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New Workshops Explain How to Use Online Tools
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 in the United States. 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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The Intel Teach to the Future Workshop on Seeing Reason and Visual Ranking introduces teachers to these powerful tools for student learning. The workshop also addresses questions about effective instructional strategies and management of online student projects. In a 12-hour workshop led by experienced instructors, participants have time to get comfortable with the technology and develop project plans ready for use in their classroom.
The Intel Teach to the Future Workshop on Seeing Reason and Visual Ranking is designed to help teachers:
- Prepare instructional strategies to increase opportunities for effective student collaboration, student-teacher interactions, and the inquiry process
- Understand the interactive thinking tools and their workspaces and how to manage a classroom project using an online environment
- Identify appropriate topics with which to use the interactive thinking tools in order to encourage discussion and understanding of complex ideas
- Create an instructional plan that will include one or more online projects that promote higher-order thinking skills, student learning objectives aligned to standards, and a strategy for assessing student work
- Return to the classroom prepared to effectively integrate the Seeing Reason and Visual Ranking interactive thinking tools into their classroom activities
The new workshops use the same professional development model that has made Intel Teach to the Future so successful. More than one million teachers worldwide have participated in the 40-hour Intel Teach to the Future Essentials Course focusing on effective technology integration to support project-based learning.
For Intel Teach to the Future veterans, the workshops allow for ongoing, follow-up professional development in technology integration. Teachers will recognize a familiar approach: hands-on learning in a technology lab, with Senior Trainers and Master Teachers leading their colleagues in a collaborative experience. Teachers develop instructional plans that relate directly to their classroom needs, including alignment with standards and assessment.
To learn more about signing up for Intel Teach to the Future Workshops on Interactive Thinking Tools in the United States, or to learn how to host a workshop in your community, visit http://www.intel.com/education/teach/.
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