Chapter 1
Innovative and forward-thinking portfolio requirement for graduation.
What is the state of Rhode Island?
21st century means for generating ideas as well as reviewing current curricular practice.
What is Curriculum mapping software?
A central element in curriculum design and can be organized within disciplines or through interdisciplinary designs.
What is content?
It can be thought of in terms of three fundamental categories: institutional, instructional, and independent:
What is grouping in school?
It is enabled by the incredible power of networks to connect people.
What is social production?
To match the needs of learners to a world that is changing with great rapidity.
What is an educator?
Content, skills, and assessment are the basic elements of:
What is curriculum?
One of the most fascinating areas of science that is often neglected in terms of in-depth study.
What is astronomy?
It applies to activities that usually take place outside the school day and are voluntary in nature.
What is independent grouping?
Now an essential part of the experience of everyone under the age of 20.
What is Social networking technologies?
In New Jersey, three specific goals have been set to ensure that the new standards:
What is address global perspectives, employ 21st century digital and networking tools, and identify salient interdisciplinary linkages for real-world applications?
Active and deliberate examination of the curriculum is the essence of:
What is mapping?
To provoke thoughtful reconsideration of these concepts, selected facts, and knowledge in an upgrading review cycle, fundamental questions need to be asked:
What is essential and timeless, not essential or dated and created that is evident and necessary?
One of the most promising new forms of learning experiences that matches learning time with engaging and purposeful tasks, offers self-selection on the part of the learner and the teacher, and connects cyberspace with physical space.
What is Virtual Learning Magnet?
One of the first applications to be introduced to early computer adopters was a simple video game.
What is Pong?
Myths that shape our operational visions of school
What is "The good old days are still good enough, We're better off if we all think alike-and not too much, and Too much creativity is dangerous-and the arts are frills?"
A form used as evidence of learning reflecting progress or regress.
What is assessment?
Their focus is to question, to raise specific challenges, and to generate provocations, with the goal of upgrading and targeting content replacements based on strong principles and tenets.
What is Curriculum 21 content review team?
Skill groupings that are constant, Skill groupings that change in response to immediate needs, Cooperative groups, Competitive groups and Individualized work.
What is instructional grouping?
A software program that captures and reconstructs spaces in the social environment of the Web and registers collective memories created by hundreds or thousands of contributing photo streams to give us a highly contextualized view of what our world looks like.
What is Photosynth?
Four key program structures affect curriculum development by:
What is the schedule, the way we group our learners, personnel configurations, and the use of space?
The goal is to formally upgrade all three fundamental elements of the curriculum and reconsider the essential questions that bind and focus them.
What is mapping?
(1) cultivating instruction that fosters the ability to take in and receive meaning and insight from artwork and performance, and (2) the ability to express and generate meaning and insight through artwork and performance.
What is designing arts curriculum?
Gender, Age group—grade level, multi-age, Developmental spans—primary, elementary, junior high, middle school, upper school, high school, Function—general program, vocational, charter, magnet, specialty and Proficiency based—honors, remedial, special needs, varsity sports, advanced placement, arts performance classes, ELL
What is Institutional grouping?
The Mother science of the 20th century.
What is Physics?