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A5: everyone has a different level of comfort with sharing their ideas in public. Personally I was self-conscious about how my tweets would be received, and it’s important to realize that my students might feel similarly #schmiteracies

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A4: realizing that anyone can find “evidence” to support their own worldviews and ideas online, and oftentimes the angriest most radical voices are the loudest - scary. As educators, helping our students understand this and navigate these spaces with this in mind #schmiteracies

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A3: students understanding when, where, and how media consumption is appropriate. That last one is the tricky part... #schmiteracies

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A2: tech tools can provide more exposure to content creation, consumption, and sharing. The classroom environment needs to take into account the students’ familiarity with technologies #schmiteracies

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@thispettypace Thinking about how it could be used in a way that wasn’t intended - for better or worse - and addressing that accordingly. Knowing your students’ prior exposure, experiences, and attitudes to the technologies you’re using #schmiteracies

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@anterobot A3: #pblmath - getting students to ask questions, be curious, and not be afraid of math because yes it can be open ended and creative! #schmiteracies

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@anterobot A2: ask our students what engages them, how they prefer to express themselves, and incorporate their voices into our lesson planning #projectFUERTE. Make sure our students feel heard. But what about #math? Like @lchoeum still not sure #schmiteracies

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@anterobot A1: literacies as the way we perceive and engage with the world. I want my students to know there is no one right way to interact with #math - as long as they are wrestling with ideas, questioning, and trying to see things in new ways, they are making me proud #schmiteracies

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@amayhay1 #schmiteracies

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Aspirational capital: resilience as a resource #aspirationalcapital #schmiteracies

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Apparently this is what love is #cinemacies #schmiteracies

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A6: listen to your students. Get to know their needs, hopes, fears, curiosities, interests, dreams. Start from there instead of imposing your own standards in the classroom. #schmiteracies

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A5: without equal representation of standards that also explicitly articulate non-dominant literacy practices, you’re essential elevating the dominant literacy, which already has enough power as it is, and disregarding other literacies #schmiteracies

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A4: when you are articulating it explicitly, you are acknowledging that this dominant language exists and in our current inequitable world it is advantageous to be literate in this way, however messed up that is #schmiteracies

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A3: no, it’s their responsibility to instill in students the belief that anyone can be “good at” any content area. #schmiteracies

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A2: what we’ve been told by adults and in classrooms, what’s been rewarded and praised, test scores #schmiteracies

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A1: There’s no such thing as “being good at #math”, having a math brain, being a math person, etc. We can all be mathematicians, problem solve, think critically and logically, etc!! #schmiteracies

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I mean Delpit* sorry autocorrect 😭

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Beers: what are open ended ways we can help our kids improve their reading comprehension?
Deloitte: you should tell us to come up with ways instead of asking us.
Paris: we could start by getting them to look at each other’s backpacks
Me: *nods head and listens* #schmiteracies

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Textual dexterity - the ability to express one’s self using language in an effective way. What if we encouraged our students to express themselves in these creative, nontraditional ways instead of ignoring or stifling/restricting them? #schmiteracies