The points students bring up are thought-provoking. However, I'm most impressed by the questions they ask one another. They clarify and ask follow-up questions. They make inferences. They ask connecting questions and critical thinking questions. It's a messy process, but it's beautiful messy. It's art.
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TeachPaperless: 10 Ways to Help Students Ask Better Questions - 10 views
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As long as a question is respectful, I want students to question their world. This applies to analyzing mathematical processes, thinking through social issues, making sense out of a text or analyzing the natural world for cause and effect.
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Three times a week, we do inquiry days, where students begin with their own question in either social studies or science and they research it, summarize it and then ask further questions. While my initial goal involved teaching bias, loaded language and summarization, I soon realized that students were growing the most in their ability to ask critical thinking questions.
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Ten Tips for More Efficient and Effective Grading Practices | Faculty Focus - 2 views
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Bank Comments: Keep a bank of comments about frequent errors students make and organize them in groups for easy access. Consider grouping comments according to module, assignment, and chapter, or grammar, content, and organization. For example, if an instructor sees frequent errors regarding point of view, keep related comments grouped in the same area to access them easily.
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Less is More: Instructors should avoid the temptation to respond to everything that calls for adjustments or changes. Brookhart (2011) reports, many struggling students need to focus on just a few areas or even one item at a time. If a student backs off from his or her paper because he or she is intimidated by the number of instructor comments, then all is lost. It is better to target two or three areas that need to be addressed for the student’s success on future papers.
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Questions for Reflection: Consider inviting reflective, critical thinking and further conversation in a productive, scholarly exchange with the student. Instead of telling students what they did “wrong,” ask them to rethink their approach. For example, consider using a phrase such as “What is the most interesting aspect of your essay?” Or “What would draw your attention to this topic, as a reader?” This way, the student is not only prompted to make more thoughtful revisions, but also is given tools to use when considering how to write a hook for future essays.
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Standard approaches to evaluation of work, but with a few nice (and new) ideas.
T.E.L.L.Tuesdays with ETUG Lunch n' Learn webinars - 0 views
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Based on the great feedback we’ve been getting from ETUG members on activities for this year, and in keeping with the theme of OPEN begun at last year’s workshop in Nelson, SCETUG is organizing Lunch n’ Learn webinars taking place on the last Tuesday of the month.
The Future of Thinking - The MIT Press - 4 views
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The authors propose an alternative definition of "institution" as a "mobilizing network"—emphasizing its flexibility, the permeability of its boundaries, its interactive productivity, and its potential as a catalyst for change—and explore the implications for higher education.
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The Future of Thinking reports on innovative, virtual institutions. It also uses the idea of a virtual institution both as part of its subject matter and as part of its process: the first draft was hosted on a Web site for collaborative feedback and writing.
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Has anyone read this book? Can you link a review of it to our diigo group?
Course: Creating Student e-Portfolios with Google Sites - 5 views
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Creating e-Portfolios with Google Sites by Jen Hegna is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Users are free to use, edit and share this course as long as this block stays in the course. If you download or like this course I would love to hear feedback from you!
googlewaveeducators - home - 9 views
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This appears to be a site offering emails of educators who have invitations to Google Wave.
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Yes, here is another one: http://edupln.ning.com/ PLN, The second round of Google Wave Invitations has been sent. Please check your email account that you used for that section of the form. We will be doing another round of invitations in a few weeks and we will be asking for a feedback then also. In the mean time be sure to join the Google Wave Group to connect with other users. Thanks! Steven @web20classom However, I have a few of my own invitations so please send me your email if you'd like me to invite you.
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