The Common Core Ate My Baby! & Back Channeling
Technology
From the Common Core State Standards...
“To be ready for college, workforce training, and life in a technological society, students need the ability to gather, comprehend, evaluate, synthesize, and report on information and ideas, to conduct original research in order to answer questions or solve problems, and to analyze and create a high volume and extensive range of print and nonprint texts in media forms old and new.”
ELA Common Core Shifts
Academic Vocabulary Reinforcer:
Common Core Commercial: Staircase of Text Complexity
- Quantitative - measured by "computer" example: Lexiles
- Qualitative - measured by the reader - demands upon the reader example: text structure; vocabulary
- Reader & Task - measure by the TEACHER - learning purpose - demands of the task and how the text meets those demands
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ELA Shift - Digital Writing!
Digital writing is the art and practice of preparing documents primarily by computer and often for online delivery. Digital writing often requires attention to the theories and practices of designing, planning, constructing, and maintaining dynamic and interactive texts--texts that may wind up fragmented and published within and across databases. Texts that may, and often do, include multiple media elements, such as images, video, and audio. from The WIDE Research Center Collective "Why Teach Digital Writing" http://www.technorhetoric.net/10.1/coverweb/wide/
Math Shift - Application: Connected to real life problems and situations:
Infographics -Digital Reading and Writing & Mathematics
TECH TIP BREAK: HOW TO COPY, CUT, PASTE & EMBED
- COPY - ctrl-c
- CUT - ctrl-x
- PASTE - ctrl-v
- EMBED (video, widget, chart, etc.) http://youtu.be/gauN0gzxTcU
Task: Create an Infographic
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COPYRIGHT BREAK
MEMEs - Digital Writing succient and purposeful
MEME Assignement Your Students Will LOVE
Task: Create a meme
Math Shift - Fluency: Master with Speed Simple Calculations
Reading, Digital Reading & The Common Core
Stone, Tanya Lee. Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream.Candlewick. 2009. ISBN 978-0-76363-611-1. Gr 6 Up
CC Standard RI.8.6 Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.
In the early 1960s, 13 women highly qualified to become astronauts were excluded by NASA from the Mercury space program. This appealing Sibert Award winner, notable for the author’s strong point of view, explores the reasons and biases behind the decision. Students can examine the text for language and other evidence that show Stone’s position on the topic and the people involved. For example, what words does she use to describe the women, some of whom she interviewed? How does she present opposing viewpoints that argued that women shouldn’t be included? One of the book’s main themes is that society minimized women’s abilities and restricted their opportunities. Students can consider how photographs and artifacts like advertisements are used to make that case, and if it’s presented fairly.
CC Standard RI.8.6 Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.
In the early 1960s, 13 women highly qualified to become astronauts were excluded by NASA from the Mercury space program. This appealing Sibert Award winner, notable for the author’s strong point of view, explores the reasons and biases behind the decision. Students can examine the text for language and other evidence that show Stone’s position on the topic and the people involved. For example, what words does she use to describe the women, some of whom she interviewed? How does she present opposing viewpoints that argued that women shouldn’t be included? One of the book’s main themes is that society minimized women’s abilities and restricted their opportunities. Students can consider how photographs and artifacts like advertisements are used to make that case, and if it’s presented fairly.