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What is the Participatory Learning and Assessment Network?
What is Participatory Assement? Participatory assessment is a comprehensive approach to instruction, assessment, and accountability. It is grounded...
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Indiana University Learning Sciences
1 year 14 weeks ago
Try a New Thing: Digital Is Bingo!
Do you feel like there are more resources in Digital Is than you have time and energy to dig into? Make it into a game! Using the list of traits and...
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NWP Digital Is
1 year 14 weeks ago
John Seely Brown: Cultivating the Entrepreneurial Learner in the 21st Century
In this keynote from the 2012 Digital Media and Learning Conference, John Seely Brown walks the audience through a vision of how learning can be...
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Elyse Eidman-Aadahl
1 year 15 weeks ago
Cultivating 21st Century School Leaders
As a school district technology director, I know that for my teachers to successfully utilize 21st Century tools and instructional methods, it is...
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Melissa Shields
1 year 15 weeks ago
Be the Mini Lesson
May took this video during writer's workshop. Then later during a mini-lesson, we used this as a point of reflection. Reading this video text...
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Lacy Manship
1 year 15 weeks ago
Be the Revision
May really liked to play weather person.  She recorded herself or had someone else record her, and then watched these to think about her story....
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Lacy Manship
1 year 15 weeks ago
Socializing Assessment
Another lens that seems really productive is to look at these videos in terms of assessing what kids know and are able to do.  With video as the...
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Lacy Manship
1 year 15 weeks ago
Be the Question
Another way that one might use these kinds of documentaries is to engage in critical dialogue about dominant narratives.  Interestingly, the...
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Lacy Manship
1 year 15 weeks ago
Be the Literature
After reading Patricia Polacco's Chicken Sunday, the kids and I made our own hat shop, and May shot this video of the play story. As the children...
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Lacy Manship
1 year 15 weeks ago
Self Portrait of a Videographer
That's Amari.  And this has to be one of my favorite video clips.  In fact, in writing about first grade documentaries today, I have...
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Lacy Manship
1 year 15 weeks ago
Wanna See The Movie?
The year that May, Qudia, Amari, Everardo, Joslyn, and their friends were in first grade, they made a lot of movies with our little digital video...
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Lacy Manship
1 year 15 weeks ago
Composing Culture
As classroom texts, the documentaries became embedded in our classroom culture.  Using these texts in everyday ways made both the stories and...
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Lacy Manship
1 year 15 weeks ago
Participatory Learning and Assessment Network (PLAnet)
Digital knowledge networks are a growing phenomenon, and our students are actively participating in them. We know very little about the places in...
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Indiana University Learning Sciences
1 year 16 weeks ago
Join the Network!
How to Participate Lurk. Comment. Try a module, or part of on! Tell us what you are doing with the module or activity. Ask for assistance in...
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Indiana University Learning Sciences
1 year 16 weeks ago
Assessment Data
The module was bracketed by pre and post standards oriented assessments in the form of NAEP writing exams.    In a pre/post repeated...
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Angie Cannon
1 year 16 weeks ago
Teachers as the Theories & Technologies in Action: Cross-Site Innovations, Museums & Cultural Landscapes with Permeable Boundaries
“Human beings construct meaning as spiders make webs...This is how we survive, our primary evolutionary business. We differ from other species in...
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Ralph Cordova
1 year 16 weeks ago
Transitions: A Collection of Children's Books
I teach a class called Lights, Camera, Media Literacy! that has a great children's book project in the curriculum. The students create children'...
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George Mayo
1 year 17 weeks ago
Implications and further questions
The act of naming the work that my colleagues are doing online as teacher leadership opens up new ways of considering their work and the communities...
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Christina Cantrill
1 year 18 weeks ago
The Consequences of Ignorance: Analyzing Character Action and Motivation in Contexts
I never thought I would be a teacher ... I certainly never thought I would use my teaching experience to guide my thinking as I begin to work on a Ph...
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Rebecca Itow
1 year 18 weeks ago
Sustainable Computing: First Thoughts
The following has been adapted from a Foreword written by Charlie Moran and published in Technological Ecologies and Sustainability. Eds. Heidi...
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Anne Herrington & Charlie Moran
1 year 19 weeks ago
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