I really enjoyed your discussion of digital writing, anchor charts, and mentor texts. I tried out your links and bookmarked a couple of them.
This week the readings are all about assessing reading and writing in
digital spaces as well as creativity, collaboration, communication,
critical thinking and comprehension and the social practices around
digital tools. One aspect of this assessment is helping students be
metacognitve and assess themselves and their own learning and enactment
of these key features of participation in New Literacies. I thought I'd
do a little self assessment in terms of reflecting on my own
incorporation of the 6 social practices into my blogging, collaboration
and communication. So here goes:
1. Contextualizing digital texts: My blog is hopefully is serving the
purpose of activating your knowledge of our topic and helping you to
make connections before you read, so I carefully choose what I want to
write about and how I frame what I ask. I'm not always as successful as
I would wish, so I have been working on being more specific and having
some modeling of my thinking in my writing.
2. Making connections between texts and people: I think I'm doing okay
in the blog, and am continuing to work on discussion prompts for my other class.
3. Collaborative understanding and creation of digital texts: I have been working with two other people on conceptualizing a research project and writing a proposal for a presentation via Google docs. It is working pretty well, especially if we do a synchronous discussion via Zoom or Skype.
4. Adopting alternative modes of communication: Well, not so good in terms of multimodal issues, but I am thinking about doing more chatting, and I do work with several students via Zoom or Skype.
5. Adopting alternative perspectives: I have been trying to do that when
I read your blog and the discussion boards for my classes, putting myself in your shoes to understand your key
points and how you picked them out.
6. Constructing and enacting identities: I definitely do that with this
blog as I construct my teacher identity, and hopefully my guide toward
understanding.
Before you begin reading, think about and assess your own incorporation
of the 6 social practices into your New Literacies participation in this
class (that would be in your blog, your use
of the VCI, your
inquiry topic as you look for information for your chapter or integrate
New Literacies into classroom practice).
Here are some key ideas/terms that I think you need to look for and pay
attention to as you read for this week and that I would like to see
used in your blog:
scenario based
tasks, reader based response, meta-cognitive reflection, self
assessment, static electronic feedback, intertextual commentary,
marginal and end commentary, screen cast, dynamic response, holistic and
analytic rubrics, dynamic criteria mapping.
Of course, you also need to discuss
what you think are important ideas related to assessment in digital
spaces and of New Literacies activity.
Have a lovely Fall Weekend.
