UNH Manchester, April 7, 2014

Resources

Slides

 

Activities

Chalk Talk

Zones of Comfort, Risk and Danger

 

Books

How People Learn — Available as free PDF online

The Art of Changing the Brain – James Zull

Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age – Sherry Turkle

 

Web Resources

Students at the Center Hub — TONS of resources!

Learner Sketch Tool

All Kinds of Minds

Student Centered Learning Implementation Matrix

Zone of Proximal Development – Vygotsky (Google it; there are plenty of examples and references)  My favorite images are in this article on Game Design.

ResearchILD – SMARTS

What Kids Can Do (WKCD.org)

Fires In the Mind  and Fires in the Mind on YouTube 

The Motivation Equation eBook

How Youth Learn: Ned’s Gr8 8

How to Get Motivated: A Guide for Defeating Procrastination 

OER Commons — Open Educational Resources

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) 

BeyondClassroom.org — Extended Learning Opportunities resources

 

Videos

Slip and slide video — “challenging achievement”

Making Learning Personalized & Customized — Teaching Channel video