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Talking about homecoming for his house. T-shirts as sign of passion, embodied history. Hunter S. Johnson Sports Death (like “carpe diem” w/skull (Thompson T-shirt that’s famous). Remixed it to celebrate Henry’s last year-14 years. Sign can be scary w/o knowledge but if you engage with them about it you can find out a lot underneath [...]
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Michele Honeyford from UIndiana working w/Becky Rupert from Aurora Alerntative HS and Rafi from Global Kds working w/ guy form SOmerville Why Wikipedia: embodies participatory culture (all must believe htey are Rheingold: “Wikis allow for collaboartive comms that can share knowledge nad ideas w” low tech. barrier Contested in classroom spaces so brings otgther ?s [...]
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Worked w/Dianne ? to integrate Zooey’s Room (http://www.zoeysroom.com/) into classroom (particularly Fail & Fail Often module from Learning Library) at Esperanza Academy-all girls middle school in Lawrence MA. Zooey’s Room is STEM & media class in school ZR is online comm and offline after school program; girls learned better in group collab environment so ed [...]
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Overview: Assessment & testing as participation (treat as discourses) Multiple levels of assessment & feedback (align through immediate, close & proximal activity) Standards & skills as formalisms (must enlist b4 enlisting appropriately or correctly) Close-level reflection guidelines Rationale: Participatory assessment Teaching to the test is as useful as the tests are meaningful (NCLB showed external [...]
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First session (hashtag #nml09) Participatory culture Low barriers for engagement Strong support for sharing creations w/others Members believe contributions matter (Classroom 2.0) Care about others’ opinions of self and work Project NML Learning Library (launch today) TSG Reading (strategy guides) TSG Mapping (strategy guides) Project Good Play Share and engage with above (prof dev, case [...]
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