July 17, 2013
Categories: Education, Lessons, Resources, Teachers
Tags: Educational resources, teachers
109 Common Core Resources For Teachers By Content Area by TeachThought Staff While standardized content isn’t exactly in our wheelhouse, if you’re teaching in the United States, chances are it’s in yours. That means that while not our focus, it is something that matters to us because it matters to you. The transition to the […]
July 17, 2013
Categories: Strategies, Teachers
Tags: Socratic process, teaching
Hola: Una infografía sobre el proceso socrático. Socratic method, also known as maieutics, method of elenchus, elenctic method, or Socratic debate, is named after the classical Greek philosopher Socrates . Elenchus is a form of cooperative argumentative dialogue between individuals, based on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and to draw out ideas […]
July 17, 2013
Categories: E-learning, Recipients, Strategies, Teachers
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Found this fantastic infographic touting the success of infographics. Reading it ( or more correctly, viewing it) immediately focused my thoughts on the use of visual texts in classrooms today. Click on the screenshot above to view the animated, interactive info graphic that presents 13 reasons why we should use infographics ( or visual texts […]
July 17, 2013
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The evolution of the web from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 and now to Web 3.0 can be used a metaphor of how education should also be evolving, as a movement based on the evolution from Education 1.0 to Education 3.0. I discussed this in Schools are doing Education 1.0; talking about doing Education 2.0; […]
July 16, 2013
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How to Assess Students’ Learning and Performance Learning takes place in students’ heads where it is invisible to others. This means that learning must be assessed through performance: what students can do with their learning. Assessing students’ performance can involve assessments that are formal or informal, high- or low-stakes, anonymous or public, individual or […]