Technology and Learning Program at CSU Chico

Fun formative assessment ideas... - A six-second Vine video to capture the most critical six seconds of class - A 16-second video to post to MixBit, YouTube's new video sharing tool - A tweet that boils down the essence of the class to 140 characters - A photo illustrating the key learning moment that can then be posted on a class Instagram account - A question posted to a class Edmodo account inviting a continuation of the learning outside of class The key 21st century skill in all of these approaches is synthesis, the ability to cut to the essence of an idea or concept and communicate in an effective, succinct, compelling manner.

August 26, 2014 There is a growing number of tools for students offering benefits from organizing assignments to creating study groups to taking notes. Here are some notable options for your students to consider. ClassOwl was founded by a group of Stanford sophomores wanting to improve the hectic academic experience.

What are the differences between the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor taxonomies? There are three main domains of learning and all teachers should know about them and use them to construct lessons. These domains are cognitive (thinking), affective (emotion/feeling), and psychomotor (physical/kinesthetic). Each domain on this page has a taxonomy associated with it.

Loved this quote, "...A GREAT lecture can be amazing and I try in my keynotes to deliver a great lecture. But in my classes it's a different story! I rarely lecture at all anymore. I have those students for 45 hours a term - I don't need to cram anything into an hour. And I know that nobody can create 45 amazing lectures per term. In fact, after polling about 20,000 teachers and professors, the average number of great lecturers on campus seems to be 3 and the total number of great lectures any one person delivers seems to be 3."

Imagine that on Day 1 of a difficult course, before you studied a single thing, you got hold of the final exam. The motherlode itself, full text, right there in your email inbox - attached mistakenly by the teacher, perhaps, or poached by a campus hacker. No answer key, no notes or guidelines.

"Microlectures (snippets) are simple multimedia presentations that are 90 seconds to five minutes long. They focus on a specific concept or skill associated with the course's learning objectives. Microlectures allow students to access instruction on a specific concept or skill they need to practice."

"efore the groups are formed and the task is set out, teachers should make clear why this particular assignment is being done in groups. Students are still regularly reporting in survey data that teachers use groups so they don't have to teach or have as much work to grade. Most of us are using groups because employers in many fields want employees who can work with others they don't know, may not like, who hold different views, and possess different skills and capabilities."

"100 Ways To Use Twitter Twitter is too big to ignore. Right now, there are still many (MANY) in education not using Twitter. They may think it's tough to start using, difficult to monitor, and even a waste of time. But what if they had a categorized list of the top tips to help you use Twitter? From how to follow people to asking for help to the best tools to use, it's all here. I hope you find this list as useful as I have and spread the word (likely via Twitter!)."

An open exchange of ideas among faculty of creative approaches for assessing learning other than traditional research paper.