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7/29/2019 Tune Up Your Curriculum

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inconceivable.


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From Chapter 7 ofCurriculum 21,

Tim Tyson writes:

As the school principal, I could now issue an unprecedented

challenge: "Students, if you do exemplary work, the very best

of the best, I will consider placing your work into global

distribution." This is a challenge that every educator should

offer students. Never before has such a possibility existed for

schools. Indeed, every person on the planet with Internetaccess has the capacity to see the work of Mabry students.

Students can have a global voice, can connect in meaningful

ways on a planetary scale.


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What Tim Tyson is suggesting is the exact

message ofUpgrade Your Curriculum:

Engagement and Learning go hand in hand

Student Centered work creates mental velcro

Amplification is crucial to Modern Preparation


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What does

this look like

in practice?


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How it begins:

New Audiences


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Learning

Extensions:

Beyond theclassroom

interaction.

Connections

to authors.


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Learning

Extension

InternationalCollaboration

Opportunity


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Amplification

creates

opportunities for

learning to become

a global

conversation.

This conversation

allows students towork for different

audiences, tasks,

and purposes,

while revising andediting based on

feedback from a

global cadre of

commenters, with

varying levels of


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Created a product.

Amplifies product on YouTube.

Discussion begins around potential

mistake.

Video not remade, but annotated.

Product launched new learning,

versus being end moment.


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Close Reading

Taking Ownership

Logic/Critical Thinking


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Original Work

Comment

Clarification

Revision


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We can create

Collaboratoriesof learning where all of the following can

be social, amplified, and invigorating for

students:

Reading Responding

Notating

Annotating

Collaborative Conclusion Making

Collaborative Projects

Writing

Presentations

Revising

Editing

Nuancing Content / Extending Content


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Storybird.com

Connections

Comment from

CEO

Response fromauthor to

commenters


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Link to Flat Classroom Project: http://fcp13-

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Social Construction of Meaning:

Pose Questions ~ Shared resources ~ Citations ~ Conversations


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