What does transfer look like?

In educational research, we describe "transfer of learning" as applying learning from one context to another. Yet this is not a simple process like picking up a hammer

and hitting nails in one location rather than another. As anyone who uses hammers knows, the kind of hammer one uses in one situation may differ from the kind one uses in another, for example,

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That is, the tool itself is transformed for use in a different context and for a different purpose. And as anyone who's done any hammering nails knows, even hammering in a nail may differ when you do it through different material or in a different direction.

Likewise for the tools you learn in English class--you may have to transform the tool or use it slightly differently depending on the context in which you're using it and the purpose for which you are doing so.  When you annotate in other classes, it may look like this:

Or it may look quite different. This blog is an opportunity for you to reflect on and share how you have transformed and used the tools you've learned in our class in your other classes to help you learn.