CFT Resources for Teachers

I've honestly never considered this before. Whether you agree with the chart's conclusions is obviously open for discussion, but the chart left me thinking about specifically WHY we assign HW and what we should be doing about it.

Given technology, can homework be used as a means to (a) differentiate assessment, (b) have students demonstrate understanding via a different modality, (c) scaffold learning to further enhance the classroom experience. For a while, Howard Gardner experimented at Harvard with assigning his lectures as homework. Students watched videos and then came to class prepared to engage in discussion. Could a similar approach be taken at the high school level?

Chris: I think this flow chart is very interesting and worthy of considerable discussion. I like it. I would tweak it a bit. For example, I think you could (and should) give application homework that is formative as well as summative. I think all types of homework that fit with all six levels of Bloom's taxonomy could be given both formatively and summatively. The only homework that should be "graded" is homework that leads to end-of-learning assessment. If the homework is given in the process of learning, then it should not be graded but should receive feedback, both from the instructor as well as from the student(s).

Each element in the Periodic Table is explained in a YouTube video which you can access via a QR code. Very cool & creative use of QR codes.

This is REALLY cool. I love this Chris and will share it with many others. CLEVER. Bob

Props to Adrian D. He supposedly has it on either his office or classroom door. I found the link in his response to a student's query about it on his blog.

OK, this is a biology game, but image the power of a math game that could accomplish what this does for cell biology.

OK! I just played the game, Cell Craft. Very interesting and potentially a good classroom or study tool to make the learning of cellular respiration interesting. What do you all think?

I'll admit that this is a bit of self-promotion; however, since I redesigned the EdTechTeacher site, I've added a lot of resources. We also have some great webinars as well as an online course coming up in the next few weeks. Check out our partner sites, too: besthistorysites.net, thwt.org, and tewt.org.

Thanks Beth! I have tweeted some links to your site. Keep me posted on progress. Bob

This site was shared with me. Looks really good for art, biology, evolution, chaos, structure and function, shape, etc.

Good resource for teachers. Worth signing up for an account. Review for ideas, professional development, curriculum, etc.

Over the past five years — at the request of concerned independent school educators, and with funding from independent schools and a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health — we've conducted extensive research on the experiences of African-American students in independent schools.

Last year's report and conversation around the need for affinity group dialogue with the administrative team included statistics and plenty of personal and national stories pointing to the importance of addressing race/culture and learning, particularly as it relates to a discussion around whiteness and the culture of "niceness" within our schools. This article is 8 years old and not much has changed at many schools. Thanks for reading it! Please pass along to your team colleagues if you can?

Why is the change in this area so slow?

A good site for browsing for ideas, resources, and tips. Some good education blogs as well.

This is a wonderful short piece. Highly creative, interesting. It shows the integration of technology-art. Fascinating!

You will also like this RSA animate version of a talk by Sir Ken Robinson: http://youtu.be/zDZFcDGpL4U

why the inertia to making needed changes in pedagogy?

SDE will be bringing David Sousa to Atlanta for a 1-day workshop on the Brain and Differentiation. Looks interesting, maybe for all those cohort members involved in Learning and the Brain.

Check out this site for PBL, global learning project.

This is a very powerful graphic rendering of what words cannot easily convey. Thanks, Bob!

I agree Jere. I think it is a great segway into PBL. Lots of good PBL could be generated by just looking at this site and starting to ask some interesting questions. Why? Bob

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. One of the most poignant summaries of the market for innovative technology solutions in education is that it is forever in its infancy.

Creative Teaching provides useful tips, suggestions, lesson plans and worksheets to creatively teach children at the elementary- and middle-school grade levels, along with suggested resources for parents and teachers. The information and materials cover content areas including reading, writing, math, science and social studies. We hope you find these useful in both classroom and homeschool environments.

When Greg Sumlin looks at the incoming kindergarten class at East Elementary School in Littleton, he sees a group of English learners who need immediate, intensive instruction - in small classes where teachers can give them individual attention.

I don't know all the places this could be used, but the graph in this article contains a STUNNING amount of information. I think the math is obvious, but I envision some phenomenal social science lessons, technology insights, the evolution of science, the implied connections to the ability of societies to spread information, the differences in cost of the various innovations and why that matters .... Hope you find something cool.