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I. This lesson plan from Magic School seems very well aligned with the ISTE standard 1,7b for Global Collaborator: sharing multiple viewpoints through technology. Although my lesson plan did not involve the use of technology, it does involve teams and groups of students discussing multiple viewpoints of the story they have just read, and I hope to select an online tool to help make this meet that ISTE standard, perhaps Imagination Forest will work.  The Oklahoma standard 4.1s2 is met as students discuss their ideas about the story in diverse groups or teams. The lesson plan is very detailed about how each aspect of the lesson will meet the standards that I typed into the generator feature. It is broken into sections and labeled appropriately. The lesson offers great discussion starters for sharing that leads to critical thinking.  I especially liked the extension lesson of having the students collaboratively write a new ending to the story so they can dig into their own imag...

  “Fostering Student Creativity,” by Mark Gura (2020), calls for teachers to find more creative, if not artistic, ways to teach all their class subjects, at every age. “Creativity [is] the active ingredient in innovation…” he says (Gura, 2020, p.7).  He argues that “we need digital tools that truly support students in developing their creativity” (Gura, pg, 7).  Victor Rivero can help with that call in his article, “A Whole New Class of Art” (Rivero, 2020, p.12) where he pledges to help students find meaningful content through tools and platforms that can help them master any area of interest. His article is full of descriptions of truly exciting, creative learning platforms.  In reading some of these descriptions of online approaches to learning, one can see many opportunities for some of the learning strategies of Chapter 5 “Knowledge and Reason” from the book How People Learn II ( How People Learn II, 2018) . This chapter discusses powerful, researched ideas on ho...

  I.   Authentic Intellectual Work/Authentic Instruction & Assessment Authentic Intellectual Work (AIW) is a teaching framework that promotes students engaging more deeply with problems through inquiry to produce “authentic” and creative results that connect to real life situations and can help students become more successful citizens. Traditional classroom work is considered more a “series of contrived exercises necessary to earn credentials” ( Authentic Instruction and Assessment , pg. 2). This would include things like “spelling quizzes, laboratory exercises, or typical final exams” (pg. 5) that would only document the abilities of a student in a temporary way for a shallow, surface learning experience, with no connection to real life or the community they live in.          The components of AIW are (pg. 4): 1. Construction of Knowledge through organizing and interpreting prior knowledge to solve new problems. 2. ...