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To Boost Higher-Order Thinking, Try Curation

…is there agreement? Where can bridges be made? Kathryn Laster Thank you for sharing so many awesome student examples in this post! Curation has really been on my radar this year because of Gayle Allen’s book The New Pillars of Modern Teaching. (Curation is new pillar #2!) I work with teachers, and when sharing thoughts about curation, I have really focused on the processes involved for curation, so your sample tasks/projects really help take my ideas to the next level. 🙂 (If you want to see some examples of curation processes, here are ideas from a recent teacher book study:…

Are You a Curator or a Dumper?

…can transform the individual pieces. In my course, students submit a Learning Curation. I wanted this to be a curation instead of a journal or collection to encourage metacognition and transformative learning that is notoriously difficult to corral in our individual inquiries. The Learning Curation requires responding to readings via learning curation prompts but also including anything else students wish, crafted through their interests, choices and their essential question/inquiry. This then becomes a curation because they have a collection of things but they are uniquely shaped, by students into something new via their inquiry. Collection + Transformation = Curation Melissa…

5 Fantastic Ideas for Collaboration Projects

…selection of key moments in the past year built around a theme chosen by the student. In 2019, her students decided to work together on creating a Decade in Review video. The Tech: Thompson allowed students to use whatever programs they knew to put the videos together. Adding Criticality and Agency Because curation requires us to represent larger ideas with a small selection, it does a great job of telling a story or sharing information in a way that can really grab the attention of the viewer. So one approach for using curation with criticality is to have students collect…

6 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2015

…and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.” Curation digs into all of this. Plus, it’s a real-world skill that takes your students far, far away from multiple-choice land. But it’s a skill most teachers rarely bother with. A tool like Paper.li is a fun, visually appealing, tech-savvy way to teach curation. It lets the user choose online content around a specific theme, then place it into their own online “newspaper,” displaying individual items as stories. The newspaper then gets its own unique link which can be shared with others. Here’s a quick demonstration of how this tool works: Suggested…

Making the Most of a 90-Minute Block

…see which structure aligns most closely to what you would normally do in class. Then, you can match tech tools to simulate in-class activities. If you’re using Zoom, certainly utilize breakout rooms, and you could also check out a few tools like Parlay for discussions or elink for curation projects. Students could also create blogs or one-pagers, too, during this time. Lastly, if you haven’t already, the Cult of Pedagogy Virtual Learning Pinterest board is a great place to scroll, and 9 Ways Online Teaching Should be Different from Face-to-Face and Distance Learning: A Gently Curated Collection of Resources for…

Episode 91: Twelve Ways to Upgrade Your Classroom Design

…curation, photo editing, note taking, fundraising, and this year, I’ve added four new categories: career exploration, music, science, and virtual & augmented reality. Every featured tool has its own page with a screenshot of the tool in action, a link to the website, and a link to a video that shows you how the tool works. Super easy to navigate and full of information in simple, human language, the Teacher’s Guide to Tech will help you stop feeling overwhelmed and start taking the tech bull by the horns. And…to thank you for being an awesome podcast listener, I’m giving you…

6 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2019

…embedded video, a live Google Doc, an attached file, or a table containing a variety of elements organized into columns. Probably the best feature is that cards can be collected into folders, where the items are listed along the left, and the selected item appears in a larger window on the right. You can keep multiple folders on one board, and all cards can be collapsed or expanded, making it easy to neatly collect large amounts of resources all in one place. Webjets would be an excellent, flexible tool for any kind of group project or curation task, whether it’s…

Making Cooperative Learning Work Better

…will automatically create problems within groups and from group to group. Keep groups to 3-4 students. This seems to be the general consensus from expert readings to talking with individual teachers. Once a group gets larger than 4 it becomes easier for students to slip through the cracks. Check out collaborative tech. While many schools are already using Google’s collaborative tools, other tools have collaboration features that you may not be aware of. Some are built specifically for collaboration and project management, like Trello, Asana, Kanbanchi, and Slack. Other tools like Wakelet for curation and Canva for graphic design allow…

Episode 184 Transcript

…thing and learn more about this, this is completely free, by the way. Correct? MENDOZA: Yes, yep. GONZALEZ: So where should they go? We’re also going to provide links to everything over on my site too. MENDOZA: Yes, so they can, educators, you can go to commonsense.org/education, and you’ll see everything there. GONZALEZ: Okay. MENDOZA: It’s all available for free to you. The digital citizenship curriculum is available for free. And then we also have a news and media literacy center where we have a curation of the lessons and resources available to you there as well that you’ll see. …