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Scott Nancarrow

Group Work That Works | Edutopia - 0 views

  • The most effective creative process alternates between time in groups, collaboration, interaction, and conversation... [and] times of solitude, where something different happens cognitively in your brain,
  • Unequal participation is perhaps the most common complaint about group work.
  • a handful of practices that educators use to promote equal participation. These involve setting out clear expectations for group work, increasing accountability among participants, and nurturing a productive group work dynamic.
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  • Norms
  • sign a group contract
  • creating a classroom contract
  • roles must be both meaningful and interdependent.
  • ummarizer, questioner, and clarifier
  • randomizing teams
  • public sharing
  • Rich tasks: Making sure that a project is challenging and compelling is critical. A rich task is a problem that has multiple pathways to the solution and that one person would have difficulty solving on their own.
  • be mindful that introverted students often simply need time to recharge.
  • if you want to grade group work, he recommends making all academic assessments within group work individual assessments.
Scott Nancarrow

Alexa Helps With Homework, But Problem-Solving Skills Are Key : NPR - 0 views

  • Still, he agrees that this debate is about much more than knowing what 5 minus 3 is. It's also about developing the patience to solve problems. "That ability to stay focused," he says, "particularly when something is not interesting, is one of the most important developmental skills that children acquire." In other words, it's not just about having the answers. It's about the work you put in to get them.
Scott Nancarrow

How to Stay Focused & Finish Your Homework with ADHD - 1 views

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    Suggested strategies for HW management - both at home and in the classroom.
Scott Nancarrow

http://www.galileo.org/research/publications/rubric.pdf - 0 views

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    Rubric for Discipline-Based and Inter-Disciplinary Inquiry Studies
Scott Nancarrow

Game Jam Guide - ETC Press - 0 views

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    Free Game Jam Guide that features over 20 lessons and activities that can be used to help students learn about real-world issues.
Scott Nancarrow

How to Make Every Grade More Like Kindergarten : NPR Ed : NPR - 1 views

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    "the FOUR P's: Students making PROJECTS, around their PASSIONS, collaborating with PEERS, and maintaining a PLAYFUL attitude. "
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