Show What You Know as You Go

   In a short reflection, respond to some of the points that Grant Wiggins makes in his two articles on Authentic Assessment: Are his ideas especially apt for technology infused lessons? Are there implications for the "Leave No Child Behind" or "Race to the Top" classrooms? Explain.

  Defining Assessment / Show What You Know as You Go

The School in the Cloud

Go to SOLE Toolkit  (Self Organized Learning Environments) and download a copy. View the latest video of the Grand Prize Winner of TED 2013, Sugata Mitra. Respond to the blog by reflecting upon the Toolkit as an educational strategy? Do you think it has merit or a place in the conversation we are having about education in the 21st Century?

Horizon Report- K-12: 2012

From the Horizon Report K - 12 Edition, read "Key Trends," "Significant Challenges," and "Mobile Devices and Apps." Respond to the class Blog by identifying which of the trends, challenges, and mobile devices/apps you think deserve the most consideration.

"World Without Walls"- Will Richardson

Respond to the class blog after you read Will Richardson's "World Without Walls: Learning Well with Others." React to Richardson's vision of education in a "collaborative age." What are some of the challenges that students and teachers are facing given the transformative agency of learning networks and technology?

Historical Thinking Matters

• Visit the website Historical Thinking Matters

 Review the web site thoroughly, noting both student and teacher modules (4)and teacher materials & strategies. Choose one of the modules (The Spanish American War, The Scopes Monkey Trial, Social Security, Rosa Parks)and study it carefully. Be ready to present the module you chose to our class on Feb. 7.

 

Respond to the class blog by answering how Historical Thinking Matters facilitates and inspires student learning and creativity (first NETS standard).

3 Cautionary Readings

From the three readings listed below, comment upon some of the challenges we face as teachers in the classroom. Reflect and respond to this blog, and be prepared to discuss these three articles during our next class.

• Teaching Civil War History 2.0 (New York Times)
• Is the Google Making Us Stupid (Atlantic Monthly)
• Physicists Seek to Lose the Lecture as a Teaching Tool (NPR)