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Learning Journeys with ICT: Pedagogy to practice

  • Linking of best practice pedagogy with ICT
  • Up to date on developments in learning practice
  • Ideas on how to organise the classroom to include ICT
  • Opportunities for students to problem-solve and create in diverse, motivating ways
  • Integration of curriculum areas
  • A focus for reluctant learners
  • A range of resources - including unit plan templates, posters, rubrics and charts - and reference to useful web resources

From Pedagogy to Practice - the thinking classroom has strategies for setting up a thinking classroom and using ICT tools to embed thinking skills in the curriculum.

Ages: 5-11 | Pages: 56 | Code: 0231 | ISBN: 9781877390234

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Angie Simmons

Angie Simmons is interested in current best-practice learning approaches that encompass thinking skills, collaboration and problem solving. As an experienced educator, she has worked broadly across the educational sector of New Zealand. She worked as a primary school teacher for many years and as a university lecturer, when she was head of an educational technologies programme and taught prospective teachers. In another significant educational role, she was a digital technologies professional development facilitator working with schools across the Auckland area to integrate future-focused learning within the curriculum.

Contents

Introduction4
A pedagogy for the millennium4
The big picture: learning about learning from great thinkers and researchers6
A. An overview of approaches and strategies to support the thinking classroom8
Habits of mind8
Inquiry learning9
Project based learning13
Differentiated learning14
Thinking maps14
Graphic organisers15
Action learning and 3 doors17
Assessment for learning18
Gathering assessment data: rubrics19
Bloom's taxonomy21
Multiple intelligences24
Socratic thinking24
Questioning25
Six thinking hats26
B. Putting the thinking classroom together27
Starting out27
Planning for change32
Encouraging cooperative and collaborative learning37
Enabling students to learn how to learn43
Using ICT thinking tools44
Monitoring and reviewing learning and practice45
C. Ready-to-use resources46
Bridge map – connecting ideas46
Decision chart47
Fishbone diagram48
KWL chart49
PCQ chart50
PMI chart51
Y chart52
My goals for next week53
D. Links to further information54
Useful websites54
References56