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Alberta Education Online Teaching Resource for Social Studies - 0 views

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    Alberta schools use the Critical Thinking Consortium's tools for guiding inquiry. I looked into the one about investigating pictures.
jkrauss

Interested in teaching with primary sources? - 18 views

LOC
started by jkrauss on 05 Aug 09 no follow-up yet
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    A small group of teachers and teacher educators recently started working together to figure out great lessons that take advantage of primary sources, in particular those from Gilder Leherman and the Library of Congress. We will be tagging all our stuff LOC. If you want to see or add to the materials we've found useful to share with one another, just use the tag. We are organizing our work in a wiki that you can also find tagged LOC. Here's to learning adventures. Lurk or join, we're happy to blow this open.
jkrauss

A Classroom Example of Investigating Pictures - LearnAlberta - 1 views

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    From LearnAlberta
Demetri Orlando

Describing the use of Diigo - please co-author - 33 views

diigo
started by Demetri Orlando on 25 Nov 08 no follow-up yet
jkrauss

Instructional Technology/Project Based Learning - Wikibooks, collection of open-content... - 0 views

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    This has pretty comprehensive lists of pbl criteria from BIE, NWREL, other sources.
jkrauss

PBLnet : PBLnet - 0 views

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    long-standing pbl forum.
jkrauss

Merging the tried-and-true with the new - 43 views

pbl
started by jkrauss on 13 Jun 08 no follow-up yet
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    PBLnet is a long-standing pbl discussion board on yahoo groups founded in 2001. Do you use it? I find the archive very useful and go there to see what Diane McGrath, Bob Perleman and others are paying attention to. I just posted about the Diigo PBL group there-- hope for cross-pollination!
jkrauss

Flickr: Reinventing Project-Based Learning - 1 views

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    Please join the group!
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    Here's the flickr group - 70 members and growing. Please join!
jkrauss

Tag Galaxy - 0 views

shared by jkrauss on 31 May 08 - Cached
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    SO FUN, mashes up your flickr photos into a flash photosphere you can manipulate. Check out Ewan McIntosh's http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2008/05/show-off-your-s.html and my still image in the reinventingpbl flickr group: http://tinyurl.com/5kankm. OR Just go to http://taggalaxy.de, put in the tag rpbl
jkrauss

BIE: Research & Evaluation: Project Based Research - 0 views

shared by jkrauss on 05 May 08 - Cached
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    "We have recently completed a national survey of PBL use in US high schools." Might be BIE-centric (several articles by John Mergendoller, other principals of BIE),
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    I am collecting articles that evaluate efficacy of the pbl approach.
jkrauss

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

  • Equally worrisome is that today's assessments emphasize narrow skill sets such as geometry and grammar, and omit huge chunks of what educators and business leaders say is essential for modern students to learn: creative thinking, problem solving, cooperative teamwork, technological literacy, and self-direction. Yet because NCLB has made accountability tests the tail that wags the dog of the whole education system -- threatening remediation and state takeover for schools that fall short -- what's not tested often isn't taught.
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      The disconnect between high-stakes tests and the future we are preparing our kids for
  • many experts tout the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) exam for its challenging, open-ended questions on practical topics, such as climate change or the pros and cons of graffiti. Even more advanced models, some using computer simulations, will become available in a few years -- and none too soon.
  • static problem, for instance, would ask test takers to say from memory how to save a certain endangered bird species. A dynamic assessment (in a real example from Bransford's lab) asks students to use available resources to learn what it would take to prevent the white-eyed vireo from becoming endangered. This is a novel question that demands students independently dig for information and know enough to ask the right questions to reach a solution.
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  • The British government has created a computer-literacy test that challenges teens to solve realistic problems (how to control crowds at a soccer match, for instance) using online resources. The more sophisticated these tools become, and the more adeptly test makers use them, the better assessment will be.
jkrauss

Reinventing Project-Based Learning - 17 views

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    The story of pbl with digital tools continues what the book of the same title starts - inspiring stories and methods of great pbl!
dean groom

PBL Delivery - whos using Web2.0 in their projects - 105 views

pbl web2.0
started by dean groom on 24 Apr 08 no follow-up yet
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    Nice to find you here Telannia! Heading to your blog right now to see how the project's going.
    Jane

    Telannia Norfar wrote:
    > I am trying to incorporate web 2.0 tools more into my mathematics classroom. I am using ning and wikispaces this year. The links are algebra1ok.ning.com, algebra1ok.wikispaces.com and teamcproject.wikispaces.com. Check them out and fill free to join to put in some input.
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    > I hope to do more next year since I really discovered most of the items last summer. I am hoping to investigate how to use them better this year.
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