Common Core Standards

This collection pulls together the research by Josyln Young. Young "wanted to figure out more about what teaching, learning, and ...

Christina Cantrill - 2013-04-22 09:34

Our Denver Writing Project LDC team met online the other night. We staged a Google Hangout to discuss the progress of our study teams and plan for a conference we will conduct this summer about the Common ...

Joe Dillon - 2013-01-18 16:34 - 0 comments

The National Research Council (NRC) has released a new report on 21st century skills in the classroom and work environments. From the NRC: Business, political, and educational leaders are increasingly ...

Elyse Eidman-Aadahl - 2012-07-31 12:18 - 0 comments

My game is going to be about Layers of the Earth. I chose that because I think I will be cool to use the layers as certain levels! Some of the things you will encounter are boss battles! Also mazes which you ...

Kate Leuschke Blinn - 2012-06-01 07:48 - 0 comments

For the past several weeks I have been working on creating a curriculum map for my 7th/8th grade language arts classes. As a staff, my colleagues and I felt this was important to put into place what and how ...

Jeremy Hyler - 2012-04-16 08:26 - 0 comments

This post has been long overdue. I wanted to outline the connections I can make to the Common Core Standards (CCSS) with Celly . Below I have chosen three strands from the CCSS that I use with Celly. Each ...

Jeremy Hyler - 2012-04-11 07:36 - 2 comments

I knew where I wanted to start this morning when I returned to Digital Is:  Indiana University Learning Sciences and the research team’s two resources, “ Join the Network! ” and “ Participatory Learning ...

Katherine Frank - 2012-03-20 13:11 - 1 comment

In the run up to the MacArthur Foundation's  Digital Media and Learning Conference in San Francisco, making is on my mind. The ways that we make to learn, learn to make, and the composing processes ...

Christina Cantrill - 2012-02-29 09:33 - 0 comments

• This page is part of Learning the Art of Persuasion: from YouTube to Formal Debate

Day One: Students took the pre-test, Prompt A. I gave them 15 minutes to write their essay and these seemed like the right amount of time. Doing this didn’t seem unusual to my students because I have ...

Angie Cannon - 2012-02-04 13:30

• This page is part of Learning the Art of Persuasion: from YouTube to Formal Debate

I designed this module with Rebecca Itow  as part of the Participatory Assessment Network , a project headed by Dan Hickey  and his team of researchers in the Learning Sciences Program at Indiana ...

Angie Cannon - 2012-02-04 13:30