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Luciano Ferrer

Close Reading and Argument Writing - Authentically Across the Curriculum - Gu... - 0 views

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    "Close Reading and Argument Writing - Authentically Across the Curriculum 7/16/2015 0 Comments Close reading of informational texts and non-fiction articles is not - and should not be - reserved for language arts classes. Every content area would be immensely enhanced if science teachers, social studies teachers, physical education teachers, welding teachers, woodworking teachers (in other words, "all technical subjects," as Common Core states) would not push aside the textbook, but instead embrace it, along with content area and trade articles. Students would then simultaneously learn how to dissect the readings while gaining knowledge in these content areas. What often happens is that teachers feel that students can't handle the text books or can't read the articles independently - and often that is true. However, when teachers instead go into a survival mode, of sorts, and read aloud the whole chapter or article or summarize it with a slideshow, it ends up doing a disservice to students - students are not learning HOW to read these complex texts. They are not learning how to acquire the information on their own. They are not being given the skills to read the sometimes intricate information within a particular content area or even within their possible future trade. They are not being given the opportunity to read, understand, articulate, and discuss or even debate topics within their area of study. Teachers sometimes feel that they can't do these things with students because they are not language arts teachers, or because they don't have time, or simply because they don't know how. Alternatively, a simple solution is to let go of the control and let students do…..with the guidance called close reading. Close reading is a guided reading approach. It is guided because 1) the close reading strategy is reserved for complex texts that are often too high for students to be left with independently and 2) students don't use close reading strateg
Luciano Ferrer

Small Changes in Teaching: The First 5 Minutes of Class - 0 views

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    "Open with a question or two. Another favorite education writer of mine, the cognitive psychologist Daniel Willingham, argues that teachers should focus more on the use of questions. "The material I want students to learn," he writes in his book Why Don't Students Like School?, "is actually the answer to a question. On its own, the answer is almost never interesting. But if you know the question, the answer may be quite interesting." My colleague Greg Weiner, an associate professor of political science, puts those ideas into practice. At the beginning of class, he shows four or five questions on a slide for students to consider. Class then proceeds in the usual fashion. At the end, he returns to the questions so that students can both see some potential answers and understand that they have learned something that day. What did we learn last time? A favorite activity of many instructors is to spend a few minutes at the opening of class reviewing what happened in the previous session. That makes perfect sense, and is supported by the idea that we don't learn from single exposure to material - we need to return frequently to whatever we are attempting to master.But instead of offering a capsule review to students, why not ask them to offer one back to you?Reactivate what they learned in previous courses. Plenty of excellent evidence suggests that whatever knowledge students bring into a course has a major influence on what they take away from it. So a sure-fire technique to improve student learning is to begin class by revisiting, not just what they learned in the previous session, but what they already knew about the subject matter.Write it down. All three of the previous activities would benefit from having students spend a few minutes writing down their responses. That way, every student has the opportunity to answer the question, practice memory retrieval from the previous session, or surface their prior knowledge - and not just the students most likely to
Luciano Ferrer

Twitter y educación, ejemplos de uso e ideas. También podés colaborar. Por @_... - 0 views

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    1) the ways they currently implement Twitter in their teaching and learning, 2) ideas for future development of Twitter-based assignments and pedagogical practices, and 3) issues concerning the integration of Twitter and other digital media into both traditional and non-traditional pedagogies. Collaborators should feel free to add material to these pages, to comment on existing material, and to share links to relevant external readings and resources. It may be helpful to tag your contributions with your Twitter handle. Collaborators are asked to please respect this space as a forum for open and respectful dialogue and networking. Let's fill up the pages below with great ideas! Share the ways you currently implement Twitter in your teaching and learning: Students in my course New Information Technologies do an "Internet Censorship" project, focused on a specific country. I ask them to follow a journalist who tweets on that country as part of their research to understand the state of Internet freedom in the country they select. -- Lora Since shortly after Twitter was launched, I've experimented with various iterations of "The Twitter Essay," an assignment that has students considering the nature of the "essay" as a medium and how they might do that work within the space of 140 characters. -- Jesse (@Jessifer) In my fully online classes, I've started using Twitter to replace the discussion forum as the central location for student interaction. -- Jesse (@Jessifer) Show Tweets that have gotten people arrested and prompt discussion on whether it is fair that anyone be arrested for any Tweet in the US, who is likely to be arrested for their Tweets, what kinds of Tweets are likely to prompt arrest, etc. Students in my First Year Seminar course "The Irish Imagination: Yeats to Bono" developed a platform for digital annotation of Irish literature. Embedded in their platform was a twitter feed of relevant individuals/groups, m
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    1) the ways they currently implement Twitter in their teaching and learning, 2) ideas for future development of Twitter-based assignments and pedagogical practices, and 3) issues concerning the integration of Twitter and other digital media into both traditional and non-traditional pedagogies. Collaborators should feel free to add material to these pages, to comment on existing material, and to share links to relevant external readings and resources. It may be helpful to tag your contributions with your Twitter handle. Collaborators are asked to please respect this space as a forum for open and respectful dialogue and networking. Let's fill up the pages below with great ideas! Share the ways you currently implement Twitter in your teaching and learning: Students in my course New Information Technologies do an "Internet Censorship" project, focused on a specific country. I ask them to follow a journalist who tweets on that country as part of their research to understand the state of Internet freedom in the country they select. -- Lora Since shortly after Twitter was launched, I've experimented with various iterations of "The Twitter Essay," an assignment that has students considering the nature of the "essay" as a medium and how they might do that work within the space of 140 characters. -- Jesse (@Jessifer) In my fully online classes, I've started using Twitter to replace the discussion forum as the central location for student interaction. -- Jesse (@Jessifer) Show Tweets that have gotten people arrested and prompt discussion on whether it is fair that anyone be arrested for any Tweet in the US, who is likely to be arrested for their Tweets, what kinds of Tweets are likely to prompt arrest, etc. Students in my First Year Seminar course "The Irish Imagination: Yeats to Bono" developed a platform for digital annotation of Irish literature. Embedded in their platform was a twitter feed of relevant individuals/groups, m
Luciano Ferrer

Leonardo da Vinci, Notebook ('The Codex Arundel') - 0 views

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    "Contents:Notebook of Leonardo da Vinci ('The Codex Arundel'). A collection of papers written in Italian by Leonardo da Vinci (b. 1452, d. 1519), in his characteristic left-handed mirror-writing (reading from right to left), including diagrams, drawings and brief texts, covering a broad range of topics in science and art, as well as personal notes. The core of the notebook is a collection of materials that Leonardo describes as 'a collection without order, drawn from many papers, which I have copied here, hoping to arrange them later each in its place according to the subjects of which they treat' (f. 1r), a collection he began in the house of Piero di Braccio Martelli in Florence, in 1508. To this notebook has subsequently been added a number of other loose papers containing writing and diagrams produced by Leonardo throughout his career. Decoration: Numerous diagrams. "
Luciano Ferrer

The Tree of Languages Illustrated in a Big, Beautiful Infographic | Open Culture - 0 views

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    "Call it counterintuitive clickbait if you must, but Forbes' Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry made an intriguing argument when he granted the title of "Language of the Future" to French, of all tongues. "French isn't mostly spoken by French people and hasn't been for a long time now," he admits," but "the language is growing fast, and growing in the fastest-growing areas of the world, particularly sub-Saharan Africa. The latest projection is that French will be spoken by 750 million people by 2050. One study "even suggests that by that time, French could be the most-spoken language in the world, ahead of English and even Mandarin." I don't know about you, but I can never believe in any wave of the future without a traceable past. But the French language has one, of course, and a long and storied one at that. You see it visualized in the information graphic above (also available in suitable-for-framing prints!) created by Minna Sundberg, author of the webcomic Stand Still. Stay Silent. "When linguists talk about the historical relationship between languages, they use a tree metaphor," writes Mental Floss' Arika Okrent. "An ancient source (say, Indo-European) has various branches (e.g., Romance, Germanic), which themselves have branches (West Germanic, North Germanic), which feed into specific languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian)." Sundberg takes this tree metaphor to a delightfully lavish extreme, tracing, say, how Indo-European linguistic roots sprouted a variety of modern-day living languages including Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, Italian - and, of course, our Language of the Future. The size of the branches and bunches of leaves represent the number of speakers of each language at different times: the likes of English and Spanish have sprouted into mighty vegetative clusters, while others, like, Swedish, Dutch, and Punjabi, assert a more local dominance over their own, separately grown regional branches. Will French's now-modest leaves one day cast a shadow over the w
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    "Call it counterintuitive clickbait if you must, but Forbes' Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry made an intriguing argument when he granted the title of "Language of the Future" to French, of all tongues. "French isn't mostly spoken by French people and hasn't been for a long time now," he admits," but "the language is growing fast, and growing in the fastest-growing areas of the world, particularly sub-Saharan Africa. The latest projection is that French will be spoken by 750 million people by 2050. One study "even suggests that by that time, French could be the most-spoken language in the world, ahead of English and even Mandarin." I don't know about you, but I can never believe in any wave of the future without a traceable past. But the French language has one, of course, and a long and storied one at that. You see it visualized in the information graphic above (also available in suitable-for-framing prints!) created by Minna Sundberg, author of the webcomic Stand Still. Stay Silent. "When linguists talk about the historical relationship between languages, they use a tree metaphor," writes Mental Floss' Arika Okrent. "An ancient source (say, Indo-European) has various branches (e.g., Romance, Germanic), which themselves have branches (West Germanic, North Germanic), which feed into specific languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian)." Sundberg takes this tree metaphor to a delightfully lavish extreme, tracing, say, how Indo-European linguistic roots sprouted a variety of modern-day living languages including Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, Italian - and, of course, our Language of the Future. The size of the branches and bunches of leaves represent the number of speakers of each language at different times: the likes of English and Spanish have sprouted into mighty vegetative clusters, while others, like, Swedish, Dutch, and Punjabi, assert a more local dominance over their own, separately grown regional branches. Will French's now-modest leaves one day cast a shadow over the w
juan domingo farnos

All doc students should consider IDT 8500 for Spring 2013 semester - 5 views

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    I just wanted to bring to your attention a doctoral-level course that all students in IDT and ICL should consider for the Spring 2013 semester.  IDT 8500 is referred to as "the writing class" by our students.  The course description says,
    "Students will critique academic research findings and syn
Luciano Ferrer

How Do I Get Started? A Step-by-Step Guide to Designing a Student-Centered Classroom, P... - 1 views

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    "How Do I Get Started? A Step-by-Step Guide to Designing a Student-Centered Classroom Part I Part Two: It's All About You Part Three: The Syllabus Part Four: Students Part Five: Collectively Writing a Constitution"
Luciano Ferrer

manuq/stopmo_preview - stopmotion entangle plugin - 0 views

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    "StopMotion Preview for Entangle A plugin for Entangle to preview Stop Motion animation. This plugin provides a new window that will preview the Stop Motion animation made from the photos of the current session. The animation plays indefinitely in loop. It has been tested in Entangle version 0.6.0, which at the moment of this writing is the latest. Go get it!."
Luciano Ferrer

Get Draftback to Play Back Google Docs - 1 views

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    "Play Back Your Own Google Docs Draftback is a Chrome extension that lets you play back any Google Doc's revision history (for docs you can edit). It's like going back in time to look over your own shoulder as you write. Download it for Chrome here You can use Draftback directly from any Google Doc. Just look for the Draftback button! All the revision rendering is done securely on your own computer. Even large documents can be processed quickly. When your doc has been processed, you can play it back like it's a movie. Download it here Since Draftback is a Chrome extension, your Docs data never leaves your own computer, and, unless you explicitly publish an excerpt, the extension never communicates any sensitive data with any server-it just fetches it over a secure connection from Google. All the computation for rendering the playback is done by your own computer, and it's stored there, too."
Luciano Ferrer

Lensoo Create - 0 views

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    "Lensoo Create turns your Android tablet into a virtual whiteboard with voice recording, video and smooth digital writing. "
Javier Carrillo

8 Stages of ADI - Argument-Driven Inquiry - 2 views

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    Web centrada en una variante de la Indagación que pone el foco en la argumentación. Estrategia que cada vez recibe más atención por su gran potencial en el aprendizaje. "The ADI Instructional Model ADI lab activities consist of the same 8 stages. Each stage is designed to give students an opportunity to participate in one or more science and engineering practices. The stages of ADI are the same for each investigation so students have an opportunity to use the same science and engineering practices, but different disciplinary core ideas and crosscutting concepts to figure out how thing work or why things happen. This instructional approach also gives students an opportunity to learn how to propose, support, evaluate, and revise ideas through discussion and in writing."
Luciano Ferrer

A qué edad escribieron sus obras clave los grandes novelistas, por @martincri... - 0 views

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    "Me pareció interesante indagar a qué edad escribieron sus obras clave algunos novelistas de renombre. Entre la curiosidad, el asombro y la autoflagelación comparativa, terminé haciendo un relevamiento de 130 obras. Mi selección es, por supuesto, arbitraria. Son novelas que me gustaron o me interesaron (en el caso de haberlas leído) o que -por distintos motivos y referencias, a veces algo inasibles- las considero importantes (aunque no las haya leído todavía)."
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    "Me pareció interesante indagar a qué edad escribieron sus obras clave algunos novelistas de renombre. Entre la curiosidad, el asombro y la autoflagelación comparativa, terminé haciendo un relevamiento de 130 obras. Mi selección es, por supuesto, arbitraria. Son novelas que me gustaron o me interesaron (en el caso de haberlas leído) o que -por distintos motivos y referencias, a veces algo inasibles- las considero importantes (aunque no las haya leído todavía)."
Luciano Ferrer

Si no leemos, no sabemos escribir, y si no sabemos escribir, no sabemos pensar - 0 views

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    "... Hay una frase contundente, que si no mal recuerdo es de Juan José Arreola, "Si no lees, no sabes escribir. Si no sabes escribir no sabes pensar". Una sencillez aforística que debe ser el fruto de la labor intelectual de un buen lector. Edmund Husserl escribe en su Lógica formal y Lógica trascendental: "El pensamiento siempre se hace en el lenguaje y está totalmente ligado a la palabra. Pensar, de forma distinta a otras modalidades de la conciencia, es siempre lingüístico, siempre un uso del lenguaje". Así que si no tenemos palabras, si no tenemos lecturas en nuestra memoria que enriquezcan nuestro lenguaje, nuestro pensamiento será muy pobre. Las personas toleran no ser buenos lectores, pero si se les dice que no saben pensar, esto lastima su orgullo y, sin embargo, una condiciona a la otra. Así, la lectura es una herramienta de desarrollo fundamental. Y donde mejor se desenvuelve esta herramienta es en los libros, no en los pequeños artículos que dominan la circulación de la Web; el encuentro con el lenguaje merece un espacio de concentración -el medio es también el mensaje-, un encuentro a fondo con la mente de un autor que puede haber muerto hace cientos de años pero que vive, al menos meméticamente, en el texto que se trasvasa a nuestra mente. ..."
Luciano Ferrer

Charles Bazerman: "Los textos que decidamos leer y escribir van a determinar ... - 0 views

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    "¿Cómo impacta la escritura en el individuo? Cuando enseñaba a niños muy pequeños, de seis años, en barrios muy difíciles -en los que a la mayoría no les gustaba la escuela-, a unos pocos les gustaba leer y solo algunos podían expresarse por sí mismos. Pero podías ver cómo, una vez que empezaban a aprender a leer y escribir, de a poco se iban involucrando y vinculando más a las actividades de la escuela. Quienes no lograban leer y escribir se vinculaban más a actividades en las calles, no escolares. A los que aprendían, leer y escribir los transformaba en individuos diferentes. Al vivir como adultos en un mundo de construcción simbólica, quienes tienen mayor dominio de la lectura y la escritura son los que pueden participar en ese mundo, pueden hacer oír su voz e, incluso, modificarlo. Y quienes no saben leer y escribir, son puras víctimas que reciben lo que los primeros determinan para ellos. Un ejemplo ¿Cómo sabemos acerca del calentamiento global y el cambio climático? La lectura y la escritura, incluso la forma en que nos vinculamos con ellas, los textos que decidamos leer y escribir van a determinar cómo interpretamos el mundo. Para algunas personas, que pueden leer textos científicos, modelos en la computadora y hacer aportes científicos, el calentamiento global es un fenómeno que podrán entender. Mientras que el resto simplemente estarán atentos a la lluvia de hoy, las aves o el sol de mañana, y no podrán proyectar un fenómeno que está mediado en el tiempo. Entonces, más allá de estos 5000 años de escritura -que es cuando creemos que se inventaron los primeros registros-, vivimos en un momento donde hay oportunidades de desarrollo, y muchas veces la posibilidad de participar o no en ellas estará relacionada con las oportunidades de formación en lectura y escritura. Además, en otro nivel, la escritura también organiza nuestras mentes. Por ello, una persona altamente formada pensará de manera distinta de algui
Luciano Ferrer

15 películas que deberías ver sobre el oficio de escritor - 0 views

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    "Esta lista de películas tiene el oficio de escritor como tema o telón de fondo."
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    "Esta lista de películas tiene el oficio de escritor como tema o telón de fondo."
cristo aragon

My StoryMaker : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - 4 views

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