Concrete Examples Of Better Feedback For Learning by Grant Wiggins Below, find thirteen examples of how teachers have made feedback (as opposed to advice and evaluation) more central to their work with students: 1. In a welding class, the teacher gives students a performance task. The work is done when it is ‘up to professional…
The Shift Toward New Learning Goals They start out in their English class with The Paperboy, a 1995 novel set in the southern United States that explores themes of betrayal, justice, and tolerance. Their goal, given by their teacher, is to uncover a truth about racism. While this part of the assignment–a multi-layered project–is teacher-directed,…
Google is taking this a step further with Chromebooks, a bold experiment that will test the strength of their gravity on the internet.
The statistics, news stories, and press releases continue to tell the tale: Educators, like consumers, are interested in tablet computing. And just as importantly – for better or worse – the powers that be with their hands on the purse-strings of educational spending are interested in tablets, too. Whether digital slates will ever truly replace…
New Marlborough, Mass What are the ingredients for self-directed learning? Technology? “Grade-level” reading? Peer-to-peer collaboration? Project-Based Learning? A Montessori approach? What if it was simpler? What if it was just a matter of getting out of the students way? I’ve always found this a fascinating concept. As a classroom teacher, one (of many) important epiphanies…
Though we don’t often recognize it, chemistry defines nearly every element of our everyday lives. From the reactions that fuel the sun to the biology of our bodies to the technology in our gadgets, chemistry is at the heart of everything we do and is the central science that unites biology, physics, geology, astronomy, medicine,…
In the following video from Digital Media Research Hub, Katie Salen discusses the role of play in learning.
The Common Core has emphasized the practical nature of education, and rightly so in many cases. As a result of its emphasis on practical education, for example, students are reading more non-fiction now in the elementary grades. This is a good thing, as reading non-fiction requires certain skills not required when reading fiction. The result…
Social learning has always been a staple of education since Piaget, Thorndike, Vygotsky, and countless others before them began exploring how people learn. At its most basic level, this idea can be reduced to the need to socialize thinking, and experiment through interaction, play, and authentic, self-driven performance. In 12 Tips For Supporting Social Collaboration Jane Hart from Center for…
Twitter has become a staple in education at every level from teaching to learning, content to research, networking to news and curation.
Chris Langan was profiled in Malcolm Gladwell’s book as “the world’s smartest man.” The former bouncer has an IQ measure between 195 and 210.
Thoughtful people think about their thinking — the meaning of what they learn & the consequences of what they do.