I started curating “Dialogue and Learning” sites on Scoopit* last September and have posted 152 links that seem to range all over the place.  Add to those the sources I have collected over the last 25 years to use in my “Language and Learning” graduate course for educators and I have a lot of good things to share.  The question I’m working on right now, is how to organize this mass of information.  My first attempt at organizing sources from the web resulted in the following chart.  Over the next month, I’m going to annotate these and offer at least one  blog entry for each category.

*http://www.scoop.it/t/dialogue-and-learning

Frameworks for Dialogue Blog

 

Web Based Topics/Categories for “Dialogue”

Topics/by Category	Points/Issues/Models	Date/Ref
Literacy Reading Writing Speaking/Listening
Classroom Discourse Dialogue Discussion Participation Collaboration Conversation Talk in Class Interaction Grand Conversations Active Language Leaning
Context Online Culture Home/School/Social Class
Cognitive Purposes Argument/Raising Issues Thinking Deep Learning
Genre Pedagogy  Talking (writing, speaking.. like a….historian, scientist, ….
Learning Feedback Explanation Questions/Questioning
Profession Dialogue Professional Development Business/Economics Doctors/Patients Politics/Civil Discourse
Age Groups/Development Babies/Preschoolers Elementary School Teens College Adult Education