week 11 prompts

Please post responses by Monday 11:59pm at the latest.  

Q#1. On (reader) page 724-5, Hull et al discuss the 

importance of agency and "de/recontextualization" and, 

in Gee's terms, how "good learning requires that learners 

feel like active agents (producers) not just passive 

 recipients (consumers)." With these ideas in mind, 

discuss how the teachers in the Parker excerpts enabled 

students to learn agentively. What implications do 

these approaches have for pedagogy in general? 

Q#2. Choose one of the learning principles discussed 

in Gee's article about video games and discuss how you 

would use a video game to teach specific content 

(a concept in math, physics, language arts, physical education...)

week 10 reading prompts

Hi all,

I'm late again! Dang! Sorry!! I'll give you an extra day to respond :-). Consider an impromptu gift for writing such awesome literacy autobiographies! Please 

post your blog response no later than Monday @ 11:59 pm. Thanks and see you all 

soon!

Q#2 In "'To Protect and Serve': African American Female Literacies",
Richardson touches on several overarching course themes (multiple
definitions of literacy, literacy as a social practice, race), as well as
more narrow course topics (stereotypes, AAVE, gendered literacy practices,
bridging home and school literacies, etc), just to name a few. On page 655
(reader page), Richardson argues that "Black teachers who can codeswitch
can help students to decode texts and contexts, offering them models of
learners who go both ways- across the borders."

Considering all you've read up to this point, how would you respond to
Richardson's quote? Do you agree? Disagree? Use at least 2 authors from
past readings to support your answer.

Q#2 Summarize Newkirk's discussion on television watching and its relationship to  nonfiction and fiction literary genres in the classroom.  Does the recent 

explosion of 'reality' TV make Newkirk's comments more or less relevant today? 

this week's blog responses

hi all,

if you need to respond to a blog this week here are the questions. Please respond by tomorrow night by 11:59 pm. thanks!

Q#1 Do you agree with Ogbu's argument regarding the classification of
   "minorities?" And do you find it a useful tool for discussing and closing
   the "achievement gap?"

Q#2 How have "model minority" mythologies affected you? And how does Lee
   connect to Ogbu's work?

no blogs this week! see bspace announcement for more information!

No blog this week! see bspace announcements for more information!

week 8 prompts

Once again, I forgot to post this last night.... sorry but at least this time i remembered early enough. Please post your responses by 11:59p on Sunday. Thanks!

Q1:  What is/are Lisa Delpit's major argument(s) about power in the classroom in the text Other People's Children?

Q2: In Black Skins, White Masks, Fanon argues that "the Negro of the Antilles, whoever he is, has always to face the problem of language"(p.18 in reader). What problem is Fanon referring to?