The first Make with Me event for CLMOOC was last night. You can watch the archived recording of it HERE. We're all getting excited to host our Make Cycle next week!
As we've been discussing different ways to remediate it seems only appropriate that we should ask ourselves how we can look at canonical texts in a new and unique way. Today Jenna asked us to explore the ways that we can harness students' funds of knowledge and social literacies to engage their interactions with some of the classics. More importantly, we were challenged to consider how we use social literacies beyond simply getting started. How can we use popular culture to build deep and lasting connections with the texts we read? |
Of course we here at the U of I are big fans of sociocultural learning theories, especially when it comes to language development...
Here is a collective list of the love songs we brought in for Jenna's demo (just in case you're interested in building your personal collection, or if you want to have some lyrics on hand when you try this activity in your own classrooms).
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In the afternoon we had a fantastic Google video chat with Antero Garcia about connected learning principles. It was an informative and unpretentious talk about ways that we can all bring concepts like interest-driven instruction or academically-oriented teaching into our classrooms. Check out #uiwp on Twitter see some of the highlights.
Thanks @anterobot for taking the time to hang out with us!