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1985

1990

Cross-curricular Essay

Cross-curricular Magazine Articles

The Point

What defines your teaching?

Define what you value in teaching.

...and that will drive

2005

1995

relevant

Advantages

Our learning objectives:

Disadvantages

Integrating New Literacy

Connections

Using collaborative technology to engage students and extend learning beyond the classroom

Report

Thesis statement

Our mission is to...

A Formal Essay

Documentary video

A proper thesis statement requires students to formulate a coherent and well-structured argument.

Introductory paragraph

  • demonstrates background knowledge
  • establishes the plan for an argument

Thinking?

Body

Argument 1 - Advantages

Enlighten

21st Century Skills

  • Forming a thesis requires some thinking
  • Much shorter product (5 paragraphs), less time-consuming to mark, essay rubric
  • Stronger connections to writing in English
  • Easy to explain task
  • Reduced plagiarism

The Science Report

Argument 2 - Disadvantages

2

Expand minds

  • Very difficult task for high school students
  • Argument was usually weak
  • Practicing old skills rather than aquiring new ones
  • Evaluation emphasizing writing mechanics
  • Science teachers are poor English teachers

rather than condition

instead of direct minds

not train

Description: Write a report on a topic in science that interests you.

Task: Select a topic from the list provided by your teacher and write a comprehensive summary of your research findings.

1. See science everywhere

2. Integrate cross-curricular skills

3. Facilitate communication with new media

4. Collaborate to accomplish a complex task

5. Differentiate for student interests

6. Empower students to share their learning

Conclusion

but the quality

The essay was an

improvement

on the science report,

was weak

of student work

and therefore unsatisfying.

Students struggled

Inspire

to meet the expectations of the assignment due to their lack of scientific breadth of experience. As a

Advantages:

  • Simple for students
  • Simple assignment to explain for the teacher
  • Rubric is standardized (achievement chart)
  • Incorporates basic literacy in science

teacher, it was a

challenging task to evaluate

student writing because this

is a skill that we had not developed during our teacher training.

Disadvantages:

  • Little (or no) new skills aquired to complete the task
  • Policing plagiarism necessary
  • Enormous volume of text to read/evaluate
  • Extremely boring for everyone
  • Time-consuming to evaluate
  • Low student engagement and little motivation to be creative

Cross-curricular Essay

Thesis Statement

The hard drive is a perfect example

which links computer engineering

and physics. The hard drive creates a

connection between physics and

computer engineering through its use

of magnetism, electricity and energy,

and internal kinematics.

Essay

Graham Whisen

Stephen Lippa

,OCT

bit.ly/literacyphysics

Advantages 1 - Student

Disadvantages

  • structured thesis statements
  • a simplified & narrowed scope
  • integration of cross-curricular connections
  • topics were more relevant to students
  • significantly reduced plagiarism problems
  • required a lot of scaffolding
  • students were not learning from each other
  • teacher is the only audience
  • weak differentiation
  • prescriptive

Advantages 2 - Student

  • some differentiation - student input into the topic
  • difficult research - thinking required,
  • connecting was intellectually challenging,
  • increased motivation
  • some collaborative elements (brainstorms, peer editing)

Advantages - Teacher

  • enjoyable reading (well, almost)
  • easier to recognize the science vs. the literacy

2010

1910

2000

meaningful

Nathan, Age 5

& engaging

assignments for your learners.

Stephen, Age 37

Stephen, Age 17

Thank you.

bit.ly/literacyphysics

The Classroom Wiki

Why a Classroom Wiki?

"Everyone has something to teach"

"Learning does not happen only in the classroom"

Provide a venue for collaboration & sharing

Guide students on appropriate digital citizenship

Goals

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