Impressions about Writing to Learn Activities by EUN Partnership aisbl

Marzia, Italy

marzia_can — 2018-04-03 13:40:06 UTC

I think writing to learn activities are useful for student because they can focalize their attention on what they think, on their theories, on their hypothesis
and they can read and rewrite if they change their ideas of if they learn something new.

Paola, Italy

paolacannadabartoli — 2018-04-03 13:46:47 UTC

I think that writing about st allows students (and teachers too) to find out if they’ve really understood what they’re discussing about. Also, it helps organizing their thoughts and improves the use of scientific terms/expressions. Italian students come up against many difficulties when writing about Science: Italian is not the ideal language for scientific communication and they usually write essays or articles about literature, history or philosophy; therefore, their style is often prolix: few of them are able to synthetize essential concepts.

I usually use writing activities for assessment (I strongly prefer it to multiple choice questions) but sometimes I organize some writing to learn activities. For example, when we are investigating Carbon/Oxygen cycle or hydrogeological cycle, I propose reading the tale “Carbon” from Periodic system by Primo Levi. Then students have to made up their story of a C atom, or a H₂O/O₂ molecule, sometimes continuing a phrase which I’ve written. They can let their imagination run free, but at the same time they need to stay realistic: a C atom can never be alone, it always needs a “mate”. Such an activity makes students go further what they have learned during the class: they need to use what they already know to produce something new.

Anca, Romania

2018-04-03 13:47:30 UTC

I use writing in all learning activities with students, I can say almost time. Usually notes, questions/explanations conclusions after activities/experiments, etc. At the end the students can use that notes for a better understanding of the lesson content.

Vasiliki Psaridou/Greece

psaridou — 2018-04-03 13:49:06 UTC

Writing to learn activities should be a common use in class. I believe that most of us teachers use this method in order to see the ideas, the thoughts and the progress our students did.For students as well, it's a very good method to express themselves .

Francesco Piccolo, Italy

2018-04-03 13:58:46 UTC

My first impression is positive, in the sense that I find this method very useful; working with young people who are not attentive during the lessons and not very likely to study, I often find myself dictating the notes in order to "force" them to pay attention to the new concepts; sometimes, after showing a presentation, I ask them to write what they have understood, what they remember of what they have seen; other times I ask them to summarize some topics, even in groups. Unfortunately, the results are not always what you expected. As for the assessment, I would like them to answer open-ended questions but they prefer multiple choice answers by far.

Daria, Poland

2018-04-03 14:01:14 UTC

I think it is very important. It helps to collect thoughts and organize them. Allows for a better understanding of the topic.

Sonila,Albania

2018-04-03 14:02:24 UTC

Writing to learn is a very good way to improve the way how to express what we understand in the scientific aspect.Though we might not use it as needed,it's a powerful weapon to teaching and learning

Tanja, Austria

2018-04-03 14:04:19 UTC

I think I already use writing to learn, beacuse I write down everything. Brainstorming, diaries, lists, exzerpts, summaries, etc, this is my way to learn or to understand things, so I understand the importance of it.

Helen Mihalatou, Greece

helensefer — 2018-04-03 14:12:24 UTC

I found very interesting ideas on Dr Gunel’s points of view. I think all teachers implement such activities at school but I do not do it in an organized way and the difficulty is to find the best way to motivate each student. From Dr. Gunel's discussion, I am already motivated to enrich my teaching and assessment methods and ideas by investing more on writing to learn activities. The advantages of such activities, as they have been addressed in the videos include the following: writing helps them in their learning process on whatever topic or subject, b) writing helps them to reshape their conceptual frameworks and to reflect their ideas, c) students can adopt the new information in a comfortable way. However, I insist that these advantages are seen in the motivated students only. So, the real issue for the teacher is to find the best motivation for each student. In addition, these activities can be an assessment teacher tool, so that the teacher can explore how the students are progressing in learning conceptual ideas of science.
In the framework of “writing to learn activities”, I usually use multiple choice questions, or short essays on the topic that we are discussing. I also use technology enhanced teaching to foster their motivation. Very recently I have implement “expressing yourself to learn” activities. By the end of the school year my students have to implement a short essay on one of the biological topics that we have covered within the school year. I encourage them to express themselves in a creative way and surprisingly most of them choose to construct a biological model, e.g. animal or plant cells, the DNA ladder. They pick up the subject, collect the information and build their construction in the school class. Such activities make students reshape their learning since they have to use their scientific knowledge to construct something new. This kind of work really motivates students, and especially the low score ones.

Agnieszka, Poland

2018-04-03 14:21:56 UTC

I think writing is an excellent way to organize thoughts, conclusions and hypotheses. Writing allows you to organize everything from the general to the detail, which facilitates memorizing and understanding.

Alice, Italy

severi_alice — 2018-04-03 14:36:17 UTC

I think that writing to learn activities could be useful if students are used to write. I use writing to synthesize in my lesson, then I prefer collaborative writing for my science class. I can improve their vocabulary and communicative skills through formative assessment.

Marina, Italy

2018-04-03 14:37:46 UTC

Theodor L. Greece

theo_leftheroudis — 2018-04-03 15:22:32 UTC

The electronic era with all the facilities has helped mankind only for the last 60 years, all the previous man learned only through the oral speech of writing and reading, has passed into our psycho-synthesis and our dna, so it is a very good one process to seal the learning process. In all three classes of high school, students deliver a written paper through which I and the students can check what they learned, where they were and where they arrived, each class is different and there is a different subject in class technology.

For example, in the third grade of the junior high school students should deliver a written paper about their research, they can choose any subject and carry out an experimental survey or poll survey.

Below I give you the helpful text according to which the students will write their work. Unfortunately, I can not pretend to translate it. Below I give you the titles.

1.EFFICIENT (1 page)

2. TITLE OF THE INVESTIGATION

3. CONTENTS (1 page)

4.SUMMARY.

5.Import (2 - 4 pages)

5.1. Presentation of the problem.

A. General information

B. Delimitation (What was exactly investigated).

C. Variables (Independent, Dependent, Levels, Kinds, Categories).

5.2. Investigation case.

5.3. Purpose of the survey.

5.4. Methodology of research.

5.5. Factors that do not affect its effects.

6.THE STEP (3 - 6 pages)

6.1. Historical overview-general facts, photos, tables and diagrams.

6.2. Definitions of concepts to be used.

7.SERVING PART (3 - 8 pages)

7.1 Work schedule.

7.2. List of materials and means.

7.3Execution of the experiment (description).

7.4. Observation table.

7.5. Analysis of results.

7.6.Photographs of the experiment.

8. CONCLUSIONS-PROPOSALS (1 page)

8.1. List of conclusions, in clear and comprehensible terms.

8.2. Useful suggestions, resulting from the findings.

8.3. Proposals for a new supplementary survey.

9. BIBLIOGRAPHY (1 page)

Pinelopi, Greece

2018-04-03 15:49:47 UTC

Writing to learn activities is a very useful tool for students to reflect, to become aware of the chenges in their coceptual framework and even as a means of documentation and visualization of their thinking. In a science classroom, I prefer using the thinking routine routine "I used to think... now I think", through which students can become aware of how their conceptual framework has changed.

JGpe, México

2018-04-03 16:13:11 UTC

Hi everyone, im really surprised about this interview, it was like my science coordinator in high school talking, because she's always interested about make some different things with our students. This year im trying to do, i changed a lot of conceptual activities and i thought that if my students make some different things they can learn a lot. The first activity was about "The cell", in a proyect they were writing like papernotes and made a magazine with all the interested things they found. Now they can talk about cell, but they actually know that scientist have a lot of information and everyday in the world we have a lot of changes.
Here below i'll post an example about this exercise, i hope you like.

Macarena

2018-04-03 16:19:12 UTC

Writing is one of the most important tasks for our students because here in Spain for bilingual students the writing is a weak competence and practicing it everyday is way to learn and improve but at that point the role orne teacher is important to correct common mistakes.

Alexia, Malta

2018-04-03 17:37:03 UTC

I am firm believer that writing is a key skill our students need to practice and improve on as it is a very important means of communication. Having said that, in Malta we are bilingual. Our national language is Maltese but English is also an official language. Despite so, Maltese is the main language of choice for most people. Science syllabi are in English. Science is assessed in English, although, due to most students and teachers language of preference generally being Maltese, many prefer Maltese as the language of instruction. Therefore, while once again I personally agree and believe in the importance of writing tasks, I think students locally would not be very keen on extra writing tasks. Having said that, the must not be neglected. I think writing tasks (not including traditional questions and handouts) in Malta could be useful and successful if not assigned too often.

Nina, Slovenia

2018-04-03 17:55:20 UTC

I'm a chemistry professor and it's very difficult for me to imagine that my students would be learning chemistry simply by listening. I think that in subjects such as chemistry, biology, physics, .. it is important to hear, write, see and feel.
Likewise, if we are writing down, we can check if we have made a mistakes, if we do not write down, our errors we can not figure out.

Ana Lereno, Portugal

lerenana — 2018-04-03 18:17:26 UTC

To learn something I always need to write my study since I was a child. Sometimes, I tell my study to write the diary of the lesson, in the last minutes and in the next lesson, one or two students read what they had write

Rosy, Italy

2018-04-03 18:23:32 UTC

It is very important, because you write what you are learning and you fix it in your mind better.

Cecilia, Italy

ceciliafontanella — 2018-04-03 18:57:26 UTC

I agree with Dr. Murat Gunel, I find that the rational writing is very useful to learn even more from the scientific activities carried out.
For example, I use, let students develop (during laboratory activities that last more than a few lessons) to write small laboratory "reports" where in addition to the recipe, tools, reagents and measuring instruments , answers to some questions: What was the objective of this exploration? Have we reached the goal? What step has been taken today in research to explain the phenomenon? There were things that surprised you, that you did not expect?
I strongly believe that there is a close connection between writing and learning. The answers to the questions that students give, help me to understand: a) if they really understood what they did; b) the progress of each of them; c) how can I help them in learning; d) what is the case of recalibrating or implementing for fully conscious learning.

Natalia Grushko, Ukraine

grushko_nat — 2018-04-03 19:19:45 UTC

I am a mathematics teacher. Therefore, written work is very important to me. Writing to learn activities should be a common use in class. Children at the lessons solve problems, prove the theorems. Due to this we see the course of their thoughts. Students learn to think and analyze. They can see their mistakes.

Mustafa BOZOĞLAN , Turkey

mdbozoglan — 2018-04-03 19:45:32 UTC

I would like to express that in the classroom, I find that our students try to write notes by expressing important parts of them which I see to be crucial in the science teaching of today. I believe that it will be useful to develop a new teaching language for 21st century education technology. I am actually working on this kind of science language for the last 10 years. a scientific language that has long been symbolized, is very important for the spread of science. narrative writing causes the students to be bored in lessons, to move away from science, to enter into incomprehensible ways in terms. When science is reduced to the public, then societies develop faster.

Ana, Spain

anamarialorentegarcia — 2018-04-03 20:28:30 UTC

From my point of view writing to learn activities is important to reflect what you know... I totally agree with Dr. Murat Gunel.

I use to use this tool at the beginning of my sesión, or when I ask them open question in order to promote the thinking to start a topic.

Gaia, Italy

gaialombardi69 — 2018-04-04 08:26:28 UTC

To develop the skills of arguing, demonstrating, explaining one's own thought and work path is a crucial activity in research, both in the mathematical and scientific field and in the humanistic field. I completely agree with Dr. Gunel on the importance of rational writing to improve specific language, to fix learning, and to make the thoughts clear and explicit

Alexandra, Portugal

2018-04-04 08:48:16 UTC

Prof. Dr Murat describes in a simple way something that I empirically always believed and promoted in my teaching practic. That the best way to learn and understand if you have learned is to write is to produce a text.

Arnaud, France

2018-04-04 08:58:19 UTC

As a primary school teacher, we are careful that pupils keep tracks of what they've seen during the lesson. But it's more something made by the teacher for the pupils than pupils taking note for themselves. Most of them don't have the idea to do it. Take notes during a lesson is not easy for youngers.

Zvonko, Serbia

2018-04-04 10:17:43 UTC

I think writing to learn activities are useful for everyone special for students. Maybe they can easier express their thoughts on that way. Likewise, they have less stage fright.

Michela, Italy

michelapellizzari4 — 2018-04-04 11:36:41 UTC

I think “writing to learn” is a very helpful structure for both teachers and students. Writing is a tool for teacher to see how their students are progressing in learning conceptual ideas of science. The teacher can see the conceptual framework of their students about topics and he can find eventual mistakes. Students can become aware of their science knowledge and while writing they can learn things they did not know before or that they did not think before. I use this tool in a lot of activities: when we have a discussion about a problem and we make brainstorming activity or when we make laboratory activities I ask students to write their previous, their observations, their plan to investigate the problem. I ask students to write at home their lab report (including all the activities … ). When we return in classroom I ask students to explain their observations and the interesting thing they had discover during the lab. When we make a test I ask student to write.

sunce

2018-04-04 12:06:37 UTC

In every subject writing is extremely important.
It gives us feedback. The teacher can follow the progress and understanding of student concepts, and also provides feedback to the teacher - what needs to be changed, clarified, etc.
Techniques and Methods for Critical Thinking - Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking (RWCT) are desirable.

Voinea Axinte Costica, Romania

2018-04-04 15:18:52 UTC

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 ...)

Carlo Italy

carlogino — 2018-04-04 15:21:33 UTC

I teach in a classical high school where the boys are used to writing I think the lesson helped me a lot, in fact I will push my students to use the writing method as well for science

Marija, Serbia

marijadikic73 — 2018-04-04 15:41:39 UTC

If I talk about chemistry, conection beetvim learning and writhing is very strong. I always say that chemical reactions and formuals must go through the pen.

Natalia, Spain

2018-04-04 16:28:16 UTC

When our students can write on a piece of paper what we have been working in the science class that show us they understand it.
I help my primary students to make mind maps or charts in order to check their learning.

Orsola,Italy

orsola_parisi58 — 2018-04-04 17:57:39 UTC

Rational writing, I think is very useful for consciously learning from laboratory activities, I fully agree what Dr. Gunel says about the close connection between writing and learning, helps us to organize the logical sequence better and improve the specific language.

MaríaJosé, Spain

2018-04-05 00:05:48 UTC

Some activities that include writing can be very useful throughout the learning process:

1-At the very beginning to get students to “warm up” by thinking about what they know or think they know or feel about a new text or topic explored in a previous lesson.

2-During a learning experience to get students to “check in” by thinking about what is their understanding about the topics, what connections they are making, where they are unsure and what

questions they have.

3-At the end of the lesson, to help students “take stock,” summarizing, synthesizing,

evaluating or explaining what they have learned and where they are having difficulty.

Inmaculada

ingoalster — 2018-04-05 06:54:19 UTC

Inmaculada/Spain

ingoalster — 2018-04-05 06:54:19 UTC

I think that writing is a very important tool for children to learn because it helps to organize the contents and memorize.

I use it in my science classes at the end of the unit:

first: The students make a big drawing on their notebooks about what they have learnt, with short texts written down.

second: in class, they have to explain us what have they learnt in this unit.

Third: the other students, while the speech of their clasmates, have to write the main ideas about what are they listening.

In this way, the students learn to organise the contents, to write down the most important for their expositions and to make short speechs, and also they learn to listen and chose the main ideas of their clasmates speechs

Lucia Italy

2018-04-05 07:41:26 UTC

Writing and learning are an important interaction

2018-04-05 10:31:58 UTC

wrtining is a very important tool for us humans to communicate, to learn, to reflect and to learn about ourselves.
because of our ability to think and rethink processes and our ability to communicate problems writing is a important tool for us to cope with those things. So we can reflect ourselves.

Vesna, Slovenia

2018-04-05 13:51:19 UTC

Writing is important because writing and learning are connected; the more students write, the more they understand and remember.

Anita, Croatia

anita_simac — 2018-04-05 14:35:37 UTC

No matter how far technology progresses, writing remains an effective tool for teachers and students alike. I strongly believe this. The actual flow of writing helps us understand and revise what we have learned. It is important for organising our thoughts, planning and reflecting.

2018-04-05 14:38:34 UTC

writing and learning are strongly bound together.

Pilar, Spain

2018-04-05 14:58:37 UTC

We build our knowledge after writing.

Pilar, Spain

2018-04-05 15:00:15 UTC

We build our knowledge after writing.

Anna, Italy

prof_deruvo — 2018-04-05 15:13:51 UTC

I generaly use writing to learn activities in different moments and lessons. I ask them to take note during group activities and write a report of it at the end. I organise group research. I ask them to write in short the information they find on a subject for their group mate to prepare a common document at the end. I ask to produce summary or a map of a subject we study in class for them and to share. I use poetic writing very rarely as well as expressive writing. It could be a good help for student to evaluate the activity they partecipate, (and for the teacher too) or a possibility of a more deep reflection on a controverse subject.

prof_deruvo — 2018-04-05 15:18:03 UTC

Anna Gri, Italy

annagrignetti — 2018-04-05 15:45:05 UTC

I agree that writing and learning go hand in hand. Writing helps to reflect and remember better. One writing method I'm using recently is making "friendly maps". Students, after reading a short text on a topic, must formulate some significant questions. Then they will have to find the answers in the text and write them on the map.

Maria DC, Italy

mariadecarlo — 2018-04-05 15:46:20 UTC

Fully agree with the fact that writing and learning go hand in hand. Writing helps pupils to reflect on what has been read and learned, thus encouraging learning. I use a method that greatly facilitates my students, especially those less "scholars" to learning with writing and that is using "friendly maps": students will have to read one or more questions after reading a short text or short periods , depending on the text, related to the content. After having formulated the questions found in the text the answer and bring it back on the map. Here is an example made this morning in class ...

Chiara G. Italy

chiara_garulli — 2018-04-05 19:11:20 UTC

I agree with the importance of writing activity!! I ask my student to make scheme, tables... to fix concepts, as a flipped classroom activity.

Sophie, Austria

2018-04-05 21:06:33 UTC

Students can learn methods to organize their ideas with the help of writing tasks. I think that writing is an essential part of science because it is important to document our observations to do an experiment. We analyze the data and come to a conclusion by writing down our thoughts. And again, written texts are necessary to publish our research and discussions in science are often held through articles. It therefore makes sense to include writing in the science classroom.

Barbara, Poland

2018-04-05 21:50:07 UTC

1.What are the advantages for students?
I think writing is important for learning: it makes it easier to understand the topic,
shows the student where the topic is located, allows you to reflect on the issue once again, document the materials, course and results of the experiment, etc.
2.If you already use writing to learn activities in your science classroom, please explain how you use them with an example.
- WCN Technique: W - at the beginning of the lesson, the student writes what he already knows, C - what he wants to know, N - at the end of the lesson the student writes what he has learned. We use the table for this.
- Students at the beginning of the lesson, in groups, ask questions about the subject: what are they curious about, what would they like to know, what would they ask for?
- Reflection of students at the end of the lesson - students draw questions, I have 10 such questions on colored pages, and everyone writes a reply in a notebook. Students share their reflections in pairs or class forums, or I pass between them and review their reflections.
- students create mind maps for a fragment of the lesson, etc.
Below is one of the mind map my students.

Shirin, Azerbaijan

shirin_sultan — 2018-04-06 04:56:30 UTC

What are the advantages of writing for students?
1.Writing helps students present their scientific investigation in an order, allow them describe the stages of the work. Writing also helps them to remember academic knowledge.
2. In my classroom I mainly use these forms of writing:
Lab reports;
Essays;
Open structured answers for questions, which need justification, explanation, analyzing and etc .

Noel, Malta

noel_harmsworth — 2018-04-06 08:49:00 UTC

From what Professor Gunel said in the videos I can elicit two main advantages for students:

1. Writing will help the students reflect on and understand more deeply the topic that is being discussed. I would like to add that writing, as opposed to just reading, helps students deal with concepts at a slower pace which in turn helps them absorb more and make more connections.

2. Writing, when used by the teacher as an assessment tool, can help students communicate their understanding and what conceptual framework they have constructed in their heads. Teachers will then be able to provide feedback accordingly and mould the lesson strategy accordingly to help students fill any conceptual gaps.

I use writing in class mainly when I ask students to write answers to open-ended questions, mind maps, brainstorming for ideas and obviously to write lab reports.

Kristina, Croatia

2018-04-06 11:31:30 UTC

Students in Croatia write a lot. I teach ICT so students do not need notebooks, they use web tools to reflect and create. Like creating timelines, mindmaps, posters, videos etc

Zdena, CR

2018-04-06 12:06:42 UTC

I´d say students generally write quite a lot at my school, not necessarily in Chemistry classes In these they mostly write lab protocols and sometimes some essays on specific topics. They also write within group and individual work tasks. I believe writing makes things clearer and students need to think about what they´re doing, also I would suggest it helps to learn.

Lorena Olaru, RO

leoatomix — 2018-04-06 14:58:02 UTC

My students individually or in groups, produce written documents (texts, drawings,
flowcharts, graphs) that are accepted as such and used in class as one of many learning aids.

Miguel Angel, Burgos (Spain)

kapy83 — 2018-04-06 17:20:45 UTC

Writing is very important for the understanding of concepts and topics. When writing is free (essays, stories, etc.) develops the creativity of students, which is very important in science.

Gilda/Italy

gilda_fiengo — 2018-04-07 06:28:07 UTC

I’m agree. In my opinion writing is a way to verify learning: if students are able to write about what they have studied they have understood the topic.

Kavita, India

2018-04-07 07:50:57 UTC

Writing truly helps us to understand the conceptual understanding of the subject and their ideas. It also serves as a strong reflection tool to enable teachers to know where their students are and where they need to reach and thus offer valuable inputs and support.
I use writing in my activities regularly. I design my experiment, have them perform and note down their observations. Then get them to discuss and arrive at conclusions which is written and then presented to rest of class. I follow up with reflection sheets and further application based questions.

Viktorija, Slovenia

2018-04-07 07:55:56 UTC

As a teacher of mathematics, I do not imagine learning without writing. It is even more important in science and mathematics that pupils just do not listen, but they also form notes, use graphic organizers for the conceptualization of content. When writing, we are thinking about content, it is also easier to systematize content and link newly acquired knowledge into our already designed thinking schemes. It's also easier to figure out if we made mistakes in learning.

Silvia, Spain

smaymo — 2018-04-07 10:19:12 UTC

I consider that it is undeniable that writing helps in the learning process. By writing on a topic students are compelled to reflect on it. On the other hand, If someone is able to describe a process, a cause-effect relationship … in writing, he or she proves a degree of ability .

There are different types of activities I introduce in my classes to promote writing. I think that variety is important to help students with different skills.

- students write individually and then in pairs they discuss and improve their text and present a joint work.

- students have to write what they infer from a chart, map or diagram (and the other way round as well)

- after watching a video there is always a writing task associated (not necessarily a summary)

- students are given a text they have to correct and improve

- sometimes I give some key words or sentences to be used in a text

fnbaptista — 2018-04-07 14:25:10 UTC

Milijana, Serbia

2018-04-07 15:09:34 UTC

This is one of the ways I use writing in learning activities for students.

AngelaItaly I agree writing is very usefull for teachers ans students, to understand, to comunicate their ideas and for teachers ti assess

ancolli — 2018-04-07 16:44:48 UTC

Dorothea, Vienna

a00902838 — 2018-04-07 17:57:15 UTC

Writing helps students to concretize, organize and to expand their knowledge. It also makes it easier for the teacher to assess the students‘ knowledge.

Marina del Barco, SPAIN

marina_bm6 — 2018-04-07 18:45:46 UTC

IMPRESSIONS ABOUT WRITING TO LEARN ACTIVITIES
The process of writing helps students to check concepts (in case they have to produce a text) and to remember them (it is a very good technique to study). You can only produce a good written communication if you master something. It also helps teachers to assess student's improvements and knowledge.
I usually starts my classes with a short question as a warm-up. Another way to use writing to learn activities is doing the KWL chart (what I KNOW, what I WANT to know and what I LEARNED). As a final assessment for labs they have to complete a laboratory report.

chemingui firas

cheminguifiras1966 — 2018-04-07 21:40:33 UTC

nabeul Tunisia

i totally agree with prof doctor murat gunel that the connections between writing and learning is very close , for students and according to our experience for students writing is an effective learning tool , a way to express their content understanding , ideas , thoughts , hypotheses , … these two connections can take place at the beginning of a unit , a lesson or an experience …. , through a problematic , hypotheses . As well in the middle of the work to judge the progression of the work , the results of an experience or at the end by making conclusions , assessing a work vis a QCM ….

The success of such type of activities needs the identification of the writing to learn tools , it is a good opportunity for us as teachers to well understand conceptual frameworks about topics .

Poonam

2018-04-08 01:30:53 UTC

Writing is important because writing and learning are connected; the more students write, the more they understand and remember.

R

2018-04-08 07:08:34 UTC

Writing and Learning are certainly connected because students write on the basis of their conceptual understanding. And its a powerful tool for the teachers to assess students progress in a particular area or topic.

Doinita B., Romania

2018-04-08 07:54:07 UTC

Writing to learn activities is a very useful tool for both students and teachers.

For students, as they write, they reconfigure their knowledge, evaluate their performance, and more easily determine where and how much they need to intervene to develop their skills.

For the teacher, the utility of the method lies in its much broader image of the student's ability to make connections, to argue ideas, to transfer knowledge into new contexts.

Personally, I use the writing to learn method every hour to get students to synthesize the lessons learned. I also use the writing-to-learning method in the form of an imaginary interview on a given topic for the purposes of summative evaluation.

Lucica, Romania

2018-04-08 10:50:45 UTC

The writing activities are more important because are activate cognitive components, that improve long-term memory, organize new ideas, make connections for transfer. tudents can reflect about its.

Justyna, poland

2018-04-08 22:05:25 UTC

The writing activities is importnt and bring a lot of funny with knowlage.
for example my students make a poems abour periodic table . they have t use information about properties each chemical element

Joyce, India

sec_coordinator — 2018-04-09 16:22:31 UTC

Writing to learn activities are very vital in any classroom transaction. The advantages that it has for students are: It helps them form better connections of the content in their minds.
Being able to verbalize their understanding will help clearing misconceptions (if any) Writing down helps students to consolidate their understanding .
I strongly depend on the students writing skills to access the taught content. Students may write in their journals or note books. Infact summative and formative assessments do depend on writing skills of the students

Grażyna, Poland

sp171wesola — 2018-04-09 16:34:54 UTC

I think that writing is very important to organize your thoughts. You need to be precise and remember what message you want to pass. For example if you want to give instructions you must take into account the order of steps. It means you should understand the whole process. I often ask students to give reasons or write conclusions or generalize a rule.

Simo, Austria

2018-04-09 17:27:20 UTC

Yes, writing and learning are closely related, as writing helps us organise our knowledge and comprehend new knowledge.

Sonja, Croatia

sonja_pospisil77 — 2018-04-09 17:45:49 UTC

Writing is very important part of learning new or just the repetition of things students are already familiar with. Learning and writing are very close conected.

Nicola, Malta

nixy_port — 2018-04-09 17:50:22 UTC

I believe writing in science helps students organise their thoughts and ideas in such a way that it will help them make sense of a situation or concept. I use writing strategies in various forms, be it in the form of brainstorming or even a concept map. Students sometimes need to come up with an experimental design and are asked to write down the method they will be using and include their predictions too.

Arif Soğukpınar, Turkey

aroyro — 2018-04-09 18:31:41 UTC

writing activities are very useful, especially with higher level students. I use -writing poems and stories- activities in my classes, both me and my students really enjoys them.

Konstantin, Vienna

2018-04-09 18:50:01 UTC

By writing you have to get familiar with the content you want to write about. Therefore, writing and learning are closely linked. It helps us comprehend and organize our knowledge

Ayşegül/Turkey

aysegulmer — 2018-04-09 19:06:12 UTC

Writing activities are very important. Interpretation of an end result of an experiment may lead to the creation and transmission of cause and effect relationships in their minds.

Zhelyazka, Bulgaria

janeraikova — 2018-04-09 20:33:20 UTC

Writing and learning are in close connection. Writing can consider as a product and as a tool of conceptual understanding of the knowledge of science. On the one hand, through writing, the ideas, the concepts and the content make sense. On the other hand, writing as a product and outcome can be used as an estimate of what has been learned.

Crina, RO

ecrinaaurelia — 2018-04-09 20:44:49 UTC

The writing activities are more important because are activate cognitive components, that improve long-term memory.

Laurence, Italy

2018-04-10 05:32:29 UTC

Writing activity allows us to conceptualize the topic and to stimulate visual memory.
I usually work in cooperative learning, I often ask for the reading of the text, the search for the key words and the writing of a conceptual map. When we do an experiment I usually ask my students to write a lab report in which they must specify what the objective of the experiment is, the material and the method. Since they are all equipped with iPad, I always ask for a digital copy of their documented report with photos or videos.

Anamaria, Romania

2018-04-10 09:41:31 UTC

Writing activities is one of the way to learn. I used various strategies: poems, cartoons, conceptual map, ...

Remziye

2018-04-10 16:43:58 UTC

Writing is a good tool especially for students who learn in a different language. By the help of writing concepts, they can be familiar with them easily. For instance; I maske my students write new concepts again and again to improve their language skills.

Alketa Bajrami, Albania

ketibajrami — 2018-04-10 18:34:06 UTC

For the first time in sciences subject on our school the students write essay.... Its a great practice

Dorota, Poland

2018-04-10 20:27:52 UTC

I think that writing to learn activities allow to observe understanding or misunderstanding among students. I believe it can indeed promote to build a deeper understanding

Writing is importent because you have to think in a special way and learn about right or false. You habe to think over your own words you wrote

2018-04-10 20:30:05 UTC

Klara,Austria

2018-04-11 08:58:51 UTC

I think writing in the classroom is very important and I think it is good for the students too. By writing down the newly learned content you can address several types of learning, such as the motor and the visual. In addition, the students have through their transcript something that allows them to better prepare for a test, or in case of ambiguity to have something to look at.

Sevi, Greece

sevasti — 2018-04-11 16:15:05 UTC

Sevi, Greece

sevasti — 2018-04-11 16:15:06 UTC

I think writing is the best way for someone to learn.. As a student, even now as a teacher, the only way for me to learn something is only by writing it. I though it worked only for me, but it stands for other people too. I am going to use it more often to my classes!

Maria del Mar, Spain

mdelatorr71 — 2018-04-12 10:02:02 UTC

Writting is a good tool for memorizing and for keep the cognitive way of thinking active. When writting we have to decode the information received and put it down when our own words and include a lot of thinking process like selecting, sintetizing, sumarizing, creating...etc

Alex, Austria

2018-04-12 11:40:44 UTC

I think is very useful for learning. It helps memorizing in a good way and goes deeper than just reading.

Dimitris,Greece

tsiastoudis — 2018-04-12 15:36:51 UTC

I think that of course writing has its connection with learning due to the different interactions in our brains as it is mentioned but on the other hand those interactions needs time and time is expensive in class.I choose to save homework time for writing and only in exceptions in class.

Špela, Slovenia

rozman_spela — 2018-04-12 20:25:09 UTC

When can we be certain that we understand something? When we are able to explain the concept to somebody else. And if there is nobody to listen? We try to explain the concept to ourselves - not just telling it out loud, but writing it down, trying to make a sense of it. I sometimes find it very difficult to put something in words, even if I think I understand the concept completely. I find my self rewriting over and over some reply as I'm answering a student via e-mail. I allways put at least one open end question in an exam for my students - they always claim it was the most difficult for them.

Athanasia, Greece

11gymilio — 2018-04-13 04:45:32 UTC

Sure, writing down in any form, what a students has as an input is very important for self evaluation and for teacher's feedback and triggering more discussion in class. Time management in class by teacher and how this activity will be used after is very important though

Bhagyashree S, India

bhagyashree_semlani — 2018-04-13 09:31:20 UTC

I strongly feel that learning and writing goes hand in hand. It helps you understand the concept and go through each and every bit of the topic in detail. Also it makes you feel if you are clear in your understanding or needs a revision.

Bertha, México

2018-04-13 23:07:14 UTC

"Speaking, reading and writing is not science, but there is no science without language" (Dr. Murat Gunel). Language is a tool which we not only represent our ideas, re-conceptualize or rediscover our ideas, it is not only a learning tool is also an evaluation tool. The connections and how student’s ideas flow while they acquires the ability to turn their ideas into words. In four weeks we start a new school period and I will definitely make an attempt to work with IBSE.

Bozena, Poland

2018-04-14 18:08:48 UTC

One of forms of writing which I use quite commonly is brainstorm, it is a very good way to start a new lesson or I do it before the experiment.

Aneta, Poland

2018-04-15 08:37:28 UTC

Writing enable to freely express one's opinion, preferably anonymous. It is a good way to check student's knowledge before conducting experiments in for instance chemistry class.

Cristina Raposo, Portugal

ciraposo — 2018-04-16 08:10:28 UTC

Writing is powerful tool as it allows for different types of use while expressing yourself. Students can make notes to help remember things they have learnt, write on a notebook or diary descriptions of something observed while in the lab or on fieldtrips or make a more elaborated texts to reflect opinions or conclusions of what was observed. Never thought about it as "writing to learn activities " but I have been applying it quite often in my classes. I hand out news about the subject we are studying and then ask pupils (individually) to read it and to write down the data relevant to the class. Afterwards they discuss in groups and come out with a list of things that all members agree are relevant .Then as a class we discuss the data they chose, relate it to what was the purpose of the day. At the end of the class I make a wrap up and, maybe, add to it in case is needed.
Another way in which I use writing to learn is by asking pupils to make report in the shape of Gowin's V during practical activities.

Olgica, Macedonia

b_olgica — 2018-04-16 14:27:52 UTC

I use writing in all learning activities with students, I can say almost time.

Hector, Spain

2018-04-16 17:39:37 UTC

Creative writting is a powerful tool.

Jasenka, Croatia

2018-04-16 19:11:24 UTC

I think students can easily express themselves by writing to learn and in that way I can also see if they understand the topic that I'm teaching.

Mónica, Spain

2018-04-16 21:01:56 UTC

I completely agree, I think it is essential to make students write and explain their own ideas

Sandra, Portugal

SSLeal — 2018-04-16 21:57:45 UTC

Writing is an assessment tool for teachers to see how students are progressing; to realy know what they understend and reflect the conceptual ideas

zeynep, Turkey

2018-04-17 13:53:48 UTC

ı think writing too is really useful as a teacher can see how muc students progress

jeanedefatima — 2018-04-17 17:38:21 UTC

When you write, fix what you have learned

Mirela, Romania

mirelaemiliapop — 2018-04-17 17:52:45 UTC

I use writing in all learning activities with students

Ozrenka, Croatia

2018-04-17 21:04:13 UTC

I finished Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking course and since then I use writing as learning activitie in my science classroom. I usually give my students some stimulus (video, science article or fake web news) and let them express their opinion and argumentation in writing.

Jana, Czech Republic

jjilkova — 2018-04-17 21:35:57 UTC

Writing is one of the essential skills for communication hence it is also important at STEM.

Sarah, USA

sab205 — 2018-04-17 22:18:02 UTC

As an elementary science and writing teacher, writing to learn activities help me dedicate more time to both subjects through this interdisciplinary approach. My students keep science journals where they take notes, ask and answer questions, and are able to communicate in writing their conceptual understanding of what we are doing and learning in the classroom. By keep a journal, the students are able to make additions and revisions to their questions and answers, as well as, add, modify, and/or revise their thinking!

Izabela, Poland

2018-04-18 11:04:28 UTC

Writing is very important tool because students can see what they know and teacher can see if students understood.

Beatriz Sanchez, Spain

beatriz_sangar — 2018-04-19 16:22:59 UTC

The writing process is have distinct phases that: planning, reflection, drafting, and revision. All the process helps the person who write in several ways. problem solving, critical thinking, making decisions., imagination..

Justyna, Poland

2018-04-21 17:16:44 UTC

I think students like expresion, so they can shows knowlage by writing and this is help them to understand more.

Ourania Lampou, Greece

2018-04-23 19:43:46 UTC

In my classroom we apply poetic forms (poems, etc.) and transactional forms experiments). I believ ewriting is a very constructive tool.

nazım kırdaş

2018-04-24 10:25:03 UTC

students learn with their course abstracts and express their excavations. they provide feedback to us.

Salima, India

2018-04-24 12:39:02 UTC

I totally agree to what Dr. Gunel has to say. It is indeed an effective tool to reflect conceptual ideas on a piece of paper. It happens many times that we may have certain flow of ideas when we interact in a group which is very important to note down or else it fades from the memory. So apart from examinations I also make students take notes while learning in the class and also while they are working in groups.

Serena, Italy

serena_dorigotti — 2018-04-25 14:54:01 UTC

I agree that the writing is very important to learn activity because the students can to clarify better own ideas and summarize them.
For example the groups of students realize a poster to summarize their learning process during an IBSE activity.

Petra, Czech Republic

petra_vachova3 — 2018-04-25 21:45:27 UTC

I think the writing is essential to learn activity because the students can clarify if they understand everything.

çağdaş turan

113aytoldu — 2019-03-21 08:35:57 UTC

I use writing in all learning activities with students

dk

2019-06-23 14:49:18 UTC

I think that writing per se can be an additional challenge for some students.

So we should add alternative forms of expression such as drawing, which is equally or more engaging but still information rich.

Eleni

2019-06-27 06:55:45 UTC

By writing, students can be much more involved. They can also understand more and be more productive about an experiment or a lesson. The teacher can make a better estimation and a deeper assessment for the progress of the teaching method as well.

Ivica G

ivica_gregurec — 2019-09-09 20:52:50 UTC

Ivica G.

ivica_gregurec — 2019-09-09 20:52:51 UTC

I will try using all learning activities with some students ( free learning )

ol

fnbaptista — 2019-10-01 14:32:22 UTC