Read an interesting paper by Sue Nichols (reference below) about how the 6 Thinking Hats model is applied in business and primary education, and the views of thinking which it rules in and rules out.
The way she traces discourses in public media and classroom interaction resembles what I'm doing with English learning in my data. It's very clear how she traces discourses, types of discoursal site (including websites) and examples (specific webpages and classroom extracts). It's interesting how she makes the link concrete between media and classroom practice by imagining a teacher looking up materials to use from the internet.
The organization of her paper is worth noticing, too. You can only fit a fairly short section on each topic into the length of a paper: I'll put a wordcount on each section of my paper outline.
An aspect of my study of learning resources that particularly interests me is learner independence/learner autonomy as intentionally navigating a cultural landscape.
Nichols, S. (2006). From boardroom to classroom: tracing a globalised discourse on thinking through internet texts and teaching practice. In K. Pahl & J. Rowsell (Eds.), Travel notes from the New Literacy Studies: instances of practice (pp. 173-194). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
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