Writing to Learn Activities in your classrooms by EUN Partnership aisbl

Writing to learn

2019-04-30 09:58:10 UTC

Writing can develop students writing habit while developing some skills like revising and proofreading. At the same time, students can also widen their vocabs and practice writing as well.

DCMESES — 2019-04-30 14:47:37 UTC

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Lacramioara,Romania

2019-04-30 15:31:41 UTC

Writing is an activity that stimulates the student's intellect. The student meditates on written words, understands them, compares them, associates them and builds ideas.
In STEM lessons, notes are very important. In students' projects texts, drawings, experimental data tables make up an essential part. Often the communication of the results of a project through writing is much clearer.

Olivera, Montenegro

OliveraOlja — 2019-04-30 22:20:54 UTC

Writing students develop a habit to think about what they write, compare, supplement, return to the written ...
In the hours of natural science, all the notes are very important (formulas, texts, drawings, tasks, data tables).

Žaklina Kvesić Croatia

zaki_kvesic — 2019-04-30 23:42:53 UTC

Writing can be very helpful for students because that is the way they can develope their writing skills and they can practice proofreading their texts and essays and most importantly they can further expand their vocabulary

Elida, Lithuania

daile — 2019-05-01 11:52:18 UTC

I like the idea of writing. I will use, I have good ideas just now

Adela Muresan, Romania

muresan_gabriela_adela — 2019-05-01 13:31:40 UTC

Writing to Learn Activities helps students to develop their critical thinking, to work in pairs, to solve problems connected to their reality, to learn by doing, to communicate and exchange of good practices.

Josip, Croatia

bazamaterijala — 2019-05-01 13:59:10 UTC

Writing helps to organize information, conclusions and ideas. Any form of writing is really helpful for students and it can be used in class or for homework for project planning, through developing an idea or for finishing an activity after project.

Joan, Barcelona

2019-05-01 18:00:56 UTC

Writing can help to analyze, organize, settle and fix knowledge.

These videos have offered me some ideas that I consider useful. One of them is to propose that they write rap lyrics. It can be attractive to many students, especially if they are not used to writing other types of texts. Another one is to propose that they write texts aimed at students who have a level of knowledge inferior to their own.

Valentina, Romania

2019-05-01 20:45:42 UTC

The role of the teacher is to help the student to discover and develop their ability to write through direct and indirect training exercises. Among the indirect training exercises, there are:
- games with geometric shapes that the child inserts into the appropriate holders, holding them with the three-finger grip button;
- soaking the toes in the warm water and making the effort "to keep your hand suspended, raising it upright";
- Feeling different contours and fitting shapes into appropriate frames.
Direct training exercises include drawing drawings and letterpress exercises.
The pupil is given various patterns for shaping figures, after which he is asked to color them without exceeding the contour. The purpose of this exercise is to make the little one accustomed to repetitive movements specific to line and sticks. The difference between the free drawing and the drawing of lines is that the preschooler who learns to write does not tire.

Gamze Siper/Turkey

gamzesiper — 2019-05-02 07:32:03 UTC

I can observe students have problems with writing skills. Because of social media, chat platforms etc. ıt gets harder to express themselves clearly for them. Even I’m not a literature teacher, I care their writing skills. I’ve already used writing as a poem with students but I’ve never used letter activity, I really liked it and it gave me ideas.

Sevda-TURKEY

Sevdakurupelit — 2019-05-02 08:43:13 UTC

I like the idea of writing. I will use, I have good ideas just now

Jordi, Barcelona

2019-05-02 10:56:05 UTC

Usually I make students write what they know before starting a lesson, and at the end they write what they know after the lesson, and if they have changed some of their original ideas.

G Horan

2019-05-02 11:13:28 UTC

THis is an interesting new format that I have not used in teaching science before. I think the students would enjoy putting what they have learned about a topic into a song/rap/poem or a Blog. THis is relevant to the way they experience the world.

P Campos, Portugal

patricia_campos1 — 2019-05-02 13:47:54 UTC

Implementing this activities could respond to some of my students characteristics and could be a way of them achieving sucess. It can also be an important motivational activity.
I think I could use it as a way to present a research work, for example, or to find out misconceptions.

Annalaura Sassari

2019-05-02 14:23:30 UTC

Writing is usefull to elaborate information, conclusions and ideas. I think I will use that for homework for project planning, through developing an idea or for finishing an activity after project.

Joan

2019-05-02 15:46:26 UTC

Writing helps to clarify concepts and consolidate acquired knowledge. I think writing should be as open as possible as an additional motivation because they can use their creativity. When I use a video, I have previously distributed a text with blank spaces. I tell them that every 3 minutes they have an idea or concept to fill in the blank spaces. It serves as an example of text, to take into account what is said in the video and to capture concepts..

Fatma,Turkey

fatmasarikayis — 2019-05-02 17:45:49 UTC

ıt can be a clue for students learning styles

Grace,Sicily.

grace_garofalo — 2019-05-02 20:04:52 UTC

I think that the forms of writing such as poems,diaries,letters,comments ,newspaper articles are all different ways of expressing an idea.
We should use them all in order to help Ss communicate and synthesize concepts of all school disciplines.

Fatma,Turkey

grace_garofalo — 2019-05-02 20:09:20 UTC

ıt can be a clue for students learning styles

Vasilica,Romania

simionoviciv — 2019-05-03 06:24:01 UTC

I like very much the idea of writing. I will use, I have good ideas just now

Snežana, Croatia

kranjec051 — 2019-05-03 07:36:34 UTC

Writing is an indispensable activity on a daily basis and not only in the STEM field. By writing, students practice written expression and grammar.Writing is an activity that stimulates the student's intellect. The student meditates on written words, understands them, compares them, associates them and builds ideas.

In all lessons, notes are very important. Often the communication of the results of a project through writing is much clearer.

Abdullah KÖROĞLU,Turkey

2019-05-03 07:49:44 UTC

It emerges by writing new ideas. It encourages students to think creatively. They are asked to complete the given text, leaving it half way.

Salvatore, Italy

2019-05-03 11:58:45 UTC

Writing is useful both in the design phase of an activity and in the information processing phase, and in the reading of the conclusions, in the comparison and generalization of the concepts

António Branco Portugal

2019-05-03 15:07:57 UTC

I use it on science reports with a free writing space for conclusions and observation

Carina, Ireland

2019-05-03 16:01:34 UTC

It might help students in developing different ways to analyse their science investigations. To help make them active thinkers and learners. To be creative, to think independently, to take ownership of their work and learning. To be better communicators.

Cristina Romania

2019-05-03 17:05:54 UTC

Writing generates new ideas, stimulates creativity, enriches vocabulary and provides hand dexterity, stimulated analysis and synthesis processes.

Cecilia, Italy

2019-05-03 17:49:10 UTC

It is important to document our ideas and activities

Jelena, Montenegro

2019-05-04 15:20:54 UTC

Writing gives voice to our inner thoughts and allows us to share them. As a form of communication, writing can transcend time and is a way to pass stories from generation to generation.
Writing focuses students on phonics, comprehension, developing their voice or perspective, and communicating this perspective to others.
Balanced Literacy focuses on developing the many skills and improves comprehension and critical thinking.
Teachers must learn how to create a classroom environment that is conducive to writing and supports effective writing instruction for all learners,

Fatma47

fatmaerdem47 — 2019-05-04 16:09:17 UTC

To learn about activities in your classes I will start using poetry and daily writing. I am looking forward to the results.

Katerina, Czech republic

2019-05-04 16:26:52 UTC

I would like to start with poems, after a lesson, I will make students to write a poem about what they learnt that day. I look forward to listen to their poems. It might be fine to let them read the poems in smaller groups and than tell whose poem was the best on their own. From each group there will be one best poem. In the final round students will read the best poems.

Ra

clinicalresearcher2019 — 2019-05-04 17:00:25 UTC

Raja Nadeem Altaf,Pakistan

clinicalresearcher2019 — 2019-05-04 17:00:26 UTC

Writing is highly challenging and dynamic process.It is a tool to foster creativity.Different writing activities must be incorporated during class projects and assessment for better understanding key concepts in BISE.

Àlex Asensio (Girona, Catalonia)

2019-05-04 17:09:27 UTC

As I pointed out previously, I think that this sort of activities improve the connection between concepts in order to get a better long-term learning. I agree with the teachers that have participated on the videos that these activities are very useful to check the perceptions of each unit and to correct misconceptions.
Recently, my students and me have been working on a letter that we are sending to the European Parlamient, so I am already using this sort of activities, but I have never thought to use poems within a science class. Definetely, I will use poems soon.

Marcin, Poland

emce_1980 — 2019-05-04 17:33:18 UTC

Wow!
The first video was so inspiring!
I'm sure that I'll use diaries to track students' preconceptions and their change to try to fight their misconcptions.

azad

2019-05-04 17:44:04 UTC

azad, turkey

2019-05-04 17:44:05 UTC

Learners bring back their previous knowledge and they prepare for next stages.

Višnja, Croatia

2019-05-05 14:53:52 UTC

Writing helps develop ideas and solve problems. It is helpful to keep a diary.

Renata,Poland

2019-05-05 16:18:05 UTC

writing helps in systematizing knowledge and skills, for example, maps of thoughts-mind Mapping

Cengiz,Turkey

2019-05-06 08:38:34 UTC

Julija, Austria

2019-05-06 11:15:43 UTC

.) Brainstorming is a very helpful way to pick up on prior knowledge and add new terms
.) Writing in general helps to focus and to create a system within gathered information.
.) Students could be asked to write a poem together with their neighbour or in groups of 3, or write a letter.

Magdalena, Austria

2019-05-06 13:27:12 UTC

Writing in general helps connecting information in your brain and analyse your written notes. I would tell my students to keep a diary and write an entry after each unit to revise all the information learned before.

Andreja, Croatia

andrejaptk — 2019-05-06 15:46:40 UTC

Writing activities increase the quality of learning and that is why should be used in classroom.
Writing a poem would be a challenge.

Núria, Barcelona

nuriagflor1 — 2019-05-06 16:34:07 UTC

According to the videos writing activities in science encourage the students who are more creative/ humanities/ literature oriented, as it is a type of activity they enjoy, it also helps them establish connections between concepts and revise their previous knowledge when asked to keep a science log or diary. In my opinion, it is crucial to bear in mind some students might be overwhelmed with this type of tasks if addressing to a public who is more knowledgeable than they are, that is why I think the idea of writing letters to explain something to younger students or friends, might be less challenging but allowing the students to perform those connections we mentioned above without feeling such a pressure.

2019-05-07 07:17:32 UTC

Aytun AYDIN,TURKEY

2019-05-07 07:17:33 UTC

İt is important to document our activites.

Elina

2019-05-07 13:11:17 UTC

It makes learning process more meaningful and encourages students to deepen their knowledge, to visualize scientific conceptions, to reflect on their own learning process and to improve their critical thinking skills.

Sinéad, Barcelona

2019-05-07 19:40:14 UTC

Joanna, Poland

2019-05-08 12:09:16 UTC

Writing is useful while memorizing and reflecting. It may also be a way of expressing individuals and enhance creativity. A tool for tracking misconceptions. I use: notes, creative notes and mindmaps and scetch notes, lab reports. I would use: diaries, poems (+hip-hop, rap approach), esseys, stories (science fiction).

Kenneth - USA, Georgia

2019-05-08 16:59:43 UTC

Writing to learn activities are important to use in the classroom because students need to be able to communicate knowledge to others. This is an important life skill. Using writing activities in a science class helps students see that writing is a skill that is used in all content settings, not just in writing class or language arts. Writing to learn exercises also provide opportunities for students to reflect on their thinking and learning which often helps them clarify and refine thinking. When you try and put something into words you sometimes realize that you need more clarification before you can do that so you go and do further investigation, reading, study, or research. Writing to learn activities are also useful for the teacher in assessing student understanding. When students write, you can often uncover misconceptions or gaps in their knowledge from the things they say.

Luísa Nogueira, Portugal

2019-05-08 21:11:21 UTC

After seeing the two videos on the topic I was convinced about the effectiveness of the activity.
In last Monday's class, I gave a text to the students in the ninth grade class, with a dialogue, written by me, in which two students talk about the concepts worked during the lesson: the speed graphs as a function of time and the classification of rectilinear motions (the uniform rectilinear motion and the varied rectilinear motions).
I ask the students to write a text where they comment on the dialogue between the two kids. At the end of the work proposal, I present the evaluation parameters that I will use in the correction of the work done by the students.

Markéta, CZ

2019-05-09 20:21:59 UTC

I think I should use Writing to learn activities because it can help students to learn better, develop critical thinking, classification of thoughts ... I've been thinking about introducing a "portfolio" in one my subject for a long time, where pupils would have to evaluate what they learned, what they understand and what they didn't, what was their learning outcomes, and what main idea they took ...

Eva, Czech republic

efkakuc — 2019-05-09 20:46:12 UTC

Both videos were very interesting. I would like to use writing to learn activities in my classrooms. I am interested in poems that students should write at the end of the topis. The writing diary what students knew and have learnt is attractive for me too.

alina popa romania

popalina21 — 2019-05-10 13:13:17 UTC

both presentations are interesting and we can have a portofolio to each students by hand writing it with their concusions and work

Mustafa

2019-05-10 22:27:59 UTC

Mustafa ERKOÇ

2019-05-10 22:28:00 UTC

Students bring back their previous knowledge and prepare for the next steps.

Daiva, Lithuania

2019-05-12 09:52:25 UTC

Writing as a learning activity is very important for rethinking new information, for relationship with previous topics and for remembering information. Writing activity is convenient by repeating the chapter, assessing your progress. The examples provided are very useful. I'm sure to try the dialogue, diary writing activities.

Cristina Antal, Romania

2019-05-12 10:38:17 UTC

For some student it can be an easier way of expression. But for some, the effort can take too much time and it will affect the learning time. Working on groups or pairs in with the student are proportionaly devided depending of their interest.

Fethi Ahmet, TURKEY

2019-05-13 07:23:37 UTC

writing increases the permanence of learning. allows you to see and correct errors later.
allows you to be aware of misconceptions.
We use writing in classrooms to take lecture notes, keep diary, hold test reports, to make progress in project stages, in word association, to develop critical and creative thinking skills.

Ioana, Romania

2019-05-13 20:20:00 UTC

They can use writing to fix the knowledge, to organize the information.

Željana, Croatia

zpopic_1 — 2019-05-14 08:25:12 UTC

They can use writing to express their feelings or write about some topics we learn in that moment.

Austria, SJ

2019-05-14 10:55:35 UTC

Since writing not only helps to organize one's thoughts but also provides an opportunity to revise the learned information, I would definitely use writing to learn activities in my classroom.

Especially, for experiments it can come in handy when the students take notes and later (when revising) can access to their notes to remember how the outcomes of the experiment were.

What's more, I would appeciate if the students would make notes after each session and somehow collect what they have remembered.
Group work at the end of a session may also be beneficial as it will allow them to have an insight in their collegues's minds.

ÖZDEN COŞAR TÜRKİ

ozdencosar — 2019-05-14 12:32:30 UTC

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ozdencosar — 2019-05-14 12:32:31 UTC

Anne Basque Country

anne_badiola — 2019-05-14 13:03:36 UTC

To reflect on their thinking, to learn how to write what it's in their mind, to be able to communicate. Also is great to structure what they've learned, to revise...
It is one of the most important things that we, as teachers, should teach them.

Tuncay, Turkey

2019-05-14 20:14:50 UTC

Writing encourages students to think on the concept more deeply. At the end of the unit students can be asked to write in a given format to synthesize what they have already learned.

Gabriella, Italy

gabriella — 2019-05-15 12:33:14 UTC

Writing to learn activities lets and makes students reflect on what they want to communicate and how, focusing therefore on trying to be clear and understandable by people who did not go through the same process to elaborate a concept or work on a problem. At the end of a series of activities it could be nice to create a book, an e-book or an exposition for other students to share their gained knowledge.

Sandra, CRO

knjiznica_tsck — 2019-05-15 14:10:46 UTC

I use many variations of writing to learn activities. Students often have to write about themselves, about the projects they are involved in, about activities they do. It is obligatory to have some educational elements

Maria Gonçalves; Portugal

m3nevesg — 2019-05-15 16:18:25 UTC

They can use writing to formulate the planning of an experiment, to summarize their conclusions, and to establish the connections between concepts.

They can make summaries of topics and with that they can understand what they know and what they do not know

Francesc, Catalunya

2019-05-15 16:30:19 UTC

As I said previously, writing help the student to organize the ideas. So they have to have some writing activites every unit. It can be a experiment report, an essay of a topic related or simply explain a phenomena related with the topic.

Rosana, Spain

rosanasanchisrubio — 2019-05-15 18:28:27 UTC

Writing helps students to understand and to learn the topics because they should think and analyze the ideas. I could use writing to learn activities in my classroom, for exemple, poems and diary.

Maria, Ireland

ariasteinbo — 2019-05-15 19:53:27 UTC

writing to learn in science is a very important skill to have. Report writing indicates their ability to create and carry out an experiment/activity, collect results, analyse them and make their reflections.
Writing to learn helps students to take and make notes, learn topics and be creative in areas such a poster making and poems and letters.
Up to now I would never have thought to get my science students to write poems or letters to show their understanding of a topic. Despite the results described by the teacher in the video above, I find the idea of introducing poetry and letter writing in science very daunting but students can often surprise us!

Aishling, Ireland

2019-05-15 20:21:29 UTC

Writing to Learn activities are important in science as a means of assessing student understanding, but also giving them a chance to reflect on their own understanding of a topic. They can do so at their own time, without the pressure of having to present to the class.

I would use these activities in writing up reports, observations and their suggested explanations. I would get students to write up a summary of what we just covered, in their own words.

Nurullah Kaya, Turkey

nurullahkaya — 2019-05-15 22:35:36 UTC

Katia, Romania

encati — 2019-05-16 13:23:47 UTC

This kind of learning activities is very appropriate for biology, my object. Poems, letter, essay are modalities to characterize a proces

Viktoria, Vienna

2019-05-16 16:20:25 UTC

I Thing writing in the class, in the lesson is a very good opportunity to write everything down, that matters for the learning process. It is a very good way to remember things that happened in class, and also matters. I thing it is also a skill to know what is imo

Jale,Turkey

2019-05-16 17:22:48 UTC

Writing is the best way to make thinking visible, to visualize or express our thoughts, observations-results-findings during a lab or class activities. Writing also provides opportunity to recall the prior knowledge and experience to make connection with the present real-life situations.

By writing the students do not only find a way make their thinking visible, but also find a way to communicate with the others. Moreover, by writing as they carry out an investigation, they recall and use the prior knowledge and experience and formulate their hypothesis, variables, record their observations -measurements- transfer them into a graph, the results of experimental findings. Writing provides opportunity to reflect all these in the form of a lab report, poster or ppt.

Mariangela Fabiana Gramegna, Italy

facararolina — 2019-05-16 17:37:45 UTC

I believe writing is an important step that shoud be used in the middle or at the end of the learning path, to express opinions, suggestions, doubts and results

Martin, Austria

2019-05-16 19:45:47 UTC

I think writing and formulating things pupils have learned is great because they need to reflect what they have learned in the process. telling stories or poems with it sounds very appealing to me. also pupils revised learned stuff and can look at it at a later date to keep remembering or just to see their progress.

Magdalena, Poland

2019-05-16 19:56:04 UTC

In my opinion we should use writing to learn our pupils, because it helps to learn, helps in memoralization. Students transform in their minds new knowledge before they write, so it is helpful in learning process in science classes also.

Adina Geczi, Romania

2019-05-19 19:46:20 UTC

Writing to learn activities are very inmortant for children, especialy when they are learnibg to write, because it develops a lot of brain activities. Later, when they grow, they should do writing reports, poems, everything that involves writing process.

Nilüfer Parsak Adana Turkey

2019-06-25 15:25:23 UTC

Writing is the best way to visualize or express our thoughts, observations-results-findings during a lab or class activities. Writing also provides opportunity to recall the prior knowledge and experience to make connection with the present real-life situations. By writing students do not only find a way make their thinking visible, but also find a way to communicate with the others. Moreover they recall and use the prior knowledge and experience and formulate their hypothesis, variables, record their observations -measurements- transfer them into a graph, the results of experimental findings. Writing provides opportunity to reflect all these in the form of a lab report, poster or ppt.