My head's on fire generating ideas jim burke

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This is a pdf version of the session I gave on 3/13/2011 at the Michigan Reading Association conference in Grand Rapids. I had to save it as a pdf as the Keynote file was too large to post.

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My Head’s on Fire!

Teaching Students How to Generate Ideas for Reading, Writing, and Thinkingby Jim Burke, Burlingame High School

What is the problem for which generating ideas is the solution?

1. Students learn skills and knowledge in multiple lesson types.

2. Teachers integrate test preparations into instruction.

3. Teachers make connections across instruction, curriculum, grades, and life.

4. Students learn strategies for doing the work.

5. Students are expected to be generative thinkers.

6. Classrooms foster cognitive collaboration.

Six Features of Effective Literacy Instruction

from Beating the Odds: Teaching Middle and High School Students to Read and Write Well (2002) by Judith Langer (http://cela.albany.edu)

1. Students learn skills and knowledge in multiple lesson types.

2. Teachers integrate test preparations into instruction.

3. Teachers make connections across instruction, curriculum, grades, and life.

4. Students learn strategies for doing the work.

5. Students are expected to be generative thinkers.

6. Classrooms foster cognitive collaboration.

Six Features of Effective Literacy Instruction

from Beating the Odds: Teaching Middle and High School Students to Read and Write Well (2002) by Judith Langer (http://cela.albany.edu)

Generative Tools and Techniques• Reading

• Talking

• Viewing

• Listing

• Writing

• Representing

• Researching

• Survey Monkey

• Visual Thesaurus

• Wordle

• Post-Its/Poster Paper

• Whiteboard/Projector

• Videos (YouTube)

• Groups (online/in-class)

• Models

• Questions

• Analogies

• Texts

• Images

that improve reading, writing, and thinking?

How can we use technology to generate ideas

that improve reading, writing, and thinking?

How can we use reading and writing to generate ideas

that improve reading, writing, and thinking?

How can we use speakers to generate ideas

that improve reading, writing, and thinking?

How can we use images to generate ideas

Game Theory Complexity Theory Social Darwinism Uncertainty Principle

that improve reading, writing, and thinking?

How can we use graphics to generate ideas

that improve reading, writing, and thinking?

How can we use questions to generate ideas

that improve reading, writing, and thinking?

How can we use discussion to generate ideas

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