As the reading rocket’s video started, the very first thing that stood out was the depiction of words related from a story. After reading a story about gardening, the students were asked to give some words that was related to gardening. Some of the words used like “soil, water and sunshine” were apart of the list of words. From here the teacher then asked the students to categorize them in any way they wanted but they had to give an explanation on way the words were categorized that way. When the teacher told them that they could match the words up any way but had to have a reason as to why they worked in a group, it teaches the kids to think outside of the box and to be creative with their thinking. By the teacher wanting the children to be creative with their thinking, they can talk amongst each other to come up with ways to combine the words. Because of the students only working with words that they already know, it does not have them branch out to learn something new.
When watching the Tedd video, the math lesson had a similar goal as the reading rocket. While the reading rocket video had them telling why they categorized certain words, the Tedd video has the students determine whether or not the math problem was true or false. Each lesson had a goal to have the students give their explanation as to why they chose what they did. Although the students may have been wrong solving the problem, they had given a detailed explanation as to why they were making the argument. In their explanations, the students pulled vocabulary from the lesson and use it in their explanation. With this form of disciplinary literacy, the students are using their prior knowledge of the words and elaborating them into sentence form. Both of these videos were great and I think i would use both in my classroom. Although the reading rocket’s video was more of small group work than a whole group discussion, each are great examples to have of disciplinary literacy in the classrooms.
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It seems like you found the videos interesting enough to describe them in detail. I’m wondering if they illustrate anything you’ve been reading in the additional readings? I’m also not getting a clear sense of what kind of classroom you expect to have even though you do say “Both of these videos were great and I think i would use both in my classroom.”– This was interesting to me because one video was from a math class and the other was from what seemed like a science class, though the activity was more comprehension-based. If these are both disciplinary, then you would expect that they are catered specifically to their disciplines. I’ll be curious to see you how you make more specific connections to disciplines that you expect to teach in the future.
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