NECC 2009 - Progressive Pedagogy and 21st Century Tools

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School 2.0 Progressive Pedagogy and 21st Century Tools Chris Lehmann Science Leadership Academy

What Are Our Hopes For Our Students?

My Two Cents: Thoughtful Wise Passionate Kind

Caring Institutions We Teach Kids, Not Subjects

Inquiry-Driven What are the questions we can ask together?

Student-Centered It’s Not About Us.

Teacher-Mentored Kids Need Adults

Community-Based We can learn from many

Passionate And it has to matter.

Integrated The day has to make sense

Technology Infused Ubiquitous, Necessary and Invisible

Meta-Cognitive We need to think about thinking.

Authentic Assessment as Real and Transparent

Understanding-Driven and Project-Based

We Work Best / Learn Best When It Matters To Us

What’s The Road Map? How Do We Get There?

Progressive Teaching Using 21st Century Tools

Technology Overload And How To Prevent It

What’s Good? Is a Better Question Than What’s New?

Research Collaborate Create Present Network

A Convenient And Reasonably False Taxonomy Research Collaborate Create Network Present RSS Wiki Blogging Twitter uStream Google Del.icio.us Drupal Skype Flickr Docs Google Moodle Podcasting Facebook iTunes U Wikipedia Ning Email

Tools Don’t Teach But They Can Change The Way We Teach

What Are Your Goals What Tools Get You There?

Common Language Of Teaching and Learning

Common Inputs Common Process Common Outputs

Inquiry

Research

Collaboration

Presentation

Reﬂection

Understanding By Design by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe

Common Outputs

Step One: Desired Results If You Don’t Know Where You’re Going....

Goals The Objectives, The Standards

Understandings The Big Ideas -- Why Are We Teaching This?

Essential Questions The Throughline: What Do We Keep Coming Back To?

Skills and Content What is all the stuff that kids will have to know or know about to get to those big ideas?

Step Two: Assessment How Do We Authentically Assess?

Traditional Classrooms: Recall-Based Tests Homework Projects Class Participation

The Schools We Need: Understanding- Projects Driven Homework Tests & Quizzes Class Participation

Step Three: Learning Plan What’s It Look Like, Day to Day?

Some Examples

Unit Design

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