Twitter+Selections

====This sequence shows how we are thinking in community, and how we are creating meaning around the word "argumentative." Shara's tweet began a discussion about the word "argumentative" and whether it was thinking critically, or could show evidence of someone thinking critically. Each of the subsequent tweets from Autumn, Julie and myself show a progression to an understanding that we created amongst ourselves about the meaning and connotation of the word "argumentative" as well as other tweets that continued this discussion. I chose these four tweets because they seemed to build off each other, developing meaning about this word and what it means in our context in this classroom and our understanding of critical framing. This is an example of metalanguage, because we are concerned about a particular word, teasing out what it means for us in this class and giving us the opportunity to step back and see what we meant or understood about the word "argumentative" and how we should apply it to our context. In this case, it gave me a better understanding of both overt instruction and critical framing as discussed by the New London group, as we were using metalanguage to discuss "argumentative" and also stepping back and critically viewing "argumentative" in our particular context.====