! Murray had 3 'work shops' (seminars); one specifically about writing, another specifically about reading, and the final about the links between reading and writing. I did not choose all three but after going to the first workshop, I was so amazed that I needed to go to all! Here is my thinking: What is quality writing and how do we know if students are producing it? Oh, you’ve got to be passionate about the writing. Murray uses strong feelings towards all writing samples his energy is infectious and I want to transfer this into my own practise. Quality writing, as written by students, is generally writing that:
The man who walked between the towers - Monrbical Gersteim; Man on wire – DVD; To the clouds – Philippe Petite Purpose: What feat did Philippe Petit performs how he does it and why he does it? · Self-fulfilling · For the challenge · To be the first to be famous · Rebellious · He wanted to be free Writing after he did when you put their selves into his shoes/police shoes/ spectators shoes? To do this we will need to: Infer: you had to put yourself in his shoes make connections to find out what’s going on Predict: Make connections how hard would this be to do in 1970? Prior knowledge: balance, twin towers, street performer 1. Making connections between prior real world and literacy related knowledge and the text 2. Forming and testing hypotheses about texts (predicting in comprehension) a. Use clues to make links to prior knowledge b. Read to check hypotheses c. Reflect on hypotheses and revise new thoughts or learning. 3. Asking Questions of themselves, others and text a. Focus on selected part b. Form a questions that relates c. Keep question in your mind as they read so that they recognize and bring together clues as they arise d. Reflecting on what they have found out and how this has changed their thinking or helped their comprehension e. Asking new questions in light of what they have found out 4. Creating mental images or visualizing from the text 5. Inferring meaning from sections of the texts a. Draw awerness that real meanings isn’t just in the word b. We find clues in pictures c. Make lnks with their own knowledge experience in relation to the clues d. Deciding what is really meant based on the clues i. “Stormed into the room with a face like thunder – how was I feeling?” 6. Identifying the authors purpose and point of view in the text a. Who is writing is for b. How does this stance affect the position of the writer c. Search specific indicators 7. Summarising the main ideas of the text a. Think about organization of the text identify main points main/subsidiary points b. Stating each main point succinctly c. Ordering mainpoint in a way that makes sense to the reader. i. Background ii. Getting ready iii. Tight rope iv. Arrested v. Tight rope in park 8. Identifying the theme of the text a. Thin of themselves as a writer who has a main idea to convey b. Look for evidence 9. Analysing and synthesing ideas and information a. Take things apart then put them together what do they tell us? 10. Evaluating ideas and information from the text a. GET HANDOUT FROM TARYN! How do we teach comp strategies? Describe Demonstrate Scaffold Model Question Direct Give feedback about use of the strategy. Need to do more of this!!! Encourage
Dorothy Burt - Heating Up 21st Century Learning
Heating Up 21st Century Learning with Dorothy Burt This woman knows her stuff when it comes to ICT in the classroom and she had a really humble approach. Her lecture wasn't all "this is amazing and you have to do it!" She talked about "Futuristic ideas" which was a poster on her class wall when she was a kid. Burt would daydream about the poster but now some of these ideas are a reality. The bit which amazed me was when she asked everyone to ponder what they were doing New Year's Eve 1999? This straight away sparked a very energetic feeling in the room while everybody made connections to feel good memories, or maybe not so feel good memories and they've turned into one of those timeless funny stories! But shit, in ICT terms, I had just set up my hotmail account, computers were something that only my rich friends had and you had to go away and wash the dishes to wait for the web page to load! But how have things really changed since 2000?
To be a 21st Century Citizen children need to be 'A Digital Citizen' - to participate and contribute, relate to others Digitally Literate - to use language, symbols and text, to use thinking skills.
Dove evolution – a video about what you see on the internet is not always true.
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