Category: MCE – Microsoft Certified Educator

How strongly the learning activity offers opportunities to develop a given skill. How strong the learning activity is in terms of student engagement. How well a given skill is being taught in the learning activity. The degree to which the learning activity develops a given...

Are students required to construct and apply knowledge? Is that knowledge interdisciplinary? Are students required to construct knowledge, and make revisions based on feedback or self-assessment? Does the learning activity require solving authentic problems? And if students’ solutions are implemented in the real world? Are...

The quality of the students’ research as well as the quality of their thinking in relation to resistance was assessed as part of the final assessment of their spoken word poem The students analysed and evaluated a number of resistance spoken word poems, before synthesising...

In an activity where students are given the learning outcomes and assessment rubric during lesson 1. Then, students work out how they will carry out their project work for the next 6 lessons. In lesson 7, they present their work to the class. Code 1...

Consider the following activity: students investigate 2 or more online websites or games, and develop a presentation using Community Clips and Windows Movie Maker about Internet safety guidelines for parents and students to be aware of. Their product is handed in for a grade. Yes,...

Students design and execute a procedure for testing the qualities of the tap water at their school. They test the water and redesign the procedure iteratively until they have accurate data. Yes, because the students are working together to redesign the testing procedure Yes, because...

The teacher specifies a particular audience in the learning activity and the communication is created for that audience The communication is created for a particular audience and is seen by that audience The communication is published on the Internet which can be viewed by the...

Content knowledge, pedagogy, technology Curriculum and instruction, content knowledge, tech support Professional development, learning environments, curriculum and instruction, plus standards and assessment Learning environments, teaching methodologies, tech support Professional development, learning environments, curriculum and instruction, plus standards and assessment

Innovation requires the students to create something new. Innovation requires the students to convey their ideas to their peers. Innovation requires putting students’ ideas or solutions into practice in the real world. Innovation requires students to develop a new idea or solution. Innovation requires the...

In an activity where the learning activity’s main requirement is problem-solving and the problem is a real-world problem but students do not innovate. They are not required to implement their ideas in the real world, or to communicate their ideas to someone outside the academic...