Literacy to Learn: Reading, Writing, and Thinking Across the Curriculum is an online professional development project from USDLC. Please contact info@usdlc.org for more information.
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Module 10: Integrating Assessment and Instruction (Mid-High)
Preview of classroom mini-documentaries about student-based assessment and literacy-assessment connection. In one we return to the robotics classroom we visited in Module 8 and the other serves as a review of assessment practices used by the teachers featured in L2L.
Module 9:Literature and the Literacy to Learn (Mid-High)
Preview of classroom mini-documentaries filmed in a high school with a mission to create actively literate teens and one where the National Online Youth Summit is used to engage students in real-world issues about law, civics, and citizenship.
Module 8: Processing the After-Reading Stage (Mid-High)
Preview of classroom mini-documentaries filmed in a high school Social Studies classroom where the focus is on real-world processing tasks and a middle school Career Technical Education classroom where robotics and literacy strategies are used to teach technology.
Module 7: Making the During Reading Stage Interactive (Mid-High)
Preview of classroom mini-documentaries filmed in a sixth grade Social Studies classroom where text structure and consensus strategies are used, and a high school Social Studies classroom where students use interactive notebooks or 3-D graphic organizers.
Preview of classroom mini-documentaries filmed in a middle school math and a high school science classroom to see demonstrations of pre-reading strategies.
Module 5: Integrating Visual and Media Literacies in Content Area Teaching and Learning (Mid-High)
Preview of classroom mini-documentaries that introduce the new literacies on the block – visual and media – define them, and demonstrate how they can be taught as communication skills in the content area classroom.
Module 3: The Role of Technology as an L2L Tool (Mid-High)
Preview of classroom mini-documentaries in which teachers explore ways that computers can become cognitive tools. Tools include moviemaking, WebQuests, and online discussions.
Preview of mini-documentaries about an English Language Arts/Social Studies classroom and Business and Marketing classroom where writing is used as an L2L tool. We introduce a model for scaffolding reading experiences for teaching literacy and content.
Preview of classroom mini-documentaries on Reciprocal Teaching and the Paideia Seminar. This module includes a video of an actual Paideia Seminar in a sixth grade class.
Module 1: Constructing Our L2L Learning and Teaching Framework (Mid-High)
Overview of course includes clips of classroom footage demonstrating 21st century literacy skills and features two exemplary projects: “Contacting a Family,” a science-based, interdisciplinary project and “Empty Bowls,” a project that integrates art and technology in an interdisciplinary inquiry into world hunger.
Welcome to Literacy to Learn, a series of video-based, online courses devoted to exploring the learning and teaching of 21st century literacy and learning skills.
Module 8 – Learning Through Real-World Inquiry - Video (Elem)
Preview of classroom mini-documentaries on kindergarteners learning inquiry skills and fourth graders conducting oral histories to learn about their small town.
Preview of classroom mini-documentaries on teaching children to write about nonfiction topics and using videoconferencing to teach young writers how to critique.
Module 5 – Thinking Through Text Together - Video (Elem)
Preview of classroom mini-documentaries on new ways to teach text structure and a third grade teacher who uses blogs to engage her students in thinking about text.
Module 4 – Bringing Learners and Texts Together - Video (Elem)
Preview of classroom mini-documentaries of a Miss Rumphius lesson on integrated science, literacy, and technology; and matching writing to the reading to increase comprehension.
Module 3 – Developing Independent Readers - Video (Elem)
Preview of classroom mini-documentaries on student-constructed classroom Web sites and an inquiry-based project on Red Wolf repopulation in Western North Carolina.
Welcome to Literacy to Learn, a series of video-based, online courses devoted to exploring the learning and teaching of 21st century literacy and learning skills
David Warlick
I am a 35 year educator and self-taught programmer. In 2000, I developed the first version of Citation Machine as a way for teachers to more easily cite the resources they used in their teaching -- in order to model the respectful use of other people's information.