Second Day: Intel

This module has helped me think about using standards and formative assessments in the following ways:

Focusing my teaching to give students a chance to reflect on less content

Using more formative assessments as a way to give students a better range of ways to foreground their understanding of the task at hand

First Day: Intel

A hectic but productive day that has required me to stretch a bit on a new platform.  It will get easier . . .

This module has made me think about my role as an instructional designer in the following ways:

I have technology challenges that I thought I left behind years ago--

It is much easier to think about my students' learning and my course components in increments shorter than an entire unit plan!  

My teaching is digressive and I have to leave room for this in the unit plan on Shakespeare.

The First Day of Summer School 2008

So, I am sitting here as Tom talks about how to set up a blog. Some of the internship kids are already posting--and it has been a fascinating read. What is happening with a number of these students is that they are finding themselves being taken seriously in the outside world for the first time. One student who is interning at The Miami Herald has discovered that people "hop to" when she phones and identifies herself as a reporter for a big city paper. Another student is finding reservoirs of energy and physical strength as she tackles the challenges of boot camp. Other students will write from locations throughout the world. This promises to be an amazing summer in terms of my access to the kids' reflections on their learning.