Convincing parents that the skills of School 2.0 are important is going to be one of the biggest jobs facing all teaching in the very near future. I have outlined in this podcast three possible ways of accomplishing this goal: 1. Student exemplars of continual advancement. 2. Constant communication and …
The first piece of my personal curriculum that I have decided to tackle is reading 3 boy coming-of-age novels and starting one of my own. This is not something I have done absentmindedly, but rather with the strange focus of something that has true importance for my life. You see, …
Core 1: Based on all of the things that you have seen, what are the truest statements that you can make about utopias? What does a Utopia visually look like? Can we visualize it better than we can do it? Explore the Utopian art exhibit at the New York Public …
I’ve been trying to figure out for a while just how assessment is going to look in School 2.0. I have developed (or at least half-baked) 3 types of assessments that I would consider in this new type of environment: 1. Conversation 2. Reflection 3. Aggregation
Core 1: Take Vocab Quiz. Fill out AR mid-quarter reflection. Core 2: Fill out the mid-quarter AR reflection. What part of your ideas do you own? Core 3: Take Vocab quiz Fill out mid-quarter AR reflection Finish your Weekly Authentic for this week. Core 4: Present Group 2 Survival Simulation. …
Core 1: Write-on: If you had a machine that could create anything, would you use it? Why or why not? Read: How the World Was Saved. What is the virtue of thinking through each of your actions? Core 2: Write-on: Finish this quotation any way that you think makes sense …
Cores 1-3: Revisit how you are going to prove to your parents that you learned something. One Idea Another Idea Field Reading for AR and Partner Passes. Core 4: Work on your Sem2_Week5 weekly authentic and finalize your Survival Simulations.
Cores 1-4: Write your Sem2_Week5 weekly authentic. Self-Assess with Mr. Wilkoff your best post of the quarter. Nominate in the new del.icio.us process.
Resources are scarce. People are scrounging around, negotiating uneasy solutions, forgoing all tact. The truth is: people are desperate. They want what other people have. The computers. It always comes down to the computers. “When can I schedule my class in the lab? What times exactly do you need the …
Core 1: Do your Write-ons on the Discovery Message Board. Flip back to the Vocabulary books with some Vocab Basketball? Core 2: Write-on: What is the most significant movement of our time (literary, social, political, etc.)? How was it defined/started? Explore the definitions of Transcendentalism through author’s quotations. Core 3: …