Dr Cynthia Greenleaf - Developing in Digital Worlds

Developing in Digital Worlds with Cynthia Greenleaf!!

Setting Discussion Norms 

• It is important to set discussion norms in your classroom. "How we support each other in the classroom" - Can co-construct with your class.
• Changeable 
• Can be added to over time. 

Those who do the reading, thinking and talking are the ones doing the learning. 

How do we get a dialogic argumentation? 
Allow students to engaged in texts that pose different ideas. Allow students to engage in discussions where they have to justify their ideas.

Slip or Trip Example:

Discuss in small groups.
Find evidence explain its importance.

Skill: Make a claim, can find evidence, can't link the two with critically reasoning.

Go Meta! - Metacognitive, go meta with our relationships

Refine our norm! - What supports collaborative argumentation? (Positive rules)

Think about online discussions? Students are in a world where they can talk online in many different forums. Are we allowing students to have opportunities to negotiate social norms?

Online forums create distances between those interacting and talking - we are unable to read facial cues and gestures.

https://www.readingapprenticeship.org/


Next Steps for myself:
What about another point of view? How could you use the point to support your argument?

Selective Bias -
Argumentation writing- Show all perspectives, weigh them up and then come to a conclusion.

Getting students to be comfortable with the 'unsolved' with wonderings. No right or wrong answer

Provocation/ Picture Idea!

Once a week where students have to respond and contest their beliefs. Could upload to the class blog. Students could write their response??- Do with Sally!

Could review their conversations 'go meta' or 'analyze evidence'.