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Notes from Jamie McKenzie – January 18, 2008 [|http://FNO.org] http://fno.org/bio/biomaker.htm Biography maker – designed for upper elementary students http://fno.org/url5.html - Links that Jamie Referenced during his presentation http://questioning.org/jan05/whywonder.html When kids read information · Make up their own minds about what was important · They need to synthesize the ideas · Do we want scooped facts in a collection or original thought · Maybe we need a portion of a research paper to contain what the student thinks What is a thinker? How can a student spend time in school? · Generalizing · Memorizing · Creating · Incorporating · theorizing Proficient Readers · Inferring · Questioning · Picturing · Recalling prior knowledge · Synthesizing
 * Learning to Question to Wonder to Learn**

Lateral Thinking - http://www.edwdebono.com/ Edward Debono We don’t know what we don’t know.

http://questioning.org/nov05/puzzling.html Jamie’s example was to work with a partner to find out what kind of a man was Matthew Flinders. We opened inspiration to think of characteristics of a sea captain. Then through reading letters, we supported our ideas or discovered different characteristics of the person. Googlesearch for “Matthew Flinders” papers

http://www.jigzone.com/ How can a teacher use this site - not just doing a puzzle, but making it a learning experience – maybe use it as a springboard for questioning about images.
 * Learning with Images**

Images - http://fno.org/oct05/images.html This is the lesson we did with the portraits

Using images in education – we need critical thinking in a visual world – this should be part of our curriculum renewal · Visual literacy · Artistic literacy · Media literacy · Information literacy

Slam Dunk Lessons - http://fno.org/sum06/slamdunk.html SDLs fall into two categories: the Six Step Lesson and the NoTime Lesson. 1. **The Six Step Lesson** – This SDL offers six Web pages or six PowerPoint slides to structure a 30-40 minute learning experience. It may take several hours to build but it may be posted on line and shared globally. 2. **The NoTime Lesson** – This SDL is usually crafted on a single page and is designed to fit into a teacherÕs busy schedule, requiring just ten minutes on a Tuesday night to create a lesson to use Wednesday morning. It takes practically "no time at all" to build one. Each SDL includes developmentally appropriate but difficult assessment activities. The designer may incorporate items from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) requiring that a student construct an answer to an item rather than relying upon a multiple choice format. To this end, they may employ //The NAEP Questions Tool// at [|http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/itmrls/.]
 * Two Types of Slam Dunk Lessons**

Links http://zamzar.com/ - You can find a YouTube movie at home and copy the url to use it at school, or use this to convert the file.

Note – with curriculum renewal, should library curriculum be a separate curriculum or should the library “skills” be integrated into Language Arts (RELA), Social Studies, Science and Math Curriculums.