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Essex Intel, Thinking With Technology Wiki, 2011


==Welcome to the Wiki for Our Intel® Teach Thinking with Technology Course! We will use this wiki to share ideas and share our finished products. Here is a quick link to the Intel Tools Site: ==

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==Here is the link for the Student Login Page you will need for our Thinking Tools exercises: == ==Click here == ==Create a new wiki page with your name in the title(AS IN KURCZAK, JANE). Here you will outline your ideas for a project that incorporates the use of one or more thinking tools(to complete the unit for Portland State University's credit requirement, you will need to address all three tools, but you can emphasize one over another). ==

**For February 14, add the following to your wiki page**:

 * 1) Type a brief summary of your ideas for an overall project. Include:
 * Your school, subject and grade level
 * The topic of the unit
 * The project idea—the real-world connections, role of the student, and a general idea of the overall project
 * Concerns, questions, and desired feedback
 * 1) Add to your wiki page in the upcoming modules as you develop your ideas.

**For February 21, read each person's description on the wiki page, and read the unit plan. Then add the following as a comment on the person's discussion page(wiki discussion tab)** :
1. Ask three questions about the person's unit.(think about its use of different habits of thinking--Bloom's,Marzano's,Kallick--and how it might use the Thinking Tools, any other ideas it suggests to you) 2. Note two "good things" about the unit-- 3. Make one suggestion or one helpful observation.

**For March 28, read each person's description on the wiki page, and read the unit plan. Then add the following as a comment on the person's discussion page(wiki discussion tab)** :
1. Make a comment or observation about the use of each Thinking Tool. These can be questions 2. Note two "good things" about the unit-- 3. Make one suggestion to help them finish the unit. Do these comments on each person's unit. Then: Finish the tools section of the Unit Plan and work to complete the next parts of the unit. Upload your current version to the wiki before you leave tonight. We will showcase units next week. Then the only meeting that may be necessary is to go over the process of sending them to PSU.