CUNY Academic Commons

Cultural and Linguistic Banner Activity: An Algorithm for Getting to Know My Students

Steps

1. I model the activity by sharing my own cultural and linguistic banner I created using Google Slides.
2. I guide students to a template they have accessible in our Google Classroom.
3. Students are instructed to create their own cultural and linguistic…

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I really enjoyed reading and engaging with the visual resource on teacher candidates perspectives on technology. I found it much more accessible than simply presenting the information in a prose narrative format. The graphic novel genre allowed for the teacher candidate’s voices and stories to be prominent in the resource.

Many of the stories…[Read more]

• What are some noticings / wonderings you have about how we’ve framed equity in CITE? Any feedback for us?

I’ve made some annotations throughout the document with some specific feedback, but I just want to say how impressed I am with how you all framed equity in CITE! I think it provides faculty with a much clearer sense of this guiding v…[Read more]

I tried out Miro, since I did not have experience using this tool. I used my google account to create a new account, so I had to give Miro access to my personal gmail. I think about the limitations of doing this and wonder if I should create a ccny gmail account in order to not use my personal gmail.

Miro seems like a really great tool to use for…[Read more]

Here is the link to my remixed activity.

Dina

• Introduce yourself Dina López, Associate Professor in Bilingual Education and TESOL
• Share the rationale cards you kept in your hand all the way to the end:
  • #7: computing and digital tools and literacies can help teachers build on and sustain the cultural, linguistic and other practices of students and their communities.
  • #30: students w…

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Hi everyone,

My name is Dina López (she/her/ella), and I am an Associate Professor and Program Director for the Bilingual Education and TESOL programs at CCNY.

I’m really interested in learning more about the Commons and how I might use it as a resource for both my teaching and scholarly publications. I have experience some experience using…[Read more]