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Create a Learning Activity
In student-driven classrooms like the Learner-Active, Technology-Infused Classroom, the teacher moves away from presenting the content to designing a more differentiated learning environment. Students then engage in instructional activities aimed at a targeted concept or skill. Use this tool to design a learning activity to teach, re-teach, or move beyond a certain skill. As you create your PBL, you will begin by considering the “what,” also known as the ways in which the students will engage with the content. This will consist of brainstorming a scaffold for learning and a set of learning activities through which students will achieve the level of demonstration of knowledge outlined in the analytic rubric. Use the Downloadable Items on the right side of this page to access the document. Return to Browse Downloadable Items Unit Materials Unit Materials (Google Chrome Users: If you have the Office Editing extension installed, for the best Word viewing and editing
How-toCreate a Transfer Task
In the Learner-Active, Technology-Infused Classroom, a transfer task refers to a summative assessment in which students must transfer the knowledge gained throughout the PBL to a new situation through a performance-based task. A transfer task should: be authentic and set in a novel context require one or two class periods for students to complete require students to apply their learning and demonstrate understanding of the content include a short rubric or scaled checklist for grading/evaluation purposes Follow the steps below to create a transfer task for a PBL. To begin creating your own transfer task, use the Downloadable Items to the right. Teacher Evaluation Models: 2013 Danielson 1a, 1c, 1d, 1f, 3d 2014 Marshall A.a, A.d, A.f, D.a 2016 Stronge 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 4.3, 4.5, 4.7 2013 Marzano 1.1.DQ1.1, 1.1.DQ1.2 Return to Browse Downloadable Items How-To Sheet How-To Sheet (Google Chrome Users: If you have the Office Editing exten
How-toDesign a Learning Center
Use this tool to design a learning center to teach, re-teach, or move beyond a certain skill. In the Learner-Active, Technology-Infused Classroom ™, learning centers guide students to grapple with core concepts and skills. Learning centers could be activities that revolve around limited resources, activities that involve an independent hands-on experience, or activities that involve materials that are best kept together (such as tactile pieces). Learning centers involve multiple materials that would be best kept together in a folder. Directions are clear and require the students to take action, which will decrease their need to ask for assistance from the teacher. Students can sign up for a period of time to complete a learning center and add it to their schedule. Signing up in advance for a learning center will help the students coordinate the use of the resources with others. Use the Downloadable Items on the right side of this page to access the document. Return to Browse Downloadab
How-toFind the Area of a Circle
Provide students with multiple ways to learn information. Students can use this how-to sheet to learn the parts of a circle and how to calculate the area. Use the Downloadable Items on the right side of this page to access the planning guide. Return to Browse Downloadable Items How-To Sheet More This tool can be used with the PBL How Do You Celebrate Pi and the How-to Sheet Find the Circumference of a Circle
How-toImplement the Digital Efficacy Notebook
The Digital Efficacy Notebook is student-centered, designed to reflect an individual student's learning. It provides a means for students to make connections to what they are learning and apply it to the larger problem they are trying to solve. The Digital Efficacy Notebook is unique for each student, as individuals decide the contents of the pages based on personalized learning paths. Students link the connections or resources of content, pose questions about topics they are learning, insert graphics and charts that fit within that learning, and more. To access the document, use the Downloadable Items on the right side of this page. Return to Browse Downloadable Items Resource More Implement the Efficacy Notebook
How-toPlan for Screencasts and Podcasts
Videos, screencasts, and podcasts are audio and/or visual recordings in which teachers may provide direct instruction to students while also differentiating learning opportunities to meet individual student needs. Use the following activity to design a video, screencast, or podcast. Students may use videos, screencasts, and/or podcasts to learn or reinforce a skill or concept. These recordings are a powerful tool for presenting information to auditory and/or visual learners. Videos, screencasts, and podcasts allow teachers to capture lessons and demonstrations for students to use when they are ready to engage in the learning. This teacher “clone” permits the teacher to move about the classroom facilitating learning among students. Both teachers and students may create videos, screencasts, and podcasts. The teacher may call upon a student who has demonstrated mastery of a skill or concept to create a recording for his/her classmates. Videos can be used to capture a demonstration or less
How-toRecognize Bias
How-to sheets provide step-by-step support to help students acquire a certain skill. This learning activity was designed for students to recognize bias in various sources and can be used to support the PBL "A New Kind of Literacy for a 21st Century World." Use the Downloadable Items on the right side of this page to access the document. Return to Browse Downloadable Items How-To Recognize Bias More A New Kind of Literacy for a 21st Century World is the PBL for which this learning activity was designed. For more on learning activities: Watch Dr. Sulla's video Learning Activities vs. Practice Activities Brainstorm Teacher Cloning Tools