Lesson 6 - Now Ignite!
DESIGNING RESPONSIVE INSTRUCTION FOR DEEPER LEARNING
TIMING/TASKS: Video Length 12 minutes. To complete this lesson: 1) Watch video to end; 2) Read additional text below; 3) Download & complete exercise(s) in right column
Igniting the Information Processing Cycle
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I understand the connection between INPUT (chunking) and IGNITE in my lesson design process
I recognize the role igniting plays beyond simple engagement and its essential part in starting the information processing cycle
I can craft an ignite activity that captures students’ attention as well as activates their schema (funds of knowledge) so the lesson content becomes “sticky.”
Too often we don’t make the connection between engagement and cognition. We talk about engagement strategies as ways to get and hold students’ attention so we can get them to focus.
But we recognize there’s a bigger role that engagement plays in teaching and learning. The right type of engagement that truly captures the brain’s attention system (the RAS) starts an important cascade of brain chemicals that get it primed for taking in new information and processing it. It is the lit match that lights the fuse of learning that will take place during a unit or lesson.
In this lesson you are learning to craft the right type of Ignite activity for your redesigned lessons.
ACTION ITEM
Take a redesigned unit lesson from previous contextualizing and radicalizing units and craft 3 different Ignite activities for the same lesson utilizing what you learned about the 3 elements that get the brain’s attention.
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