Digital Literacy: The Power of Play with New Language

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I’ve learned that sometimes...

Everything is new through the eyes of a baby.

It’s fun to pretend.

The want you to think outside the box, but they won’t let you out of the box. Ryan 4th grade, San Angelo Texas

Money CAN buy you happiness

if you are extremely shallow

Children teach us to Dream

The future is locked until its moment. — Wesley Everyone has a secret.—

BrandonEven something so small can make a big difference.—Sally

Small things can hold everything together.—

LindseyIf you do drugs, you’ll get

locked-up.—DonaldThere’s always a key in life.

—JessicaEveryone gets in trouble.—

BrandySome things can’t be

opened.—VictorNot everything is unlocked

for you. – JoelThe truth will set you free. –

JevonNot everything is easy to get

through. – RoxanneUnlock your freedom. –

DerekYou have to work to find the

key to life. – HillarySome things are best sealed

up.—Ethan

Life has all kinds of adventure.

I used to think highschool was a holding tank for

adolescents, then I came to the Met School

and found High school is a holding tank for adolescent teachers.

Teach Creativity.

Let everyone else teach conformity.They are good at

that.

Create Your Frame

HUMOR not only teaches INFERENCE

Humor is inference

It doesn’t exist without it.

•Is a brochure or ad a workplace literacy form?

•Is a song? A youtube video? A powerpoint? Prezi? Tweet? Blog?

•Is a Poem?

Funny is true

Humor is Truth, only quicker.• Gilda Radner

Jester do often prove prophets.• Shakespeare•A joke is total knowledge in a nano-second.• Steve Martin

Anything worth taking seriously is worth making fun of. Tom Lehrer

Silly is silly but,

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Ask Polygon, the Gal with all the angles.

Dear Poly,•

• I think I am a Square but other shapes keep making fun of me. The other day this mean circle called me a Rhombus. I don’t know what it means but I think it was an insult. I called her an oval and we had quite a fight. I know my sides are even so why am I not a square.

• • Signed,• • Off Center•

Dear Off, Just because all your

sides are even does not necessarily mean you are a square. Your angles have to all be 90 degrees. If not, I am afraid you are a rhombus, But don’t despair that is just a funny word for a type of parallelogram with even sides, nothing more. I hope you also realize that a rhombus standing on one of its angles is a diamond..

Be proud of the shape you were born with.

later , Poly

World’s Worst Tour Guide

Time Travel ToursSalaam aleikum.

Welcome to Saracen Tours of the Crusades, where you will get the

other side of the story of what happened in the year 1097. My name is

Mr. Saladin, and I will be your tour guide. Please keep your hands inside the magic carpet at all

times and observe the no smoking sign.

5- 10

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10-15

How to Be a SharkHow to Be a Shark

Get born with a full set ofself-replicating razor-sharp teeth

Swim in the oceans for 400 million years,

175 million years before the dinosaurs,

(but who’s counting)Devour fish, or squid, or seals

And don’t worryif you break a tooth

on a bone Because you’ll grow 30,000

new ones in a lifetimeLift up your nose and smell

prey two miles away,Roll back your eagle eyes

take a biteBut don’t eat humans

yuck,they taste bad

even with ketchup

Field Guide to Expository Writing

The Purpose Topic Key ????

Express and Reflect

Why I love football? Why ? When?

Explore andInquire

I wonder how the Super bowl started?

Where? When? Why

Explain andInform

Here are the rules of the game How? Where?

Evaluate and Judge

Exactly, why this was the worst game ever. Why?

Analyze andInterpret

Why the Pats will win the Superbowl Why?

Persuade Why we need the new sudden death rules. Why?

Six Word Memoirs

sit in chair learn to teach

Suffragette Soufflé

•1 U.S. Constitution•1 large male-dominated democracy•30 dozen intelligent women•I Seneca Falls conference•1/2 cup Susan B. Anthony•1/2 cup Elizabeth Cady Stanton•1 tsp “Ain’t I a Woman” speech by Sojourner Truth•½ tsp Oregon, Kansas, and Arizona•10,000 women and 500 men• 500,000 onlookers•1 World War•1/4 cup hypocritical President Woodrow Wilson•1/4 cup helpful House of Representatives•1 pinch stalled Senate•36 ratifying states•1 Nineteenth Amendment

•Pre-heat oven to 1920•Read Constitution and set aside

•Separate 30 dozen intelligent women from large male-dominated society•Add Seneca Falls conference and whip women until frothy •Combine Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton •Add Sojourner Truth “Ain’t I a Woman,” speech•In separate bowl combine Constitution with Oregon, Kansas, and Arizona•Stir in 10,000 marching women, 500 marching men and 500,000 onlookers•Add in ¼ supportive President Wilson and World War •Sprinkle in 1/4 cup helpful House of Representatives and pinch of stalled Senate•Fold in all ingredients and pour into large pan, greased for over 70 years•Bake in oven with 36 ratifying states and one fresh Nineteenth Amendment.•Cut into to slices •Serves over 100 million U.S. women.

Recipe Verbs

beat

mix

whip

mince

cut

The Mountain ofWisdom and

Snapshots --Sensory

Detail facts

Thoughtshots: opinions , ideas

The Specific Ocean

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