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TEACHER LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

Help teachers design curricula that fosters productive disciplinary engagement while

supporting the conventional literacies, numeracies, and academic knowledge for which

teachers are accountable.

Encourage teachers to reflect on their professional learning and practice without

overwhelming them, and provide support throughout the implementation process.

Practices within the Environment

Clearly communicate what we (don’t) know and how we know what we know

Guiding Principles

Knowledge shapes and �is shaped by participation

Learners must have strategies for interacting in a networked world

IUHS expands access to education beyond time �and space boundaries

Articulate what skills we possess and how to apply them in relevant ways

Develop and hone research strategies

Understand the historical, present, and future impact of content learned

Recognize academic import and practical application of course content

Utilize Internet, technological, & media tools to maximum capacity

Justify arguments & beliefs with relevant, reliable, & reasonable evidence

Build and sharpen information literacy skills

Learning Routines

identify, access, & use resources appropriately

exhibit accountability in accessing & sharing information

demonstrate authority in domains

problematize content-related issues

Expertise is unlocked

PDE, Engle (2002)

Design Features

Make reasonable demands on time, energy, & resources.

Practices within the Environment

Work and learn within the kinds of networked environments being created for students.

Guiding Principles

Encourage individual and collective agentic behavior in �participatory environments.

Promote adaptation �(rather than adoption) of pedagogical and curricular practices.

IUHS expands access to education beyond time and space boundaries

Seek & offer support throughout design and implementation.

Accommodate prevailing levels of student network access with modest levels of professional development.

Learning Routines

identify, access, & use resources appropriately

exhibit accountability in accessing & sharing information

demonstrate authority in domains

problematize content-related issues

Leverage networked technology to build and sustain an accessible, supportive learning community.

PDE, Engle (2002)

Design Features

Design curricula that fosters productive disciplinary engagement while supporting the conventional literacies, numeracies, and academic knowledge for which teachers are accountable.

Embed personal & collaborative reflection on professional learning in practice.

STUDENT LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

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TEACHER LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

Help teachers design curricula that fosters productive disciplinary engagement while

supporting the conventional literacies, numeracies, and academic knowledge for which

teachers are accountable.

Encourage teachers to reflect on their professional learning and practice without

overwhelming them, and provide support throughout the implementation process.

Practices within the Environment

Guiding Principles

Learning Routines

Design Features

Work and learn within the kinds of networked environments being created for students.

Encourage individual and collective agentic behavior in �participatory environments.

problematize content-related issues

  • Situate PD in student LMS
  • Experience design before they build�this is how students feel

Promote adaptation �(rather than adoption) of pedagogical and curricular practices.

demonstrate authority in domains

Design curricula that fosters productive disciplinary engagement while supporting the conventional literacies, numeracies, and academic knowledge for which teachers are accountable.

  • Outline a module on curriculum map
  • Design ^module using templates, strategies modeled in PD
  • Help each other troubleshoot�this is how students feel
  • Engage in low-stakes feedback conversations with peers & guides
  • Complete curriculum map
  • May delay module refinement until skills are developed further

Seek & offer support throughout design and implementation.

exhibit accountability in accessing & sharing information

Leverage networked technology to build and sustain an accessible, supportive learning community.

Embed personal & collaborative reflection on professional learning in practice.

  • Design a module in any sequence = lean into teacher interest & expertise
  • Introduce new tools intentionally; practice with peers
  • Make reason for modeling explicit �this is how students feel��^^ Repeat as needed ^^

Make reasonable demands on time, energy, & resources.

IUHS expands access to education beyond time and space boundaries

Accommodate prevailing levels of student network access with modest levels of professional development.

identify, access, & use resources appropriately

PDE, Engle (2002)

  • Design increasingly independently
  • Engage in feedback conversations with peers & guides
  • Follow curriculum map, update with permission
  • Refine draft designs
  • Justify choices; align to course description & standards
  • Teach using new skills, refine course & pedagogy in response to student needs��^^ Repeat as needed ^^

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Learning Routines

Help teachers design curricula that fosters productive disciplinary engagement while

supporting the conventional literacies, numeracies, and academic knowledge for which

teachers are accountable.

Encourage teachers to reflect on their professional learning and practice without

overwhelming them, and provide support throughout the implementation process.

STUDENT LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

Practices within the Environment

Guiding Principles

Assignment Type & Design Features

Clearly communicate what we (don’t) know and how we know what we know

Knowledge shapes and �is shaped by participation

Articulate what skills we possess and how to apply them in relevant ways

problematize content-related issues

Explore & Connect

  • Learn to learn in the LMS
  • Experience environment (accessing information, demonstrating understanding, engaging with instructor and peers) with low-stakes (i.e., low or no points) activities
  • Experience pedagogical strategies
  • Practice routines
  • Access, explore, find relevance �of content

Recognize academic import and practical application of course content

Justify arguments & beliefs with relevant, reliable, & reasonable evidence

exhibit accountability in accessing & sharing information

Expertise is unlocked

Think Aloud & Reflect

  • Investigation & application of content and concepts
  • Introduce new tools intentionally; practice with peers��^^ Repeat as needed ^^

Share, Comment, & Critique

  • Make claims in public-to-course forum (e.g., social annotation)
  • engage in formative feedback conversations with peers & instructor��^^ Repeat as needed ^^

Semi-synch Collaborations

IUHS expands access to education beyond time �and space boundaries

Utilize Internet, technological, & media tools to maximum capacity

Build and sharpen information literacy skills

identify, access, & use resources appropriately

PDE, Engle (2002)

Demonstrate Understandings

Learn in increasingly distal contexts & independent modes:

  • Self-formative-assessments (no points, low or no stakes)
  • Engage in feedback conversations with peers & instructor (low points, mid-stakes)��^^ Repeat as needed ^^

Informal/Immediate or Close

  • Demonstrate & reflect (consequential, critical, collaborative) on understanding (mid-points, mid-stakes)
  • Refine understanding through consequential, critical, & collaborative reflection (mid-points+, mid-stakes)��*Assess artifacts & reflections together��^^ Repeat as needed ^^

Semi-formal/Proximal

  • Justify claims, demonstrate mastery of standards, defend understanding
  • Learn using new skills, refine understanding in increasingly formal & distal contexts��^^ Repeat as needed ^^

Formal/Proximal or Distal

Learners must have strategies for interacting in a networked world

Develop and hone research strategies

demonstrate authority in domains

  • Initial, low-stakes practice with clear, strategic direct instruction
  • Introduce new tools slowly, strategically to target content & information literacy skills
  • Share insights, question content, find relevance
  • Engage in low-stakes feedback conversations with peers & instructors
  • Practice content
  • Develop & maintain participatory environment in which students can contribute when ready and know contributions will be valued by community

Engage with Concepts

Understand the historical, present, and future impact of content learned