School leaders face the immediate challenges of raising student achievement while also preparing students for success in a digital age. While test scores are a highly visible measure of a limited subset of skills, they leave invisible other crucial thinking, communication, and application skills students need upon graduation. The visible thinking process provides a practical pathway for developing 21st century skills and simultaneously strengthening student core subject-area learning, by seeing both how and what students are thinking. It also allows educators to implement research-based, evidence-based practice to strengthen and assess the ISTE NETS-Standards. In this course, educators learn to incorporate tasks that include questions designed to cause students to think in 21st century ways. Educators also learn a process for making this thinking visible for reflection by students and teachers and to see evidence of mastery of 21st century skills.
Tagged under: student achievement,digital age,crucial thinking,communication,application skills,21st century skills,ISTE NETS,KDS,KDSI
Clip makes it super easy to turn any public video into a formative assessment activity in your classroom.
Add multiple choice quizzes, questions and browse hundreds of approved, video lesson ideas for Clip
Make YouTube one of your teaching aids - Works perfectly with lesson micro-teaching plans
1. Students enter a simple code
2. You play the video
3. The students comment
4. You review and reflect
* Whiteboard required for teacher-paced activities
With four apps, each designed around existing classroom activities, Spiral gives you the power to do formative assessment with anything you teach.
Quickfire
Carry out a quickfire formative assessment to see what the whole class is thinking
Discuss
Create interactive presentations to spark creativity in class
Team Up
Student teams can create and share collaborative presentations from linked devices
Clip
Turn any public video into a live chat with questions and quizzes
Tried out the canvas response option on @SpiralEducation & it's so awesome! Add text or drawings AND annotate an image! #R10tech
Using @SpiralEducation in class for math review. Student approved! Thumbs up! Thanks.
Absolutely amazing collaboration from year 10 today. 100% engagement and constant smiles from all #lovetsla #spiral
Students show better Interpersonal Writing skills than Speaking via @SpiralEducation Great #data #langchat folks!
A good tool for supporting active #learning.
The Team Up app is unlike anything I have ever seen. You left NOTHING out! So impressed!