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they will try to write to learn activities in my classrooms

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Stories, poems, cartoons or articles in fantastic magazines, could help the pupils to be creative and happy, in difficult scientific fields.

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(1) Well, I should use “write to learn activities” because it is a student centered approach that fosters creativity.

(2) I could use writing to learn activities in any form of presentation that marks student’s engagement. That could be, presentations of the experimental design, of the results or the proposal for future experiments.

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I look forward to try diaries in classroom, thats something i haven`t used yet

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be at the end of each lesson;
writing to learn activities
Ask students at the end of a lesson or a topic to write their previous knowledge about the topic and the new knowledge they acquired through the teacher’s input in the form of:

-        Diary

-        Letter to peers

-        Poem

-        Rap/Song lyrics

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experiments are interesting for children, they learn to follow the processes and develop their own conclusions

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It provides a good flow of ideas and also help in recalling the concepts learnt earlier and organise the thoughts in a systematic manners. It gives the students freedom to express in whichever way they are comfortable. I will try and include the poetic method as it seems quite appealing to me.

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The writings provide a feedback. the data for the evaluation is eliminated. for example I keep the diary of the day course.

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I think it's a good way to combine scientific knowledge with creativity.

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I think it is a good resource after learn the theory or implementations in a creative way

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I could use writing as a summary of the department, where students can demonstrate acquired knowledge

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They have to think about what they know about the subject and how to use that knowledge in life. They have to process the information before puting it down on paper.
They could write a letter to their great-great - great -grandfather about modern day life (e.g. electricity, wi-fi, cloning).

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Writing to learn activities can help students build confidence in their thinking (especially those who are less likely to share their thinking in the whole class setting). Writing to learn activities provide students with opportunities to revisit, review, and refine their thinking and learning. By including the writing process with their scientific thinking, it can increase their processing skills and the understanding of knowledge, concepts, and skills. I already use writing to learn activities as a part of my science teaching and learning, but I through this module, I have learned additional ways that I can incorporate these activities (increase their use) and alternative ways to assess their work!

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Promotes the ability and capacity to put into words the thoughts. It helps to gain confidence in himself and to let go of fears. They develop the ability to analyze and summarize, connect concepts with reality.

I would like writing to learn activities with letters, poems and a newspaper in padlet writing as news.

Share, co-evaluate and celebrate the group's achievements. They have fun learning

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Writing to Learn Activities in your classrooms
Why do you think you should use writing to learn activities in your classrooms? How do you think you could use writing to learn activities in your classrooms?

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Why: writing to learn has positive effects on the students
How : letter, poems, song

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Writing to learn activities can help students transpose their ideas, knowledge, and doubts into paper. In sciences where being able to analyze and interpret result and observations and draw conclusions is an important step towards the acquisition of scientific knowledge. In order for students to be able to do laboratory reports, it is necessary to start with simpler approaches that are closer to their own experiences, such as letters and journals.

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Iam really interested at the moment working in lab reports. I feel that for students is a hard work, even when they can really learn doing it

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I should use "writing to learn activities" because it would be a good way for pupils to question,  improve, consolidate and share concepts and also to test themselves and their knowledge,
I could use "writing to learn activities" in the ellaboration  of documents for my etwinning projects. For example we went on two fieldtrips related to environmental sustainability in agricultural practices. My pupils are now going through the process of reading their notes and writing texts where they choose, put together and compare what they observed during the fieldtrips. They also explore information on the eTwinning partner's area  and make written comparisons between the two countries and areas under study. The final product will be a poster which will be exchanged within our school and shared with our peers from the project

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For example, at the end of the class, writing a summary about concepts and contents that they seem more interesting. Including their opinion about those. All days make a diary, at the end of the week they can explain to their classmates and discuss these concepts or knowledge

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It could help in developing students creativity and helping them express themselves in various ways. In that way I can have a better picture about what they have learned. I really like the idea of them writing a poem and in that way I can check out their knowledge.

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Why:

Writing to learn has positive effects on the students and the teacher:

-        Promotes self-learning and confidence of students

-        Students improved in their self-expression, in making analogies, correcting misconceptions and identifying coherency errors

-        Students also learned to check each others writing mistakes, to evaluate and make comments

-        Peer learning through sharing

-        Increases motivation of students and teacher

How:

Ask students at the end of a lesson or a topic to write their previous knowledge about the topic and the new knowledge they acquired through the teacher’s input in the form of:

-        Diary

-        Letter to peers

-        Poem

-        Rap/Song lyrics

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I think writing to learn activities should be used in all subjects. I make them think more and analyse things and also practice. Once the instructions are clear from the teacher about what exactly he/she wants from the students, the activity planning will be done more precisely.

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I think writting to learn activities can be used in any topic or subjects.
The teaacher should explain clearly what she/he want and how.
I beleve that as much as our students practique writting skills the better.

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I think writing to learn activities could be useful at the end of a topic. I think it would be useful as a way for students to assess their own learning. Students could write a letter to a friend telling them about a topic. This gives students the chance to demonstrate what they know about a topic and put the information into their own words.

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Writing to learn activities could be used as a worm up before experiments conducted in the classroom or after the activity. I think it would be benefitial for not only student but also a teacher.

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I think that I could use writing letters as a summary of each unit. That would help students to summarise what they have lernt recently.

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I am  biology  modern writer for National and internatiinal magazine and I think that is very important to transmit writing skills in high school

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Writing to learn activities in science class or in ict class is a tool to clarify misconceptions, to trigger discussion and to engage students...it needs to be clear, well scheduled and embed in the "frame" of the teaching sequence

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I hope to motivate students to express their knowledge by letting them do it in their own way, in an informal way like a story or letter, indeed. I hope to see how is their interests and understanding, what is their wiew on the subject, how they relate the knowledge to their everyday lives, and what could I improve.

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I think in this way i can approach students who love literacy.Such activities encourage them and involves them to actively use this skills they have in the learning procedure, making science topics more friendly.

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I look forward to try diaries in classroom, thats something i haven`t used yet

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I understood that using writing is a great tool for learning about students. For now I am using only the maps but I intend from now on to enhance writing in its different forms. Thanks to Schoolnet ...

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I understood that using writing is an excellent tool for students' learning. I often use maps but I would also like to experiment with poetry to describe scientific topics.

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I think writing to learn is on the one hand important to consolidate the content and to reflect once again, but on the other hand also to make the lessons for the students more interesting and varied. I think I'll let the students write a poem or a diary entry at the end of each subtopic.

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i have implemented writing to learn activities in my classrooms

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I am not a science teacher but logical and critical thinking is very important in my subject. Sometimes I use poems but not in the sense shown in the course. I think I may use it more for teaching and learning grammar to increase my students competence in the field. With the higher level of their language it will be possible to work on more complicated topics. I think I could ask them to use a mixture of mother tongue and English.

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I use the Writing to Learn Activities because I see significant change in :

Achievement scores

Attitudes towards science

Scientific process skills

Conceptual understanding

Scientific literacy

Self-responsible learning

Argumentation skills

The use of multiple modes of representation

Peer interaction

Critical thinking and problem solving skills.

I use written individual or group calendars, conceptual maps and written assignments.

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Writing to learn helps to crystallize ideas and thoughts into a visible form.
It promotes creativity in verbal expression.
Writing to learn is a powerful tool that helps teachers to assess the level of learning in the student as well as it helps the teacher in judging the efficacy of his/her lesson planning.
I would introduce writing to learn as a part of recording details during activities,
Taking down notes during study sessions,
Writing reflections after an activity or a demonstration

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I used writing to learn activity in my lessons such as creating problems similar to those made on the board.

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I use it in activities such as writing a laboratory report, creating mind maps at the end of the unit. After that I plan to use poetry and letter writing activities.

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We should all use writing to leran acitivities as much as we can. Students will not be happy in the beginning but they will learn hot to use it and what beneffits they will gather.

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Use writing in my lessons became a common technique, especially when we have to analyze an experience from results to conclusion deduction,   a work mostly done in groups where every student among that group will express his ideas  and opinions through writing than all these writings will be taken on a slide and exposed to all students , regardless to what it is writing  , all students will write their ideas and opinions and shared after all these different ideas , opinions will be discussed until all students together will agree to take the reliable opinion or idea and conclusions , in my classrooms I never tried to apply the writing of poems a learning tool , as I am not sure about the results may be in can be applied in a language lesson , but in science regardless to the opinion exposed by these experts I am not sure  about its result .sometimes I try to push my students to  express their writings in a mind map that allows students to well summarize a lesson .So , writing activities have a positive effect on students and a clear way to perform their skills .

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I use writing in my classes because I think that is a great too.
I use writing for routines in English class, with charts. Every day complete the chart a student and read it aloud, the other students repeat what they listen to.

I also use a kind of diary, in sciences, they have to make a drawing and write about what have they lernt this day in the classroom.

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I should use writing for students to express themselves. Get inspired by other student's writing and enhance peer interaction. I would use it clear misconceptions covered in a unit and create tasks to help make their concepts more concrete. I could use it at the end of units as reflection unit or design a writing task during the unit as formative understanding.

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1. Why do you think you should use writing to learn activities in your classrooms?
Using writing for learning is important for the learning process, both for the student and the teacher.
Pupil:
- can go back to what he has learned, follow his development, progress,
- builds faith in its capabilities,
- he is not afraid of making mistakes because he is not evaluated,
- engages in science and learns more consciously,
- learns to listen to colleagues,
- perfect writing skills,
- builds good relations in the classroom, etc.
Teacher:
- gets to know students from a different side,
- builds good relations in the classroom,
- is a positive feedback,
- gives you satisfaction with teaching and motivates you to do even better work, etc.
2. How do you think you could use writing to learn activities in your classrooms?
In my classroom I often use writing for learning. This takes place in every lesson and usually has a short form. These can be: summary sentences, technique 3-2-1: the student writes 3 things he learned, 2. things he would like to know better, the first question he would like to ask, a short summary, a collage. Students write individual, in pairs or in groups.
So far, I have not used longer forms of writing in teaching, learning. I'm going to get to know "Expressive forms" and "Transactional forms". I need to read and try some of them in my classroom
Attachment: collage

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WRITING TO LEARN ACTIVITIES IN YOUR CLASSROOMS
My students keep a science journal during the whole year and they have to write a lab report after every laboratory practice.
They also have a warm-up activities (short questions, KWL paper) and an exit ticket.

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Writing to learn seems to be an Interesting activity . It encourages the students to express their views about a particular topic. They can also come up with better ideas to reflect their knowledge gained.I am certainly going to use this as a method of engaging my students and keep them focused during the teaching learning process.

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One time i Tried to give my students to write something original taking inspiration from an article...a story for instance... All of them make a simple summary of the article. I will try new writing learning activity... I have found this topic really interesting!!

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I use writing to learn activities in my classroom because it is interesting way of learning student. i use journal , this method is very stimulating and creative.

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So far, from writing to learn activities, I have used mostly the journal (for the practical training activity carried out at the economic agents), the imaginary interview, the summary and the lab report. More rarely, I used the letters addressed either to my colleagues or to the teachers, the poem or the story.

I have, however, identified many other possibilities to include writing to learn activities in my lessons.

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Im my subjects within High Vocational Courses It is very difficult to purpose poems and songs but I think it is a good idea to suggest that the students write letters to explain what they have achieved after the lesson.

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At the end of the experimental activities I always ask my students to draw up a report of the experience carried out. Sometimes I ask them to compose a presentation of the results obtained in the form of an "oral communication to congress", which only need to write the title, abstract, main results with graphs and tables, conclusions and illustrate it to the class. First we studied how to submit scientific communications to indexed journals.
From this type of communication follows an evaluation for the student speaker.
Students find this role very funny. ;)

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my prejudices have really collapsed. as well as my country! I realized that for the first time I used writing techniques in science. students are very successful and creative. poems and letters have been wonderful. Yeah. people learn new things at every age. I plan to apply some new events in my class immediately tomorrow. I am planning to take guitar and sing while singing the topics. Students will accompany the choruses. chemistry is not without poetry without music. write poems in my students. and composing.

The elements turn into molecules.
as long as the electrons are shared.
all together, covalent covalent.
electrons are taken and given.
electrostatic ionic ionic.
metal cations in the sea of electrons
the electrons are free, where in the tiny wire,
metalic. metalic.
Here are the strong links. It binds the chemist firmly.
strong interaction. strong interaction.

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I teach computer science and computing in high school. I never tried writing songs. The idea is very interesting. I know she has pupils who are poetically talented and very talented. Thanks a lot.

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In my subjects (Biology/Geology) there is a lot of vocabulary and many concepts to learn. Writing to learn activities may contribute to clarify concepts, to establish links between them and to highlight and discuss misconceptions. I sum, to help students make a meaningful learning. While seeing the videos I came across the idea that these activities may also motivate students not interested in science lessons.

The activities we have been told about (poems, diary, letter writing) are mainly used after the implementation of a lesson or a unit. In my opinion, it would be necessary to promote writing tasks during the whole lesson.

As most of my students are over 16, I think that instead of letter writing exclusively to peers, it would be interesting to suggest them to write letters to institutions, such as the school council, district departments, local community groups, webs, journals, the school magazine …

Sometimes I use diaries to help my younger students to be aware of their progress and not to lose track of what they are doing and why, particularly when carrying out cooperative projects.

I never tried poems. I will ask language teachers and discuss the possibility to prepare joint activities.

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In mathematics classes, we could use the writing of a song about certain mathematical content in order to make a summary at the end of the subject matter in order to better understand the content through this activity, look for analogies and the differences between the concepts, and in particular would create a lot of this activity a more encouraging and motivating environment for those students who have problems in this subject.

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I think that I will try to include writing to learn activities as an attempt to (a) clear misconceptions, (b) motivate students that are not enticed by the usual forms of scientific reporting and (c) to encourage my students connect scientific concepts to real-life situations.

I think that for regular writing to learn activities it would be best to ask students to keep a journal. That would be my preference. Letters (or more realistically e-mails to friends or a post on social media) could also be an option to include every now and then.

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My students use writing to describe laboratory experiments and their observations, to summarize books, make exersicises but they have never write letters, poems or a Journal science. These last ones could be a good way to stimulate my students to learn science. I ‘d like they write letters. I could ask them to write a letter, in which I give them some directions, to one of other students by e mail. I belive my students will be very happy because they usually use write letters in Italian and in foreign languages and my collegues says me the students prefer letters to other form of writing.

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I usually use writing during all my lessons and I also use a record of reports in laboratory exercises, but I will try writing science journal.

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I think I often used this method in my classes. Especially interesting for me a journal...

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As I have said before, Writing to Learn activities improve students' soft skills; among them: creativity, critical thinking, argumentation, exposition, reflection, etc. They also train the skills of calibration, self-confidence and self-evaluation.
Learning science involves knowing how to speak it and write it down. Writing a text requires organizing, structuring, selecting the best ideas and arguing them. Writing requires relating and confronting previous knowledge with the new situation (Sanmartí, 2007).

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Looking through the prism of my school experiences as a student - I hated elaborations. Now, however, I am thinking about this form of work for my students. I think that I will start with a poem for willing pupils, and then I will think about it for the whole class. I must admit that it will actually allow a better understanding of the subject, analyzing certain content once more. It can also be a perfect form of expression for the so-called humanists.

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The forms of writing help the child realise the progress he or she has made, remember
what has been accomplished and note the development of this thought process throughout the year, or
sometimes over a period of several years. Moreover, as the teacher reads the individual and intermediate written statements, he or she can track the development specific to the student and group and learn their preconceptions, trials and errors and progress. Often, reading the notebook shows the teacher that a specific concept, which he or she thought was well integrated by the entire class, was understood in an entirely different manner.

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I believe a lot in cooperative work, because of direct experience I know it works, it stimulates the less motivated students to learn and. I think I use writing to help my students more as suggested by teachers in the video. In organizing the new learning unit to use the writing at the beginning of the activity to check their knowledge and at the end of the unit to check their progress.

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As I already told you all, I usually use writing during my lessons. Certainly I will improve/diversify my writing activities after this training course.

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This is really new concept for me, because in ICT class students get more skills, then they have to remember facts. But sure when I find something that could be written I would give them to write a poem.

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I am using writing techniques in lab protocols and also during group work students may choose to write a poem/song if they feel like (needless to say they do not choose this)
I will consider giving them more topics to write essays on.

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In my opinión it’s a good idea use letters, poems, or the others  I read in the course.

It’s a good idea to motivate my students and to start a unit, even to consolidate their thinkings.

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I use the lab report and the science journal, because I want to improve their communication skills, as order, illustration, claim, analogy, comparation, ...

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Writing to learn activities are a new concept to me and I definitely will use several techniques in my mathematics lessons. I like the idea of poem writing as it fosters understanding and creativity.

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I should use writing activities in the future because it seems to be very motivating judged by the reflections of the teachers in those interviews. I like the idea of introducing tasks that activate the students and it seems to be a good way to check the students understanding of the topic.

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I should use these activities to improve students' ways of expression and their writing skills. The activities would also help them understand the ideas better.
The activities could be used while revising at the end of a unit.

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Writing is really importen for memorising new gained knowledge, if students reflect that new knowledge, it helps them to keep it in minde and remember it better.
The best thing to start this process is, to let students do their own notes, so they have to think about, what is important. But selfreflection in the end shouldn't be underestimated.

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I like to encourage my students to write what they learn in classe during Science lesson and when they can explain what was happening and fix it on the paper to be alle to explain it to others

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I believe a lot in the work of group cooperation and I often encourage my students to do Action Research.
They must produce a written paper on what they have designed and are prepared to solve or analyze a particular problem, both mathematical and scientific

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Written work is very useful for students' learning activities. It motivates students, which is the reason for the development of critical thinking. This kind of activity contributes to the deep awareness of the material. For example, my students wrote works on topics such as "Forgotten Theorems of Geometry," "Different Methods for Proving the Pythagorean Theorem," "From the History of Mathematics," etc. Thanks to this, children learned a lot.

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I'm a math teacher and I use intensively with students writing in teaching, learning and evaluation. For example, students write their formulas with the formulas they learn, and in this form it allows students to adapt the information in a way that is comfortable for them, helping them to learn, applying them in solving problems, solving the homework, but also the use of these charts in other disciplines (trigonometry sheet for physics classes ...)

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I think I will use writing activities because they are very stimulating. Maybe, at the beginning , it could be useful for my students work in pairs, or in small groups, it could help less motivated students to make their

creativity available to the group and it could help the best students to make their knowledge available to the group.

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I think I use writing for
helping my students be a method
very positive not only for the group of the best but also for the group of demotivated students to increase their desire to study, as suggested by the teachers in the video presentation. in planning this activity I will use two times at the beginning of a new unit to verify their previous knowledge asking to write everything they know about the subject and, therefore, at the end of the unit, I could ask to summarize what they understood and compared with their prior knowledge. I think I will use both writing as poetry and writing in writing.

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Increasing motivation, using critical thinking, understanding and applying concepts, empathy, respect, etc.

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I think I should use  writing to learn activities because I have very less motivated students and, according with the teachers in the videos, this can encrease their motivation; I could use this activities in two times: at the beginning of a new unit to check up their pregresse knowledge on it asking to write down everything they know about the topic and, then, at the end of the unit, I could ask to summarise what they have understood and compare it with their pregresse knowledge. I believe that poems is very hard to do and, in my opinion, the letter to a friend is more effective.

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I have never used writing to learn activities so far, but thanks to this course I will use surely in the future.

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I definitely  need to improve writing learn activities, because it's an experience that helped our students to become a beter citizen. Also in our classroom if we talk about any subject or any concept and we're making a significate activity our students are going to make their own.
I think i could use writing activities in almos every unit because i teach biology and a lot of the concepts i review could be translate in writing activities

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I use writting to learn activities because my students understand better the topic and improve their skills. In my class, they write small dramatics text and later they represent but now, I want to explore with then to write a poem in the next topic

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I think writing tasks could be really interesting for students as they offer a diverse way of presenting what they know. It also has several benefits such as development of critical and creative thinking. Finally, as teachers, I think it would be interesting and fun to assess the tasks!

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I should use writing to learn activities in my classroom because students can improve thinking skills and I can assess their key competences. They can be creative and elaborate a topic and propose whatever they want. Furthermore student can improve communication skills through science.
I think that I can do an experiment to explain a theory (for example in chemistry or genetics ) and then they must write a letter to explain this topic.

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I use writing to learn activities in my classrooms will help my students improve their skills in message processing, analysis and synthesizing. They will inspire each other and make learning easier for those students who do not like chemistry.

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I should use writing to learn activities because, especially when it comes to science lessons, it is something different for students, it motivates them and it promotes critical thinking, reflection and awareness of conceptual change. It is very important, however, that students feel free to express themselves and write down their thoughts.

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Because it is a more funny, creative and motivating way in the learning process of students. And if it is successful, it strengthens their learning. However, the teacher has to be familiar with the many kind of such activities so that he can experiment with his students to find the practice that will have the most motivation effect.  I surely want to experiment with more kinds of writing to learn activities that the ones that I usually use. e.g. the recent activity that my students seem to like a lot: developing of biological models in the class.

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Using writing to learn activities in my classrooms could be useful for students, especially for those who are not very interested in learning Science and, above all, for those who are unaware oh what critical thinking means: they just repeat what they’ve read in the textbook or written on their notebook.

I think that I would leave them free to choose between 2 or 3 options: maybe writing a poem could sound very hard for some of them, whereas a letter could be more suitable. An interesting activity could be to imagine an impossible interview with a dead scientist or a dialogue between two of them (think of Darwin and Lamarck discussing about evolutionary mechanisms).