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Reinventing the Big Test: The Challenge of Authentic Assessment | Edutopia - 0 views

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    The educational assessment tests states use today have two fundamental flaws: They encourage the sort of mind-numbing drill-and-kill teaching educators (and students) despise, and, just as important, they don't tell us much about the quality of student learning.
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Verizon Thinkfinity - Highlights - 0 views

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    Great resources for PBL
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Portrait Avatar Maker : Free - 0 views

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    sometimes an avatar is better than a real picture of students.
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    another avatar maker that students and adults can use; bookmarked by Diigo colleague Lorena E.
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Home | Sprout Builder - Create living content. - 0 views

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    Sprout Builder is a beta development site that was bookmarked by Diigo member Jason Epstein to use for education; looks promising
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    This application may be an authentic, yet simple way for students to display or share work within the project they are immersed.
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untitled - 0 views

  • what we should be preparing kids to do in a 21st century environment. Those five verbs are design, decide, create, analyze and predict.
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      These five verbs should be a basis for all learning in the classroom.
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Essential Questions - 0 views

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    Resources for creating essential questions
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Exploratorium: Connect: Inquiry Learning - 0 views

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    Essential Questions
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Galileo - Essential Questions - 0 views

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    Guide to Essential Questios
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Alberta Assessment Consortium - A Framework for Communicating Student Learning - Backwa... - 0 views

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    Great flow map on how Backwards Design works
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Principles of Backward Design - 0 views

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    Overview of principals of Backward Mapping
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Top News - U.S. educators seek lessons from Scandinavia - 0 views

  • were able to score so high on a recent international test of math and science skills. They found that educators in Finland, Sweden, and Denmark all cited autonomy, project-based learning, and nationwide broadband internet access as keys to their success.
  • What the CoSN delegation didn’t find in those nations were competitive grading, standardized testing, and top-down accountability—all staples of the American education system.
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ProjectPier.org - 0 views

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    Wesley Fryer's techlearning blog post inspired the bookmark.
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    I use this opensource software for project management. Server-based, but easy to install, nice group features, and could be easily adapted to a classroom setting.
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ALPS Home Page - 0 views

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    Collaborative Design Tool Build Curriculum Units Online
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The NASA SCIence Files™: Educators: Traditional vs. PBL - 0 views

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    compare and contrast of tradition vs. PBL teaching and learning
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