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November 21, 2012
Part A. Discussion
A1. Bloom’s / Webb’s
- Webb’s Depth of Knowledge Chart
- Webb’s Depth of Knowledge Guide
- Bloom’s Taxonomy (Revised)
- Iowa State University Bloom’s new taxonomy handout
- Bloom’s quicksheets (see also Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy)
- Bloom’s taxonomy of  measurable verbs
- Thinkfinity Bloom’s verbs
- Do students need to learn lower-level factual and procedural knowledge before they can do higher-order thinking?
A2. Powerful learning opportunities
- Engagement is not a goal, it’s an outcome of students doing meaningful work
- RSAnimate: Daniel Pink, Drive [VIDEO]
- What schools need: Vigor instead of rigor
- Personalization v. differentiation v. individualization
- Students’ work must have wings
- Monkeys, flea jars, crab buckets, and educational risk-taking
- Conditions that foster the development of creativity and innovation
- Creating Innovators, Tony Wagner (see also Scott’s highlights from the book)
A3. Our new information landscape
- Are You an Active Participant? [SLIDES]
A4. Global
- Local v. Global [SLIDES]
- Google Art Project
- Kathy Cassidy – Pennsylvania, Serbia, Greece
- Flat Classroom projects (see also their book!)
- School connection and collaboration resources
A5. Crowdsourced
- Crowdsourced Amateurs [SLIDES]
- VoiceThread 4 Education
- iOS education app reviews and web sites
- Science Alive! wiki
- Asian History wiki
A6. Open, accessible, and free; Active and interactive
- Open, Accessible, & Free [SLIDES]
- Active & Interactive [SLIDES]
- Critical thinking prompts: writing, science, math 1, math 2
- E-books and apps
- App:Â What was I scared of?
- App:Â The fantastic flying books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
- App:Â Factor Samurai
- App:Â Algebra Touch
- App:Â WordWit
- App:Â iMuscle
- App: Tick Bait’s Universe
- App:Â NYPLÂ Biblion
- App:Â Waste Land
- App: The Civil War Today
- App: World War II Interactive Timeline
- App:Â Our Choice
- iBooks Author (see also this story)
- TodaysMeet
- Games and simulations
A7. Robust student voice and agency
- Juvenoia [SLIDES]
- Are Your Students Findable? [SLIDES]
- Extreme Biology blog
- Mrs. Cassidy’s Classroom blog
- Quadblogging
- VoiceThread 4 Education wiki
- Youth Voices – Literature and Inquiry
- More Than That video project
- Never Seconds (Jamie Oliver, international lunches)
- We Are Hungry
- Minnesota nice
- Richard’s Rwanda
- Minecraft history project (draw or describe a self-sustainable town)
- Math videos: Khan Academy v. students
- Book reviews: Adults v. students
- Book trailers: Publishers v. students
- Pike County, Missouri local history project – class wiki v. Wikipedia
- Middle school kids publish iBooks bestseller
- App building tools
- Some others for you to explore
A8. Our new economic landscape
- Global Economy [SLIDES]
A9. Some guiding questions
- What can we do to increase the cognitive complexity of students’ day-to-day work so that they are more often doing deeper thinking and learning work?
- What can we do to better incorporate digital technologies into students’ deeper thinking and learning work in ways that are authentic, relevant, meaningful, and powerful?
- What can we do to give students more agency and ownership of what they learn, when they learn, how they learn, and how they show what they’ve learned?
- What can we do to better recognize and assess when students’ deeper thinking and learning work is (or isn’t) occurring?
- What can we do to build the internal capacity of both individual educators and school systems to be better learners and faster change agents?
- As we move toward more cognitively-complex, technology-suffused learning environments, how do we bring educators, board members, parents, communities, policymakers, and higher education along with us?
- As we move toward more cognitively-complex, technology-suffused learning environments, how do we ensure that traditionally-underserved student and family populations aren’t further disadvantaged?
- As we move toward more cognitively-complex, technology-suffused learning environments, what individual and societal mindsets – and local, state, and federal policy supports and/or barriers – need reconsideration?
A10. Wrap-Up
A11. Technology integration resources
- The REAL pedagogical problem
- George Siemens / David Warlick quotes
- Technology and learning spectrum
- TPACKÂ (see also handout)
- Technology integration matrix
- Learning activity types: wiki and mind map
- Web 2.0 that works
- Teacher needs in anticipation of the instructional use of technology
- Technology, coaching, and community
- Educational technology bill of rights for students
A12. Problem- / Inquiry- / Challenge-based learning resources
- Berkeley Carroll School (Brooklyn, NY)
- Science Leadership Academy (Philadelphia, PA) core values
- Discovery and Unlimited (Christchurch, New Zealand)
- New Tech Network (videos; solar oven)
- High Tech High (videos; projects)
- Big Picture Learning (podcasts and videos; student testimony and personalization)
- EdVisions (videos; traditional v. self-directed students)
- Envision Schools (PBL in action and success story)
- Expeditionary Learning (stories)
- New York Performance Assessment Consortium
- Independent Curriculum Group
- Band of Educators
- Scholastic Cool Schools
- Center for Authentic Intellectual Work
- Buck Institute for Education (videos; student testimony and teacher restructuring; technology and PBL)
- College and Work Readiness Assessment (example report)
- Whitfield Career Academy (example projects)
- CASTLE’s crowdsourced list of exemplary 21st century schools
A13. Standards, frameworks, and reports you should know about
- NCTE 21st century literacy standards
- ISTE essential conditions (see also rubric)
- National Educational Technology Standards (NETS): Administrators, Teachers, and Students
- NAIS Guide for Becoming a School of the Future: PDF or HTML interactive
- See also Kevin Kelly’s 6 Words for the Modern Internet
- See also Scott’s The Future of Learning
Part B. Some Student Tools
B1. Backchanneling
- TodaysMeet
- PrimaryPad (example) & Sync.in & PiratePad
- Google jockeying
- Tricider: How can we get more PBL into our classrooms?, Ideas for using Tricider with students
- Google Moderator (example)
- Wallwisher
- Intervue:Â How digital is your classroom?
- Twitter: Introduction to hashtags, New York Times 1, New York Times 2, Monica Rankin
- Ideas for ways to use backchannels in class
B2. More student interaction tools
- Google Docs templates
- How can learning be different? (example)
- 3-column notes (example)
- 6-3-5 brainstorming (example)
- Reverse assumptions (example)
- Effort-impact quadrant (example)
- Socrative
- Keek
- Chatzy
- CoverItLive
- Using cell phones for learning, mobile learning reflections
B3. Student content curation
- Social bookmarking: Delicious, Diigo
- Storify:Â Wordle resources
- See also Wikispaces, WetPaint, LiveBinders
B4. Student content creation
- Blogs: Caitlin, Class Blogmeister, WordPress, Blogger, Edublogs
- Present.me: Ancient Rome, Garr Reynolds
- Screencasting: Khan Academy, Screencast-o-matic, Screenr, Jing, iPad apps
- See also StoryBird (example), Slideshare, YouTube QuickCapture, VoiceThread, Mind42, bubbl.us, Glogster, Animoto, xtranormal, dotSUB, Flickr, BlogTalkRadio, Weebly, Google Sites
- Get more ideas at FreeTech4Teachers and Tools for Learners
Part C. Building Internal Learning Capacity
C1. Every educator should have a RSS reader
- Kathy’s basket
- RSS Guide for Educators (a work in progress!)
- What are educators’ professional obligations to learn from social media channels?
C2. Eleven education blogs to get you started
- Google Reader (see also Google Reader hotkeys)
- Dangerously Irrelevant
- Free Technology for Teachers
- Will Richardson
- EdWeek TeacherBeat
- EdWeek Living in Dialogue
- The Answer Sheet
- Reinventing PBL
- Education Rethink
- Powerful Learning Practice
- Cooperative Catalyst
- Burkins & Yaris
C3. Other education blogs
- This Week in Education
- For the Love of Learning
- Jose Vilson
- Larry Ferlazzo
- The Tempered Radical
- User Generated Education
- SpeEdChange
- Stump the Teacher
- Education Evolving
- Diane Ravitch
- ASCD Inservice
- EdWeek Rural Education
- EdReach
- Larry Cuban
- CNN Schools of Thought
- Huffington Post Education
- See also all of EdWeek’s blogs
C4. Educational technology blogs
- MindShift
- Hack Education
- Cool Cat Teacher Blog
- 2¢ Worth
- Langwitches Blog
- Moving at the Speed of Creativity
- Ideas and Thoughts
- Generation YES Blog
- The Blue Skunk Blog
- Steve Hargadon
- Stager-to-Go
- The Edublogger
- Assorted Stuff
- The Fischbowl
- 21st Century Collaborative
- EdWeek EdTech Researcher
- EdWeek Digital Education
- DML Central
- OLDaily
- Angela Maiers
- 1-to-1 Schools
- Edudemic
C5. Educational leadership blogs
- Connected Principals
- Practical Theory
- A Space for Learning
- Principals Page
- The Principal of Change
- A Principal’s Reflections
- Learning in Burlington
- The Principal’s Posts
- 21k12
- Culture of Yes
- NAESP The Principals’ Office
- NASSP Principal’s Policy Blog
- EdWeek Transforming Learning
- EdWeek School Law Blog
- NSBA Legal Clips
- NSBA School Board News Today
- SchoolFinance101
- See also Principal Blogs
- See also Superintendent Blogs
C6. Subject-specific blogs
C7. Maximizing your reader
- TreeHugger, Mashable, Perez Hilton, etc.
- Des Moines Register, Cedar Rapids Gazette, Quad-City Times, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, Omaha World-Herald, Sioux City Journal, etc.
- New York Times, CNN, USA Today, Huffington Post, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, E! Online (scroll to bottom), Perez Hilton, etc.
- ISU News, U. Iowa News, Drake U. News, UNI News?
- Google Reader search (e.g., woodworking, wine, Minnesota Vikings, crafts); see also Technorati categories
- Google Alerts
- rssWeather or Weather.com
- Package tracking
- Feed43Â turns any web page into RSS feed
- Convert Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Pinterest, and other channels into RSS feeds
- Convert Delicious bookmarks into RSS feed (see also my Delicious bookmarks)
- Send from Google Reader to Kindle
- Other Send To options
- Sharing Google Reader bundles
- 10 things you didn’t know you could do with RSS
- 50 things you can do with RSS
- 100 cool things you can do with RSS
C8. Got an iPad or smartphone?
