Convocation of Learning
Tips, Tricks, & Good News at Schoolcraft CS V38
Deeper Thinking/Higher Order Thinking Skills
This issue of Convocation of Learning focuses on ways to get past the surface learning of memorization and recall and instead aid students in digging deeper into content.
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Boost Higher Order Thinking Through Curration!
When a museum director curates, they collect artifacts, organizes them into groups, sifts out everything but the most interesting or highest-quality items, and shares those collections with the world. Why don't students do the same thing?
How Hyperdocs Can Transform Your Teaching & Students Learning!
Click Here for a Podcast and article on how to create and utilize HyperDocs in any classroom!
53 Ways to Check for Understanding
"Any Questions?"-"Write a sentence about what you learned"-"Be sure you take notes"-All useful tasks but how can we dig deeper for learning and have it include some higher order thinking skills?Click on this button to find a great list from Edutopia!
Higher Order - It Is NOT Just For The Big Kids!
Higher order thinking (HOT) is thinking on a level that is higher than memorizing facts or telling something back to someone exactly the way it was told to you. HOT takes thinking to higher levels and requires students to do something with the facts
Have Your Student Create TED Talks!
CLICK HERE to find out how one teacher hit 4 standards in one project having their students create Green Screen TED Talks!
Student's Thinking for Themselves (60 ways)
Teaching can be exhausting. What if you could work less and the students work more? What kind of conditions or contexts promote effortless learning? Learning when they don’t even know it’s happening? When they’re (essentially) tricked into deep understanding? CLICK HERE to find 60 easy ways to put the onus on the students in your classroom!
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Personalizing Your PD with EduPaths!
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Matt McCullough - Director of Innovation in Teaching and Learning
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