Monica Hankins is a 5th grade teacher at Whitmore-Bolles. She attended the Dearborn Moodle Moot this summer, and began tinkering with iLearn (Moodle). Since then, she has created some pretty fantastic online learning experiences for her students, and her Moodle course is a model for elementary online classes across the district. When asked why she chooses…
With limited time and a (seemingly) unlimited number of standards to cover, the suggestion that teachers ought to encourage students to “keep trying until they get it” seems just a tad bit unrealistic. Waiting for every student that begins at any one of a range of starting points to achieve mastery of every standard would take months…
Take a look at one of the cool things that is going on in an elementary iLearn (Moodle) class in the district! At McCollough/Unis, students in Rola Harb’s 5th grade used iLearn(Moodle) to discuss the indentured servant system and whether they felt the system was fair. First, the students learned about the indentured servant system in a previous social…
These days, there are dozens of online tools to help students learn and teachers teach. With quick, fun formative assessment platforms like Kahoot and Poll Anywhere, to tutorial/drill-and-practice sites like Khan Academy and IXL, opportunities for learning abound in the virtual world. I recommend all of these sites for every teacher and student. Some of these tools are simple and…
If you’re a Dearborn teacher, you’ve heard of it many times. You’ve even been required to use it to complete some of your own professional development. But if you’re like many, you haven’t found the time to invest in it or seen how the benefits could possibly outweigh the costs of learning something so complicated. I’d…
Check out the latest guide created by the Tech Coaches to help you create a Moodle (iLearn) quiz. The guide is easily navigable and even features Tech Coach Tips with advice on creating and administering quizzes on iLearn. This Guide is just the latest in a series of help sheets available for teachers on the…
One of the many advantages to using Moodle (iLearn) in addition to the flexibility of the Quiz module (the number attempts, shuffling questions, inserting variables into numerical questions) is the wealth of usable data you can glean from each quiz. Bryant science teacher Kelley Murphy has begun analyzing this data to help students learn. Here is an…
First year teacher Ahmad Charara was assigned to teach Computer Applications at Lowrey Middle School this year. Fortunately, over the past several years, the Computer Applications course has been built on iLearn, Dearborn’s Moodle courseware–largely due to the work of former Lowrey teacher Denise Elliott. The course Ms. Elliott built is now being used across the…
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. Students then attempt to hold up their evidence with sound reasoning. Teachers use this protocol in many different activities…
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 labeling diagrams. Thus far, she has created assessments that not only fairly offer students the opportunity to demonstrate their mastery,…
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