Todays session was fantastic, and all about thinking and how to support students to not just agree or disagree but to find evidence and clues in what they read to support their reasoning.
We started the day as usual with a Dorothy chat. In her chat she brought up AI and its use. She discussed not just the value of AI use in supporting students in their learning but also highlighted again some of the dangers of AI use. For me I felt very afirmed by her discussion as I could 100% Taitoko what she said especially around students needing to \move students beyond the passive to needing to be questioning challenging critial thinking. She also dicussed briefly the idea that AI although a very useful tool needs to be used carefully not just from a misinformation point of view but also as it has the potential to dumb down individual capabilities - Similar to when we go to the gym, we use our muscles and have to train our muscles, and do certain activities to grow our muscles and we need to be able to do the same with our brains.
We discussed many of the higher order thinking frameworks and how there is essentially 3 different levels of this in our reading. Literal, Interperative, and Evaluative - see my bitmoji version below.
This in many ways made me think of the structure of this RPI program as each session has built us up to where we are today in our thinking session.
It was also very timely as this was something I have been struggling with in my classroom of getting my students to really dicuss and "level up" their thinking (not just in reading).
This session also included lots of resources to support students in developing and challenging both their own thinking and to have those discusions with other students of course using extended discussion frameworks and ground rules for talk. These are great resouces as they are templates to use/reuse to structure this thinking rather than ready made resources that are one and done. I am looking forward to trialing and teaching these activities to my students over the next few weeks.
Next steps - THERE ARE ALOT THIS WEEK - but here are the main ones.
- Revisit roles of readers (to support the discussions)
- Revisit Ground rules for talk (again to support discussions)
- Trial some of the agree/disagree templates with students
- Want to redesign my Shared book reading planning to make it more userfriendly (both for me and my students).
- Introduce Vocab (traffic light) activity with students. Starting monday where we establish our level of understanding and then revisit at the end of the week to see how we have moved it.
- Still want to build the Magpie wall
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