Read/Reflect/Blog on 2 Short Pieces by Grant Wiggins: Defining Assessment / Show What You Know as You Go

Respond to the class blog after reading Chapter 7 of Danah Boyd's book, It's Complicated.  
In Chapter 7, Boyd discusses whether today's youth can be considered "digital natives," and what the implications are for us as teachers and parents.

Generation Like

Visit the PBS' web site,  Frontline and watch "Generation Like."  Please respond to the class blog with a reflection on Douglas Rushkoff's hard hitting essay on what internet culture is doing to our adolescents.

World Without Walls-Will Richardson

Respond to the class blog after you read Will Richardson's World Without Walls. React to Richardson's vision of education in a "collaborative age." What are some of the challenges that students and teachers are facing given the transformative agency of learning networks and technology? As an educational visionary, is Will Richardson to be taken seriously?

Historical Thinking Matters

Visit the website Historical Thinking Matters

 Review the web site thoroughly, noting both student and teacher modules (4)and teacher materials & strategies. Choose one of the modules (The Spanish American War, The Scopes Monkey Trial, Social Security, Rosa Parks)and study it carefully. Be ready to present the module you chose to our class on Feb. 6.

 Respond to the class blog by answering how Historical Thinking Matters facilitates and inspires student learning and creativity (first NETS standard).

3 Cautionary Readings

• Teaching Civil War History 2.0 (New York Times)
• Is the Google Making Us Stupid (Atlantic Monthly)
• Physicists Seek to Lose the Lecture as a Teaching Tool (NPR)

   From the three readings listed above, what are the implications of Levin's, Carr's, and NPR's arguments vis.a vis. education in the 21st Century. Respond in writing  and be prepared to discuss these articles during our next class.