South Hamilton Leadership Team

This page contains resources from my work with the leadership team for the South Hamilton (IA) Community Schools. These materials are made available under a Creative Commons 3.0 attribution-share alike license, which means that you are both allowed and encouraged to use them! Please contact me if you have any other questions about these resources.

April 17, 2013

0. Some things to take home with you today

• Education in a digital world [VIDEO]
• FREE book chapter: Supporting effective technology integration and implementation
• Rethinking AUPs

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. Evaluating technology integration in our classrooms

• Some mental frameworks
  • Digital Bloom’s
  • SAMR (see also Bernajean Porter’s technology and learning spectrum)
  • Arizona Technology Integration Matrix
• Replicative technologies
• Personalization and technology
• Some video scenarios
  • Elementary – Places people lived
  • Elementary – Fables
  • Middle – Plate tectonics
  • Middle – Civil War
  • Secondary – Geometry
  • Secondary – Car payments
• The FULL Arizona Technology Integration Matrix

3. Suggested reading

• Problem-based learning
  • PBL handbook for middle/high school (also available at the Buck Institute store)
  • PBL starter kit for middle/high school (also available at the Buck Institute store)
  • PBL in the elementary grades (also available at the Buck Institute store)
  • Reinventing PBL
  • Thinking through PBL
• Inquiry-based learning
  • Essential questions
  • Make just one change
• Global collaboration
  • Flattening classrooms, engaging minds
    
  • School connection and collaboration resources
• Other
  • Why school?
  • Curriculum 21
  • The global achievement gap
  • Who owns the learning?
  • Rethinking education in the age of technology
  • Creating innovators
  • Bringing innovation to school

Miscellaneous resources

Technology integration resources

• TPACK (see also handout)
• 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
• Gagne’s 9 events of instruction
• 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)
• 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
• See also my Delicious tag: Model 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

CASTLE resources

• Dangerously Irrelevant (Scott’s blog)
• CASTLE
• Recommended reading (including Scott’s book!)
• Recommended viewing
• Other resources