This week I read an article titled, “A Planning Framework for Integrating Digital Literacies for Disciplinary Learning,” which took a slight spin on what I have been previously been learning about disciplinary literacy. This article is focused on the notion that digital literacies and disciplinary literacies should be integrated together within the disciplines. It goes …
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This week, I read an article titled, “Inquiry into Assessment Strategies: From Kidwatching to Responsive Teaching” by Heidi Mills and Tim O’Keefe. This article offered many strategies regarding using inquiry for assessment; however, I would like to focus this blog on the concept of “kidwatching.” This entire article is based off of the teaching strategies …
This week I read a very interesting study that was published by Shanahan, Shanahan, and Misischia. This study was titled, “Analysis of Expert Readers in Three Disciplines: History, Mathematics, and Chemistry,” and it researched through an investigation the similarities and differences of how literacy is read across these three disciplines. For a quick summary of …
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September 24, 2019 For the past 5 or so weeks, I have been learning about disciplinary literacy. After reading article after article and having class discussion after class discussion about how wonderful disciplinary literacy is and all the amazing benefits of it for students, I was still a bit skeptical on how disciplinary literacy can …
As my journey through the ins and outs, do’s and don’t’s of disciplinary literacy continues, one of my burning questions has finally been answered. But, I am going to keep you suspense just a tad bit longer. As I have been reading all these intriguing articles about disciplinary literacy, I have been blown away with …
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As discussed last week, I was introduced to a new concept in the field of education known as Disciplinary Literacy. Now that this concept has been defined, I was granted the opportunity to take my understanding to a new level which circulated around the question of “how does disciplinary teaching look across the different school …
For the first time, I was introduced to the term “disciplinary literacy.” While I am familiar with the definition of these two words by themselves, these words together created a concept that was foreign to me. After reading the works of Wolsey & Lapp as well as Moje, I recognize now the extreme importance of …
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