Tag: student achievement

• 5 Steps for Planning the Big Ideas in Education – with Pokemon Go

  Always start with the Big Ideas in education when you plan your days, weeks, units, and years.  Avoid starting with Pokemon Go. When you start with the technology, you risk gaps in learning – lest your practice become about the tool and not the curriculum for student achievement. Does this mean not to use Technologies […]

  Deborah McCallum; Big Ideas in Education

  July 27, 2016

  Big Ideas in Education, Pokemon Go

  Big Ideas, Big Ideas in Education, curriculum, Deborah McCallum, edtech, Inquiries, lesson planning, modern learning, Pokemon, Pokemon Go, PokemonGo, PokemonGoEdu, problem solving, student achievement, Student learning, Unit Planning, wicked problems

• Who Benefits from Collaboration & Does it Matter?

  

  Collaboration unfolds differently in different situations, yet more often than not, we make assumptions about the effects of collaboration in all settings and for all purposes. I recently read the following document entitled: Collaborative Overreach: Why collaboration probably isn’t key to the next phase of school reform by James Croft: http://www.cmre.org.uk/sites/default/files/Collaborative%20overreach.pdf According to this article, […]

  Deborah McCallum; Big Ideas in Education

  October 25, 2015

  Collaboration, school reform

  Big Ideas in Education, collaboration, Collaborative Overreach, education, James Croft, questions, student achievement