USC Family of Schools Symposium Presentation
12/13/2014 Saturday
How can alternative, non print responses encourage and deepen thinking? Use symbolic representation, tableaus, even doodling--to elicit complex intellectual participation across grade-levels and abilities-- from EL learners to AP students. Using a Dickensian text as a starting point, the session will look at how the concept of "play" brings simultaneity and complexity in a community of learners. Instead of linear and bounded lists of comprehensive skills, this concept experiments with categories of thought: finding pattern, antithesis, contiguity/comparison and shift. This concept diversifies how students can show us what they know, in simple, spontaneous ways to ambitious collaborative projects and partnerships.
