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Teachers looking for ideas to use technology to extend and expand their students' thinking skills can take advantage of a new, free professional development offering. Intel® Teach to the Future Workshops on Interactive Thinking Tools use a proven professional development model to introduce teachers to online resources for engaging students in activities that develop higher-order thinking skills.
The first workshop focuses on two interactive, online tools and related resources available on the Intel® Innovation in Education Web site. Seeing Reason helps students investigate cause-and-effect relationships in complex systems. Using an online mapping tool and workspace, students create a series of graphic representations that capture their understanding over time. Visual Ranking is a collection of resources for ranking and comparing lists in the classroom. Teachers and students discuss and collaborate as they use higher-order thinking skills to evaluate lists and organize ideas. Both Seeing Reason and Visual Ranking create new opportunities for teachers to take learning to a deeper level.
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Months of extensive research in computer graphics paid off this spring for a Cornell University senior who earned top honors and a US$5,000 prize in the Intel Student Research Contest (ISRC). For first-place winner Eugene Lee and the 18 other finalists from U.S. colleges and universities, the final round of the contest offered a chance to explain and defend their innovative research to a panel of technical experts from Intel during the two-day event in Oregon.
"The goals of the program are to stimulate student inventiveness and give students the experience of doing a small-scale research project," says Kimberly Sills, program manager for the ISRC. "It gives the students an opportunity to experience research, and possibly encourages them to pursue advanced degrees." Each student who reaches the final round of the contest is matched with an Intel technical adviser. Finalists also receive funding from Intel to support their research during the nine months leading up to the competition.
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As soon as students arrive for their first day of an after-school program at Sacaton Elementary School, they start to imagine themselves in a brand-new role: inventor. Bill Carey, a longtime science and math teacher at this school in the Gila River Indian Community south of Phoenix, Arizona, is facilitating the enrichment course based on Design and Discovery. The free curriculum, developed by Intel® Innovation in Education and available online, aims to interest students in design and engineering.
Carey begins by picking up a pair of wire cutters from one of the tables and reminding students, "Somebody invented this tool. You're going to become inventors, too. You're going to explore different materials, find out how things work, and dream up your own plans. Once you get an idea for your own product, you'll draw it, make it, and see if it works. By the end, you'll all make something neat—something that's your very own idea." More
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