Hi, Everyone,
As I prepare for our class on Saturday, I have found an article that I would like to share with you. You can access it by clicking on the text that looks different here: It's Not Harry Potter. The article is written for professors but it emphasizes the fact that we need to teach graduate students to read academic journal articles in a different way than you might read a book for entertainment. For those of you who are classroom teachers, we know now that this change in approach to different kinds of reading is also an important lesson for our young students. Don't worry if you haven't read the article before class - the beauty of blogs is that it will be here for you when you have a few minutes.
Interesting article. It's true, it's not Harry Potter. I'm pretty sure the kind of academic reading we are doing occupies a whole different region of the brain if one wants to be really engaged. Or maybe it even creates a new room in the brain. (If so, mine's still pretty small at this point.)
ReplyDeleteThe Schlecty pieces were interesting, too, and very engaging in themselves. How do we get this guy for a PD? I just finished looking at a video piece on the Michael Fullan website about a course he has developed called Motion Leadership. Also inspiring. The John Williams movie theme music helps.
I was not able to open the article - I received a message that the article's server was not responding. I'll try later this evening and if that doesn't work I'll try from school tomorrow...Aliceyn
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