This TP eNews... post featured an adopted and adapted rubric for group project work, "an inquiry-based project rubric that consists of eight dimensions." (Guidelines for Inquiry-Based Project Work, ¶2, 2015.02.17). Determining the extent and substance of adaptations noted in the excerpt may require both access to the source of the excerpt and the source of the original rubric.
This webpage suggests six factors to consider when assessing website credibility, and adds, "If you are unsure whether the site you're using is credible, verify the information you find there with another source you know to be reliable" (retrieved 2016.12.22).
Teachers who start using blogs sometimes play the old-fashioned role. It's great when they become aware of the importance of being there as one participant. Thus, teachers are more likely to be accepted and treated as a valuable source rather than the one who decides what has to be done and how good a piece of work is.
I was very impressed - the students had turned to the community of their peers to request feedback. Then, I realized that none of the children asked me for feedback.
Asking for peer help is one of the new patterns. Do you believe adults would have the same behavior? I don't think so. Actually, they turn to teachers as the only legitimate source of knowledge, as the ones who can tell what is right or wrong.
they were not ready for corrections yet - they were simply interested in having conversations about their ideas.
I like the idea that really good teachers could be challenged to change the way they think about learning and put their talents to work finding new ways to structure learning environments that can handle the ever-expanding population of students with widely varying backgrounds.
information is not synonymous with understanding, and delivery is not synonymous with education
Learning means focusing attention on the key concepts in a topic.
Learning means making connections with a learner’s prior knowledge.
Learning means actively processing the incoming information, digesting it, working with it, summarizing, paraphrasing, applying it.
Learning also requires that the learners’ attempts receive guiding feedback.
There are ways of providing electronic feedback to this kind of active learning. Our solution was to provide examples of answers that would fit the task and let the learners compare theirs. Not totally satisfying and sometimes not totally accurate.
One is the “community of learners”
possibilities
a more elaborate version of peer feedback, where the large group of learners respond to one another’s ideas in hopes of finding some kind of consensus.
I think this probably works in an informed community of participants where there is a distribution of prior knowledge that can be drawn on.
I think a community of novices still needs the guidance of a more informed individual or group of individuals.
the essence of deep learning is in the interaction with others as we grapple with what we think we know versus what we really know. That’s the kind of online learning I’d like to see us build.
Svinicki posits what learning means, and the kinds of guided feedback necessary, especially for "deep learning . . . [through] interaction with others as we grapple with what we think we know versus what we really know" (¶8).
The 21st century classroom must be a place to network, to create, to publish, to share.
The new classroom does not integrate technology into an outdated curriculum, but rather infuses technology into the daily performance of classroom life.
In this new classroom, the teacher is not the sole expert or the only source of information, but rather the teacher is the lead member of a network—guiding and facilitating as students search for answers to questions they have carefully generated.
It is important to note that some students may be quietly sitting in the corner engrossed in an old fashioned text.
Daily and total access to computers allows students to realize that technology is not something they “do” when they go to the lab or when the teacher has checked out the laptop cart, but rather technology is something they can use everyday in class to help themselves learn.
In this new classroom, students will begin to understand that their computer is not simply a novelty to take notes with, but it is their binder, their planner, their dictionary, their journal, their photo album, their music archive, their address book.
tudents will begin to understand that their computer is not simply a novel