Conversation with a student on "What is school about?" The answer: School is a place where you have to be good at being taught, but not good at learning.
The importance of finding out how your students learn in the first five days of school.
As a history teacher, he requested them to find a picture that shows American History as they see it. Tells them to google American History sites:edu to find more appropriate images. While they search, he watches to see how they find information, the lifeblood of learning for the year. Gather all the tools into one image to show the classroom community: google sites, docs, image collector, Pinterest, google maps (a wonderful tool). Put a pin on a google map of your image, then attach a picture to the pin. Dipity is a timeline tool that allows you to put content on the site, telling you when the images were placed. Ask the kids where the image took place, to learn what they know how to do.
The FFD should be embedded in critical thinking. Day 1 or 2 every kid needs to learn Diigo, for archiving information. (A perfect tool, single most important one for organizing info from the Internet.) you an highlight in Diigo and it will stay highlighted. The kids sign up under the teacher's account, then the teacher has all the things the kids have done when they are not in class. Teachers can sign up for the Education Edition, which is even better. It has a video tutorial. WATCH IT.
Third level of FFD: the creative. To document how a piece is created.
Site:ac.uk file type:ppt "American Revolution." assignment: find the differences in pov from American sites. Site:edu file type:ppt "American Revolution"
Day 5 - present a Skype debate with British kids about questions you cook up, and tell them it's going up on YouTube, it will be public.
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