Primary Source Sets Teachers Abraham Lincoln: Rise to National Prominence Speeches, correspondence, campaign materials and a map documenting the free and slave states in 1856 chronicle Lincoln’s rise to national prominence Alexander Hamilton Manuscripts, images, and historic newspapers document the life and accomplishments of Alexander Hamilton American Authors in the Nineteenth Century: Whitman, Dickinson, Longfellow, Stowe, and Poe A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring the topic of American authors in the nineteenth century, including Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Edgar Allan Poe. Top
TeacherTube Educational Videos for the Classroom and Home App Flows: A 5-Step Approach for Lesson Planning with Technology – Teacher-Created Lesson Plan Show learners Graphite.org. Instruct them to go to this website as well. Explain that Graphite.org is a free service provided by Common Sense Education to help K-12 educators find the best digital tools and curricula to use with their students. Tell learners that App Flows is one of those tools that Graphite.org designed to fulfill their mission. Instruct learners to sign up for their free Graphite.org account on the App Flow page. Together, look at the app flow "How to Write a Thesis Statement." Next, give learners some time to look at additional app flows on their own. Student Instructions After looking at "How to Write a Thesis Statement together as a group, learners should take some time to view one or more app flows, paying particular attention to the digital tools used along with the objective(s) they are supporting. Slides should contain: Name of the digital toolURL to the featured toolShort explanation of what it doesSuggested classroom applicationApp icon (optional)
MUSE Re-imagining Lessons - Integrating Technology with Learning as the Goal – Teacher-Created Lesson Plan During this part, introduce the SAMR model. Use this video clip posted on YouTube to introduce the model. Ask teachers to take notes using the initials S A M R as a note-taking organizer. (use either paper/pencil or electronic) Discussion prompt following the video: Use the SAMR model to reflect on how you're integrating technology. Is it an act of Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, or Redefinition? Have teachers revisit the Lino page. Lead a discussion on the idea of augmentation. MERLOT 8 Examples of Transforming Lessons Through the SAMR Cycle The SAMR Model for integrating technology into teaching, developed by Dr. Ruben Puentedura, has gained a good deal of exposure in recent years. “SAMR” is an acronym that stands for Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition. We recently discussed the SAMR model during an Academic Technology Work Group meeting at The College of Westchester. Following are 8 examples of the SAMR process, each taking an example of a typical classroom exercise that does not use technology and walking it through each phase of SAMR. The goal of this exercise was to help me (and readers) better understand the SAMR model, and to really see how lessons and assessments can be transformed while considering the benefits of evolving them through these stages. Lesson: Writing a Short Paper Taken from: Original Assignment: A hand written paper. Lesson: Geography & Travel Lesson: Understanding Shakespeare
Welcome to Affordable Learning Solutions The Padagogy Wheel – It’s Not About The Apps, It’s About The Pedagogy The Padagogy Wheel – It’s Not About The Apps, It’s About The Pedagogy by Allan Carrington The Padagogy Wheel is designed to help educators think – systematically, coherently, and with a view to long term, big-picture outcomes – about how they use mobile apps in their teaching. The Padagogy Wheel is all about mindsets; it’s a way of thinking about digital-age education that meshes together concerns about mobile app features, learning transformation, motivation, cognitive development and long-term learning objectives. The Padagogy Wheel, though, is not rocket science. It is an everyday device that can be readily used by everyday teachers; it can be applied to everything from curriculum planning and development, to writing learning objectives and designing centered activities. The underlying principle of the Padagogy Wheel is that it is the pedagogy that should determine our educational use of apps. So how does it work? 1. Graduate Attributes are at the core of learning design. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Do College Students Read? - With college back in session, we can welcome the bemoaning of college students nationwide on social media – students now encumbered with their: back-to-back-to-back class schedules, unending assignments and group projects, non-stop social lives, and their numerous, heavily marked-up textbook collection. It’s surely busy here, but we wanted to take a moment to see if students were putting down their textbooks for just a second, and picking up a book for pleasure. So we went to our panel of students to ask: “do you read for fun?” Frequency: YES! Around 65% of students read between 1 and 5 hours each week.13% of students are reading more than 6 hours each week.However, nearly 1 in 4 (22%) of students do not read at all for pleasure during the school year. So, what about during their winter and summer breaks. The answer is… also YES! Just 10% claim to never read during their winter and summer breaks. Format: In textbooks, we see some dissonance between preference for print and digital. Genre:
SAMR and Bloom's Taxonomy: Assembling the Puzzle For teachers just starting out with educational technology, the task at hand can sometimes seem daunting. Even though tools such as the SAMR model can help, the plethora of choices available can prove paralyzing, frequently resulting in ongoing substitutive uses of the technology that block, rather than enable, more ambitious transformative goals. The approach below is designed to help overcome this barrier, and is inspired in its form by Alexander’s notion of Design Patterns -- a clearly structured solution to a recurring design problem -- which has been applied to education scenarios by Bergin et al. While it is not laid out exactly as a design pattern would be, it nonetheless provides a framework that a teacher could use in similar fashion. The goal for the teacher is to construct a simple SAMR ladder that is coupled to Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy -- i.e., as the task moves from lower to upper levels of the taxonomy, it also moves from lower to upper levels of SAMR. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.