https://padlet.com/jsteward02/gqmeuai8nie0 Using Doodling en-us 2019-05-04 03:48:30 UTC 2025-12-09 15:27:27 UTC hello@padlet.com jsteward02 https://padlet.com/jsteward02/gqmeuai8nie0/wish/356795269 I feel like with my lesson plan, I really focused on being student interest driven, and production centered learning. I think I was inspired to create a lesson plan that had these ideals in mind because these are two connected learning themes that I felt missing when I was growing up. ]]> 2019-05-04 03:59:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jsteward02/gqmeuai8nie0/wish/356795269 jsteward02 https://padlet.com/jsteward02/gqmeuai8nie0/wish/356795323 For my lesson plan, I decided to use doodling. Doodling was a little different because it doesn't directly involve using any type of digital tool. You do need any type of technology for doodling, yet, it can always be an option because of the various drawing apps and websites that are available. Oddly enough, in a world that has become endlessly saturated with technology, and our every day use of it, I think having students put a marker to paper every once and awhile, is effective, and it gets students doing something that maybe they aren't as used to. I was worried that doing the 6 different steps of the doodling would be difficult to explain to the students, because even when I was doing it for class, it was a lot to grasp. I was challenged by having to make sure to implement all of these things, but still making the central focus the moral of the student's stories, how the students felt connected to it, and the main characters they selected. I was surprised that with what I had required for the lesson (moral of the story in connection to you-the student-, plot, main character) how simple it was to bring in the 6 elements they needed. especially using the arrows and punctuations, it really helped to tell the story. I wonder how you could bring doodling into another subject area such as math, or even social studies- two subjects that still involve literacy, and being able to understand literacy. ]]> 2019-05-04 04:00:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jsteward02/gqmeuai8nie0/wish/356795323 jsteward02 https://padlet.com/jsteward02/gqmeuai8nie0/wish/356795614 I liked being able to explore these different methods of digital literacy because I think it is important to look into the future. Technology is changing, and its here to stay. Though technology can be complicated to operate at times, I also think it can used as a tool for engagement. I really liked being able to take this course and do my Literacy Part I clinical at Lyndale Community School because I saw them using a lot more technology than I had seen in my other clinicals. I saw my students use iPads on a weekly basis, and they used two apps called Core5, an app focused on learning literacy, and Dreambox, an app focused on learning and furthering math skills. Likewise, my teacher also had a smartboard that she would use with the kids. I really would like to learn more about different platforms that can used for learning. These tools we explored in class really were fun for me to see, and think about how I would have liked or disliked them growing up. I also would like to learn about how these various tools can be used beyond literacy- to be used for all subjects of learning. I would continue researching the positive and negative effects of using too much technology in a classroom, and how it can help and hinder students as they further their learning when they get older. ]]> 2019-05-04 04:05:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jsteward02/gqmeuai8nie0/wish/356795614 jsteward02 https://padlet.com/jsteward02/gqmeuai8nie0/wish/356994428 I think if you aren't including your student's backgrounds, and interests into your lessons as much as you can, you cannot appropriately teach them in a way that matters, and that they will be able to carry with them past the classroom. On page 11 of the CLC, "Most educators understand instinctively the premise behind interest-driven learning—that young people are much more willing and eager to struggle with difficult academic concepts and skills if they are couched within topics or activities that get them fired up." Its not that educators aren't aware that if students have a stake in what they are learning that they will perform better, but that completing these lessons can be viewed as much more difficult. I really wanted to introduce the doodling for my lesson because I think it is a way that students across cultures, languages, life styles, and the many things that make up their individual identities can all communicate. There can be power in drawing what they are thinking. On page 24 of the CLC, in regards to Meeno Rami's work with students, it says, "In doing so, they voiced their status as civic actors ready to provide counter-narratives to the consumerist view of young people that they saw in popular media." Allowing my students to doodle about books they felt a personal connection to the moral with, gave them the freedom to explore themselves further, and to engage their classmates with what they face based on their identity and who they are. ]]> 2019-05-05 22:41:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jsteward02/gqmeuai8nie0/wish/356994428 jsteward02 https://padlet.com/jsteward02/gqmeuai8nie0/wish/356994938 When we completed the Seesaw activity for the Production-Centered learning section, I made it a point to say that when I was in school, particularly high school, I had a hard feeling motivated to complete assignments because I didn't see the end purpose in my work, and I didn't feel like it was going towards anything meaningful besides completing the class with a semi-decent grade. I think when students can visual where all their hard work is headed, they feel more compelled, and more interested to further their learning, and take it that extra bound. When reading in the CLC in the chapter on Production-Centered Classrooms, I was really drawn to the idea of  "interactive-zine," which is "a project that draws on the creative processes emerging from the intersections of art, craft, design, and technology" (61). With my lesson, I brought in art with doodling, and literacy with them selecting a book, and having to understand the moral of their story, and being able to explore who they are all within this process. I made my lesson production centered also by having the students make a "quilt" out of all of heir doodles, so it could be broadcasted for them, and it was something interesting they would be able to view and be proud of. When students can learn something, and see how it applies to themselves or others, and being able to bring it to the next level is so important, and it gives students the clarity as to why they are completing lessons, and daily tasks. ]]> 2019-05-05 22:46:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jsteward02/gqmeuai8nie0/wish/356994938