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Friday Links 6/7

This week there are several items I wanted to share with you.  Some because they are quality pieces and others just because they serve as a good reminder that not everything is new that is innovative.  Sometimes we need to re-examine what we have used previously and find ways to make it more effective.

The first article I really thought about excluding from the list completely because after my initial read through I realized that it is just a new name for something teachers have done for years. They are calling it crowdsourcing, but you may call it collaborative learning, or cooperative learning groups or something very similar.

Crowdsourcing in the Classroom

Crowdsourcing has become an important and simple way of solving challenging problems since the advent and evolvement of the Internet. Companies, scientists, charities etc. sometimes crowsource to acquire help from the crowd to get their difficult jobs done. But have you ever heard about crowdsourcing in classroom?
This next article is a topic that has come up several time recently and if you already use digital choice boards, maybe this will serve as a reminder to keep improving them.  Since I have run across this topic in multiple formats, I am going to share a few different resources for this topic to help you out.

5 Reasons to Use DIGITAL Choice Boards in the Classroom

5 Reasons to Use Digital Choice Boards in the Classroom: Personalize learning with digital choice boards and activities. Great way to integrate technology into the classroom while providing a rich learning experience for a variety of learners. Digital differentiation! Think of it like a hyperdoc or hyperslide :)
Here is link to an episode from the Shake Up Learning Podcast about choice boards to go along with the previous article.

‎Shake Up Learning Show: 8: The Teacher's Guide to Digital Choice Boards on Apple Podcasts

‎I have been a fan of choice boards (aka learning menus) since my first few years of teaching. I even shared some choice boards and ideas in my book, Shake Up Learning: Practical Ideas to Move Learning From Static to Dynamic. As a middle school language arts teacher, I began teaching the way I was...

The next link is to an article that is on a topic that is widely debated even though there is a mountain of research to show it is ineffective.  Ability grouping or tracking.  Read the article and let me know what you think.

Getting on the Right Track: How One School Stopped Tracking Students

Teaching Tolerance provides free resources to educators-teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners-who work with children from kindergarten through high school. Educators use our materials to supplement the curriculum, to inform their practices, and to create civil and inclusive school communities where children are respected, valued and welcome participants.


This article caught my attention since we are trying to continuously customize learning to meet the needs of all students and have been for years.  Worth reading, and I would love some feedback on this one.

NEPC Issues 'Red Flag Warning' on Personalized Learning -- THE Journal

A new report from the National Education Policy Center has suggested that the concept of personalized learning has been productized by technology companies in ways that 'can put important educational decisions in private hands and compromise the privacy of children and their teachers.'

Here are some of my favorite tweets for the week.



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