Module 10: Integrating Assessment and Instruction (Mid-High)

Preview of classroom mini-documentaries about student-based assessment and literacy-assessment connection. In one we return to the robotics classroom we visited in Module 8 and the other serves as a review of assessment practices used by the teachers featured in L2L.

Audio

Module 9:Literature and the Literacy to Learn (Mid-High)

Preview of classroom mini-documentaries filmed in a high school with a mission to create actively literate teens and one where the National Online Youth Summit is used to engage students in real-world issues about law, civics, and citizenship.

Audio

Module 8: Processing the After-Reading Stage (Mid-High)

Preview of classroom mini-documentaries filmed in a high school Social Studies classroom where the focus is on real-world processing tasks and a middle school Career Technical Education classroom where robotics and literacy strategies are used to teach technology.

Audio

Module 7: Making the During Reading Stage Interactive (Mid-High)

Preview of classroom mini-documentaries filmed in a sixth grade Social Studies classroom where text structure and consensus strategies are used, and a high school Social Studies classroom where students use interactive notebooks or 3-D graphic organizers.

Audio

Module 6: Designing Pre-Reading Strategies (Mid-High)

Preview of classroom mini-documentaries filmed in a middle school math and a high school science classroom to see demonstrations of pre-reading strategies.

Audio

Module 5: Integrating Visual and Media Literacies in Content Area Teaching and Learning (Mid-High)

Preview of classroom mini-documentaries that introduce the new literacies on the block – visual and media – define them, and demonstrate how they can be taught as communication skills in the content area classroom.

Audio

Module 4: Writing as an L2L Tool (Mid-High)

Preview of mini-documentaries about an English Language Arts/Social Studies classroom and Business and Marketing classroom where writing is used as an L2L tool. We introduce a model for scaffolding reading experiences for teaching literacy and content.

Audio

Module 2: Conversation as an L2L Tool (Mid-High)

Preview of classroom mini-documentaries on Reciprocal Teaching and the Paideia Seminar. This module includes a video of an actual Paideia Seminar in a sixth grade class.

Audio

Module 3: The Role of Technology as an L2L Tool (Mid-High)

Preview of classroom mini-documentaries in which teachers explore ways that computers can become cognitive tools. Tools include moviemaking, WebQuests, and online discussions.

Audio

Module 1: Constructing Our L2L Learning and Teaching Framework (Mid-High)

Overview of course includes clips of classroom footage demonstrating 21st century literacy skills and features two exemplary projects: “Contacting a Family,” a science-based, interdisciplinary project and “Empty Bowls,” a project that integrates art and technology in an interdisciplinary inquiry into world hunger.

Audio

Introductory Video for L2L (Mid-High)

Welcome to Literacy to Learn, a series of video-based, online courses devoted to exploring the learning and teaching of 21st century literacy and learning skills.

Audio

Module 10 – Inviting Active Literacy Through Book Clubs - Audio (Elem)

Preview of classroom mini-documentaries on a principal’s book club and online book clubs for science learning.

Audio

Module 9 – Making Thinking Visible Through the Arts - Audio (Elem)

Preview of classroom mini-documentaries on photography as a literacy tool and art’s role in problem-based learning.

Audio

Module 7 – Writing About Text - Audio (Elem)

Preview of classroom mini-documentaries on teaching children to write about nonfiction topics and using videoconferencing to teach young writers how to critique.

Audio

Module 8 – Learning Through Real-World Inquiry - Audio (Elem)

Preview of classroom mini-documentaries on kindergarteners learning inquiry skills and fourth graders conducting oral histories to learn about their small town.

Audio

Module 6 – Talking About Text - Audio (Elem)

Preview of classroom mini-documentaries on a library media coordinator who teaches children to talk about books and another on literature circles.

Audio

Module 5 – Thinking Through Text Together - Audio (Elem)

Preview of classroom mini-documentaries on new ways to teach text structure and a third grade teacher who uses blogs to engage her students in thinking about text.

Audio

Module 4 – Bringing Learners and Texts Together - Audio (Elem)

Preview of classroom mini-documentaries of a Miss Rumphius lesson on integrated science, literacy, and technology; and matching writing to the reading to increase comprehension.

Audio

Module 3 – Developing Independent Readers - Audio (Elem)

Preview of classroom mini-documentaries on student-constructed classroom Web sites and an inquiry-based project on Red Wolf repopulation in Western North Carolina.

Audio

Module 1 – Constructing Our L2L Learning and Teaching Framework - Audio (Elem)

Overview of course includes clips of classroom footage demonstrating 21st century literacy skills.

Audio

Introductory Video for L2L - Audio (Elem)

Welcome to Literacy to Learn, a series of video-based, online courses devoted to exploring the learning and teaching of 21st century literacy and learning skills

Audio