CL Canvas Module

The intended audience are high school teachers engaging with or exploring Project Based Learning and how the Connected Learning Principles can guide their classroom instruction.

Connected Learning Principles guide 21st century learning. Students will explore the principles, examine case studies of how the principles have been utilized and will reflect on how the principles could be implemented into their classroom.

Collaborative Group Work: Students work in teams to develop problems, questions, solutions and outcomes. Students grouped intentionally and are accountable for their progress. Groups work around rich, meaningful tasks in the subject area.

Writing to Learn: Students develop their ideas and mastery through short written pieces. These written pieces can be used as formative assessments and low risk environments in which students can get feedback from peers and revise their ideas.

Questioning: Good questions are used to open conversations and further inquiry. Teachers use the strategy for students to investigate and analyze their thinking as well as the thinking of their peers. The mark of a highly engaged classroom is when students are asking thoughtful questions on their own initiative.

Classroom Talk: Students articulate their thinking to strengthen voices. Students become accustomed to talking in class and teacher serves as facilitator to engage students in higher levels of discourse. Teachers introduce and reinforce academic language and encourage students to use language in the classroom.

Literacy Groups: Literacy groups provide students with structures to understand complex text, data, documents and engaging them in high level discourse. Group roles and rounds drive literacy groups by giving each student a role to play and define their roles. The roles and guidelines of literacy groups vary along content areas and engage students through structures that probe meaning from texts or problem sets.

Teachers are encouraged to use their specific content standards to drive instruction. The Connected Learning Principles are guiding principles which all contents can utilize and strengthen learning in the 21st century classroom.

https://clalliance.org/why-connected-learning/

Interest Powered

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Visible/Peer Thinking

Padlet

Academically Oriented

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Padlet or Hypothesis

Production Centered

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Flipgram

Shared Purpose

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Respond to Flip Gram

Openly Networked

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PLN/Twitter

Peer Supported

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Visible/Peer Thinking