Dr. Barbara Moss of San Diego State University interviews artist Liz Jardine in San Diego about the role literacy plays in her art and her art business, and the role art plays in literacy.
Art teacher Tim Benson responds in this podcast to the YouTube video interview with Barbara Moss and Liz Jardine who discuss the role of literacy in creating art. Tim is also the President of the San Diego County Art Education Association.
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Alex Gonzalez interviews Paul Hill about the demands of literacy in the technology industry in this video. Alex is a technology expert in education at Health Sciences High and Middle College. Paul works in the technology and entertainment industry.
Next, Annaleah Enriquez, a health educator at Health Sciences High and Middle College in San Diego responded with ideas for engaging students based on the interview with Alex and Paul. Please listen to this podcast:
Cynthia H. Brock interviewed Cal Anderson of SpaceX and Joe Assof of Health Sciences High and Middle College about the intersections of literacy, mechanical engineering, and mathematics in this video series.
In Part I, Cindy, Cal, and Joe discuss some of the expectations and demands of language in the mechanical engineering field.
In Part II, the team converses about how the ideas they discussed in Part I might look in the classroom. At two points in the conversation, Joe provided video of his students in the classrooms. Look for the callout to take you to the classroom videos or view them separately, below.
In this video, Joe Assof works through a complex problem with a group of 11th graders where they have to understand the context of the problem and what is being asked in order to understand how to apply the mathematics. Notice how the students use language to support their understanding in mathematics.
Joe is working with an outstanding group of students who use close-reading to understand two short word problems in this video. The students are using an annotation scaffold to guide their thinking as they read and discuss the word problems.
Next, W. Ian O’Bryne, College of Charleston, interviews Kurt Becker, Utah State University, about intersections of engineering education, design, STEM, and literacy.
You may also access this set of videos in the Interview Series that have to do with STEM topics as a playlist on YouTube.
Soon, I will have these interviews uploaded as podcasts to iTunes or GooglePlay, so stay tuned!
This week on Literacy Beat, I gathered some resources for teaching students to create and critique effective arguments. This list will appear in Literacy in the Disciplines: A Field Guide by Thomas DeVere Wolsey and Diane Lapp to be published by Guilford Press in summer 2016.
In the first section, you will find several resources that are useful across disciplines. The second section includes argumentation resources for specific disciplines, such as science, social studies, and mathematics. Have you found useful resources for working with argumentation in your classroom? Please share them in the comments section, below, or send me an email.
General Resources:
The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University has a wealth of resources for writers in schools and universities. Though this one on argumentative essays is intended for use by university students, it is accessible for high school students, as well. https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/685/05/
The WebEnglishTeacher has compiled a number of resources for teachers to use as they and their students work with opinions and arguments including suggested prompts from the New York Times.http://www.webenglishteacher.com/argument.html
The Utah Education Network (UEN) offers many resources for teachers and students, as well. The resources include handouts, explanatory material (such as a lesson on the differences between argumentation, persuasion, and propaganda from ReadWriteThink), and graphic organizers. There are so many resources for teachers here, that you will end up spending quite a bit of time on the site. Be sure to fill your coffee cup before you start browsing. http://www.uen.org/core/languagearts/writing/argumentative.shtml
Social Studies: This site offers some tips for writing in history using evidence with links to guides for high school and middle school teachers along with guides for teaching students to annotate documents and read them closely. http://teachinghistory.org/issues-and-research/research-brief/24487
Mathematics: Making the Case: Mathematical Argumentation is a video from WGBH Education that explores arguments in math. https://youtu.be/pVdH91NkEzM
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