What I Know About...
by Sara Scribner
1. Educational Theory and Practice
1.1. Bloom's Taxonomy
1.2. Differentiated learning
1.2.1. Scaffolding
1.2.2. SDAIE techniques
1.3. Meeting them where they are
1.4. Multiple Intelligences
1.4.1. New node
1.5. Backwards Planning
1.6. Project-Based Learning
1.6.1. Reggio Emilia
1.7. Four Stages of Competence
1.8. Social Development Theory
1.8.1. "ZPD"
1.9. Corporate-run charters
2. Curriculum and Accountability
2.1. data, data, data
2.2. CSTs
2.3. District "Benchmarks"
2.4. standards-based
2.5. depth vs. breadth
2.6. push toward making librarians accountable
2.7. "value-added" teacher evaluations
2.8. pressure on unions
2.9. closing the achievement gap
2.9.1. literacy support
2.10. movement away from inquiry-based learning
2.11. pacing plans
2.12. standardization of testing
3. 21st Century Skills (including information literacy)
3.1. Cooperative/Collaborative Teaching
3.2. wikis
3.2.1. New node
3.3. blogs
3.3.1. analyzing perspective -- who is an expert? who is an amateur?
3.4. database searching
3.4.1. Boolean/natural language
3.4.1.1. How to teach?
3.5. Internet research
3.5.1. Google
3.5.1.1. evaluation/authority