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Image via Wikipedia When I work with students on the ‘Students as Learning Designers’ project we work together on a continuum of participation. Sometime the students creating things that just ask each other...
Read MoreImage by nikko russano* via Flickr The Wilderness Downtown an interactive video by the Arcade Fire and Google is why we are teaching kids to develop interactive things. Because they WILL be designers of interaction in the...
Read MoreFernandez, De Lera, Valverde and Almirall four user experience writers at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in Spain provided me with a small but highly relevant insight into the way we need to be thinking about designing for...
Read MoreCamden Haven_rich_taskstudent_rubric Image by Jordanhill School D&T Dept via Flickr The students at Camden Haven have just created a rubric to support their design process. This rubric is a remarkable thing for a group of...
Read MoreAsking student to come up with the big question or the big idea is really about helping them understand the link between outcomes and activities or assessments. Linking these big ideas to activities and concepts can be...
Read MoreI have trawled the internet looking for rubrics that get to the heart of assessing interaction. I would have even settled for something asssessing students interacting with each other but it doesn’t seem there is much out...
Read MoreIt can be difficult to come up with ideas that help the learner understand the ‘big idea’ you are trying to communicate with them. One strategy that can help is to build a scenario or a story and then reveal the...
Read MoreBecause it’s about what happens after we create. It’s about what we do with the creating…. A big part of this project has been coming to understand why the technology involved supports students metacognition. ...
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