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Designing Learning Experiences: Start with the Student and Co-Create

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From www.edutopia.org - June 25, 2014 7:46 PM
Students are more likely to engage with a unit of study they've co-created. Matt Levinson suggests an eight-step example for how the history classroom.
Beth Dichter's insight:

How can we get students more engaged in units of study? What if we design our class so that they have ownership from the beginning of the unit? This post explores this issue, and although the focus is on social studies you could use the same steps in other curricular areas. What are the steps?

1. "Partner students and have them do a speed search on the topic." What can they find in 12 - 15 minutes? Let them generate a list of interest.

2. "Decision by debate." Change partners. Allow them 3 minutes to discuss and rank the topics by interest.

3. "Main characters." Switch partners again. In history you might be looking at key individuals, or key battles in a conflict.

There are five more steps that will help students learn to collaborate, analyze perspectives, co-create with you (as the teacher your job is to  make sure that all key areas are covered and help create the framework as well as providing additional input where necessary), and more.

This type of process allows the students to be engaged and have their voices heard from the beginning....a win-win situation in the classroom.

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Heather MacDonald's curator insight, June 25, 2014 7:52 PM

Designing anything is only worthy if the "end user" has input.  This is a brilliant adaptation of that design philosophy.  And how can you resist the power in the eyes of this little girl?!
Anne Pascucci, MPA, CRA's curator insight, June 26, 2014 10:29 AM

Great work~
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Smart Strategies That Help Students Learn How to Learn

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From blogs.kqed.org - October 7, 2013 10:41 PM

"What’s the key to effective learning? One intriguing body of research suggests a rather riddle-like answer: It’s not just what you know. It’s what you know about what you know.

To put it in more straightforward terms, anytime a student learns, he or she has to bring in two kinds of prior knowledge: knowledge about the subject at hand (say, mathematics or history) and knowledge about how learning works. Parents and educators are pretty good at imparting the first kind of knowledge. We’re comfortable talking about concrete information: names, dates, numbers, facts. But the guidance we offer on the act of learning itself—the “metacognitive” aspects of learning—is more hit-or-miss, and it shows."

Beth Dichter's insight:

As teachers do we emphasize what we want students to learn, or do we focus on how they should go about learning and the necessary skills? This post focuses on these issues looking at current research. It also provides two sets of questions, one where "Students can assess their own awareness by asking themselves which of the following learning strategies they regularly use..." and the other "a series of proactive questions for teachers to drop into the lesson on a “just-in-time” basis—at the moments when students could use the prompting most."

Another great article by Annie Murphy Paul that provides much food for thought.

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Phil Turner's curator insight, October 8, 2013 6:49 PM

A question of study rather than memorising ... how a student of a topic goes about constructing meaning and negotiating understanding.
Mary Cunningham's curator insight, October 13, 2013 12:13 PM

This is a great article about ensuring that students understand the mechanics of their own learning.
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Hattie's Index Of Teaching & Learning Strategies

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From www.teachthought.com - February 26, 2014 7:26 PM

Quoting from the post:

Statistically speaking, the strength of the relationship between two variables. John Hattie, Professor of Education and Director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia, says ‘effect sizes’ are the best way of answering the question ‘what has the greatest influence on student learning?’

Beth Dichter's insight:

So the question is, what does research tell us are the best teaching and learning strategies? This list, from John Hattie's research, provides insight into this question.

After an introduction that describes how the effect size is applied and the cautions that must be observed, there is a short section that discusses how you might apply this data...and then there are six scrollable pages where the data is shared. There is also a list of of the 39 strategies that is to the point. The scrollable list provides additional insights for better understands.

What is least successful? Retention.

What is most successful? Teacher credibility in the eyes of the student.

This post is worth reading, and reading again. The strategies may not be new to you, but as you read through the research you may choose one or two to work on as this school year continues.

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Ryan Sines's curator insight, September 2, 2014 1:47 PM

Can't get enough Hattie!
Ching Rem's curator insight, September 19, 2014 5:32 AM

why not?
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