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Questioning resources for students & teachers

Get tools to educate yourself and your students from Common Sense Media for Educators. In addition to their K-12 curriculum on Digital Literacy and Citizenship, they offer an online tutorial designed to help you implement the curriculum in your classroom. Units are: Safety, Security, Digital Life, Privacy and Digital Footprints, Connected Culture, Respecting Creative Work, Searching, Research and Evaluation, Self-Expression and Identity. Common Sense Media has partnered with Edmodo. Together they have created the Digital Citizenship Starter Kit. Join the Digital Citizenship Community to obtain the resources!

ASCD Inservice: Looking Beyond the "Answer"

Angela Maiers Educational Services

a thought provoking blogpost about Where's The Authentic Audience? The author takes a closer look at the buzz word circulating among blogging educators and classrooms and asks tough questions: What happens when there is no audience coming to your or your students' blogs? She elaborates her point by reflecting on the importance of quality work, connected teachers, give and take, writing with an audience in mind, digital literacy and humility."

Jamie McKenzie

Skype in the classroom has added several new projects! It is another resource for finding ways to work collaboratively across the globe!

Real-world problem solving: She decided that she would use geographic information systems software to find out how the Washington, D.C., metro affects development. An opportunity that required analysis of lots of data.

Question starters

Great resource for student-owned learning

"The goal is to move beyond superficial peer conferencing and commenting, to dig into feedback that helps the "author" grow and improve in whatever form they are using. Too often the feedback students provide is superficial, commenting on what they liked without explaining why, offering generic improvement ideas, or focusing on less important elements (i.e. spelling, punctuation, etc.). How do we help students provide each other meaningful, productive feedback? How do we help students internalize those conversations to become their own best critical friend? "

Online Discussions: Affordances & Constraints Integration Ideas Examples & Resources

Sylvia has shared several terrific Twitter resources in her post! She is working with 4th & 5th grade classrooms just as we were discussing on Tuesday and Thursday! Take a look at the Twitter Spectrum (by Terry Heick) that she embedded - particularly the Watch section for our younger students!

"research that suggests that when students assess their peers' work, they do score similarly to the grades professors would give (although others have found that peer grades are higher." Some of the problems w peer feedback...

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