Focus Group: Relating Digital Resources to Standards

Posted Fri, 10/15/2010 - 12:45pm by vangundy

MEETING INVITATION:

The National STEM Education Digital Library (NSDL) is in the process of examining and potentially redefining what it means to “align” digital learning resources to educational standards.  One current context for this work is the enhancement of our NSDL Math Common Core Collection (http://nsdl.org/browse/commcore/math/) and we foresee a similar initiative taking place as the Next-Generation Science Education Standards develop.

We need your expertise to discuss best ways to associate math and science education digital resources to new standards and to explore better ways to describe their usability in the K-12 classroom.

Please join us on Monday, October 18 from 10:00 am to 2:30 pm at the Foothills Laboratory campus of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO as a focus group participant to explore key questions related to identifying digital resource that support educational standards:

  • What criteria do expert educators use to judge the extent to which a digital learning object is adequate to support a given standard?
  • What methods for representing standards alignments are most meaningful to educators and administrators?
  • What information about a resource is most valuable to determining classroom utility and relationships to standards?
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Have you had this discussion with your users or colleagues?

Laura Moin and I will be sharing what we learn from the focus group on Monday to this space.  Have you already had similar discussions with your users or amongst your colleaues?  Share your findings and musings with us, please...

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