1. Students learn isolated skills and knowledge, starting with the simple building blocks of a particular topic and then building to more complex ideas. While this appeals to common sense (think of the efficiency of a automobile assembly line), the problem with this approach is the removal of any context to the learning, making deep understanding of the content less likely.
Sure, there are plenty of apps you can use in education. There are even apps created specifically for use in education. Apple has a whole category dedicated to education in the App store. But how do you really know which ones are worth downloading, or possibly even paying for?
Rigor. Text Complexity. Difficulty. What do these words all mean in the world of thinking? Teaching? Learning? In my last post, I wrote about a "take away" that I had from our ILA narrative scoring session.
During the TCRWP Saturday reunion, I was excited to attend Jerry Maraia's workshop titled, "A State-of-the-Art New Unit on Information Writing: Tools for Assessing Information Writing Alongside New Unit Plans, Mini-lessons and Expectations." It was only 50 minutes, but boy, did he hit that title!