Active LearningEngaging students in higher order thinking skills

- Analysis- Synthesis- Evaluation

Are these students engaged?

Tom March quoteCo-developer of the idea of WebQuests

“These devices can be weapons of mass distractions and kids can tune out

IFwe aren’t engaging students!”

THE GREAT 1 TO 1 QUESTION

Do TabletPCs improve learning?

NO!!!!!!!!!!

TEACHERS improve learning!!! (of course, technology is one of their tools!)

21st Century Skills

• Core subjects

• 21st century content

• Learning and thinking skills

• ICT literacy

• Life skills

21st Century Skills

www.21stcenturyskills.org

Other 21st Century Skills Sites• 21st Century Connections

www.21centuryconnections.com

• Engauge: A Framework for Effective

Technology Use www.ncrel.org/engauge

• Information and Communication Technologies Literacies www.evalutech.sreb.org/21stcentury/index.asp

Magic Questions for Higher Order Thinking

HOW? WHY? WHICH IS BEST?

Other Active Learning Strategies

• WebQuests

webquest.org/index.php

webquest.sdsu.edu/taskonomy.html

• Wikis

pbwiki.com

ibritt.com/resources/wp_blogs.htm

Lesson Ideas Websites

• Marco Polo http://marcopolo-education.org

• Think Quest

http://thinkquest.org

Other Active Learning Strategies

• Multimedia Projects

Audio

Video

Text

Graphics

Research

THINKING!!!!!!

Other Active Learning Strategies

• Case Studies with Research

Science ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/case.html

Ethics ethics.sandiego.edu/resources/cases/HomeOverview.asp