Upcycling in the Classroom Reading Materials

1. Setting the Stage for Learning

  • Using the book, Setting the Stage for Learning, create context, for your upcycling workstations, in EFL learning by Upcycling, as: 
    • you read each article you select
    • and discuss one article in the Forum.

Cambridge Word of the Year 2019:
Upcycling


Resources and References


Crocker, A. (2018). Cognitive flexibility. Cognitive Flexibility - permanent_learning. https://wiki.its.sfu.ca/permanent/learning/index.php/Cognitive_Flexibility

Davis, B., & Dunn, R. (2023, January 10). Children’s meaning making: Listening to encounters with Complex Aesthetic experience. MDPI. https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/13/1/74

The research about the "use of Encounters with Complex Aesthetic Experience" provides young children a comprehensive system of aesthetic experiences in and out of school that can positively improve their language skills and other learning. Young children in Australia have a wide range of language experiences as they start their school years.

D’warte, J., & Woodrow, C. (2022, December 20). Engaging methods for exploring “funds of identity” in early childhood contexts. MDPI. https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/13/1/4

The researchers provide "evidence of the ways arts-based methods promoted creativity and agency for all participants in and across both early learning contexts". The participants were teachers and young children.

Glennon, J. (2022, April 5). ELT classroom activities: Upcycling: Cambridge English. World of Better Learning | Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/2019/11/29/upcycling-in-the-classroom/

Basic ideas of upcycling for language learning and some peeks into the classroom upcycling work station.

Hwang , S.-H., & Huang, H.-M. (2019, March 13). Cultural ecosystem of the Seediq’s traditional weaving techniques-a comparison of the learning differences between urban and Indigenous communities. MDPI. https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/6/1519

How Cultural Ecosystem, in other words CONTEXT can improve learning and sharing new learning among groups of learners.

Kissine , M., Saint-Denis , A., & Mottron, L. (2023, September 7). Language acquisition can be truly atypical in autism: Beyond joint attention. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763423003536?via%3Dihub

Additional knowledge about ways to interact with those with autism or hyperlexia that can help teachers be more open to teaching these children in an effective manner.

Mcleod, S. (2023, June 15). Constructivism learning theory & philosophy of education. Simply Psychology. https://www.simplypsychology.org/constructivism.html

Xiaobo, X., Mengya, X., Jingwen, Z., & Weiguo , P. (2021, May 25). Be real, open, and creative: How openness to experience and to change mediate the authenticity-creativity association. Thinking Skills and Creativity. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1871187121000729

Metanalysis of practical understanding of some physical positive side effects of having being open to experience.