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September 30, 2012
- Summary of my intake sessions with district leadership teams [coming soon]
- Sep. 25 principals meeting – free write responses
1. 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
2. Meaningful, authentic work: Autonomy, mastery, and purpose
3. Transition to technology
4. Our new information, learning, and economic environments
- We all can have a voice, we can find each others’ voices, and we can easily work together across geography and time
- Global, not just local
- Crowdsourcing and crowdfunding
- Active and interactive
- Open, accessible, and free
Significant disintermediation and disruption
ROBUST student agency and voice, and the ability to do meaningful, authentic work that makes a contribution
5. Technology integration resources
- 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
6. Some things we could work on together
- Models/exemplars of subject- and grade-specific, cognitively-complex student activities, particularly those that are student-directed and/or involve digital technologies
- Professional development with outside subject- and grade-specific outside experts
- Building internal capacity of educators to be learners and faster change agents (e.g., RSS readers and Twitter networks and social bookmarking)
- Expert video
- Classroom walkthrough rubric that assessed cognitively-complex, technology-infused learning and teaching
- Small experiments are non-threatening
- EdCampIowa
Miscellaneous resources
Problem- / Inquiry- / Challenge-based learning resources
- Science Leadership Academy (Philadelphia, PA) core values
- 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)
- 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)
- Rocketship Education
- New York Performance Assessment Consortium
- Independent Curriculum Group
- Band of Educators
- CASTLE’s list of exemplary 21st century schools
Standards, frameworks, and reports you should know about
- NCTE 21st century literacy standards
- ISTE essential conditions (see also rubric) (see also Scott’s free book chapter)
- 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
