ACTIVITIES

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Teaching and Learning Strategies

• ACTIVITIES
• Activity 1 Differentiated Learning
• Activity 2 Thinking Tool Visual Ranking
• Activity 3 Thinking Tool Seeing Reason
• Activity 4 Thinking Tool Showing Evidence
• Activity 5 Implementing Strategies

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Differentiated learning

• Assessment informs
• Strategies
• Spread diversity
• Roles
• Monitoring
• Individualised tutoring
• Flexibility
• Multiple intelligences / expression

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Activity 1

• Work on your own
• Open Differentiated Instruction Checklist
• Apply the checklist reflectively
• Adapt your project plan?

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Online Thinking Tools

• Help teachers understand learners' thinking on
  complex topics
• Promote and enhance collaboration and
  communication
• Help learners demonstrate learning over time
• Support differentiated learning
• Are open-ended, reusable, and not limited by
  content areas
• Encourage explanation, justification, and
  generalization (mathematical reasoning across the
  curriculum)

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Thinking Tools Learner benefits

• Improves higher-order thinking skills.
• Encourages discussion and understanding of
  complex ideas.
• Allow interactive and dynamic visual
  representation of thinking.
• Improves verbal argumentation skills.
• Requires justification of ideas.

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Thinking Tools Teacher benefits

• Prompt teachers to shift to student-centered
  practices.
• Teachers guide learners as they create meaning.
• Easy to set up and manage
• Can view and print the detailed work completed by
  each team
• Can view the progression of their thinking,
  ideas, and research.

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Thinking Tools Research

• Value of graphic representations
• Helps learners store knowledge
• Enhances their understanding of content.
• Learners benefit from both linguistic and
  nonlinguistic systems of representation.
  (Marzano, Pickering, Pollock, 2001)
• Engaging the learner's brain
• Nonlinguistic representations stimulates and
  increases activity in the brain. (Gerlic
  Jausovec, 1999)
• Importance of feedback
• Teachers have a window into their learners
  understanding at different points in the learning
  process.
• Creates timely opportunities for teacher feedback
  - enhances achievement. (Hattie, 1992)
• Finding patterns
• Learners engage the human visual system to find
  patterns and organize ideas. (Edelson, Brown,
  Gordin, Griffin, 1999)

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Visual Ranking

• Helps learners
• Analyze and evaluate items in a list
• Identifying criteria for sorting
• Refining the criteria
• Prioritizing items in the list based on criteria
• Explaining their reasoning about priorities
• Making decisions by seeking consensus
• Compare lists visually
• Examining and comparing reasoning for priorities
• Negotiating and adjusting ranking to explore
  correlation
• Seeing things from multiple perspectives
• Learning from each other
• Seeking consensus

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Visual Ranking Prompts

• Rank the items in this supply list in order of
  their usefulness when setting up a base camp and
  research station on the moon.
• Considering maintenance costs, size, temperament,
  and popularity, which animals would be good pets
  for the city? Put your choices in order.)
• Rank the importance of possible features for our
  new public park based on the interests of the
  community stakeholder group your team
  represents.
• Which development choices have the LEAST effect
  on the river environment and trout?
• Put this list of inventions in order of their
  importance to modern life.
• Rank this list from most important to least
  important elements of a good mystery story?

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Activity 2

• Work on your own.
• Look at one or two examples of projects that
  include the use the Visual Ranking tool (15
  min.).
• Try out the tool (30 min.).
• Think about how you could use it in classroom
  projects.
• Use the Reflecting on Thinking Tools template
  (see resources).

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Activity 2 (cont.)

• Meet in groups of four.
• Brainstorm possible applications of this thinking
  tool in classroom projects (5 min.).
• Share your group's ideas with the class (10min.).
  
• For more examples Go to http//www.intel.com/edu
  cation/visualranking
• Click Enter, click Project Examples.

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Seeing Reason

• Benefits for Learners
• Simple to use
• Make thinking discussible and encourages verbal
  communication
• The Comments feature of the tool allows learners
  and teachers an easy way to communicate
• The sentence structure - designed to ensure
  accurate and consistent map reading.
• Supports logic, critical thinking and
  understanding across the curriculum
• Learners required to be precise in their
  identification of causal factors and the evidence
  
• Maps can easily be saved as image files
• insert them into other documents or
  presentations.
• Supports investigation that occurs in cycles of
  evidence gathering, map building, and reflecting.
• Benefits for Teachers
• Can view every version of each teams' maps to see
  the changes and progression
• A "Portfolio Folder" is available for teams to
  save maps at important project milestones
  identified by the teacher.

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Activity 3

• Work on your own.
• Look at one or two examples of projects that
  include the use the Seeing Reason tool (15 min.).
  
• Think about how you could use it in classroom
  projects.
• Use the Reflecting on Thinking Tools template
  (see resources).
• Try out the tool (30 min)
• Think about how you could use it in classroom
  projects.
• Use the Reflecting on Thinking Tools template
  (see resources).

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Activity 3 (cont.)

• Meet in groups of four.
• Brainstorm possible applications of this thinking
  tool in classroom projects (5min.).
• Share your group's ideas with the class (10min.).
  
• For more examples Go to http//www.intel.com/educ
  ation/seeingreason
• Click Enter, click Project Examples.

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Showing Evidence

• Learner Benefits
• Improves higher-order thinking skills.
• Encourages discussion and understanding of
  complex ideas.
• Allows interactive and dynamic visual
  representation of thinking.
• Learners are required to be precise in their
  identification, rating and explanation of
  evidence
• Teams can review another teams case
• strengthening students verbal argumentation
  skills.

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Showing Evidence

• Teacher Benefits
• Prompt teachers to shift to student-centered
  practices.
• Easy to set up and manage
• Teachers can view and print the work
• Teacher view the progression of learners thinking

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Activity 4

• Work on your own.
• Look at one or two examples of projects that
  include the use the Showing Evidence tool (15
  min.).
• Think about how you could use it in classroom
  projects.
• Use the Reflecting on Thinking Tools template
  (see resources).
• Try out the tool (30 min)
• Think about how you could use it in classroom
  projects.
• Use the Reflecting on Thinking Tools template
  (see resources).

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Activity 4 (cont.)

• Meet in groups of four.
• Brainstorm possible applications of this thinking
  tool in classroom projects (5 min.).
• Share your group's ideas with the class (10min.).

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Activity 5

• Implementing strategies
• Work on your own.
• Consider all the ideas that you have gained
  during this module.
• Pair and share, and discuss what changes you
  would like to make to your project.
• Open your project plan
• update the project to include the ideas that you
  know will enhance the project.
• Save your project plan.