What I am Thinking About
These are some resources that are making me think about various aspects of learning and teaching:
Resources for assessing your Woodrow Wilson Micro-grant can be found on the page linked here, Assessing My Micro-grant.
I have found a number of excellent resources on inquiry. Go to Inquiry, Hooks, & Performance Assessments Information for research, theory, & how-to articles. Classroom Materials for Inquiry has links to websites with materials you can use with your own students.
I just discovered this huge set of interactive simulations for math and science, founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman. The PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder are based on extensive education research and engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery.
The Annenburg Foundation has a website full of teacher resources. The part I have been exploring lately is Neuroscience & the Classroom: Making Connections. We hear so much in education about "brain-based learning." My immediate reaction has been where else would learning be based? I have heard for some years from the neuroscientists themselves that the neuroscience research is exciting, but still at a basic level, not yet ready to be the basis for classroom teaching. This website gives fascinating glimpses into that research with interviews with the scientists themselves, in some cases debunking things we have heard in education. The first unit, Different Brains, has a subsection titled Left-Right Mythology and another section, Implications for Education.
http://www.learner.org/courses/neuroscience/text/text.html?dis=U&num=01
This interactive Model of Learning Objectives is based on A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. Roll your mouse over the squares to see examples of learning objectives at each of the various combinations of cognitive process and knowledge dimension.
http://www.celt.iastate.edu/teaching-resources/effective-practice/revised-blooms-taxonomy/
The Annenburg site is also the repository for two fascinating sets of K-12 classroom video on science and math learning that were produced by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:
Private Universe Project in Mathematics follows the mathematical development of one group of students throughout grades 1-12. The things these students can understand, given the chance to really dig into the problems, are amazing! And the instructional methods used are quite doable in the classroom. http://www.learner.org/resources/series120.html
Private Universe Project in Science focuses on one theme and one content area in each program and uses specific examples to show how students' preconceived ideas can create critical barriers to learning. Education experts also review classroom strategies and results and recommend new ways to involve students and approach difficult topics.
http://www.learner.org/resources/series29.html
Resources for assessing your Woodrow Wilson Micro-grant can be found on the page linked here, Assessing My Micro-grant.
I have found a number of excellent resources on inquiry. Go to Inquiry, Hooks, & Performance Assessments Information for research, theory, & how-to articles. Classroom Materials for Inquiry has links to websites with materials you can use with your own students.
I just discovered this huge set of interactive simulations for math and science, founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman. The PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder are based on extensive education research and engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery.
The Annenburg Foundation has a website full of teacher resources. The part I have been exploring lately is Neuroscience & the Classroom: Making Connections. We hear so much in education about "brain-based learning." My immediate reaction has been where else would learning be based? I have heard for some years from the neuroscientists themselves that the neuroscience research is exciting, but still at a basic level, not yet ready to be the basis for classroom teaching. This website gives fascinating glimpses into that research with interviews with the scientists themselves, in some cases debunking things we have heard in education. The first unit, Different Brains, has a subsection titled Left-Right Mythology and another section, Implications for Education.
http://www.learner.org/courses/neuroscience/text/text.html?dis=U&num=01
This interactive Model of Learning Objectives is based on A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. Roll your mouse over the squares to see examples of learning objectives at each of the various combinations of cognitive process and knowledge dimension.
http://www.celt.iastate.edu/teaching-resources/effective-practice/revised-blooms-taxonomy/
The Annenburg site is also the repository for two fascinating sets of K-12 classroom video on science and math learning that were produced by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:
Private Universe Project in Mathematics follows the mathematical development of one group of students throughout grades 1-12. The things these students can understand, given the chance to really dig into the problems, are amazing! And the instructional methods used are quite doable in the classroom. http://www.learner.org/resources/series120.html
Private Universe Project in Science focuses on one theme and one content area in each program and uses specific examples to show how students' preconceived ideas can create critical barriers to learning. Education experts also review classroom strategies and results and recommend new ways to involve students and approach difficult topics.
http://www.learner.org/resources/series29.html