Several teachers in secondary science have begun using an argumentative writing protocol called "Claim-Evidence-Reasoning", or "C-E-R". Students use this protocol to generate a claim about a particular issue or concept, then support their claim with evidence....
I have been working with students in the Dearborn Magnet High School and teacher Laurie Locascio to begin creating their digital My Learning Plans on Mahara, Dearborn's ePortfolio platform. Using the data and artifacts they have gathered over the past semesters,...
Over the past several years, the Biology Team at Edsel Ford High School (Lorraine O'Brien, David Mayoros, Christina West, Michael MacPherson, and this author) has been using iLearn, Dearborn's Moodle Courseware, to assess student understanding and make instructional...
This semester, several teachers have begun administering assessments on iLearn. One of these teachers is Ms. Kelley Murphy, science teacher at Bryant. Kelley uses iLearn to create quizzes that involve color pictures, drag-and-drop fill-in-the-blank questions, and...
This week, Woodworth Social Studies teacher Scott Apple and his students practiced their writing craft with an exercise on iLearn based on the Declaration of Independence. The iLearn workshop module used here incorporates several phases, through which students prepare...
Stout Middle School language arts teacher Marla Wiacek, together with co-teacher Nicole West and student teacher Ikram Alhassan, has begun using iLearn to help students learn writing skills in 7th grade language arts. Wiacek uses iLearn to make available an organized...