Literacy for the iGeneration » guest speaker http://igenlit.edublogs.org An entry point for thinking about literacy and adolescents Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:46:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 A low key class http://igenlit.edublogs.org/2008/10/29/a-low-key-class/ http://igenlit.edublogs.org/2008/10/29/a-low-key-class/#comments Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:18:50 +0000 gjacobs http://igenlit.edublogs.org/?p=101 MR came to visit and talked about her practice. I like having her come to class the day essays are due. The students are so stressed from the essay that having her here creates a nice low key atmosphere. My hope is that her talk about her practice will help make real all the things they’ve been reading about. Plus the chapter on socio-cultural historical theory really pulls together the readings they’ve done to date. All wrapped up in it are things like phonics and word study and fluency and discourse and community and collaborative responsive teaching. It’s all there in MR’s practice and Joanne’s chapter on her ties it together.

We didn’t get that much time to discuss the readings, but I think it was enough in that it really was a review. What we didn’t get to do was spend any time getting started on the literacy artifact review. But, we will definitely spend time next week on it. I have the computer lab blocked out for half the class.

I just started reading the essays and hope to be done by next class. It takes time. I can’t do more than a few a day, otherwise they all start blurring together. I insist on giving each essay full attention. I refuse to devolve into the type of reading we did when I was an ELA teacher evaluating a 300 ELA 11 exams in an afternoon. The students put so much energy into their writing, I need to honor that writing with my attention and quality feedback. And that takes time and energy.

I have so much to do this week. I feel as if things are spinning out of control again. Time to rein things in.

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