Thursday, October 7, 2010
Visual Ranking
I used the visual ranking tool to set up a project where students would rank, from greatest to least, particular characters from Shakespeare's "Hamlet" in terms of character development. I think this is a good way to promote higher- order thinking because students have to really pause to recall what they've read in order to do this task. They really have to stop and think when they have to consider examples for the character who undergoes the most amount of development and the one who undergoes the least amount of development. This is just one example, however. The visual ranking tool could also be used to rank grammar terms, for example, in terms of which ones the students themselves have the most difficulty with. Similarly, I can see the Seeing Reason tool being used for plot development in certain works of literature. For example, as (some character's love for another character) increases, (that character's motivation) increases. But that's just one example.
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I really liked the examples that you gave. The grammar idea was really good! I think that these tools are a nice way to change things up and get the students learning in a different way. We have to be sure that we are constantly changing, as the world is, and making our lessons relevant.
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It is always good to enforce Shakespeare! I was saying in a comment earlier that Shakespeare can be difficult to teach sometimes. Especially if the students have no interest whatsoever, but fun little interactive activities such as the one you created could really help our cause. maybe it will make our students love him the way we all do!
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