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Swanson, an elementary teacher and adjunct instructor who helps elementary teachers design meaningful, interactive curricula, and Ferguson, a middle school teacher, show teachers how to unleash students' superpowers of wondering (asking thoughtful questions), curating (synthesizing information from various sources to generate understanding and new ideas), connecting their perspective to those of others, digital intaking (creating digital text and media), designing solutions collaboratively, and gaming (motivating and energizing people to learn). They explain how to promote each superpower using instructional journeys, which include goals, student-friendly authentic learning problems, conceptual underpinnings, standards connections, learning activities and technology upgrades, assessments, differentiation ideas, and examples. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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Turn students into learning superheroes!Every student has superpowers hidden inside, and you hold the keys to unlock them. With this cutting-edge handbook, transform your classroom into a place where students don’t just get an education—they use their powers to create it. Discover specific, ready-to-use instructional journeys that foster an inquiry-based, student-driven learning environment. Each research-based journey: Supports one of the student superpowers: Wondering, Curating, Designing, Digital Inking, Gaming, and Connecting Helps students become deep thinkers as required by the CCSS Includes step-by-step lesson frameworks, aligned with the Common Core, that fit into your regular day
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