Comments for More than Myself http://gaspara.edublogs.org Just another Edublogs.org weblog Sat, 03 May 2008 19:25:52 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 Comment on Hello world! by katelingrande http://gaspara.edublogs.org/2007/05/29/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-9 katelingrande Sat, 03 May 2008 19:25:52 +0000 #comment-9 Welcome to the SI 08! Welcome to the SI 08!

]]> Comment on Shifting the Way We Teach English by Tim Dewar http://gaspara.edublogs.org/2007/07/09/prompts-for-my-teacher-piece/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Tim Dewar Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:57:52 +0000 http://gaspara.edublogs.org/2007/07/09/prompts-for-my-teacher-piece/#comment-8 Move it a bit forward every day. At least open the document. If you are not willing to make that minimal commitment, then... That was advice I received on writing my dissertation. It was hard to open and not do at least a bit of tinkering. Move it a bit forward every day. At least open the document. If you are not willing to make that minimal commitment, then…

That was advice I received on writing my dissertation. It was hard to open and not do at least a bit of tinkering.

]]> Comment on Shifting the Way We Teach English by Mary http://gaspara.edublogs.org/2007/07/09/prompts-for-my-teacher-piece/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Mary Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:29:35 +0000 http://gaspara.edublogs.org/2007/07/09/prompts-for-my-teacher-piece/#comment-7 I love this start, but then again, I wrote it! Will I finish it? That is the question. So this is me saying to me that you need to make time to finish it. Just do it. You can. I love this start, but then again, I wrote it! Will I finish it? That is the question. So this is me saying to me that you need to make time to finish it. Just do it. You can.

]]> Comment on Shifting the Way We Teach English by smakki http://gaspara.edublogs.org/2007/07/09/prompts-for-my-teacher-piece/comment-page-1/#comment-6 smakki Sun, 15 Jul 2007 21:32:05 +0000 http://gaspara.edublogs.org/2007/07/09/prompts-for-my-teacher-piece/#comment-6 It's a great start to your teacher piece! The Multiliteracy Express is one that cannot be missed by educators. It’s a great start to your teacher piece! The Multiliteracy Express is one that cannot be missed by educators.

]]> Comment on Shifting the Way We Teach English by Camille http://gaspara.edublogs.org/2007/07/09/prompts-for-my-teacher-piece/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Camille Sun, 15 Jul 2007 20:21:00 +0000 http://gaspara.edublogs.org/2007/07/09/prompts-for-my-teacher-piece/#comment-5 I am just starting to see that, especially through the writing project. We need to change our attitudes and get on board with this decade! I am just starting to see that, especially through the writing project. We need to change our attitudes and get on board with this decade!

]]> Comment on Shifting the Way We Teach English by hvwpsi06 http://gaspara.edublogs.org/2007/07/09/prompts-for-my-teacher-piece/comment-page-1/#comment-4 hvwpsi06 Thu, 12 Jul 2007 03:10:37 +0000 http://gaspara.edublogs.org/2007/07/09/prompts-for-my-teacher-piece/#comment-4 And that's great to have here, but what about your writing Ms. Mary? BK BLogger And that’s great to have here, but what about your writing Ms. Mary?
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]]> Comment on Shifting the Way We Teach English by gaspara http://gaspara.edublogs.org/2007/07/09/prompts-for-my-teacher-piece/comment-page-1/#comment-3 gaspara Mon, 09 Jul 2007 19:16:29 +0000 http://gaspara.edublogs.org/2007/07/09/prompts-for-my-teacher-piece/#comment-3 If you haven’t been an avid reader of English Education, you may not have noticed that the English class you took with Miss. Hardy in seventh grade, the one where you read Edgar Allan Poe and defined “foreshadow” and tried to figure out whether the blank should be filled by “lie,” “lay,” or “laid” doesn’t exist anymore. Or maybe it does exist, but you better keep your fingers crossed that Miss. Hardy and the rest of her English-teaching colleagues have included in their curriculum something academics refer to as “multiliteracy.” What is “multiliteracy?” This concept represents, perhaps, the first revolution in CONTENT in the English language arts. And like every matter of content in this field, it is contested. Every since its inception as a field, WHAT is taught in English class, one of the only classes required EVERY year of a child’s K-12 education, but that is surprisingly unsettled as to what it actually is. Perhaps this is why everyone, from Dick Cheney to Noam Chomsky can agree that THIS is an important class. But rather than let “multiliteracy” sneak into the ELA curriculum, I want to make a case for its inclusion, and for a radical re-envisionment of the field of ELA in the service of educating the general public—from taxpayers to parents, to students themselves. Multiliteracy is too important to be silent about the matter. I will argue that multiliteracy is more that a skill. It is an attitude. And that both the skills and the attitude need to be supported in K-12 classrooms for English to be relevant to students and the world they inhabit. If you haven’t been an avid reader of English Education, you may not have noticed that the English class you took with Miss. Hardy in seventh grade, the one where you read Edgar Allan Poe and defined “foreshadow” and tried to figure out whether the blank should be filled by “lie,” “lay,” or “laid” doesn’t exist anymore. Or maybe it does exist, but you better keep your fingers crossed that Miss. Hardy and the rest of her English-teaching colleagues have included in their curriculum something academics refer to as “multiliteracy.” What is “multiliteracy?” This concept represents, perhaps, the first revolution in CONTENT in the English language arts. And like every matter of content in this field, it is contested. Every since its inception as a field, WHAT is taught in English class, one of the only classes required EVERY year of a child’s K-12 education, but that is surprisingly unsettled as to what it actually is. Perhaps this is why everyone, from Dick Cheney to Noam Chomsky can agree that THIS is an important class.
But rather than let “multiliteracy” sneak into the ELA curriculum, I want to make a case for its inclusion, and for a radical re-envisionment of the field of ELA in the service of educating the general public—from taxpayers to parents, to students themselves. Multiliteracy is too important to be silent about the matter.
I will argue that multiliteracy is more that a skill. It is an attitude. And that both the skills and the attitude need to be supported in K-12 classrooms for English to be relevant to students and the world they inhabit.

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