Robert Marzano – Designing and Assessing Educational Objectives
Robert Marzano discusses his book Designing and Assessing Educational Objectives: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5R2puQK5fI]
Shout Out for Social Studies
Social studies is considered to be the part of the school curriculum which helps students develop the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values needed to participate in civic life. Social studies...
Project-based Learning: What it is and What it isn’t!
Great videos on Project-Based Learning! What Project Based Learning Is ► http://howtovideos.hightechhigh.org/video/268/What+Project+Based+Learning+Is What Project Based Learning Isn't - http://howtovideos.hightechhigh.org/video/265/What+Project+Based+Learning+Isn%27t
Characteristics of Quality Discussion Board Posts
Discussion Boards are often one of the activities online learners engage in for their weekly assignments. As the instructor, it helps if you give your students clear guidelines as to...
Socratic Questioning Techniques
Socratic questions help students clarify their knowledge. Socratic Questioning is a way for an instructor to model critical thinking by probing students understanding of a course topic. They are very...
K-W-L (Know, Want to Know, Learned)
K-W-L (Know, Want to Know, Learned) Charts activate students' prior knowledge by: Asking them what they already Know; Then students (collaborating as a classroom unit or within small groups) set goals specifying what...
Checklist for a Written Assignment
Here is an example of a checklist that might accompany a written assignment. http://www.designingforlearning.info/services/writing/ecoach/tips/tip19.html
The Evolution of Standards-based Education
The evolution of the standards-based movement can be traced back to the successful launching of the Soviet spacecraft, Sputnik, in October 1957. Following the launch of Sputnik, Life magazine published...
What Makes Online Courses Different – Presence
Cognitive presence (Garrison, Anderson and Archer) includes 4 stages of a knowledge-building process: cognitive presence is a recursive process that encompasses stages of puzzlement, information exchange, connection of ideas, creation...
Donald Clark – More pedagogic change in 10 years than last 1000 years
Search, links, media sharing, social media, Wikipedia, games, open source etc. are ground breaking shifts in the way we learn, says Donald Clark. Unfortunately, they're not matched by the way...