Workshop 1
Surfing Semantic Waves
Dr Jannie van Hawes
Dr Jannie van Hawes
Semantic - meaning-making
We want to take students from text simple to text complex.
Newsela Max - you can change the level of complexity of the texts to fit with your students.
We want to surf our students down and then up again in the complexity of text.
When we put together the 'learning' we need to start with the nugget of the learning, the key to what we want the students to walk away with and then moving onto what we need to do to create support in order to help them get to the complex.
The workshop did leave me with some questions around how taking texts, rewriting it for the learners supports the high leverage practise of authentic texts? I also wonder if we as educators set glass ceilings for our students because we 'know' where they are at? Finally, I wondered about how, with many of these things being focussed on ESOL, this concept sits after our morning session looking at valuing the first languages of our learners?
Many questions to ponder and discuss with others that attended this session.
Workshop 2
Engage the high school reader with Multimodal Resources
Maria Krausse and Kerry Boyde-Preece from MET
When using Multi-Modal are looking at two types of engagement - behavioural (the hook) and cognitive (T-shaped/text sets).
Many different places you can find content.
There are some practical suggestions for high school teachers to make it more engaging.
I really liked the idea of using a snapshot from a student's blog and then linking to the actual blog.
The presentation was really practical and allowed for teachers to see many examples of how they could take multi-modal and fit it within a high school context.
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