Metalinguistic knowledge is the knowledge that we have about our language that allows us to manipulate it’s structural features.
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
The subscription I have is for the grades 4-6 version, so it’s a little bit difficult for a lot of fourth graders. We work through the feature articles as a class when I think there’s something there worth paying attention to.
All you know is that you get to talk, so you show up at a hall and start talking about whatever comes to mind…. I notice there’s another more recent discussion there on the same topic I learned why people check their “stats.”
Three days with the Test Item Writer Workgroup in Fairbanks taught me something about test questions. We all know that asking questions and making tests is [part of] what a teacher does. But how many teachers have specific training for question-asking? I never had any. Even if classroom teachers don’t want to think too [...]
The case for teaching students about text genres has been made by critical educators for several years. Wendy Morgan, in Critical Literacy in the Classroom: The Art of the Possible, summarized the political rationale for explicit teaching about text genres by pointing out that genres are conventionalized means for accomplishing social purposes and
that students, [...]
Thursday, October 13, 2005
I had the privilege today of being invited to participate in an exercise of power that few teachers will ever experience.
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Alan Levine led me to this. It’s amazing. Like watching an army of ants marching through the jungle.
The link to Alex Bosworth’s Weblog explains the intent of the programmer, which was to demonstrate the power of Ajax technology to push the web closer to real time data exchange. I don’t know if I can [...]
Every once in a while you notice that the universe seems to have fallen into place at a time and place you happen to be. For me this was a recent morning when I was headed to work.
Fortunately, I carry my little Cannon A60 with me in my school bag.
Feeling [...]
Saturday, October 8, 2005
A few months ago I began trying different ways to integrate my photo collection into this blog.
I used a Flickr Badge for a while, but it wasn’t really a part of the blog since the thumbnails were all linked back to photos in my Flickr account.
I also tried using Singapore, a photo gallery application [...]
What does a subversive educator do? This question came to mind after reading Kathy Sierra’s article the other day. I was impressed by the synchronicity of her vision for corporate change with my own thinking about school culture. In fact, as I was reading her piece, I began inserting the word ’student’ for ‘user’ in [...]
