Front+Row+Takeaways

Takeaways from yesterday's session Google book search, wonder wheel, timeline, partnership for 21st century, recent research, web 2.0, the great debate wikis, good modeling of an authentic lesson need for 21st century skills and research strategies for students
 * Tom's Presentation

The issues has more than two sides to it. We see a very dismal future for Tibet; hopefully, they will find a middle ground.
 * China/Tibet

Today's powerpoint:

Two Frameworks: Backwards Design - Wiggins and McTighe, Understanding by Design or Teaching for Understanding Select learning goals - what do you want students to learn by the end of the lesson or unit? Design assessment tasks - how will students demonstrate their developing mastery of those goals? Develop lesson activities - how will you prepare studetns to amster the goals and succeed on the assessment task?

Collect-Relate-Create-Donate - Ben Shneiderman [] [] []l Students should
 * collect the information needed for the performance of understanding
 * relate to one-another in collaborative learning groups
 * create meaningful, authentic performances of understanding
 * donate thier work to a broader audience

Exemplar wikis (see wiki links) Great Debate of 2008 Flat Classrrom Project [] [] The Harkness Method of Teaching: use bloom's texanomy's six category for daily questions for round table discussion. Students post questions to organize what they do. Students have journal posting on wikis. Students like to share ideas out there at their own pace. One student have a page to post daily journal.

Center for Social Media []

Content delivery track - teacher centered falculty collaboration - teacher team/department resource sharing, teacher team/department co-planning student ownershop track - individual student project/assignment pages, individual student portfolios, wholeclass project/assignments/portfolios, student group project/assignment public exposure track - teacher feedback/commenting/peer feedback/commenting, parents&community feedback/commenting, public&expert feedback /commenting cultural exchange track - between class student collaboration, cross-school student collaboration, international student collaboration collaboration track - student concatenation, student copyediting, student co-construction