by ‘Making Thinking Visible’ (MTV) can help here. MTV strategies offer two advantages to teachers and learners. Importantly they provide structure to thinking and encourage a deeper engagement with concepts and ideas. They also allow the thinking that is occurring to be made visible and thus a part of the assessment process
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Inquiry vs Direct Instruction - The Great Debate and How it Went Wrong - The Learner's Way - 48 views
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There is a debate taking place in the world of education. It is not a new debate but recently it has gathered new energy and the boundary between polite discussion of opposing views and hostility has been stretched. The debate is that between those who are advocates of inquiry based learning and those who believe direct instruction produces the best outcomes. - This article explore how the debate has gone wrong and fails to serve the needs of learners.
Flipboard auf Flipboard - 35 views
Learning in the age of Social Networks - The Learner's Way - 40 views
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Learning is a social endeavour. Schools need to understand that for our students the social landscape has changed. Rather than turning away from this reality we need to understand what it means and what our children need to know and learn to safely maximise the opportunities it brings.
Digital Public Library of America - 57 views
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database of digital content from libraries, archives and museums
Process vs Product in Maker-centered Learning - The Learner's Way - 42 views
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mastery of the process that students are utilising as they solve the problems they encounter in their making. How do they deal with obstacles? How did they plan their solution? How effectively do they collaborate? What did they do to understand the problem and how did they monitor their progress?
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Students move through phases of thinking that include empathy, needs analysis, ideation, planning, prototyping and evaluation in patterns both linear and non-linear as needs require.
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The maker movement and with it maker-centered learning brings new possibilities and challenges into the classroom. It has spawned makerspaces and students are busy designing and making products. The danger with all this frenzied making is that it is very easy to miss the point, to focus on the product and not the journey.
11 Digital Literacy Myths, Debunked - 71 views
14 Easy Strategies for Busting Teacher Stress - 3 views
Expansion: Deepen and Extend | Smore - 32 views
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Informative flyer helping others understand and access resources related to our school's integration standards/markers.
Aligning Philosophy and Practice - nashworld - 34 views
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One of my foundational rules of classroom engagement is simply this: never be the first one to open your mouth and start talking about any topic. Twenty years in the classroom taught me that one. Never assume. Never take prior knowledge for granted. Listen first, then act. Never presume to know what the students in front of you are capable of. They'll show you if you are bold enough to listen.
What is effective teaching of mathematics? - 54 views
Assessment Competency: How to obtain the right information to improve data-dr... - 32 views
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Identifying ways to help teachers think about assessment holistically rather than as a summative piece and create a plan to assess learning through an entire unit. Good quick read.
Robert Gagne's Nine Steps of Instruction: Do's and Don'ts in E-Learning | Origin Learni... - 73 views
What Differentiated Instruction Is--And Is Not: The Definition Of Differentiated Instru... - 92 views
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What Differentiated Instruction Is--And Is Not: The Definition Of Differentiated Instruction
