Module 9 – Summarize Learning Using the 3-2-1 Strategy
Making Content Connections (Strategy Application)
Three ideas from reading
· IAL, chapter 9: Perspective writing through RAFT (Role, Audience, Format, and Topic)
Fang & Park: Three roles that academic language plays in schooling
Medium of
knowledge transmission
Tool for thinking
and intellectual development
A ticket and visiting
card
Students with
writing disabilities can achieve significant growth through discipline specific
reading and writing intervention
Two
strategies I will use
The Threaded discussion board (IAL, chapter 9), as it provides great flexibility in both time and subject matter and requires students to think on their own while writing to learn.
RAFT (IAL, chapter 9 and Power Tools, chapter 6), as it allows students to select certain aspects of the assignment for themselves, and requires students to construct perspectives other than their own.
One
question remaining
Excellent post as always, John! I like your question a lot. I associate school with a lot of pen-and-paper activity and I wonder how students' experiences, and their needs, might have changed as they do more on computers. I always thought that writing something by hand makes it easier to remember, but that might have been confirmation bias. (Or maybe magical thinking -- I was always looking for an excuse not to study, and telling myself that taking the notes was the same as reviewing them was a pretty good one) In any case, I also agree with your interest in using RAFT. Learning to understand perspective is the basis of pretty much all the humanities, so it's no small skill!
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