Today, in class, I asked my students to think of the best and worst prompts that they could be asked to write about (most authentic and least authentic). I was impressed by the sophistication of their responses, but I was particularly intrigued by one response in the category of least …
Linguistics is a sub-set of Cognitive Science. Linguistics is only a study of natural langauges (not like esperanto) If Language is a mirror to the mind, unnatural language (created langauges) are like fun house mirrors. The different schools of thought in lingustics define linguistics in very different ways (parsing the …
Cores 1-4: Last week we spent quite a bit of time talking about our reading program. We have now sufficiently set up AR+. This week we are going to continue our work with AR+, but we are also going to start the weekly writing piece that you will come to …
Today’s lessons are a continuation of yesterday’s. Cores 1-4: I will be analyzing CSAP data in the main office today. I have left my substitute these plans.
Cores 1-4: Introduce the concept of Authentic vs. Inauthentic writing prompts. Talk about ways of changing inauthentic writing prompts into authentic ones. Give students initial writing assessment for the year. (These will not be posted online because they are reused from year to year.) Tell students that Mr. Wilkoff will …
Much of today’s lessons are a continuation of yesterday. Core 1: Go over the process of actually submitting a book review. Discuss-On: How do you think that the Discovery Bookshelf is going to help us to create a community of readers? Discuss-On: How do you think that creating web pages …
Today’s lessons are extentions of yesterday. Core 1-2: Discuss-On: What is the biggest book/reading virus (meme) you have ever started? Collect Book Meme. Re-introduce the Discovery Bookshelf and go over how to write a book review. Show How-To page and go through setting up Ning.com accounts. Explore Ning.com Re-introduce the …
I am now taking a graduate course called Language Theory at the University of Colorado at Denver for my graduate program, “The Teaching of Writing.” It is taught by Ian Ying. This is my first introduction to Linguistics, so much of my notes will be of an elementary nature.
Cores 1-2: Check syllabus signatures. Use the one book meme to start a dialog about books, createing a community of readers. My example. Review library expectations in order to keep our goals perfectly in view. Travel to the library, use computers or the bookshelves to find the “next books” from …
I was not tagged to contribute to the book meme, but that is okay because I mostly thought that memes were a little bit hokey. That is until I started looking into memology. I am really enamored with the concept of viral ideas, that we contribute to one anothers conciousness …