Most recent public comments by Jessica Auletta https://nowcomment.com/users/84239 https://nowcomment.com/documents/205303?scroll_to=2306345 https://nowcomment.com/documents/205303?scroll_to=2306345 I am a lover of music, all kinds of artwork and reading! When I read a great book, this is exactly how it makes me feel; "A great writer snatches the human eye in the way that a thumping beat snatches the human ear..." Mon, 01 Feb 2021 15:36:54 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/174837?scroll_to=2018050 https://nowcomment.com/documents/174837?scroll_to=2018050 Thu, 24 Sep 2020 02:48:10 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/174837?scroll_to=2018049 https://nowcomment.com/documents/174837?scroll_to=2018049 Sun, 06 Sep 2020 20:03:25 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/174837?scroll_to=2018034 https://nowcomment.com/documents/174837?scroll_to=2018034 Sun, 06 Sep 2020 19:56:51 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/174837?scroll_to=2018019 https://nowcomment.com/documents/174837?scroll_to=2018019 Sun, 06 Sep 2020 19:54:16 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/174837?scroll_to=2018018 https://nowcomment.com/documents/174837?scroll_to=2018018 Oh my goodness!!! I love this! It's so colorful! It gets straight to the point without too much fluff. I would also utilize the audio clip presented at the beginning- especially for my students who would prefer and or benefit from practicing their reading and listening comprehension skills Thu, 24 Sep 2020 02:35:13 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/208763?scroll_to=2017969 https://nowcomment.com/documents/208763?scroll_to=2017969 I especially feel for those who have breathing difficulties like asthma. I know my poor mother has hard time breathing due to medical issues and she hates going out in public (especially over the Summer months) now because of that. Frustrating on so many levels. Sun, 06 Sep 2020 18:26:00 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/208763?scroll_to=2017967 https://nowcomment.com/documents/208763?scroll_to=2017967 I am all for wearing a mask, especially for the safety of others around me. Im sure you can remember when the virus first hit NYC and you had to go out in public with a mask on your face, it felt so odd at first. Im not really one to worry about how stylish or unstylish I look, but i must admit it certainly felt strange. One of the reason it felt so strange to me was the fact that socially, when I speak to people I like to read their faces. I want to read the emotions on peoples faces, and the mask has certainly robbed us of that, unless we are socially distant. I am set to teach remotely, but I often thought about what it would be like in a classroom full of kids whose faces are covered. Not just their faces- but their smiles- and that makes me kind of sad honestly. Sun, 06 Sep 2020 18:22:42 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/208763?scroll_to=2017966 https://nowcomment.com/documents/208763?scroll_to=2017966 Sun, 06 Sep 2020 18:06:31 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/208763?scroll_to=2017963 https://nowcomment.com/documents/208763?scroll_to=2017963 My friend lives in Tennessee and he said that there is no mandate to wear a mask anywhere. He told me that people make ignorant comments about the virus to him all the time. Like the article mentions it has become a political issue as well. He lives in a predominately "red" state. He often tells me that comments from his co-workers around the politics of it all are a huge part of the issue. Sun, 06 Sep 2020 18:01:47 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/208763?scroll_to=2017962 https://nowcomment.com/documents/208763?scroll_to=2017962 Sun, 06 Sep 2020 17:52:30 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/208763?scroll_to=2017961 https://nowcomment.com/documents/208763?scroll_to=2017961 Sun, 06 Sep 2020 17:50:58 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/208763?scroll_to=2017959 https://nowcomment.com/documents/208763?scroll_to=2017959 Visuals and graphs are a great way to help some students see the BIG picture. So, if the text falls short for them in explaining the issue at hand, they can read the graph's for that information. It certainly helps embellish the article by providing solid real world relatable facts to our students. Sun, 06 Sep 2020 17:48:36 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/208763?scroll_to=2017958 https://nowcomment.com/documents/208763?scroll_to=2017958 A picture is worth a million words! If our African American and Latino students see a young African American teenaged girl with a mask on her face at the beach, it's relatable to them. They see themselves in the image of her. It becomes relevant to them, just by looking at this girl's picture. Sun, 06 Sep 2020 17:42:49 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/208357?scroll_to=2017957 https://nowcomment.com/documents/208357?scroll_to=2017957 Even though it is an ugly virus- these colorful beautiful pictures are very engaging for a learner like myself. I am a kinesthetic learner and being able to not only read this information, but view really detailed pictures of it up close and personal the way you do with this particular article would completely hold my attention. Excellent resource for students who need more in order to stay engaged with the text. Also, again this is a topic that is very relevant to all of us. Keeping the subject matter relevant to our students lives is imperative. Sun, 06 Sep 2020 17:36:51 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/206834?scroll_to=2017938 https://nowcomment.com/documents/206834?scroll_to=2017938 Successful writing is contingent on audience and context- this is something that changes constantly depending on who you are talking to and in what context. "We all write, read and speak differently." As we learned in English Education, as educators we want to meet our students where they are at. Sun, 06 Sep 2020 16:02:08 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/206834?scroll_to=2017937 https://nowcomment.com/documents/206834?scroll_to=2017937 What is Multiliteracy? Multiple categories of reading and writing. all communicators develop different reading and writing skills for different reasons during their lives. People speak differently to different people depending on your relationship to them- these are markers of "different life-worlds". public, personal, and professional life. Sun, 06 Sep 2020 15:52:34 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/206833?scroll_to=2017936 https://nowcomment.com/documents/206833?scroll_to=2017936 They assess particular skills and short term memory. "They are not about meaning making, and yet high stakes testing drives curriculum and it drives pedagogical fashions." Sun, 06 Sep 2020 15:41:18 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/206833?scroll_to=2017933 https://nowcomment.com/documents/206833?scroll_to=2017933 When a child is born they look, they touch, they feel. It's infants make sense of the world around them- it is intrinsic. As Kalantzis says is, we put our children in school and we strip all of that away from them. When we say a child is intrinsically multimodal it means that young children makes sense of the world around them in multiple ways- Sun, 06 Sep 2020 15:20:31 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/206833?scroll_to=2017930 https://nowcomment.com/documents/206833?scroll_to=2017930 Sun, 06 Sep 2020 15:07:12 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/206833?scroll_to=2017929 https://nowcomment.com/documents/206833?scroll_to=2017929 The consequences of this that every text is always new and it expresses individuality- which has a profound effect on the kind of pedagogy we design, making it more open for learner diversity. Sun, 06 Sep 2020 15:05:28 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/206833?scroll_to=2017909 https://nowcomment.com/documents/206833?scroll_to=2017909 to combat these inequalities Cope said they designed multiliteracies as a way to build views of learning as agency- which recognized various learner starting points... Sun, 06 Sep 2020 14:46:40 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/206833?scroll_to=2017871 https://nowcomment.com/documents/206833?scroll_to=2017871 "...issues of equity, traditional views of language and literacy, and advancing technologies necessitates shifts in educational policy and practice that will allow for teachers in flexible, responsive and transformatative teaching. Sun, 06 Sep 2020 14:29:25 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/66410?scroll_to=2010761 https://nowcomment.com/documents/66410?scroll_to=2010761 "Both games and educational systems rely on goal setting, feedback loops, difficulty that scales along with participant experience and incentivizing continued participation." --This description makes me think of the game Fortnite. The player earns something like what seems to be badges. It also incentivizes continued participation, so the kids keep going back for more! It's brilliant. Wed, 02 Sep 2020 22:47:08 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/206832?scroll_to=2010711 https://nowcomment.com/documents/206832?scroll_to=2010711 Have kids involved in youth participatory research- young people asking a question from a problem they identify and figuring out what kind of info they need in figuring out that problem. Wed, 02 Sep 2020 22:21:00 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/206832?scroll_to=2010680 https://nowcomment.com/documents/206832?scroll_to=2010680 Wed, 02 Sep 2020 21:52:56 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/206832?scroll_to=2010648 https://nowcomment.com/documents/206832?scroll_to=2010648 Ernest Morell asks: 1)How do we get kids excited about learning? 2)How do we develop literary identities? How do we get kids to see the brilliance that they have? 3) How do we make education more digitally relevant? As an educator, I do believe that all three of these anchoring questions are very important and relevant in leading our teaching practice. However, creating excitement about something the students are about to learn is incredibly important because it gets students to "buy into" the lesson intially and creates a "buzz" around the subject at hand. But, in order to help boost a student's academic self esteem- it is equally important for them to recognize their own brilliance within a subject matter. More often than not, many students loose interest and/ or give up because of they believe that they simply can not complete certain assignments because it may seem too challenging or they are just simply not invested in it because they may believe they are not intelligent or capable enough to complete certain activities within a lesson. Wed, 02 Sep 2020 21:51:14 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/206832?scroll_to=2010561 https://nowcomment.com/documents/206832?scroll_to=2010561 "There's a disconnect in a lot of classrooms between what kids really like to do and what they're being asked to do in the classroom." I feel like this is improving, but the disconnect definitely remains. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:21:33 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/206774?scroll_to=2002425 https://nowcomment.com/documents/206774?scroll_to=2002425 Does this stigmatize Tiffany now? Is he caught up in the scrutiny of this program by no fault of her own? Mon, 31 Aug 2020 18:49:08 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/206774?scroll_to=2002396 https://nowcomment.com/documents/206774?scroll_to=2002396 Most of this paragraph is focused on what Tiffany can do, rather than what she can not. When describing areas in need of improvement, following up with a student's strengths seems to create a more positive outlook on the students abilities rather than the incapabilities and hinderances. Mon, 31 Aug 2020 18:46:05 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/206774?scroll_to=2002395 https://nowcomment.com/documents/206774?scroll_to=2002395 I especially love, "..and she thinks she is unable to understand mathematics." By saying that, "she thinks she is unable..," clearly communicates that this teacher believes that if Tiffany applies herself, she could do math just as well as she would in classes that are her favorite subjects. It implies that the teacher believes in Tiffany's abilities and CAN do it regardless of what she tells herself. Mon, 02 Aug 2021 16:54:49 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/206774?scroll_to=2002348 https://nowcomment.com/documents/206774?scroll_to=2002348 I wish with all my heart that as teachers we knew more about our students' personal background. This could be the social worker in me, but knowing what a student is dealing with outside of school helps the teacher and school staff better understand where the student is coming from- quite literally and figuratively. Mon, 31 Aug 2020 18:24:43 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/207229?scroll_to=1997511 https://nowcomment.com/documents/207229?scroll_to=1997511 "Specific" is the key word here. The more specific, the more the student knows exactly what is expected. Fri, 28 Aug 2020 22:10:24 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/207229?scroll_to=1997510 https://nowcomment.com/documents/207229?scroll_to=1997510 Wow! Who would have even thought that there are learning objectives that go beyond a lesson plan, or unit plan? I never considered how programs/departments and institutions utilize learning objectives to organize learning pathways! I can see how it would help if it is done the right way. Fri, 28 Aug 2020 22:06:41 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/207229?scroll_to=1997509 https://nowcomment.com/documents/207229?scroll_to=1997509 A road map! Another great analogy! Learning objectives are a huge part of the road map and help align content, assessments and activities--SO very important! Fri, 28 Aug 2020 22:02:31 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/207229?scroll_to=1997508 https://nowcomment.com/documents/207229?scroll_to=1997508 I love that! Learning Objectives really are like milestones, and based on how our students perform is how we as teachers can guage how to help them reach those milestones every step of the way. Mon, 14 Sep 2020 14:10:34 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/207234?scroll_to=1997507 https://nowcomment.com/documents/207234?scroll_to=1997507 How do we deal with parents that want to change their child completely- instead of building on that child's strengths? Fri, 28 Aug 2020 21:49:53 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/207234?scroll_to=1997506 https://nowcomment.com/documents/207234?scroll_to=1997506 I love how specific these questions are. I never would have thought to consider questions like; "How would you characterize the child as a thinker? What ideas and content have appeal?"Is there a speculative streak? A problem-solving one? A gift for analogy and metaphor? For image?" Thes are crucial questions that, when answered honestly- give us a plethora of important information about our students. Fri, 28 Aug 2020 21:44:36 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/207234?scroll_to=1997491 https://nowcomment.com/documents/207234?scroll_to=1997491 As a professional who has worked in various capacities with young children and adolescents both inside and outside of the classroom, the process helps us focus on the student in a way that explains a lot about who they are, and where they come from and what we can do as professionals to better help students reach their educational, emotional and social goals. In fact, many of the questions listed under "Description of Child" (par.26-30)are questions we would utilize in order to describe the student's characteristics and progress. Mon, 18 Jul 2022 21:41:09 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/207234?scroll_to=1971370 https://nowcomment.com/documents/207234?scroll_to=1971370 As I read through the protocol it encouraged me to think about each student individually and take note of some things that we tend to take for granted sometimes like their physical presence, their gestures, their relationships with other children and adults, activities and interests etc. This all helps guide teachers get to know our students better and also helps us in differentiating instruction Thu, 20 Aug 2020 21:27:40 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/207234?scroll_to=1971365 https://nowcomment.com/documents/207234?scroll_to=1971365 Sat, 23 Jul 2022 22:04:48 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/207229?scroll_to=1971286 https://nowcomment.com/documents/207229?scroll_to=1971286 Thu, 20 Aug 2020 17:29:44 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/207229?scroll_to=1971285 https://nowcomment.com/documents/207229?scroll_to=1971285 Thu, 20 Aug 2020 17:27:04 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/207229?scroll_to=1971175 https://nowcomment.com/documents/207229?scroll_to=1971175 As a student who struggled in school, I know that when my teachers and professors were organized, explicit and concise about thier expectations in how they approached their lessons, I better understood what was expected out of me and how to get from point A to point B. Mon, 14 Sep 2020 14:26:10 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/207229?scroll_to=1971160 https://nowcomment.com/documents/207229?scroll_to=1971160 Thu, 20 Aug 2020 16:14:03 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/207229?scroll_to=1971159 https://nowcomment.com/documents/207229?scroll_to=1971159 Yes, not only do our learning goals need to be clear & concise, we also have to be cognizant of the alignment of the lesson's activities as well. Thu, 20 Aug 2020 16:13:23 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/207229?scroll_to=1971143 https://nowcomment.com/documents/207229?scroll_to=1971143 -Are my learning objectives clear and concise? -Also, are the activities and the assessments Im using aligned with that specific learning objective? Thu, 20 Aug 2020 16:08:21 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/207229?scroll_to=1971118 https://nowcomment.com/documents/207229?scroll_to=1971118 As the text reads, Learning goals are also like a course “road map” which helps align content, assessment and activities to create the ultimate learning experience. Thu, 20 Aug 2020 15:57:59 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/207229?scroll_to=1971004 https://nowcomment.com/documents/207229?scroll_to=1971004 Thu, 20 Aug 2020 15:19:40 -0400