Strategies

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Strategies Resources for Teaching Learningin
the Digital Age
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Feeling a bit stretched?
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What you are trying to do

• Cover curriculum
• Integrate technology competencies
• Support the writing initiative
• Teach in the block

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The real goal?

• Advance achievement for all studentsand
  minimize the disparities among all groups of
  students.
• (from the WHPS District Goals)

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and another thing

• Combat plagiarism!

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Any good news?

• Some of these priorities overlap.
• May be relatively easy to integrate into
  instruction.
• Sometimes just tweaking what youre already doing.

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• New goals and initiatives
• reflect changes in skills
• required of students
• in the 21st Century.

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21st Century Skills

• Emphasis on process product
• Use of multiple resources
• Need for information literacy skills
• Technology is integral
• Student collaboration
• Inquiry approach used students ask/answer
  questions

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How to nurture these skills?

• How to teach in the block, integrate
  technology and discourage plagiarism, while
  supporting the writing initiative and covering
  the curriculum ?

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One way is with inquiry-based learning
assignments.
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• Inquiry requires involvement which leads to
  understanding.
• Tell me and I forget, show me and I remember,
  involve me and I understand.
• Requires students to develop the skills and
  attitudes they need to construct knowledge by
  seeking answers to questions.

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Where we come in

• Helping you with the resources to design these
  assignments.
• Our curriculum - teach students a process they
  can follow as life-long learners in the 21st
  century.
• Based on a model called The Big 6.

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The Big 6

• Task definition Define the problem.
• 2. Information seeking strategiesPlan how to
  solve it.
• 3. Location access Find resources the
  information in them.
• 4. Use of informationRead (hear, view) and
  extract from a resource.
• 5. SynthesisOrganize from multiple sources.
  Present.
• EvaluationJudge the product and the process.

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Now back to your curriculum

• Strategies, examples resources for designing
  effective assignments that let students practice
  these important skills in a
  block-schedule world!

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• Strategies first
• Product options borrowed from strangers.

Examples next Borrowed from someone sitting
next to you.
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Then, resources

• Online resources you can explore for help in
  developing interesting and effective assignments.
• Resources your students can explore in order to
  complete them.

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Product Options

• Annotated bibliography
• Pathfinder
• Newsletter
• Debate
• Brochure
• Resume

• Database
• Family tree
• Press conference
• Trip itinerary
• Detailed journal entry or online blog
• Mock trial

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Product Options

• Board game
• Web home page
• Day in the life of a plant/disease/person
• Awards event
• Dinner party
• Online threaded discussion

• Film treatment
• News article
• Dear Abby letter
• What if?
• Lesson plan
• Original song or rap
• Baseball card or wanted poster

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Product Options

• Alternate book jacket
• Ad campaign
• Postage stamp
• Comic (graphic book)
• Phone or email message
• Petition

• Obituary or eulogy
• Recipe
• Scrapbook
• Want ad
• Time line
• Soap opera

Product options adapted from Valenza, 9/03
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And when the product is a paper, to combat
plagiarism

• Provide explicit citation guidelines.
• Require specific resources.
• Ask students to indicate exactly where they
  located each source.
• Ask students to present their papers orally
  respond to questions.
• Request that your students present preliminary
  information on their topic.

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And when the product is a paper, to combat
plagiarism

• Schedule a library mini-lesson on plagiarism and
  citation.
• Assign the on-line plagiarism quiz from library
  website, or review as a class.
• Ask students to photocopy the first page of any
  Internet site used.
• Discuss the appropriate use evaluation of
  Internet sources.

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Resourceswww.whps.org/school/conard/library
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For resources and handouts mentioned

• Go to
• www.whps.org/school/conard/library.asp
• and
• www.whps.org/school/conard/library/CSImaterials.as
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