Most recent public comments by Michael Weller https://nowcomment.com/users/14714 https://nowcomment.com/documents/35744?scroll_to=347951 https://nowcomment.com/documents/35744?scroll_to=347951 Sat, 08 Aug 2015 08:45:07 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/35744?scroll_to=347950 https://nowcomment.com/documents/35744?scroll_to=347950 School may be compulsory, but within that mandate there is so much room to create learning spaces that are meaningful. To me, the problem is more about having resources to support learners as well as shifting beliefs (mostly the beliefs of adults) about what school might be. Sat, 08 Aug 2015 08:45:07 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/35744?scroll_to=347949 https://nowcomment.com/documents/35744?scroll_to=347949 For example: "writing across the curriculum," which fails to account for the significant differences between writing as a historian, e.g., and writing as a literary critic. Disciplinary literacy (http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/3041) is a helpful corrective to this, but I would argue that this idea is little-known, especially in comparison to the ubiquity of "content-area literacy strategies." Sat, 08 Aug 2015 08:45:07 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/35744?scroll_to=347948 https://nowcomment.com/documents/35744?scroll_to=347948 Sun, 16 Jul 2023 16:47:50 -0400