This is a pdf version of the session I gave on 3/13/2011 at the Michigan Reading Association conference in Grand Rapids. I had to save it as a pdf as the Keynote file was too large to post.

1. My Head’s on Fire!
Teaching Students How to Generate Ideas
for Reading, Writing, and Thinking
by Jim Burke, Burlingame High School

2. What is the problem
for which generating
ideas is the solution?

3. Six Features of Effective Literacy Instruction
1. Students learn skills and knowledge in multiple lesson
types.
2. Teachers integrate test preparations into instruction.
3. Teachers make connections across instruction,
curriculum, grades, and life.
4. Students learn strategies for doing the work.
5. Students are expected to be generative thinkers.
6. Classrooms foster cognitive collaboration.
from Beating the Odds:Teaching Middle and High School Students to Read and Write Well (2002)
by Judith Langer (http://cela.albany.edu)

4. Six Features of Effective Literacy Instruction
1. Students learn skills and knowledge in multiple lesson
types.
2. Teachers integrate test preparations into instruction.
3. Teachers make connections across instruction,
curriculum, grades, and life.
4. Students learn strategies for doing the work.
5. Students are expected to be generative thinkers.
6. Classrooms foster cognitive collaboration.
from Beating the Odds:Teaching Middle and High School Students to Read and Write Well (2002)
by Judith Langer (http://cela.albany.edu)

5. Generative Tools and Techniques
• Reading • Survey Monkey
• Talking • Visual Thesaurus
• Wordle
• Viewing • Post-Its/Poster Paper
• Listing • Whiteboard/Projector
• Writing • Videos (YouTube)
• Groups (online/in-class)
• Representing • Models
• Researching • Questions
• Analogies
• Texts
• Images

7. How can we use technology to generate ideas
that improve reading, writing, and thinking?

29. How can we use reading and writing to generate ideas
that improve reading, writing, and thinking?

34. How can we use speakers to generate ideas
that improve reading, writing, and thinking?

39. How can we use images to generate ideas
that improve reading, writing, and thinking?

46. Game Theory
Complexity Theory
Social Darwinism
Uncertainty Principle

59. How can we use graphics to generate ideas
that improve reading, writing, and thinking?

75. How can we use questions to generate ideas
that improve reading, writing, and thinking?

81. How can we use discussion to generate ideas
that improve reading, writing, and thinking?

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