That's how I feel about tools for the Common Core. In a perfect world, where you could pick all the content, the perfect students, and had all the time in the world, we might write with calligraphy pens, read captivating classics and saunter down the road of learning. The truth is we have limited time, huge loads dumped on our plate, challenged learners, and students with little attention span. That is why we need technology, power tools, power verbs, and information resources to infuse energy into the Common Core. The Common Core without information, Inquiry, and technology is deadly.
It is the information, technology, collaboration, Inquiry learning tasks, which will excite these pedagogy recommendations from the Common Core. Try some of the tools below and see whether they make your demandind job more exciting:
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TOOL
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USE
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CCSS
Verb
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www.VisualThesaurus.com
(fee based)
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To understand vocabulary of the discipline
(SHIFT) – We call these “cool words” that will make you
sound smart
Finding research searching synonyms
Writing tool
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Comprehend, analysis, explore, f
Research
Express
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VocabGrabber
(also from Visual Thesaurus.com)
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Upload a text and this tool will
analyze it for SAT words, math words, science words, and a teacher can
customize a word list (SHIFT)
Differentiated instruction
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Analyze, think critically, explore a
topic,
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(free)
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‘Knowledge product” tool –alternative
to ‘tired’ Powerpoint presentations.
Summarizing tool for data
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Express persuasively
Summarize
Draw evidence from the text
Support analysis
Produce and publish writing
Gather information
Formulate an argument
Visually represent data
Enhance understanding
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Show a movie clip and get ready for
online, collaborative discussion! AASL
suggested best site for teaching and learning
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analyze – think critically
address a question solve a problem conduct research explore a topic Students generate questions Solve a problem |
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No fee, site for online comment. Post a
photo and ask a compelling question. Use
this for assessment, lesson hook,
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Interact and collaborate
Generate questions
Debate, brainstorm, virtual classroom
discussion,
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This
great new site is a mashable of GoogleEarth and Pinterest. Immediately I saw the value in connecting
to real world problems, history to happenings and engagement. A must try.
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‘relevance”
Engagement
Explore a topic
Document with evidence,
Create and share knowledge
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Online News Scooper – this tool
aggregates ‘news’ from around the web, based upon keywords –
Not only can this be used for ‘getting’
information, but this could be a way of assessing whether a student
understands what is credible, accurate, reliable and supported (CARS)
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Explore a topic
Research
Reflect
Gather information from online sources
Assess the credibility and accuracy
Prepare to participate in conversations
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See the AASL Best WEbsites for teaching and learning for additional recommendations. They have new and tried-and-true tools for your delivery. Stand and deliver is dead. Long live Information Infusion imbedded into technology in order to achieve, understand and succeed in a 21st Century environment.
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