google docs!!

Useful site for editing a written work (like a wiki for documents).

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7y7NafWXeM

Backward Design

1) Identify desired results
a.outcomes
b.standards (state/national/school/district)

2) Determine acceptable evidence
a.assessment
b.informal/formal
c.performance
d.formative and summative

3) Plan
a.learning experience
b.activity
c.instruction
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Backward Design

-start with the end in mind
-start with objectives, what you want them to learn

STEPS

1. Identify desired results
a. Standards: national, local, districts
b. Performance: benchmarks (data)
c. School curriculum

2. Determine acceptable evidence
a. Variety of Assessment: testing, quizzes, observation
b. Two Types of Assessment: formative (in process) and summative (end)

3. Plan learning experiences and instruction
a. What activities will lead to understanding?
b. What knowledge and skills?
c. Who are your learners? --> DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION

Wiggins and McTighe (2006) - Backward Design textbook

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EQ1 & EQ2 Week 3

EQ1 In what ways can I influence and support the implementation of the National Educational Technology Plan?

EQ2 What are the advantages of Backward Design? How can I use its principles to guide the learning design process?

1) I can influence the implementation of the National Educational Technology Plan by offering feedback to the department of education. The plan is "open" and therefore allows for input and feedback. By staying up to date with the plan, I can not only influence, but support it, through offering feedback, offering effective ways I have used technology or any other input to make the plan better and therefore more capable of success.

2) Backward Design allows educators to better focus on the goals and objectives they are trying to achieve for their students. A "standard" approach can focus too much on the method and not the end result. By literally "working backwards," one can make sure that the desired results do not get "lost" in the plan. Using this principle, I can put my goals for the students in the forefront of my mind and let them guide the learning design process.

EQ1 & EQ2

EQ1 How can I become successful in using technology as a tool for communication, productivity, research, and instruction in my future teaching practice?

EQ2 How can learning circles benefit my learning throughout this class?

1) I believe I can become successful in using technology, in all its forms, in my future classroom through frequent use and willingness to learn. If I am open to new forms of technology and ways to go about implementing them in a classroom setting, I will cross the first hurdle in assimilation. Daily use will entrench it and a constant search of ways to improve will keep me up-to-date and competent.

2) Learning circles will benefit me in that I will be able to bounce ideas off of my circle mates and vice versa, creating a web of knowledge that we will all share. In this web, each individual will bring their own thread and together we will not only share ideas with each other but form new ideas through the combination of our inputs. Learning circles would also help in a more basic sense, allowing us to keep up with one another and provide help/encouragement when necessary.

The Opening Bridge

step 1- Create blog
step 2- Blog in blog
step 3- Graduate
step 4- Get job
step 5- Use blog to help with teaching students
step 6- Keep blogging in blog