Lesson+Design+and+Assessment

Active Discussion Board This page has an active discussion board for you to discuss the different ideas, theories and strategies outlined below, and how they may be used in your own classrooms. Please also visit the sharing space below to share lesson ideas you need help modifying for a 1-1 environment.

Lesson Planning
Planning and designing lessons and units using the theoretical princples of constructivism and distributed cognition, intelligence and COPs are regular practice of teachers. Imagining how a laptop can facilitate this learning is sometiems more challenging. It requires the classroom and thus lesson plans to become more student-centered and projects to be less prescriptive. These approaches help students practice and hone the 21st Century skills that will be essential for their success in this rapidly changing world.

Assessment and Evaluation
=== One of the great challenges teachers using on-line collaborative environments report facing is an uncertainty of how exactly to mark work posted there. Creating criteria that are detailed a rigorous without stifling on-line discussion is one challenge. Supporting students to understand what appropriate responses in on-line discussions is another challenge. Finally, teachers needing to meet Ministry or IB requirements may find it difficult in collaborative learning environments to actually formatively and summatively asses their individual student’s understanding of content. In the last few years, as on-line learning environments have become more commonplace, there has been more research done on effective assessment of on-line learning environments and on the potential benefits of using on-line collaborative and constructivist tools to assess student understanding. We attempt to summarize this work for you in this section. ===


===**Resources for Educators ** === There are literally thousands of support resources for educators online these days. In addition, teachers can become members of larger communities of educators to share resources, challenges and successes online through edublogs, wikis, Nings and other COPs networks. this section highlights just a few of these wonderful resources which allow teachers themselves to participate in Legitimate Peripheral Participation and thus expand their own learning. Some sites listed in this section also allow teachers to connect with educators around the world to widen their own students' learning communities.

Sharing Space
This entirely editable page is a place where teachers can post their current lessons, units, projects and assessments and other educators can suggest ways they might incorporate not only technology but constructive and collaborative learning to acheieve the same curricular ends.