Student-centered learning
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Description
Support the success of your students with tools and resources to help them be their best selves, share their voice, and collaborate. A student-centered classroom is built on student autonomy/agency, the artful facilitation of learning by the teacher and plenty of conversation between students and teachers about learning.
- 3a - Create experiences for learners to make positive, socially responsible contributions and exhibit empathetic behavior online that build relationships and community.
- 3b - Establish a learning culture that promotes curiosity and critical examination of online resources and fosters digital literacy and media fluency.
- 4a - Dedicate planning time to collaborate with colleagues to create authentic learning experiences that leverage technology.
- 4c - Use collaborative tools to expand students' authentic, real-world learning experiences by engaging virtually with experts, teams and students, locally and globally.
- 5a - Use technology to create, adapt and personalize learning experiences that foster independent learning and accommodate learner differences and needs.
- 5b - Design authentic learning activities that align with content area standards and use digital tools and resources to maximize active, deep learning.
- 6a - Foster a culture where students take ownership of their learning goals and outcomes in both independent and group settings.
- 6c - Create learning opportunities that challenge students to use a design process and computational thinking to innovate and solve problems.
Learning Path Outline
OneNote Class Notebook: A teacher's all-in-one notebook for students
OneNote Class Notebook provides a platform for teachers to prepare instructional materials and collaborate with students in an organized manner. In this part of the training, participants create a Class Notebook and begin building instructional content they can use with their students.
Crafting a collaborative learning environment with Class Teams
Microsoft Class Teams enables teachers to collaborate with students while seamlessly integrating assignments, assessments, and applications directly into the Team
Problem-Based Learning
Problem-based learning (PBL) has become an integral part of the 21st century classroom. When students are faced with solving ill-structured, open ended, messy problems, they are pushed to think more critically and work collaboratively. Many Microsoft tools help support problem-based learning. This course has been developed to help you understand what PBL is and how to plan and implement a problem-based-learning experience in your classroom.
Engage and Amplify with Flipgrid
In this course you will learn how to integrate Flipgrid into your classroom and explore Flipgrid ideas and resources from educators around the world. This course is designed for educators of all subject areas, early grades through higher education who want to empower student voice with Flipgrid. Upon completing this course, you will earn the ...
Digital storytelling with Microsoft Sway
By allowing teachers and students to focus on content and not worry about format, the Digital storytelling with Microsoft Sway course will show how Sway can be used to capture and share digital stories that need to be told in and around classroom activities.
