Digital Literacies are crucial for the development of all students’ learning in the 21stcentury classroom. Today, digital literacies include resources such as gathering information as a part of inquiry, visualizing data, generating visual representations, and communication. In order to be successful with this skill, you must be able to adequately read, write, and express ideas …
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Phase 1 Research Report
Holy Literacy!
Not once, throughout this entire course, did I ever think of how religion and spiritual studies are taught and learned through a disciplinary literacy lens. It is ironic, being that I attend a spiritual university where its core values are surrounded by a religious scope. Religion is its own discipline where many researchers, for thousands …
The Art of Being a Responsible Citizen
Throughout my high school career, my social studies classes incorporated a concept known as sourcing which was something that was incredibly challenging to wrap my head around because the directions were never clear and the knowledge was never transferred to us properly within our classes. Sourcing was almost a “bad word” that was said in …
Disciplinary Literacy in Action!
Out of all of the resources that we have been given to help us understand and comprehend disciplinary literacy, the videos have finally turned a light on in my mind about how to fully grasp the concept and understand why it is important. The first video I watched, the Reading Rockets video, was engaging and …
Disciplinary Literacy in Elementary Classrooms
Disciplinary Literacy is a concept that all teachers, regardless of content and age level, should support and introduce within their classes. I do believe that more advanced elementary classrooms should implement disciplinary literacy within their curriculum. This may benefit their learning and help students reach the next level of higher cognitive thinking to prepare them …
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Week 2 – Rainey and Houseal
Now that I have a solid foundation with disciplinary literacy and content area, I am able to distinguish how different these two concepts are as well as utilize different techniques that can enhance my student’s thinking and knowledge they retain in the classroom. Content, content area, and disciplinary literacy have been interwoven in many of …
Week 1 – Moje, Wolsey & Lapp
The difference between content area literacy and discipline literacy caused me to dive deeper into the meanings of both terms and to understand how I, a preservice teacher, can try and tackle these two important concepts within my classroom with the resources I may or may not have and the time I am allotted. Wolsey …
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