WEEK 1

EDBE 8P24INTRODUCTION

Welcome !!

Course Communications:

Remind 101. Participation is voluntary

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Remind – section 1

8P43 – section 1: Monday 8:00 – 11:00 • Either:– Go to this link and download mobile app: • rmd.at/f4kkb

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What does it mean to be literate in the 21st century?

• Begin brainstorming at your table. You will be adding to and refining your response over the next two classes.

I Have a Question

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoYdJYd8SoU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Reflection

• Reflect on Cheechoo’s own words:• “You have a voice that needs to be heard.”

• What does this article want you to do and/or feel? Are you persuaded to act/feel in a particular way? After you discuss the article with your team, are you influenced to think or consider differently?

• How would you share Cheechoo’s story with a junior class?

Now look again…

• Sketch out your own Graphic Organizers to represent the structure of the piece.

OR • List the words or phrases that are meant to

elicit an emotional response from the reader.

The Ontario Curriculum: Grades 1-8 - Language

• http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum/elementary/language18currb.pdf

• Launched in 2006

Ontario Curriculum – Language 1-8

• Oral Communication• 1.• 2.

• Media Studies• 1.• 2.

• Reading• 1.• 2.

• Writing• 1.• 2.

Curriculum expectations are mandatory.

Overall expectations

• Describe in general terms the knowledge and skills students are expected to achieve by the end of each grade

Specific expectations

• Describe the expected knowledge and skills in greater detail often with specific examples

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Expectations

• Your group will be assigned a specific strand of the Language curriculum and a copy of the document

• Focusing on your strand only, and addressing the activities you have engaged in with the topic of empowerment, voice, and racism, answer this question:

If you were an intermediate grade teacher who had planned this lesson, what overall and specific expectations would you have addressed?

Review of what we did

• Brainstormed what being “literate” in 21st century means

• Watched a video about students in 21st. century classrooms

• Read an article about a First Nations woman who was a victim of the residential school system– Considered your reactions and how the article was

structured to evoke emotions

Course Organization

• Syllabus• Evaluation• Weekly chart• Sakai• Professional

Learning Conversations – Sign up for

Literacy Leader

Critical Literacy… • All texts are constructions

• All texts contain belief and value messages

• Each person interprets messages differently

• Texts serve different interests

• Each medium develops its own “language” in order to position readers/viewers in certain ways

Questions to consider for critical understanding

• Who created this resource?• For what purpose was it created?• Is the information accurate and believable?• What does the author want you to think?• Whose voices are missing, silenced, or discounted?• How does it help you think about social issues and

justice?

For Next Week

• Select social justice book from IRC• Go to Sakai and click on Week 2: Explore

Resources – Social Justice• Follow the instructions and post a critique of your

resource to the Forum• Postings must be done by 8:00 pm the evening

prior to your next class• Late posts will be accepted but penalized by .5

marks out of 3.