Jerome Tooley

Cohort 28

[Jerome Tooley @jatooley3]

Wikipedia: I frequently use Wikipedia to look up item. However, I would never use it as a primary resource for an important project. That being said, I would use the sources that are listed to investigate a matter more deeply. #CSUSMMiddleLevel28

[Jerome Tooley @jatooley3]

Wiki: The problem with Wikipedia is that ANYONE can edit it. Although Wikipedia states that all material is monitored by thousands of Wikipedians, there is no way to guarantee the credibility that traditional encyclopedias enjoy. #CSUSMMiddleLevel28

[Jerome Tooley @jatooley3]

Fake news: I didn't like the suggestion to click the links on a potential fake news site to see if they are legitimate. This is a recipe for inviting malware on a student's computer. #CSUSMMiddleLevel28

[Jerome Tooley @jatooley3]

Fake news. It is important to teach students, and unfortunately many adults, how to look for sources, and to analyse them. #CSUSMMiddleLevel28

[Jerome Tooley @jatooley3]

Fake news: No longer do we have to travel to a store shelf to find fake news. It's simply a click away on your browser. It is important to teach students to be skeptical and avoid click-bait headlines. #CSUSMMiddleLevel28

[Jerome Tooley @jatooley3]

Fake news: There are two problems with fake news. One, someone may believe that it is real. Second, a person may become so jaded by fake news, that they disbelieve something that is, in fact, true. #CSUSMMiddleLevel28

[Jerome Tooley @jatooley3]

Fake News: Fake news has been around for a long time, but it's impact didn't become "real" until recently. Fake news sources were very prominent in the 2016 election and may have influenced voters. #CSUSMMiddleLevel28

[Jerome Tooley @jatooley3]

Mathematics: It is very important to not speed through a math article. You can read 20-60 pages of a novel with great comprehension in a half hour, but may only get through 2-3 lines of a math article. Trying to read too much, too fast can set you back. #CSUSMMiddleLevel28

[Jerome Tooley @jatooley3]

Mathematics: A novel and a mathematics article both tell a story and develop complex ideas , but a novel uses language to invoke emotion, where as a math article needs to be as precise as possible and well defined in a very short space. #CSUSMMiddleLevel28

[Jerome Tooley @jatooley3]

Mathematics: Just as a person needs to learn how to read a novel or a poem, listen to music, or view a painting, students need to learn how to read math . #CSUSMMiddleLevel28

[Jerome Tooley @jatooley3]

Barker (Cont) when the person was introduced and have to find the first mentioned. This is easy with e-books, when you can search for a name, but harder with paper print. #CSUSMMiddleLevel28

[Jerome Tooley @jatooley3]

Barker: I love the idea of boxing the character's names. So many times, I have read an article in the paper, and they reference a person by last name only. This indicates they have mentioned that person before but in reading quickly, I can't remember........
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[Jerome Tooley @jatooley3]

Barker: The first reading of a text can never be repeated. It is important to write their thoughts and ideas, and "read small" in order to see the big picture. #CSUSMMiddleLevel28

[Jerome Tooley @jatooley3]

Barker: Being confused by literature is to be expected as confusion is an important signal that the reader has encountered something worth thinking about. #CSUSMMiddleLevel28

[Jerome Tooley @jatooley3]

Barker: "Solving" a literature questions is very unlike solving a mathematics problem where there is only one correct answer. When decoding literature, there can be a plurality of interpretations and the paths to meaning are infinite. #CSUSMMiddleLevel28

[Jerome Tooley @jatooley3]

Sparks: Two ways to help with professional writing are to bring in professionals to let students know what type of writing will be required on the job and to let students be exposed to workplace work scenarios like making a budget proposal. #CSUSMMiddleLevel28

[Jerome Tooley @jatooley3]

Sparks: Too often we teach writing skills that have no relationship to the types of writings that our graduates will need in the professional world.
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[Jerome Tooley @jatooley3]

Matsumara: The most important step to support a cognitively demanding task is to choose a rich text or a group of texts. The text needs to contain substantive content for students to engage with. #CSUSMMiddleLevel28

[Jerome Tooley @jatooley3]

Matsumara: Only 25% of writing assignments in a fifth grade classroom required deep understanding of the text and had a high level of cognitive demand in a study performed by Matsumara and their colleagues. #CSUSMMiddleLevel28

[Jerome Tooley @jatooley3]

Matsumara: Students have higher achievements in reading comprehension when given cognitively demanding tasks instead of reproducing information that is explicitly stated, yet cognitively demanding writing assignments are rare. #CSUSMMiddleLevel28