Paul Solarz from Learn Like a PiRATE said: “Collaboration allows us to know more than we are capable of knowing ourselves.” If we are encouraging a mindset of questioning in our students, then as teachers should we also collaborate and question ourselves and our instructional practices? (Spoiler: YES!) My current students are service-learning tutors who… Continue reading Digital Collaboration in a Pre-Service College Classroom
The What of the learning is found within ISTE Standard 5c as students “break problems into component parts, extract key information, and develop descriptive models to understand complex systems or facilitate problem- solving”. This leads me to question, how can education systems intentionally teach our students to solve problems *differently* than we were taught? Barr, Harrison,… Continue reading Problem Solving: Computational Thinking =The New Critical Thinking
I recently had an opportunity to evaluate my belief that compliance-based learning is often perceived as the death of critical thinking skills while evaluating ISTE Standard 4 (Innovative Designer). I wonder, can the educational standards-based culture support innovative thinking as our students “exhibit a tolerance for ambiguity, perseverance and the capacity to work with open-ended… Continue reading Growing 21stCentennial Learners: Can rubric and standards-based assessment co-exist with open-ended learning?
Growing our students into “Knowledge Constructors” is a goal that cannot be reached in one or two classroom lessons; it is grown through interaction and critical thinking about fact and opinion within the subjects taught in the K-16 experience. Relating this to ITSE Standard 3b which states that “Students evaluate the accuracy, perspective, credibility and… Continue reading Media Bias and Peer Review: Helping students verify resources in the digital information world
Educators are often overwhelmed or saturated with educational tools that are presented as learning systems that will positively impact the learning the students in the classroom. Solutions focusing on differentiation, scaffolding, and increasing test scores are used to gain entrance into the classroom by the companies and organizations that provide educational technology systems. In… Continue reading An ED Tech Instructional 5 Step System Facilitating Student Learning with Multiple Solutions: By Liz Buffington
Digital Citizenship to Support Work Study Tutors and Future Classroom Educators Background Information: The Pathways office in the Pre-College Institute at San Diego State University supports work study and volunteer students who tutor in 18 different partner schools across San Diego County. Many of our tutors are pre-service teacher licensure candidates. After interviewing Nadia Rohlinger,… Continue reading Digital Readiness SDSU Pre-College Institute Pathways Office
I have a personal connection to the ethical challenges that will continue to populate as technology changes within our world. As educators, we have a responsibility to promote an environment of ethical behavior online and help our learners understand that what they post and say online is just as important as what they say face… Continue reading The Journey Begins
