Monday, March 24, 2014

Authentic Classroom Resources 03/25/2014

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Friday, March 7, 2014

Authentic Classroom Resources 03/08/2014

  • Classroom tasks that are worthy of students time and attention, relevant, connected to the world and organized around the ‘big ideas’ of a subject can develop understanding, intellectual interest and engagement with students.

    tags: inquiry learning pbl authentic

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Thursday, March 6, 2014

Authentic Classroom Resources 03/07/2014

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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Authentic Classroom Resources 03/06/2014

  • "Rewordify.com helps you read more, understand difficult English faster, and learn words in new ways. Just paste in difficult English (or enter a web page URL) and click the yellow button. You'll see an easier version, for fast understanding now. You'll learn what the hard words and phrases mean with our Smart Highlighting. (Click it or tap it.) You'll read (and teach) better tomorrow with vocabulary lists, learning activities, quizzes, flash cards, and more—that you get instantly, with answer keys—from any block of text you enter!"

    tags: comprehension rewordify reading simplify education authentic

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Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Conference Presentations

This year The Authentic Classroom returned to the Collaborative Conference On Student Achievement in Greensboro NC to talk about Inquiry Based Learning in the classroom environment. The consensus of the conversation was that it has to start early, and because we are asking students to change the way the think about their learning teachers need to be prepared to show learners that they can do take charge. Teachers need to have strong knowledge in their content but that its alright if teachers don't know the answers to the questions that learners pose, as long as you have established a mechanism for learners to create answers for themselves. Finally, engaged learners retain more information under concept driven instruction when they have outlets for demonstrating both their knowledge and their creativity. Here are the slides for the presentation. What are your thoughts on how Inquiry Based Learning fits into your class?