Viewing Comprehension Strategies: Watching Videos Like You Read A Book
Video is a pedagogical goldmine. What ‘viewing comprehension strategies’ can students use during and after watching videos in class?
How To Design A 21st Century Assessment
21st century assessment design involves using digital tools, collaborating with others, performance tasks, and more.
42 Fill-in-the-Blank Prompts For Students To Design Their Own Projects
When helping students design projects, I provide these kinds of prompts to help students see how texts, apps, and more can all work together.
7 Mistakes That Quality Assessments Avoid
Quality assessments seek to learn: what knowledge will I gain about my students’ mastery levels of standards by their answers to questions?
What Does Understanding Look Like?
Understanding promotes the spontaneous, personal, and creative application of understanding in dynamic physical and digital environments.
50 Questions To Help Students Think About What They Think
Using the right question at the right time can not evaluate understanding but can help students think about what they think.
A Model For Teaching Critical Thinking
Like anything else in your classroom, promoting critical thinking skills is a matter of planning, priority, and practice.
A Project-Based Learning Cheat Sheet For Authentic Learning
The function of this image is to help get your own creative juices going to decide what’s most important when designing authentic PBL units.
How To Design A Wikipedia Writing & Research Assignment
The idea of actually using Wikipedia to explicitly teach research for an entire unit is less common than its use for researching credibility.
How To Read A Book: 3 Strategies & Questions For Critical Reading
Critical reading includes ‘Inspectional Reading’: Reading with a focus on grasping the book as a ‘whole thing’–also called ‘Systematic skimming.’
What An 8th Grader Was Expected To Know In 1912
If you’ve ever wondered what an 8th-grade student from over a century ago was expected to know, wonder no more.
Should Colleges Judge Social Media Presence for Admissions?
Without guidance to critically think about digital footprints, persona, and audience, it’s no surprise to see students ‘make mistakes’ on social media.
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