https://padlet.com/ers5ff/86px287lex3h Made with a stroke of good luck en-us 2019-03-26 21:22:38 UTC 2019-03-26 21:46:52 UTC hello@padlet.com ers5ff https://padlet.com/ers5ff/86px287lex3h/wish/345470791 Element 12 is helping students record and represent knowledge. This element is important because it helps engage students. As a teacher, it is important to help students record and represent their new knowledge. There are many strategies available for use with this element. ]]> 2019-03-26 21:23:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ers5ff/86px287lex3h/wish/345470791 ers5ff https://padlet.com/ers5ff/86px287lex3h/wish/345471556 The book lists three main strategies for element 12. 

First, it discusses informal outlines. These are what I was familiar with for taking notes. In this strategy, students use bullet points, indentation, or roman numerals to represent their information. The further to the left the information is, the more important it is for students to remember. 

Second, it talked about academic notebooks. This is where students keep notes, questions, reflections, and self-assessments. These can be sectioned off into units. 

Lastly, dramatic enactments. With dramatic enactments, students act out a different scene, events, or concept that they have learned. There isn't much writing associated with this strategy. ]]> 2019-03-26 21:27:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ers5ff/86px287lex3h/wish/345471556 ers5ff https://padlet.com/ers5ff/86px287lex3h/wish/345472380 Technology can be used in each of the strategies to help enhance student engagement. 

First, students could do informal outlines and academic notebooks online. Students could use Google Drive to keep all their notes, rather than a notebook. This would help students when searching for information because they could type a key word and find it within the document. Students who struggle with spelling or typing could use a voice-to-text app that would reduce the number of errors that may end up in their notes. This would really help students later on when they are trying to reflect on their learnings. 

When it comes to dramatic enactments, I think these could be enhanced by using videos to capture the enactments. These videos could then be uploaded to Youtube, or Google Drive. By sharing these videos, students could view other groups understanding of a concept. I think these videos could be an easy and fun way for students to show their understanding of a topic. ]]> 2019-03-26 21:31:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ers5ff/86px287lex3h/wish/345472380 ers5ff https://padlet.com/ers5ff/86px287lex3h/wish/345473363 When it comes to informal outlines and academic notebooks, students will need to be taught how to do this. To implement either of these strategies, students will need to be scaffolded through. The first few times doing either of these strategies, walk students through them slowly. Remind students often when they should be taking notes. Gradually, as students get more comfortable with these strategies, stop saying "you should write this down." Eventually, students should be able to identify what should be written down. 

Another implementation tip with informal outlines or academic notebooks is teaching students what information is important. We are currently working on this in my 5th grade classroom. Often, my students ask if they need to write down everything on the slide. I constantly have to remind my students to only write down information that is crucial to the unit. 

Lastly, when using dramatic enactments, it is important to show students many examples first. If students are creating their own enactments, they will need to understand what information is necessary to include in their enactments. In order to make implementing this strategy easier, have many demonstrations available before assigning any enactments to students. Have students point out what they are noticing in all the demonstrations.]]> 2019-03-26 21:35:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ers5ff/86px287lex3h/wish/345473363