Ayeee another case of tech still thinking it’s the silver bullet to people problem and ignoring the fact that it’s a bullet pointing the wrong way https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vb98pb/google-jigsaw-became-toxic-mess
What we mean by “the role of context” is the recognition that writing is not just a cognitive process but a social and cultural one. Writing and writers develop through interactions with one an-other over time.
Such ideas about the role of context and culture in writing development underlie a sociocultural per-spective that pays particular attention to the ways that writers develop practices and identities over time and in interactions with others, recognizing that “conventional encoding is not arrived at in a uniform, linear path (Clay, 1998) and that composing involves much more than encoding” (Dyson, 2015, p. 201).
In many ways it is this identity as a reader and writer we need to build in the classroom, this has to go beyond a grade number or a box in a rubric
which positions teachers to draw on their local knowledge to contextualize learning offers insights into how to interpret and implement the Standards in more meaningful ways.
- describ-ing what the Standards explicit-ly say
- highlighting additional information from the Standards that may be missed without dig-ging deeper into the appendix-es
- detailing important components that the Standards do not address.
A student could make this a write post, go through some standards or lesson plans using this as a lens
Writing Anchor Standards 1–4 identify three text forms for students to master: opinion/argument, in-formative/explanatory, and narrative. They also suggest an explicit focus on task, purpose, and audience (see Table 1)
Not much on exploring your world or focusing on writing for change
Privileging Argument as a Text Type Is Contested. “While all three text types are important, the Standards put particular emphasis on students’ abil-ity to write sound arguments on substantive topics and is-sues, as this ability is critical to college and career emphasis”
Why is argument considered the pinnacle of our education? What if we focused on civic and community ready before college ready.
Toulmin-style graphic organizer, which fo-cuses on warranting claims with evidence, for an essay assignment about whether schools should foster individuality or conformity. Olson, Scarcella, and Matuchniak (2015) similarly described why ar-gument is a linguistically and rhetorically difficult text type for English learners, suggesting that nar-rative forms should be taught first as a foundation before focusing on more complex text types.
Argumentation is a very western and very male way of looking at knowledge
. Sociocultural teachers pay attention to the kind of work and learning accomplished during the production of written genres, not just the surface fea-tures of the textual form. They move beyond asking if writing looks right to understanding what students are doing and accomplishing with their writing. As Bazerman and Prior (2005) put it, “learning genres in-volves learning to act—with other people, artifacts, and environments, all of which are themselves in on-going processes of change and development” (p. 147).
Writing as inquiry and examining multiple persepectives
By Rebecca Woodard, Sonia Kline
Now would be a great time for someone to announce that they got a new e-mail client that just handles e-mail.
That said, anyone wanna highlight companies or organizations you know that are working on helping people? Bonus points for B-corps!
Superhuman is just going to rebrand. None of the creepy shit is going to go away.
I had to get over keeping books long term. I have too many but I opt to capture notes and quotes then let them go. https://twitter.com/TheLexTimes/status/1146201976675295233