tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424363211524705040.post4008115778398367624..comments2023-08-11T10:19:07.542-04:00Comments on Still Learning: What rocks your students' worlds?Susanne Nobleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05385103686774213540noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424363211524705040.post-88935265009282035972008-07-17T13:33:00.000-04:002008-07-17T13:33:00.000-04:00Patrick,I have put this title on my list ot "to re...Patrick,<BR/>I have put this title on my list ot "to read." Let me know if you teach it and how it goes.Susanne Nobleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05385103686774213540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424363211524705040.post-43930125814240610292008-07-15T20:18:00.000-04:002008-07-15T20:18:00.000-04:00What I enjoy when I consider 'text' with my studen...What I enjoy when I consider 'text' with my students is to first define and expand the definition. A text is anything you can read. As we talk about this and start naming examples, the students usually begin with the typical understanding of text which is "anything in print." But after naming magazines, newspapers, books, etc., I offer up art as a text. Then they start naming things like photos, people, social contexts, body language, family, fads, etc. Expanding the definition of 'text' has thus helped me to empower literature and the English curriculum with greater relevance because in truth, we read everything. The follow up question I challenge my students with is to consider that how they read (a text) determines what they will see (in that text).<BR/><BR/>Anyway... I'm wrestling with the idea of using Seth Godin's "Unleashing the Ideavirus" in my class to counter the 'get rich quick' mentality of my students by motivating them to market their own ideavirus. It's just a recent thought in development, but I think it has an amazing potential to harness the culture that tends to be so antagonistic toward education.p.c.ameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00178856179392476810noreply@blogger.com