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Where Essential Questions Come From - 2 views

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  • Darcy Goshorn on 03 Jun 13
     
    The author describes the usefulness of essential questions, and how the use relates to students' critical thinking skills, or lack thereof.
Virginia Glatzer

A Guide to Designing Effective Professional Development: Essential Questions for the Su... - 14 views

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  • Virginia Glatzer on 21 Apr 11
     
    Essential Questions for the Successful Staff Developer
anonymous

Free Technology for Teachers: YouTube Launches Copyright School - 12 views

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  • YouTube launched a redesigned copyright center and a brand new Copyright School. These new services are designed to educate YouTube users about what is and is not a copyright violation. According to their announcement, users who have a video flagged for copyright violations will be required to attend Copyright School before being able to upload more content. Copyright School is essentially a video explanation of copyright accompanied by a series of questions. You can watch the video below.
  • anonymous on 15 Apr 11
     
    YouTube launched a redesigned copyright center and a brand new Copyright School. These new services are designed to educate YouTube users about what is and is not a copyright violation. According to their announcement, users who have a video flagged for copyright violations will be required to attend Copyright School before being able to upload more content. Copyright School is essentially a video explanation of copyright accompanied by a series of questions. You can watch the video below.
Kathe Santillo

Changing the Questions - 0 views

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  • Kathe Santillo on 01 May 09
     
    A large collection of links to sites to promote critical thinking skills and problem-based learning. The site include activities such as WebQuests, I-Searches, scaffolds and graphic organizers, writing essential questions, and more.
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10 Technology Enhanced Alternatives to Book Reports - TheApple.com - 2 views

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  • Let students create a cartoon version of the book they have just finished.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 20 Jan 11
       
      Two questions. 1) What grade level are we talking about here. 2) What is the highest level of Blooms that is likely to be reached with this assignment?
  • summarizing the book they just read.
  • Students can create an interview type show where they interview characters in the book, create a short movie trailer for the book, or actually have characters act out portions of the book.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 20 Jan 11
       
      Besides the mention of xtranormal :-) what about this one? Interview characters in the book. A movie trailer? Act out a portion of the book? Again, what grade level? What is the Essential Question for the unit? What's the highest level of Bloom's
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  • Students should include the title and author of the book, key characters, use pictures that support the story line, and create a tag line that will make others want to read the book.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 20 Jan 11
       
      What grade level? What SUBJECT? Is this appropriate for English class or a Media class that is studying posters, etc? What level of understanding about the book do you really need in order to do this? Is this worthy of an 18 yr old?
  • Encourage students to create their own virtual bookshelves with Shelfari http://shelfari.com.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 20 Jan 11
       
      I like this one. Wanna guess why? Of course, I'm assuming that it's directed to grades no higher than 8th.
  • they can log onto their Book Adventure account and take a 10 question multiple choice quiz based on the book they read.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 20 Jan 11
       
      Before we can judge this one we'd have to see the questions here, wouldn't we.
anonymous

Educational Leadership:Teaching for the 21st Century:What Would Socrates Say? - 0 views

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  • The noted philosopher once said, "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." My fear is that instead of knowing nothing except the fact of our own ignorance, we will know everything except the fact of our own ignorance. Google has given us the world at our fingertips, but speed and ubiquity are not the same as actually knowing something.
  • Socrates believed that we learn best by asking essential questions and testing tentative answers against reason and fact in a continual and virtuous circle of honest debate. We need to approach the contemporary knowledge explosion and the technologies propelling this new enlightenment in just that manner. Otherwise, the great knowledge and communication tsunami of the 21st century may drown us in a sea of trivia instead of lifting us up on a rising tide of possibility and promise.
  • A child born today could live into the 22nd century. It's difficult to imagine all that could transpire between now and then. One thing does seem apparent: Technical fixes to our outdated educational system are likely to be inadequate. We need to adapt to a rapidly changing world.
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  • Every day we are exposed to huge amounts of information, disinformation, and just plain nonsense. The ability to distinguish fact from factoid, reality from fiction, and truth from lies is not a "nice to have" but a "must have" in a world flooded with so much propaganda and spin.
  • For example, for many years, the dominant U.S. culture described the settling of the American West as a natural extension of manifest destiny, in which people of European descent were "destined" to occupy the lands of the indigenous people. This idea was, and for some still is, one of our most enduring and dangerous collective fabrications because it glosses over human rights and skirts the issue of responsibility. Without critical reflection, we will continually fall victim to such notions.
  • A second element of the 21st century mind that we must cultivate is the willingness to abandon supernatural explanations for naturally occurring events.
  • The third element of the 21st century mind must be the recognition and acceptance of our shared evolutionary collective intelligence.
  • To solve the 21st century's challenges, we will need an education system that doesn't focus on memorization, but rather on promoting those metacognitive skills that enable us to monitor our own learning and make changes in our approach if we perceive that our learning is not going well.
  • Metacognition is a fancy word for a higher-order learning process that most of us use every day to solve thousands of problems and challenges.
  • We are at the threshold of a worldwide revolution in learning. Just as the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the wall of conventional schooling is collapsing before our eyes. A new electronic learning environment is replacing the linear, text-bound culture of conventional schools. This will be the proving ground of the 21st century mind.
  • We will cease to think of technology as something that has its own identity, but rather as an extension of our minds, in much the same way that books extend our minds without a lot of fanfare. According to Huff and Saxberg, immersive technologies—such as multitouch displays; telepresence (an immersive meeting experience that offers high video and audio clarity); 3-D environments; collaborative filtering (which can produce recommendations by comparing the similarity between your preferences and those of other people); natural language processing; intelligent software; and simulations—will transform teaching and learning by 2025.
  • So imagine that a group of teachers and middle school students decides to tackle the question, What is justice? Young adolescents' discovery of injustice in the world is a crucial moment in their development. If adults offer only self-serving answers to this question, students can become cynical or despairing. But if adults treat the problem of injustice truthfully and openly, hope can emerge and grow strong over time. As part of their discussion, let's say that the teachers and students have cocreated a middle school earth science curriculum titled Water for the World. This curriculum would be a blend of classroom, community, and online activities. Several nongovernmental organizations—such as Waterkeeper, the Earth Institute at Columbia University, and Water for People—might support the curriculum, which would meet national and state standards and include lessons, activities, games, quizzes, student-created portfolios, and learning benchmarks.
  • The goal of the curriculum would be to enable students from around the world to work together to address the water crisis in a concrete way. Students might help bore a freshwater well, propose a low-cost way of preventing groundwater pollution, or develop a local water treatment technique. Students and teachers would collaborate by talking with one another through Skype and posting research findings using collaborative filtering. Students would create simulations and games and use multitouch displays to demonstrate step-by-step how their projects would proceed. A student-created Web site would include a blog; a virtual reference room; a teachers' corner; a virtual living room where learners communicate with one another in all languages through natural language processing; and 3-D images of wells being bored in Africa, Mexico, and Texas. In a classroom like this, something educationally revolutionary would happen: Students and adults would connect in a global, purposeful conversation that would make the world a better place. We would pry the Socratic dialogue from the hands of the past and lift it into the future to serve the hopes and dreams of all students everywhere.
  • There has never been a time in human history when the opportunity to create universally accessible knowledge has been more of a reality. And there has never been a time when education has meant more in terms of human survival and happiness.
  • To start, we must overhaul and redesign the current school system. We face this great transition with both hands tied behind our collective backs if we continue to pour money, time, and effort into an outdated system of education. Mass education belongs in the era of massive armies, massive industrial complexes, and massive attempts at social control. We have lost much talent since the 19th century by enforcing stifling education routines in the name of efficiency. Current high school dropout rates clearly indicate that our standardized testing regime and outdated curriculums are wasting the potential of our youth.
  • If we stop thinking of schools as buildings and start thinking of learning as occurring in many different places, we will free ourselves from the conventional education model that still dominates our thinking.
  • anonymous on 07 Sep 09
     
    Some very interesting points in this article. Why not add your coments?
  • anonymous on 07 Sep 09
     
    A VERY interesting article. If you've got Diigo installed, why not add your comments
anonymous

10 Technology Enhanced Alternatives to Book Reports - TheApple.com - 15 views

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  • A bookcast is a movie trailer-like audio review of a book
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 20 Jan 11
       
      Again, what's the essential question for the unit? Does this advance the understanding of that EQ?
  • Students can add photos, video, audio and text to their timeline to support telling the story sequentially.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 20 Jan 11
       
      A re-telling of the story. That's it. Does that get beyond the Remembering level of Bloom's?
  • Wikis are an excellent place for students to share book reviews.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 20 Jan 11
       
      Yes they are. And if a teacher is looking for aplace to allow kids to post the titles and reviews of the books they're reading, this is a good option. I guess it's an alternative to a book report, indeed.
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  • After students read a book, they can create their own book talk using a web cam or video camera.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 20 Jan 11
       
      This WOULD be fun, but I doubt that most schools would let their children use the webcam and post their images online like that.
  • Students can create a slideshow summary of their book with pictures, audio, and text. Other students can leave text, audio, or drawn comments on the book reviews.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 20 Jan 11
       
      This sounds like it's for the younger students, as well. And, it really all depends on the assignment, doesn't it? What are they to be talking about? A story summary, or more?
anonymous

Emotion and Hope: Constructive Concepts for Complex Times - 33 views

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  • Technology and the Problem of Change
  • The more powerful technology becomes, the more indispensable good teachers are.
  • In brief, research shows that schools that only restructure (change the curriculum, add new roles, reorganize) make no difference in teaching and learning. However, schools that reculture (as well as restructure) do make a difference if they (a) focus on student learning; (b) link knowledge of student learning to changes in instructional practices; and (c) work together to assess teachers and school leadership to make improvement.
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  • Assessment literacy is the capacity to examine student work and student performance data and make critical sense of this information; and to develop instructional and school improvement plans to make the kinds of changes to get better results — doing all of this on a continuous basis. Technology, of course, (as in the above examples) is absolutely crucial to this entire process.
  • A third change learning is that teachers and schools are inundated with a continuous torrent of fragmented and unconnected policies, innovations and other demands.
  • piecemeal reform (se
  • Innovations in technology so far have been part of the problem not the solution
  • First, the combination of teacher learning through assisted professional development, organizational learning through the development of collaborative cultures, and program coherence are essential. No one or two of these will make an impact. Second, these changes in combination are exceedingly deep and complex to achieve.
  • anonymous on 23 Jan 11
     
    Interesting read
  • Virginia Glatzer on 23 Jan 11
     
    Amazing how this article is from 1999, goes hand-in-hand with CFF and still we question how teachers, students, and technology work together!
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