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What Is Integrated Curriculum? - 0 views

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pbl clp creativity project integrated

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  • Can making wind and rain machines improve the reading comprehension and writing scores of elementary students on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test? Do students really learn math by learning to clog dance? When students spend after-school time participating in a microsociety that reflects the roles of real life, will their test scores in math and reading improve?
  • Lee's students have shown more than 100 percent gains in comprehension and writing on the FCAT.
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      kynan robinson on 18 Apr 12
       
      Its sad that we even have to ask these questions, what about increased levels of creative thought, or deeper understanding of social interactions etc etc etc
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  • Lee claims that when she teaches science concepts she also teaches students to think and write in the structured, coherent ways required on standardized tests
  • What exactly is integrated curriculum? In its simplest conception, it is about making connections. What kind of connections? Across disciplines? To real life? Are the connections skill-based or knowledge-based?
  • we defined three approaches to integration—multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary
  • Multidisciplinary approaches focus primarily on the disciplines.
  • When teachers integrate the subdisciplines within a subject area, they are using an intradisciplinary approach
  • Through this integration, teachers expect students to understand the connections between the different subdisciplines and their relationship to the real world.
  • In this approach to integration, teachers organize the curriculum around common learnings across disciplines. T
  • ey chunk together the common learnings embedded in the disciplines to emphasize interdisciplinary skills and concepts.
  • They are learning the interdisciplinary skill of communication (thinking and writing in a structured and coherent way).
  • In the transdisciplinary approach to integration, teachers organize curriculum around student questions and concerns (see Figure 1.3). Students develop life skills as they apply interdisciplinary and disciplinary skills in a real-life context. Two routes lead to transdisciplinary integration: project-based learning and negotiating the curriculum
  • Project-Based Learning. In project-based learning, students tackle a local problem. Some schools call this problem-based learning or place-based learning. According to Chard (1998), planning project-based curriculum involves three steps:
  • Teachers and students select a topic of study based on student interests, curriculum standards, and local resources. The teacher finds out what the students already know and helps them generate questions to explore. The teacher also provides resources for students and opportunities to work in the field. Students share their work with others in a culminating activity. Students display the results of their exploration and review and evaluate the project.
  • Negotiating the Curriculum. In this version of the transdisciplinary approach, student questions form the basis for curriculum.
  • Studies of project-based programs show that students go far beyond the minimum effort, make connections among different subject areas to answer open-ended questions, retain what they have learned, apply learning to real-life problems, have fewer discipline problems, and have lower absenteeism
  • The boundaries of the disciplines seemed to dissolve abruptly.
  • The essential difference between the three approaches was the perceived degree of separation that existed between subject areas. Given our experiences at the time, both of us believed that the three approaches fit on an evolutionary continuum.
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      kynan robinson on 18 Apr 12
       
      all education is evolutionary which is why we need to keep studying, reading investigating asking questions
  • suggests that even intradisciplinary projects should include math and literature/media to be rich and vibrant
  • backward design process.
  • We believe that educators will continue to experience deepening connections as they become more experienced in this area.
  • Real-life context Student questions
  • Coplanner Colearner Generalist/specialist
  • Disciplines identified if desired, but real-life context emphasized
  • All knowledge interconnected and interdependent Many right answers Knowledge considered to be indeterminate and ambiguous
  • Student questions and concerns Real-world context
  • Interdisciplinary skills/concepts stressed
  • shift
  • Interdisciplinary skills and disciplinary skills applied in a real-life context
  • kynan robinson on 18 Apr 12
     
    great overview of different approaches to integrated  Curriculum
kynan robinson

Principle 2 Home - Craft the Driving Question - 0 views

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clp project pbl driving questions

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    how to write driving questions
Andrew Williamson

Driving Questions - 0 views

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driving questions pbl RLP

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  • Andrew Williamson on 18 Apr 12
     
    Some more information on what a driving question is. 
Andrew Williamson

PISA Sample Questions - 0 views

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  • Andrew Williamson on 14 Aug 12
     
    Pisa Sample Questions for those interested in some of the finer details of what makes up a PISA test. 
Andrew Williamson

Connectivism: new paradigm or fascinating pot-pourri? Calvani. - 0 views

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critique connectivism Teacher Interactive learning theories

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  • Andrew Williamson on 07 Nov 11
     
    Another paper questioning connectivist claims that it is a learning theory.  "It seems that here, thrown away false modesty, connectivism is putting forward its candidacy to represent a new paradigm, even if this application is not supplied with a consistent reference theoretical frame."
Andrew Williamson

What should students do once they can read? - Richard Olsen's Blog - 1 views

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understanding contemporary teaching Richard Olsen

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  • the only evidence presented to support the assertion that Victoria’s education outcomes are not improving is the report “Challenges in Australian Education: results from PISA 2009: the PISA 2009 assessment of students’ reading, mathematical and scientific literacy”
  • While it doesn’t seem unreasonable to want our students to be able to accurately perform these kind of tasks, these tests are not a true or accurate representation of the skills and competencies our students need in today’s technology driven world.
  • We need to understand the new social world that both our students and our teachers live and learn in.
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  • A world where the experts are no longer in charge, a world where autonomous self-directed learners are skilled at co-constructing new knowledge in unknown and uncertain environments
  • A world where knowledge is complex and is changing.
  • Our students need to be immersed in the modern learning, made possible by modern technology and free of the compromises that up til now our education system has been based on.
  • Andrew Williamson on 14 Aug 12
     
    Looking at the New Directions for school leadership and the teaching profession discussion paper, the only evidence presented to support the assertion that Victoria's education outcomes are not improving is the report "Challenges in Australian Education: results from PISA 2009: the PISA 2009 assessment of students' reading, mathematical and scientific literacy" Specifically the New Directions paper focuses on reading literacy, where in 2009, 14,251 students were given a two-hour pen and paper comprehension test. To get an idea of what types of competencies the reading test is assessing we can look at the sample test , with questions range from comprehension about a letter in a newspaper, the ability to interpret a receipt, comprehension around a short story, an informational text, and interpreting a table. While it doesn't seem unreasonable to want our students to be able to accurately perform these kind of tasks, these tests are not a true or accurate representation of the skills and competencies our students need in today's technology driven world.
Andrew Williamson

Tessellation: The Mathematics of TilingMathematics and Multimedia - 0 views

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tessellation mathematics Level2 Level3 Level4 student interactive Teacher Interactive

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  • Andrew Williamson on 14 Feb 12
     
    Doing shape and or tessellation in Maths??? This blog post could come in handy. Some interesting discussion on tessellation in real life. So the next question is why do we teach tessellation in maths? Shouldn't we just get rid of this aspect of maths and create a new subject called design??
Andrew Williamson

Australia Publishes CC Info Pack - Creative Commons - 0 views

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copyright creativecommons australia resources

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  • Andrew Williamson on 06 Aug 09
     
    Great post on Creative Commons. This should answer all your questions re: using CC material on your blog
Andrew Williamson

When did teachers start to fear technology? | SeacoastOnline.com - 0 views

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  • Andrew Williamson on 24 Aug 09
     
    Great article asking the question of why teachers fear technology. It poses some great quesitons in regards to how slow we are as teachers to keep up with what our students consider their world.
carmela guglielmino

Questioning: A Comprehension Strategy for Small-Group Guided Reading - ReadWriteThink - 1 views

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Reading writing and thinking across all levels

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  • carmela guglielmino on 08 Feb 10
     
    This website has a whole range of great activities and lessons in regards to reading, writing and thinking.
kynan robinson

Project-Based Learning: A Short History | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • Projects are typically framed with open-ended questions that drive students to investigate, do research, or construct their own solutions.
  • How can we reduce our school's carbon footprint? How safe is our water? What can we do to protect a special place or species?
  • How do we measure the impact of disasters? Students use technology tools much as professionals do -- to communicate, collaborate, conduct research, analyze, create, and publish their own work for authentic audiences. Instead of writing book reports, for instance, students in a literature project might produce audio reviews of books, post them on a blog, and invite responses from a partner class in another city or country.
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  • it consistently emphasizes active, student-directed learning
  • Learning to read is no longer enough. Today's students must to be able to navigate and evaluate a vast store of information. This requires fluency in technology along with the development of critical-thinking skills
Linda Codognotto

Math is Fun - Maths Resources - 0 views

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Measurement puzzles data etc.

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  • Kristen Swenson on 14 Dec 11
     
    A good resource for all ages, contains examples/working out and also questions and problems for students to solve. Has a wide variety of topics and activities. 
  • Linda Codognotto on 22 Feb 12
     
    Maths - Grade 1 to 6
Andrew Williamson

Motivating Boy Writers.ca: Motivation and Engagement of Boys - Australia - 0 views

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level3 level4 Lieteracy English Writing

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  • "Meaning is made in ways that are increasingly multimodal – in which written linguistic modes of meaning are part and parcel of visual, audio, and spatial patterns of meaning. Take for instance the multimodal ways in which meanings are made on the World Wide Web, or in video captioning, or in interactive multimedia [e.g. mobile phones], or in desktop publishing, or in the use of written texts in a shopping mall. To find our way around this emerging world of meaning requires a new, multimodal literacy. "
  • The positive impact of an integrated culture of literacy – taking an integratedapproach across the curriculum• effective writing strategies; for example, ensuring that boys understand thetechnical skills of writing and understand the meaning and purposes of writing• effective cooperative experiences – making reading a socially constructedactivity by giving the students the opportunity to discuss between themselvesthe relevance of the text to other texts and to their lives• the importance of oral language in improving in writing• the value of explicit teaching of reading and writing – providing clearobjectives, a variety of text types, content that engages the interest of boys andquestions that promote understanding• the value of teacher feedback – effective assessment and constructive feedbackfrom teachers• the need for high but realistic expectations• the positive impact of the integration of ICT• linking literacy to boys’ experiences and popular culture• multimodal texts and boys’ interests• the dangers of generalizing content for boys• boys and critical literacy.
    • Andrew Williamson
      Andrew Williamson on 12 Sep 09
       
      Can see the advantage of having a well integrated ict program for this to be achieved
  • Andrew Williamson on 12 Sep 09
     
    Motivating Boy Writers
Andrew Williamson

10 Google Forms for the Classroom | ICT in my Classroom - 0 views

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google apps Google Forms forms online data collection

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  • For your weekly spelling test use simple 1-10 or 1-20 numbered form (with a name question too of course) and ask the children to type in their answers as you read out the list of words. Once these are submitted apply formula to judge if they are correct or not and it becomes self marking.
    • Andrew Williamson
      Andrew Williamson on 05 Sep 09
       
      If we had a 1:1 program and we used Google forms our data collection and analysis would become very efficient.
  • Andrew Williamson on 05 Sep 09
     
    Another useful post by one of my favourite Edubloggers. This guy just keeps on keeping on! This post is about google forms and how they can be used in the classroom. I used Google forms to create the staff survey on the 1:1 program. Imagine the students using this for the end of the week spelling test or maths diagnostics or any of these data collecting excersises completed using google forms and then instantly sent to a spread sheet.
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