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Higher Order Questions: A Path to Deeper Learning Grades 6-8, ELA, Literature Common Core Standards: ELA.RL.6.1 ELA.RL.6.5 ELA.SL.6.1c

Create higher order questions in order to analyze and discuss a text

Questions to Consider How does Ms. Francisco help her students develop higher order questions? What do students learn from both writing and discussing questions? How do students test the validity of their questions? Why is this step important?

Lesson Objective Plan a lesson about identifying main ideas and developing arguments Length 6 min Questions to Consider How does Mr. Hanify integrate the different Common Core standards into this lesson? Notice the varied opportunities for student discussion throughout the lesson. How does Mr. Hanify design activities that scaffold student learning? Common Core Standards ELA.RI.9-10.2, ELA.W.9-10.6, ELA.SL.9-10.1a

How is technology changing the face and pace of K-12 education?  Information is abundant and as Daniel Pink discusses in his latest book, it is not about accessing information, but about curating it. When you have access to all of the information in the world, there is obviously some great stuff, and some stuff that is of a poor quality. How are students critical of what they see, and how do they reflect and share? Too many schools are worried about students “googling” answers on test because that would make them “cheaters”, yet as adults, we would be considered resourceful if we did the same thing. What we do with the information is much more important now than simply finding it. We need to look at how students are not only consumers of information, but creators of content as well. That is where the real learning happens and technology gives us the opportunity to be able to share easily with the entire world

Introduction to the Framework (PD

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.