HACK 2

REMAKE YOUR SPACE

Design with Making in Mind

                                                                       

AS A TEACHERS, 

WE CAN

CHANGE THIS

INTO SOMETHING BETTER

To have the opportunity to design a writing space that  gave serious thought to the possitive effects of the learning place on the learner.

WHAT BENEFITS WILL IT BRING TO 

YOUR STUDENTS?

These allow writers to create a lot of ideas. These instruments motivate students to write and work with others.

1-Provide containers. 

LIKE THE WALLS

The most important containers are the ones that hold our ideas and our thinking. 

Index cards

scraps of paper

 sticky notes

 chart paper

Capture the ideas, spread them out, and move them around of one purpose.

Designate spaces for collaborative and independent work.

Reserve a place for writers to share their learning

Treat your walls as interactive tools

Motivate your students to write, to compare their ideas with succes and make decisions. Help them to connect with other writers who are writing similar proyects and working to solve it.

Just is important before starting a school year

to clarify the rules of the class, it is also very important to make a MANIFESTO in your group of work.

What is a Manifesto?

A manifesto is a powerful set of directives that are hard to ignore, so they feel a bit like rules, which comforts.

                              WISE WORDS

• In the most effective learning communities all teachers are learners and all learners are teachers, regardless of title or age. Foster a collaborative.

• Let’s give up the traditionalist school where students only received knowledge, today students are ones who give their ideas and the teachers are the guides. 

Show them how to tinker with 

 Demonstrate how you change your own messy thinking to unexpected but rewarding conclusions. Model productive play.

Promote ways to share and exhibit work to motivate others pay attention to the writers and work with and let others build on them and reshape them.                                    

   

THAT IS THE HACK IN ACTION

AND THE STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO: 

 

HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR WRITING: 

PART 1: MAKE WRITING 

 ( write physically and collaborativelly)

Sometimes as teachers we ask to ourselves - How to help our students to discover themselves as true writers?  how to take those kids who say they hate to write, who don´t know what to write about, but who may be hidding from a true and passionate writer without even taking it for granted?





WHAT CAN WE DO? (Teachers) 

BEING TRUE LISTENERS 

ASK THEM ABOUT THEIR LIKES AND PREFERENCES

HELP THEM TO EXPLORE THEIR CREATIVITY

LET STUDENTS EXPLORE USING TOOLS (LIKE BLOCKS, POST-IT, BOARDS, GRIDS...)

HOW TO BE A GREAT WRITER?

To be a great writer you should be a HACKER!

But... What is a Hacker?

Is someone who explores programmable systems and molds them into something different, often something BETTER.

5 TEACHING STRATEGIES THAT TURN WRITER'S WORKSHOP INTO A MAKER SPACE.



writing is hard, it´s so difficult; in fact here you can find some writing tips and resources based on the book of Angela stockman ( Make writing: 5 TEACHING STRATEGIES THAT TURN WRITER'S WORKSHOP INTO A MAKER SPACE.) dedicated to helping you better understand on how to teach and develop great writers.