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September 10, 2012
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
Why technology?
Global, not just local
Crowdsourced amateurs, not just individual experts
Open, accessible, and free, not just closed, locked-down, and costly
Active and interactive, not just passive and receptive
Real-world, not just classroom
Robust student engagement, agency, voice, and ownership
- RSAnimate: Daniel Pink, Drive [VIDEO]
- Engagement is not a goal, it’s an outcome of students doing meaningful work
- What schools need: Vigor instead of rigor
- Personalization v. differentiation v. individualization
Adaptive learning systems
Technology integration resources
- Technology and learning spectrum
- TPACK (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
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)
- 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 Tech Network (videos; solar oven)
- 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)
- 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
Personal productivity
- Shareaholic
- Evernote (and Clearly)
Every educator should have a RSS reader (build your own capacity as learners)
Getting started
- Kathy’s basket
- Google Reader
- RSS Guide for Educators [a work in progress!]
- Free Technology for Teachers
- Subject-specific blogs (see also Scott’s Delicious tags)
Higher education feeds
- Chronicle of Higher Education RSS feeds (incl. ProfHacker)
- Inside Higher Education
- ACE Higher Education and National Affairs feed
- UniversityBusiness
- Community College Review
- New York Times: Colleges and universities, Community colleges, Topics
- Minding the Campus: Essays & Commentaries
- Times Higher Education (U.K.)
- Critical Mass
- Changing Higher Education
- Educause: News & Quarterly & Review
- Campus Technology
- PhD Comics
Higher education job feeds
Maximizing your reader
- Des Moines Register, New York Times, CNN, USA Today, ESPN, etc.
- ISU News
- Google Reader search (e.g., woodworking, wine, Minnesota Vikings, crafts)
- rssWeather or Weather.com
- Package tracking
- Turn any web page into RSS feed: Feed43 or FeedBeater
- Google Alerts
- Google Reader hotkeys
- Send to Kindle
- Send to (even more options!): post 1, post 2
- Got an iPad? Check out Flipboard and Reeder
- Sharing folders or bundles
- 50 things you can do with RSS
- 100 cool things you can do with RSS
