Guiding Questions: What are the learning goals set out by the IB organization for students taking IB courses in high school? What are ways IB teachers use technology to enhance learning?
Guest: Greg Moncada, STEM Coordinator for Bainbridge School District
Tips of the Week: Greg- IBO.org to get an overview of the progams. Look for blogs there was well. Mark- Linoit is a great collaborative corkboard tool that is great for sharing notes, resources and links around a topic. It offers some of the same advantages as something like Pinterest or Learni.st, but can also opportunities to discuss, through a series of post-it notes, along with the resources posted. You can also embed video clips, images, and links to documents. I’m looking forward to using this as a discussion board tool in my courses this spring.David- World War II Learning Pursuit web site. I created this web site to house all the information for my IB HL and SL classes when we studied WWII. It uses technology in the form of Google Docs and online mind maps to provide the mechanism for students to record, process and reflect upon their learning. The resources section of the site lists links to a wide assortment of media. At the end of the school year the Google Docs and mind maps for each unit of study formed the basis for the study guides that teams of students constructed in preparation for their exams. I really pushed the students to use a wide variety of skills to not only gather and curate information but to push them to answer the much bigger essential questions often by working together.