How do we model the thinking for students so that they learn how to think in our subject area? We can do think-alouds in which we think aloud “When I.., I..” or “What if ….” .However, if we do an in-class think-aloud then our students have nothing to refer to do as they work at home. What if we do an emovie of our think-aloud where they hear and see our thinking? We can show how we complete a graphic organizer or draw a model of something. We could put the think-aloud up on Youtube, Teachertube, or our district server. Students can view our think-aloud so that they can develop the same thinking process. They will begin to think in a scientific fashion, a language arts fashion, a mathematical fashion, etc.
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Modeling Think Alouds with Emovie
Published March 18, 2008 21st Century Skills , Assess , Assessment , assessment for learning , Model , TeacherTube , Think , Think aloud , YouTube Leave a CommentTags: Class, Education, Mental processing, Model, Modeling, Strategy, Student, Subject area, Teacher, TeacherTube, Think aloud, YouTube
TeacherTube Not Grown Up
Published January 8, 2008 TeacherTube , write , Writing , YouTube Leave a CommentTags: Class, Education, Essay, Internet, Pargraph, School, TeacherTube, Web, Writing, YouTube
I had looked at TeacherTube.com many months ago. The premise of TeacherTube.com is that teachers and students will put up educational videos other educators and their students When I went to it recently, I found that it has not grown up very much.
When I searched for paragraph writing, I found 0 entries. When I used “essay writing, I found 9 entries of which 7 were commercial. When I widened the search to “writing”, I found 9 entries that actually dealt with the writing process (5 of them were commercial).
On the other hand, when I searched in YouTube.com for “paragraph writing”, I found 5 entries. When I searched for essay writing of the reported 300, about 50 actual deal with real writing (not making fun of it). I tried using “essay writing” -funny as a search term to get rid of some of the non-instructional ones. The search for writing revealed about 5,500 entries; I did not have the time to count those that actually were instructional.
I had great hopes for TeacherTube but they have not come true.