Tech Tips
June 2017: Volume 4- Number 37
HAVE a GREAT SUMMER!!!!
You'll find a wide variety of apps, articles, and websites in this issue.
Summer Ideas Pinterest
Summer Crafts
Magnifying Glass Flashlight
Check out those summer insects with this free app. Pictures below show amplification up to 3X. Additional magnification can be purchased.
How to Make Sun Prints!
Excerpt:
Supplies
• 100% white cotton fabric
• acrylic craft paint or fabric paint (darker colors recommended)
• paint brushes
• water in a bowl or small bucket
• a flat surface outdoors to work on (e.g. driveway, old cutting board) – no wooden surface
• nature materials: petals, leaves, ferns, blades of grass, flat pebbles, etc.
Deeper Thinking with Timeline Projects
Deeper Thinking with Timeline Projects: Matt Miller
Excerpt:
It’s easy to get stuck in a rut. As cyclical as education is, it’s almost impossible not to.
We do the same activities year in and year out — even if we’re constantly trying to reinvent our classes. It happens to the best of us.
Twitter is a great way to get unstuck. It also helps others to get unstuck. Kudos to Jane Highley for that.
She recently posted a question that caught my attention:
How can designing a timeline be a rigorous activity?
Higher-order thinking and Webb’s Depth of Knowledge have been top of mind for me. (I spent some time recently with Alice Keeler, my co-author for Ditch That Homework. Spend more than 15 minutes with her and you’ll hear her say “DoK”. And that’s a good thing.)
- Norman Webb’s Depth of Knowledge: Depth of Knowledge (DoK) categorizes tasks according to the complexity of thinking required to successfully complete them. (via Edutopia)
- Bloom’s Taxonomy: The go-to source for higher-order thinking for decades. The original framework consisted of six major categories: Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation. It was revised and improved in 2001. (via Vanderbilt Center for Teaching)
Timelines. Poster projects. Brochures.
Any traditional activity can be put through the DOK/higher-order thinking process. Take an old, tired activity and put a deeper spin on it.
SCS Instructional Technology Information
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