I like how during the design thinking process you have to work in groups so that way it gives you a variety of different ideas, rather than just being a whole group. I believe that this is a great tool for enhancing learning because it gives the students a way of learning that they have never experienced before. This process would be great for English because it provides the students with different ways of writing. This could also be a great way to integrate a debate with different groups and whichever group won their prototype could be presented to experts. I think this would have been very interesting and fun to do when I was in school instead of always doing bookwork. I would have really enjoyed coming to that class. A question that I have would be: How would you find experts to present this prototype to?
It is crazy that teachers don’t model strategies for reading expository text. Also that comprehension instruction was seldom observed in grades 1-3 at a high performing school. I can’t believe that teachers didn’t explain how to read a science textbook and be able to learn the material. I found it interesting that when students were tested, the students that read magazines and experienced expository text, had higher averages than those students who didn’t read expository text. I wonder how long it took to do this research and find this kind of information to be true? As I was reading the text I came across this line that I felt was very important; the need to not only understand information but also evaluate it is a necessity in today’s world. This is very important to know because just because you understand something doesn’t mean that you really know what it’s talking about.
I agree! Teachers can model all day long about strategies to use with regular texts in reading class and language arts, but when it comes to using expository texts it seems to fall to the wayside. I also agree with your last statement. That just because you understand it doesnt mean you know what it is talking about.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading this post! I also agree with your statement on teachers who don't model strategies in all content areas. Reading is everywhere and teachers should transition these strategies across the content, not just in "reading" class. I wish that there were more teachers out there that knew more about these tools to help students decipher expository text and actually understand what they're reading.
ReplyDeleteI had an experience in one of my observations where the only reading strategy used in the whole classroom was Round Robin Reading... Poor things could only focus on how the sounded instead of what they were reading. Thank goodness for our education! No Round Robin for me.