Category: assessment

  • Mapping Media is now Show What You Know with Media

    I’m pleased to announce my book series and digital literacy framework “Mapping Media to the Curriculum” (originally titled “Mapping Media to the Common Core“) officially has a new title: “Show What You Know with Media!” This title more clearly conveys the focus. While I love maps (including the Waldseemüller map) and still like my original metaphor,…

  • #WhatIf My Ideas on School Reform Become Reality?

    Thanks to Valerie Strauss’ post today on the #whatif Twitter meme responses to Arne Duncan, I realized something surprising and was encouraged to tweet some of the ideas for CONSTRUCTIVE education/school reform that have been marinating in my mind for many months.    by  stevegarfield  First of all, when viewing the lively #whatif twitter stream, I saw…

  • Show What You Know with Media

    I’m sharing a presentation on Thursday at the Miami Device” conference titled, “Help Students Show What They Know with Media.” My “Mapping Media to the Curriculum” website and eBook series are the primary referenced resource. Here are my slides: The official description of the session is: Tablets, smartphones and computers should not be used by students just…

  • Inspired by Ben Wilkoff’s 6 Second Stories for Learning

    This post is the first of a series of reflections on presentations I’ve watched that are part of the 2014 K-12 Online Conference. @k12online is a free, annual, pre-recorded video-based conference by educators, for educators. This year the conference strands were STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math),  Stories for Learning, Passion Driven Learning, and Gamification. I’ve…

  • Mastery Grid with Openly Licensed Icons

    I created the following “Mastery Grid” to use with my students in our STEM classroom today, using openly licensed icons I found with iconfinder.com (here and here). This is also available as a downloadable PDF. As our district continues to implement the “Marzano Teacher Leader Evaluation” (TLE) framework for Oklahoma, based on “The Art and…

  • Act Today to Encourage Teachers at Crutcho Public School

    I feel a lot like a member of the stringed quartet on the Titanic, playing away to soothe remaining passengers as the great ship sank. As I write posts (after school, of course) about my end-of-year student lessons launching water bottle rockets and completing a coordinate grid “orientation challenge” in MinecraftEDU, I’m confronted with multiple…

  • Why is Oklahoma Education Policy So Screwed Up?

    Oklahoma science teacher Lisa Seay, who I met at EdCampTulsa several weeks ago, asked a great question in a poignant post today titled, “Tattered, Torn and Tired.” She wrote: I have only been teaching 11 years. Maybe some of you can answer this: How did we get to this point? At what point in history…

  • Podcast395: Iowa Teachers & Librarians Discuss Mapping Media to the Curriculum (Lessons Learned)

    This audio podcast is a combined series of six, three minute “radio shows” created by teachers and teacher/librarians in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in the College Community School District on October 3, 2012. Participants in this two day workshop on “Mapping Media to the Common Core” with Wesley Fryer learned to facilitate lessons with student created-media including…

  • Podcast391: Voices from Mobile Learning 2012

    This podcast is a combined series of recordings created by participants in Wesley Fryer’s “Simple Ideas for Powerful Sharing” media scavenger hunt session at the Mobile Learning 2012 conference in Phoenix, Arizona, on April 12, 2012. These reflections were submitted as audio and video reflections in response to several questions provided in the media scavenger…

  • Unwrapping Common Core State Standards and Unit Planning (Deer Creek Public Schools)

    These are my notes from today’s professional development day with Deer Creek Public Schools (in Oklahoma) focused on understanding the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), learning to ‘unwrap’ the CCSS, creating a CCSS unit based on an existing ELA or math unit, and learning about resources for teachers/students to share for teaching/learning. This day was…