What's+Worth+Knowing

As a small group, you will share your responses to **Postman & Weingartner's seminal chapter "What's Worth Knowing."** You used Peter Elbow's "Writing to..." response strategy for your initial responses. Now, collaborate and negotiate with your group to come up with a collaborative response to each of Elbow's steps:


 * - Writing to Describe: //Key Word (used in one-sentence// summary) Key Word: Question**

True learning is based around the act of good __question__ing which contributes to positive educational change.


 * - Writing to Interpret: //Main Message (paragraph)//**

The school system is a system of experts controlling learning and learners. From the government, to the administrators, to the teachers, very few in the chain of authority recognize or act on the students’ needs for relevant and open questioning of the world around them.


 * - Writing to Interrogate: //Questions for the Authors (at least 3)//**

How do you change the way we evaluate if you change the way we educate? How do you manage individual questioning in a classroom of many individuals? How do you transfer this type of education to schools and teachers? How do we remedy the tension between functioning (in the world) and questioning? Is this type of learni ng for all people and for all disciplines/subject areas?


 * - Writing to Evaluate: //Applications (3-5)//**

Understand students are experts in their own learning and create a survey to learn more about their questions.

Collaborate with teachers of different subject areas to reduce the restrictive nature of class subjects on student learning.

ELA has a lot more leeway in what “facts” are relevant to the subject and teachers can use this to make the curriculum more relevant to students.

ELA teachers help students learn to communicate which is the key skill for existing in society and creating connections with other people.

- Writing to Prompt Discussion: //Questions for Class Discussion (Dr. Young will provide these!)//