How To: Get Students to Use New Skills | Edutopia - The Diigo Meta page

• 25 Sep 08
  

  Terri Lessard

  project-based-learning

• 20 Sep 08
  

  Mark Stephens

  education web2.0 mustreads

• 07 Jul 08
  

  Stefani Hite

  PBL student.engagement

• 18 Jun 08
  

  John Blake
  • Identify the core questions of your
    subject area
  • let students
    create their own labs to test hypotheses
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  • • Integrate lots of
      interviewing into a history curriculum and have students
      compare stories they hear. Add a five-minute reading component
      to journal-writing time, emphasizing to students that
      real authors share their writing and need to have a sense of
      their audience.
    • Performances, presentations, displays,
      publications, and entries into contests are essential for student
      buy-in. ULS's hula class spends the semester gearing up for a
      final performance, and Hamilton's seventh graders forget how
      hard they're working on their writing when they focus on creating
      podcasts. "When I tell students they are going to create a
      podcast of their own stories, they get excited," she says. "This
      buy-in from the students gives them a purpose to learn new
      skills and a reason to come to school."
• 27 May 08
  

  jkrauss

  Beautiful: Think about how real practitioners study and learn new concepts. Identify the core questions of your subject area -- What are the big questions in math? What do historians puzzle over? -- then set up some classroom rituals that mimic how practi

  rpbl

• 07 Jan 08
  

  susan van Gelder

  Teachers use a practitioner model to move away from memorizing and encourage depth of learning.

  PBL education

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