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SAMPLE REALITY · Teaching Technologies for Large Classes
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- Role 1 – Students are “first readers,” posting initial questions and insights about the reading to the class blog by Monday morning
- Role 2 - Students are “respondents,” building upon, disagreeing with, or clarifying the first readers’ posts by class time on Tuesday
- Role 3 - Students are “synthesizers,” mediating and synthesizing the dialogue between first readers and respondents by Thursday
- Role 4 - Students are responsible for the week’s class notes (see next section on Wikis)
- Role 5 – Students have this week “off” in terms of blogging and the wiki
The problem with 40 students is that there is no way to read (much less comment upon) every post if every student is posting every week. I am toying then with a rotation model (inspired by Randy Bass), in which students are divided into five groups of eight students, cycling through these five roles:
I like the rotation model because each group of students is reading for and reacting to something different. The shifting positionality affords them greater traction, offers greater variety, and guarantees a dialogue without comments from myself.
That Quiz - Math Test Activities
You can create your own quizzes or use those of others. It let's you register your classes online and provides them with a key to access the tests you create.
Portfolios (Authentic Assessment Toolbox)
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Portfolio: A collection of a student's work specifically
selected to tell a particular story about the student -
A portfolio is not the pile of student work that accumulates over
a semester or year. Rather, a portfolio contains a purposefully selected
subset of student work. "Purposefully" selecting student work
means deciding what type of story you want the portfolio to tell. - 1 more annotations...
Trouble with Rubrics
Kohn makes some interesting points in this piece from 2006. This would be a great article for a discussion, or a diigo annotation session.
What Makes a Good Fourth-Grade Reader? Knowledge. | Britannica Blog
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Add Sticky NoteOnce students can decode, background knowledge is crucial to reading comprehension.
- This is a lob to himself here. - on 2009-07-06
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Add Sticky NoteEnsuring that students have wide-ranging knowledge of the world ideally begins at birth, through a rich home environment. Schools must do everything possible to support and expand that knowledge base, and integrating material from other subjects into the reading curriculum is an important step in the right direction.
- Though the statistics above and the analysis of the test are extremely relevant, nothing in this post is as pertinent as these sentences. - on 2009-07-06
Student Work
This is an interesting way for groups to look at student work and the work of the teachers creating the assessments.
NCTE Framework for 21st Century Curriculum and Assessment
NCTE framework for curriculum and assessment of 21st Century skills.
An ASCD Study Guide for Checking for Understanding: Formative Assessment Techniques for Your Classroom
study guide for Checking for Understanding. Some useful examples of how to quickly check for understanding in a classroom situation.
Healthier Testing Made Easy: The Idea of Authentic Assessment | Edutopia
This is a telling reason for having Connections
Education Sector: Research and Reports: Measuring Skills for the 21st Century
Need to read this today.
My Report Card, 08-09 | The Line
Great read by Dina Strasser about setting goals and providing feedback for yourself.
rubrics home - Rubric Studio Home - RCampus
pull from a bank or create your own rubric here.
kis21learning wiki / A "Digital Arts" Menu for Multiple Intelligences
Clay's great wiki geared at finding web resources that fit multiple intelligence learning.
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