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WACLE 2009: Essential Questions

Digital World... Analog Schools

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Digital world - analog schoolsGroups will be asked to view one or more quotes about learning and change.

The poster quotes that you'll be viewing were found on Flickr at http://www.flickr.com/groups/858082@N25/pool/.  This pool has been gathered and/or created by Kathy Schrock, Darren Draper, Dean Shareski, David Warlick, Scott McLeod and others.  Most of the images can be re-used under a Creative Commons "Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0" licence, but check each image for specific licence details.

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Last Updated on Friday, 29 May 2009 05:32
 

McKenzie's Research Cycle

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Research cycleSince the mid-1990s, Jamie McKenzie has been developing and expanding on a research cycle based on essential questioning.  His strategy attempts to offer an alternative to the stereotypical topical research tasks in which the student is merely an information consumer collecting and regurgitating facts.  In McKenzie's research cycle, the intent is for the student to be an information producer.

The Research Cycle
http://www.fno.org/dec99/rcycle.html

Essential Questions
http://questioning.org/mar05/essential.html

Dimensions of Questioning
http://fno.org/feb04/questionpress.html

Essential Question Guide - from the Newspapers in Education Institute
 

Last Updated on Friday, 29 May 2009 11:00
 

The "New" Bloom's Taxonomy

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In the 1950s, Benjamin Bloom devised his "taxonomy" of activities and behaviours.  The taxonomy ranked those activities and behaviours on a continuum from lower order thinking to higher order thinking.  The taxonomy suggests that learning will best be supported by a variety of activities that encourage and support both lower and higher order thinking.

 

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