In the 21st century, we can no longer afford this disconnect. To help students become college- and career-ready, we need to teach them how to apply what they are learning in school to the practical and intellectual tasks in their everyday lives.
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Education Week Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook: Classroom Assessments for a... - 2 views
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we need to make sure that our own classroom assessments are aligned with the skills our students will need in the future
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Collaborate:
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High Tech Reflection Strategies Make Learning Stick | Edutopia - 0 views
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Technology tools, in particular, can keep reflection exercises from becoming tedious or time intensive, reflection advocates say. R
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What did you learn? How do you know you learned it? What got in the way of your learning? What helped your learning? How did you feel?
Persuasive texts - 0 views
Education Week: Language Arts Educators Balance Text-Only Tactics With Multimedia Skills - 0 views
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Focusing on the learning objective vs. what tool or technology to use is critical
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That’s not to say that students don’t need to know how to write essays, says Ms. Huff, but using both traditional and more modern learning techniques can open the door for more opportunities and modes of expression.
Marc My Words: Back to School - Tablets in the Classroom by Marc J. Rosenberg : Learnin... - 1 views
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Re-writing curriculum, engaging in faculty development, and implementing new instructional design models are essential if we are to realize the promise of technology. Funding faculty workshops, developing master teachers who can teach others, and sharing content development costs regionally are just some of the ways we can approach this challenge.
Digitally Speaking / FrontPage - 0 views
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Our kids’ futures will require them to be: Networked–They’ll need an “outboard brain.” More collaborative–They are going to need to work closely with people to co-create information. More globally aware–Those collaborators may be anywhere in the world. Less dependent on paper–Right now, we are still paper training our kids. More active–In just about every sense of the word. Physically. Socially. Politically. Fluent in creating and consuming hypertext–Basic reading and writing skills will not suffice. More connected–To their communities, to their environments, to the world. Editors of information–Something we should have been teaching them all along but is even more important now.
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Easily the greatest struggle that educators face in today's day and age is properly preparing students for a future that is poorly defined yet rapidly changing.
Bill'z Treasure Chest - 2 views
Wolfram Programming Lab: Computational Thinking Starts Here - 0 views
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Wolfram Programming Lab has a step-by-step introductory programming course built right in. Written by Stephen Wolfram himself, An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language teaches you the basics of the Wolfram Language in a straightforward, accessible way—even if you've never coded before
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The Wolfram Language concept: make the language do the work, not you! Automate as much as possible, so you write a tiny piece of code, and the computer figures out everything else.
5 Strategies to Demystify the Learning Process for Struggling Students | MindShift | KQ... - 0 views
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The field of metacognition offers educators many techniques that are rooted in brain research, such as deliberate practice and interleaving. “But before you can even tackle these,” says Oakley, “you have to inoculate learners against the idea that they are stupid if they cannot figure things out first off. You have to teach them that faster is not always better.”
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teachers can use in the classroom and share with students to help them demystify the learning process
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1. The Hiker Brain vs. The Race Car Brain
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