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H.O.T. / D.O.K.: How Authentic Are Your Assessments?
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HOT / D.O.K. A blog on developing learning environments and delivering educational experiences that foster and promote cognitive rigor - higher order thinking and depth of knowledge. Wednesday, July 22, 2015. How Authentic Are Your Assessments? However, how authentic are these assessments? Authentic assessments resemble reading and writing in the real world and in school ( Hiebert, Valencia and Afflerbach, 1994. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? See my other blog entry on Let's Make a D.O.K! Our knowledge a...
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H.O.T. / D.O.K.: Are We Teaching for Cognition or Compliance?
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HOT / D.O.K. A blog on developing learning environments and delivering educational experiences that foster and promote cognitive rigor - higher order thinking and depth of knowledge. Friday, July 24, 2015. Are We Teaching for Cognition or Compliance? When my daughter was in 5th Grade, she brought home a worksheet that featured a series of multiplication problems she had to solve using this graphic. She said, "Daddy, this is the way I have to do multiplication now.". Perhaps some of you may remember this ...
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H.O.T. / D.O.K.: March 2014
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HOT / D.O.K. A blog on developing learning environments and delivering educational experiences that foster and promote cognitive rigor - higher order thinking and depth of knowledge. Saturday, March 29, 2014. This Is Not The Frustrated Facebook Father's Math - Or Yours Either! The Problem in Question. That required analyzing how a problem was solved, evaluating what they did right and wrong, and expressing your conclusions in a letter. Instead of complaining about the assignment, I decided to take the ti...
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H.O.T. / D.O.K.: May 2015
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HOT / D.O.K. A blog on developing learning environments and delivering educational experiences that foster and promote cognitive rigor - higher order thinking and depth of knowledge. Tuesday, May 26, 2015. More Than a Ride: Why Every Educator, Student, Parent, and Politician Should See TOMORROWLAND. Don't dismiss TOMMOROWLAND as another marketing ploy by Disney to buy merchandise or visit their parks by making a movie about one of its rides. TOMORROWLAND is actually a statement about education - particul...
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STEAMing Ahead with Susan: More Than a Ride: Why Educators Should See "Tomorrowland"
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Providing curriculum and consulting services for Hopeful Futures! Thursday, May 28, 2015. More Than a Ride: Why Educators Should See "Tomorrowland". Today's post is a special guest post by famed Erik M. Francis, M. Ed, M.S. As another marketing ploy by Disney to buy merchandise or visit their parks by making a movie about one of its rides. In fact, the entire movie is an answer to. The world and everything that is wrong or dysfunctional about it was able to be fixed? All this could happen because someone...
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STEAMing Ahead with Susan: May 2015
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Providing curriculum and consulting services for Hopeful Futures! Saturday, May 30, 2015. Tutorials 101: Creating Student Tutorials. I love the 21st Century Classroom. The teacher is no longer the "sage on the stage", yet the "guide on the side". And that's true of the 21st Century Conference. Conferences now have interactive keynotes. Awesome presentation, Nick! During lunch, and collaborative sessions. Don't even get me started on the concept of un-conferences. That will blow your mind! I didn't. T...
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Four Corners Conference :: Speakers
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New Mexico: Patricia Miller. The Promise of Hope. Promise of Hope Webcast Registration. Building Blocks of Early Mathematics Webcast Registration 2. Webcast Registration 2 2 2. Erik M. Francis. MEd, M.S. will be one of our morning keynote speakers. He is a new author with ASCD. He is active i n the Arizona ASCD affiliate as the president-elect and is an outstanding educational leader. Professional Education Specialist/Lead Consultant. Learning and Teaching Early Math flyer.pdf.
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H.O.T. / D.O.K.: Where Should We Go From Here? A Suggestion for Reviewing the Common Core State Standards
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HOT / D.O.K. A blog on developing learning environments and delivering educational experiences that foster and promote cognitive rigor - higher order thinking and depth of knowledge. Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Where Should We Go From Here? A Suggestion for Reviewing the Common Core State Standards. Where do we go from here now that all other children are growin' up. And how do we spend our lives if there's no-one to lend us a hand.". The standards should be reviewed by members of the community to ensure th...
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H.O.T. / D.O.K.: August 2014
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HOT / D.O.K. A blog on developing learning environments and delivering educational experiences that foster and promote cognitive rigor - higher order thinking and depth of knowledge. Wednesday, August 13, 2014. Relevancy Check: Why Am I Teaching This? Is It Time for a Relevancy Check? You know what you're supposed to teach. It's defined in academic standards implemented by your state and and outlined the curriculum adopted by the district. What do you tell them? Hess, Carlock, Jones, and Walkup (2009).
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