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Register for a Making Thinking Visible Workshop in Santa Fe. See the attached flier for details. Our Dec. 1st workshop is now full, however we will be offering another April 27th, email nevada.benton@mandelainternationalschool.us if interested in attending.

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Please complete our feedback form & experience one more visible thinking routine for yourself. In addition,  take a minute to tell us how we did. We appreciate your time spent.

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MESD EdTech MIMSTE Visible Thinking Presentation Feedback Form 2018

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Thank you so much for attending our presentation! We hope that you have learned a thing or two to apply in your classroom!

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Using Technology to Encourage Visible Thinking 

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Using Technology to Encourage Visible Thinking 

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Here is our presentation for future reference.

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2018 MESD EdTech Using Technology to Encourage Visible Thinking (1)

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Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners - Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church, Karin Morrison

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Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners - Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church, Karin Morrison

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Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners

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A proven program for enhancing students thinking and comprehension abilities Visible Thinking is a research-based approach to teaching thinking, begun at Harvards Project Zero, that develops students thinking dispositions, while at the same time deepening their understanding of the topics they study.

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Word, Phrase, Sentence Thinking Routine Template

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Word, Phrase, Sentence Thinking Routine Template

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PADLET A Modest Proposal Word-Phrase-Sentence Thinking Routine

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Educating for Global Competence:
Preparing Our Youth
to Engage the World (Full Text)

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Educating for Global Competence: Preparing our Youth to Engage the World | Project Zero

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Educating for Global Competence: Preparing our Youth to Engage the World | Project Zero

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Veronica Boix Mansilla

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Swivl - Video observations that strengthen and inform teachers

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Easily record teacher AND student interactions for a holistic understanding of the classroom. With deeper insights, teachers are empowered to make meaningful changes in the classroom.

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PowerSchool Learning : Visible Thinking with Technology : Rethinking Thinking

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PowerSchool Learning : Visible Thinking with Technology : Rethinking Thinking

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PowerSchool Learning : Visible Thinking with Technology : Rethinking Thinking

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4 Free Web Tools for Student Portfolios | Edutopia

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4 Free Web Tools for Student Portfolios | Edutopia

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Other options for student portfolios

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I still have every single project I ever completed in preschool. My dad collected them and kept each one in a grocery bag that he tucked away in the back of his closet. Looking through his collection now, there's nothing incredibly prodigious about the work that I created as a four-year-old boy. I see doodles, collages, coloring pages and awkward attempts at writing my own name. Nevertheless, the story that it tells is special to me.

This is the effect of good portfolios. They craft a narrative of learning, growth and achievement over time. Though mine was created by my perceptive father, often the best portfolios are those put together by students themselves. And as our focus in the classroom continues to move toward performance-based assessment, the following four web tools will help you and your students to compose narratives as memorable of their learning as my paper bag portfolio did of mine.

Kidblog

Kidblog is unique among the web tools featured here because it is built by teachers for teachers. Their website explains that their mission is "to empower teachers to embrace the benefits of the coming digital revolution in education." And as students continue to become creators rather than simply consumers, Kidblog provides teachers with everything they need to help students create their digital portfolios safely. It gives teachers administrative control over student blogs and accounts. Though Kidblog is private by default, teachers can choose to make posts public or password-protected so that parents can view their students' blogs, too. But whether or not they access their child's blog, Kidblog gives mom and dad peace of mind as it is fully COPPA compliant and does not require any personal information from students.

Google Sites

If your school is fueled by Google Apps for Education, then using Google Sites to create student portfolios, or "Googlios," makes perfect sense. With Sites, students can create media-rich websites to display their work throughout the school year. By starting with a template and a site structure in place, students are able to integrate their work with other Google apps to create a comprehensive story of what they have learned. This obviously means that such apps as Slides, Blogger and YouTube integrate seamlessly. And as long as your students and you have Google Apps for Education accounts, you, as the teacher, have administrative control over who sees student sites and how they are used.

Evernote

For classrooms with BYOD or 1:1 initiatives in place, Evernote can serve as a viable option for creating student portfolios. For those unfamiliar with the app, think of Evernote as the Swiss Army knife of organization. In other words, it does just about everything. As opposed to a blog or website, Evernote allows students to write, take photos, record audio, upload content and more with the ability to tag items, create notebooks for organization and share content socially. Something else that makes Evernote so versatile is that it can sync across multiple computers and mobile devices. While students may start cataloguing content into their Evernote portfolio with an iPad at school, they can continue working on their entry from a laptop at home and vice versa. Additionally, Evernote offers a variety of apps, including Skitch for annotations, that all work great together. However, unlike other options, Evernote doesn't give teachers any way to moderate its use by students. Then again, unlike the alternatives, Evernote isn't publicly viewable, either.

Three Ring

A mobile app with a desktop version, Three Ring is worthy of consideration as well. As with Evernote, students can create and upload content from their own devices and tag, search and share their portfolios. However, what Three Ring offers that Evernote doesn't is teacher-created class accounts. In other words, teachers initiate the use of Three Ring in the classroom by creating classrooms within the teacher account and adding students to each class. Students can then access their teacher-monitored account with a username and password provided. Whether from an iOS or Android device or from a desktop or laptop computer, content can be added by the teacher or student and commented on by both. Three Ring even allows parents to view their students' accounts once linked by the teacher.

Regardless of the platform you choose, empowering and authenticating your students' learning with digital portfolios is a decision that you won't regret. Through providing them with web-based space to collect their own work, you will be helping them practice digital citizenship while simultaneously helping them learn important technology skills. But perhaps more importantly, like my dad did for me over 20 years ago, by connecting your students with their own digital portfolios, you will be allowing them to compose a narrative that will not only inform your own assessment of student growth and achievement, but will leave a legacy of learning and who they have become years after leaving your classroom.

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4 Free Web Tools for Student Portfolios | Edutopia

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I still have every single project I ever completed in preschool. My dad collected them and kept each one in a grocery bag that he tucked away in the back of his closet. Looking through his collection now, there's nothing incredibly prodigious about the work that I created as a four-year-old boy.

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Resources collected by Nevada Benton

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Creating Cultures of Thinking: The 8 Forces We Must Master to Truly Transform Our Schools - Ron Ritchhart

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Creating Cultures of Thinking: The 8 Forces We Must Master to Truly Transform Our Schools - Ron Ritchhart

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Creating Cultures of Thinking: The 8 Forces We Must Master to Truly Transform Our Schools

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Discover why and how schools must become places where thinking is valued, visible, and actively promoted As educators, parents, and citizens, we must settle for nothing less than environments that bring out the best in people, take learning to the next level, allow for great discoveries, and propel both the individual and the group forward into a lifetime of learning.

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An Overview of Ron Ritchhart's Keynote Talk at Project Zero Classroom 2012 - YouTube

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An Overview of Ron Ritchhart's Keynote Talk at Project Zero Classroom 2012 - YouTube

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An Overview of Ron Ritchhart's Keynote Talk at Project Zero Classroom 2012

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Carrie James

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How young people think about the moral and ethical dilemmas they encounter when they share and use online content and participate in online communities. Fresh from a party, a teen posts a photo on Facebook of a friend drinking a beer. A college student repurposes an article from Wikipedia for a paper.

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Disconnected: Youth, New Media, and the Ethics Gap | Project Zero

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Disconnected: Youth, New Media, and the Ethics Gap | Project Zero

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Carrie James

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Resource Summary

From the foreward:

Fresh from a party, a teen posts a photo on Facebook of a friend drinking a beer. A college student repurposes an article from Wikipedia for a paper. A group of players in a multiplayer online game routinely cheat new players by selling them worthless virtual accessories for high prices.

In Disconnected, Carrie James examines how young people and the adults in their lives think about these sorts of online dilemmas, describing ethical blind spots and disconnects. Drawing on extensive interviews with young people between the ages of 10 and 25, James explores the nature of their thinking about online privacy, property, and participation.

She discusses three ways that young people approach online activities. A teen might practice self-focused thinking, concerned mostly about consequences for herself; moral thinking, concerned about the consequences for people she knows; or ethical thinking, concerned about unknown individuals and larger communities. James finds, among other things, that youth are often blind to moral or ethical concerns about privacy; that attitudes toward property range from "what's theirs is theirs" to "free for all"; that hostile speech can be met with a belief that online content is "just a joke"; and that adults who are consulted about such dilemmas often emphasize personal safety issues over online ethics and citizenship. Considering ways to address the digital ethics gap, James offers a vision of conscientious connectivity, which involves ethical thinking skills but, perhaps more important, is marked by sensitivity to the dilemmas posed by online life, a motivation to wrestle with them, and a sense of moral agency that supports socially positive online actions. ISBN: 9780262028066

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Disconnected: Youth, New Media, and the Ethics Gap

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From the foreward: Fresh from a party, a teen posts a photo on Facebook of a friend drinking a beer. A college student repurposes an article from Wikipedia for a paper. A group of players in a multiplayer online game routinely cheat new players by selling them worthless virtual accessories for high prices.

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Carrie James is a Research Associate and Principal Investigator at Project Zero (PZ) and a Lecturer on Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. A sociologist by training, her research explores young people's digital, moral, and civic lives.

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Getting to Know Project Zero Work 2016 - PZ.pdf

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Getting to Know Project Zero Work 2016 - PZ.pdf

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Veronica Boix Mansilla - Global Competence - YouTube

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Veronica Boix Mansilla - Global Competence - YouTube

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Veronica Boix Mansilla - Global Competence

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Ron Ritchhart

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Ron Ritchhart

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The research behind Intellectual Character is the basis for much of my current work on creating cultures of thinking in classrooms and nurturing students thinking dispositions. In the book, I lay out the argument for why schools need to focus on developing students intellectual character and then look at classrooms where teachers effectively do so.

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Current Research Fronts, Activities, & Projects

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Current Research Fronts, Activities, & Projects

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Ron Ritchhart

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Current Research Fronts, Activities, & Projects

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Below you will find some of the current ideas, issues, problems, and projects that are occupying my thinking and my time.

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Welcome!

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Thanks to all the educators who have made Making Thinking Visible, written with Mark Church and Karin Morrison, one the top selling books in education over the last four years. It's amazing to see how these ideas have taken off all over the world.

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In this era of interconnection, disconnection, and rapid change, it is vitally important to offer young people opportunities to dialogue and build understandings with peers from different backgrounds. An initiative of Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Out of Eden Learn is a free online program for students aged 3-19 that has so far served over 30,000 students in 60 countries. On Out of Eden Learn's custom built, social media platform, students of similar ages from diverse geographical and socioeconomic settings come together for collective learning experiences.

Out of Eden Learn currently offers several 8-12-week long learning experiences, or "learning journeys," designed around three broad learning goals. All of the journeys combine offline activities with online interaction and invite young people to:

1. slow down to observe the world carefully and listen attentively to others;

2. exchange stories and perspectives with one another; and

3. make connections between their own lives and bigger human stories.

Out of Eden Learn began in 2013 as an experimental collaboration with journalist and National Geographic Fellow Paul Salopek, who is currently engaged in a 21,000-mile ' Out of Eden ' walk following the ancient pathways of human migration. It has evolved into a promising model for promoting thoughtful cross-cultural inquiry and exchange, drawing inspiration from the ways in which Salopek and other writers and artists interweave "slow journalism" and local and global storytelling.

Out of Eden Learn is also an active research project that examines such themes as students' conceptions of culture, the character of their online interactions, and what they learn when they slow down to observe the world closely. Read more about our research agenda in our white paper.

Student Participant Reflections

-Ashley, 10th grade student, Massachusetts, USA

-Cinderella, 11th grade student, Vancouver, Canada

Educator Participant Reflections

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In this era of interconnection, disconnection, and rapid change, it is vitally important to offer young people opportunities to dialogue and build understandings with peers from different backgrounds. An initiative of Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Out of Eden Learn is a free online program for students aged 3-19 that has so far served over 30,000 students in 60 countries.