Wordle


 * Using Wordle to Teach Reading Skills **

In this part of the assignment, I will:

(1) skim and scan an article about CMU football this season,

(2) write ten key words to predict the main idea of the article,

(3) create a Word Cloud using the article,

(4) report the ten key words picked up by the Wordle (the biggest words),

(5) make a brief comparison of my key words and Wordle's key words,

(6) reflect on using simple apps like Wordle to teach critical thinking or reading skills.


 * (1) Skim and scan an article about CMU football this season **

[|CMU Football in Trouble]


 * (2) Write ten key words to predict the main idea of the article **

Here are the ten key words I wrote down when I read the article.

1. CMU

2. football

3. Running back

4. Rawls

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">5. Soaring Eagle Casino

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">6. purse

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">7. Credit card

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">8. suspended

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">9. Syracuse

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">10. criminal


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15.5pt;">(3) Create a Word Cloud using the ****<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15.5pt;">whole ****<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15.5pt;"> article," **<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">[|CMU Football in Trouble] **<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15.5pt;"> ". **

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 * <span style="color: #9a1d1d; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Please click the Word Clouds to see the full-sized Wordle. So you can see the ten biggest words. **


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15.5pt;">(4) Report the ten key words picked up by the Wordle (Ten Biggest Words) followed by * to indicates the words you've also picked. **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">1. Rawls*

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">2. CMU*

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">3. Central

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">4. Michigan

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">5. Football*

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">6. Saturday

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">7. game

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">8. Purse*

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">9. Casino*

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">10. Credit*


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">(5) Make a brief comparison of my key words and Wordle's key words **

Six out of my ten pre-selected key words were also used by Wordle, so I generally picked up on the most used or most important words from the article. As for the other four words, I am assuming that they were simply terms that got thrown around multiple times without me noticing and were not necessarily vital information to the overall point.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">(6) My ****<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">reflecting on using simple apps like Wordle to teach critical thinking or reading skills. **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">(The best answer belongs to those who can think of an example of using a different app for teaching/learning a certain skill or skills.) <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Programs like Wordle can be very useful in any writing/reading based class because they encourage students to deeply analyze any assigned text and pick out the most important phrases and key ideas. It would be especially effective for more difficult passages because even if a student can’t fully understand the message, they can at least hunt for possible key words and decipher them later.