{"id":88,"date":"2020-10-20T16:17:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T20:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/nicolebrooksbank\/?p=88"},"modified":"2020-10-29T08:22:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T12:22:33","slug":"information-overload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/nicolebrooksbank\/2020\/10\/20\/information-overload\/","title":{"rendered":"Information overload"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Information overload has never been greater. Teachers are online looking for resources to support their student learning more than ever. We have Google, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, and likely 10-100 other places that are our go-tos when looking for information.<\/p>\n

When we all moved online last March, as my school\u2019s Teacher-Librarian, I took to the internet, like many fellow Librarians, and tried to curate resources for classroom teachers to support their research endeavors, specifically supporting creating learning content for a new online-teaching model. I created this Padlet <\/a>to support them, but who knows how much it was actually resourced.<\/p>\n

I am now in a unique position. I AM the classroom teacher. I\u2019ve switched gears big time and am teaching Math, Language, Science, History and Geography to an amazing group of grade 5 students. When I first found out I would be teaching grade 5, I went onto Instagram and started following relevant hashtags #fifthgrade #iteachfifth – which so far have been amazing. Just yesterday I was served up a neat post about \u201cFamous Fails\u201d. This teacher spends time each Monday highlighting some big failures of very successful people in history. The larger lesson of never-give up, FAIL mindset, etc. are clearly evident and valuable. It inspired me to take it a step further and have my students perform an inquiry on this subject matter. Instead of me researching new \u201cfailures\u201d every day\/week, I am motivating my students to explore this topic and then present their findings to the class. My slidedeck outlining this assignment can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anyways, the purpose of this post is twofold. I am curious how most educators find and curate resources to use in the classroom? Googling<\/a>? Is Twitter <\/a>your go-to? Instagram<\/a>? Teachers-Pay-Teachers? Is there a more efficient way to do this? What are your favourite sites for teachers?<\/p>\n

I am also interested in learning more about ASSESSMENT. I obviously studied assessment in teachers college and have a good foundation of understanding. However, I know I need to learn more. So what are people\u2019s go-to resources for being a better evaluator? The value of authentic feedback and how that moviates growth and learning is evident. Where can I learn more about providing authentic feedback?<\/p>\n

Thank you in advance! Can\u2019t wait to read about how you amazing people continue your learning.<\/p>\n

Photo by Christian Wiediger on Unsplash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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