Intersecting Literacies: What Happened At the Working Conference

April 20, 2010

Hello and welcome to the home of Intersecting Literacies, a working conference held at San Diego Mesa College April 16th 2010. Here you will find materials passed out to participants as well as the responses and “queens” we collected. Stay tuned! Click here for the Intersecting Literacies  Multi-Modal Packet Click above to see the Post [...]

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Equity, Integrative Learning, Literacy, Making Visible, Metacognition, Multimedia, Reading, Student Confidence, Student Voice, Technology, Video Evidence, Writing | Comments (0)

Mt. SAC Inquiry Event–April 23, 2010

March 25, 2010

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER Mt SAC Save the Date

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Basic Skills in Context, Career Technical Education, Developing Questions, Facilitating FIGs, Faculty Inquiry Groups (FIG), Learning to Learn, Making Visible, Student Voice, Uncategorized | Comments (0)

Marvin and Raul pairwork

November 12, 2009

An example of contextualized learning, using the think aloud method–student takes time to produce the words he is looking to express. Teacher coaches and other student helps. The student then uses motions in the repetition of recalled expression. Marvin and Raul pairwork

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Basic Skills in Context, Career Technical Education, Integrative Learning, Learning Communities, Learning to Learn, Literacy, Performance Assessment, Student Teams, Student Voice, Think Alouds, Video Evidence | Comments (0)

Pre-Algebra Think Alouds

July 6, 2009

This video shows several students solving the same pre-algebra think aloud. The Cerritos College FIN Team is looking for statements revealing student metacognitive self-regulation (see elements and example statements below). Metacognitive Self-Regulation Elements Problem Analysis (“This problem is asking ….”) Strategy selection based on problem requirements (“I need to make a table.”) Intentional use of [...]

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Another Mesa Assignment/”Where I’m From”

June 29, 2009

Some of you asked about assignments we use to help students become comfortable discussing their personal lives. We also discussed how “disclosure” can have a variety of effects. Here is an assignment we use at the beginning of class to help students open up while learning how to do a close reading, respond to text, [...]

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Cerritos College FIN Progress Report, Summer 2009

June 25, 2009

Cerritos College FIN Progress Report, Summer 2009

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Identity, Math, Metacognition, Student Interviews, Video Evidence | Comments (0)

LPC–Talking to Our Students

May 14, 2009

Student questions posted for all to use!

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Berkeley City College Preview: Unity

May 11, 2009

Berkeley City College — Unity Hi folks, I showed Sean this video last week, and he was going to post it on the commons for all to see, but I’m tooling around and decided to do it myself. It’s a video shot by our student team videographer before even getting started on this project, and [...]

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Student Voices: Why We Hate Math

May 5, 2009

Four students taking precollegiate math classes give their theories about why soooo many students HATE math. This is a short excerpt from a series of student interviews at Los Medanos College posted on YouTube.

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Student Team at BCC

April 25, 2009

STUDENT TEAM DEVELOPMENT: When first encouraged by the FIN staff to work with students on this project, it seemed to be a logical, if not difficult, choice. Students who live and breathe the lessons that we teach, or attempt to teach, should be both the subjects of our research and our co-pilots. Of course, the [...]

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