The document discusses strategies for turning up higher-order thinking (H.E.A.T.) in the classroom through engaged learning, authentic tasks, and technology use. It emphasizes curiosity, questioning, choices, ownership, feedback, and transforming uses of technology to go beyond existing information. Authentic assessments and project-based learning are recommended using various digital tools and modes.
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Agency - bigger than choices (blue vs red) - empowers learner to have impact on their own learning - may not end up with the same end point - participatory impacting results - marching kids through content - common but does not allow kids to explore, make meaning
Perhaps the most important understanding here is that students are volunteers, whether we want them to be or not. Their attendance can be commanded, but their attention must be earned. Their compliance can be insisted on, but their commitment is under their own control. Schelcty