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Bloom's Taxonomy and Visual Literacy

Good overview of action research. "This booklet discusses several types of action research, its history, and a process that may be used to engage educators in action research. Two stories from the field, written by teachers about their own reflections on the process, are given as illustrations of action research."

Lodge McCammon's technique for flipped teaching, involving hand-drawn boards and personal lectures. Interesting and potentially powerful, but remember that this is just one perspective on how to accomplish flipped teaching. There are others out there.

"how-to text on creating authentic tasks, rubrics, and standards for measuring and improving student learning."

A study that sheds light on the debates and the intersections of technology and 21st century skills from the vantage point of school-based educators. Attitudes of more than 1000 educators is explored

RCS Professional Development Day 2012 presentation by Sean Dagony-Clark and Don Ostrow on the creation of the Pedagogy and Technology Workshop.

Very good meta- view of authentic assessment.

"Seven years of research at the University of Central Florida (UCF) has found that blended courses--those that combine face-to-face instruction with online learning and reduced classroom contact hours--have the potential to increase student learning while lowering attrition rates compared to equivalent, fully online courses. This research bulletin reports the results of a disciplined UCF program that has led to a fundamental redesign of the instructional model."

"A blended learning approach combines face to face classroom methods with computer-mediated activities to form an integrated instructional approach." Leads to more links about blended learning as well.

A passionate and eloquent plea from a university lecturer, attesting to the continued relevance of the lecture as a learning tool. I value her point that a lecture promotes active listening, but I disagree with the notion that a technology that has worked for thousands of years should see continued use simply because it has worked in the past.[1] Given the multitudes of other means of delivery of information today (remember, the lecture was developed when the only other means to spread information was handwriting), the lecture as transmission of information is a tool, not THE tool. She also equates books to lectures, and says that if we abandon one we move toward abandoning the other. A bit of tenuous logic, if you ask me. Still, perhaps worth a read.  [1] See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scriptorium#Trithemius.27_Praise_of_Scribes

Bruce Leslie describes his kids' experience using Skype for language learning.

Tips and ideas for using audio in your classroom.

Lots of ideas, from interviews to collaboration to assessment.

"New Horizons for Learning identifies and communicates successful strategies as a leading-edge web resource for educational practice."

"Just as effective teaching demands that teachers establish routines to guide the basic physical and social interactions of the classroom, so too thinking routines need to be established to help guide students' learning and intellectual interactions..."

Is exploration better than explicit teaching?

How digital tools can fit into the taxonomy. Based on Anderson/Krathwohl's 2000 revision to Bloom's original.

Lots of examples of rubrics for web, collaborative, and digital projects from the University of Wisconsin.