(S3,Ep22) Vygotsky essentialized?
Andy Blunden weighs in on a question I've been asking for a while: "What do you think the following passage means?" (Initially published January 25, 2021) Additional responses, via xmca listserv, are ...
26 Jan 202115min
(S5,Ep11) Book review: Genre and the Invention of the Writer
A review of Anis Bawarshi's (2003) book -- interesting from a Vygotskian and a pedagogical perspective. (Initially published December 23, 2020) (I think I wrote this review but am not 100% sure. I ...
23 Dec 20206min
(S5,Ep10) The "X" and "Y" of J. Bruner's Curricular Theory
This paper was written for a course at Temple University about 10 or 12 years ago. (Initially published December 21, 2020) Jerome Bruner was kind enough to read the paper and to reply: "Thank you f...
21 Dec 202015min
(S5,Ep9) A genre theory model of collaborative inquiry
Excerpts from a 2009 curriculum design paper titled, "A genre theory model of collaborative inquiry." (Initially published December 20, 2020) This middle section of the paper references Bazerman, Ba...
21 Dec 202015min
(S4,Ep77) An interesting assignment
This is one of my favorite assignments, in part because it arose as a solution to multiple, simultaneous problems. And also because the resulting work from students is always fun to read. Full ch...
21 Dec 20202min
(S4,Ep76) A poetry lesson - for consideration & critique
This lesson is good enough but also far from great. How might you rethink, revise, or improve it? Huw Lloyd offers more helpful feedback on this and other lessons here: http://tiny.cc/r5v6tz (Initi...
21 Dec 20202min
(S4,Ep75) Some ideas for revising classroom lessons
Huw Lloyd helps me to rethink a lesson that I like but also know is flawed. The suggestions are adaptable to many types of lesson revision. (Initially published December 17, 2020) The lesson, influe...
21 Dec 20202min
(S4,Ep74) Some inquiry approaches to the concept of "register"
Huw Lloyd suggests a method of concept-building where the concept (in this case, register) feels like a "personal invention not (just) a historical invention." (Initially published December 17, 202...
20 Dec 20202min
