Thinking with Technology
Module 9 - Using the Showing Evidence Tool to Target Thinking Skills
Module 9 - Using the Showing Evidence Tool to Target Thinking Skills
Activity 9.4
Clarifying Project Ideas for Using Showing Evidence
Step 1: Reviewing the Needs of Your Project
Before determining a possible use for Showing Evidence Tool in your project, review your targeted higher-order thinking skills and assessment standards. Compare them with the thinking skills that would be supported by Showing Evidence.
Open your Project Plan.
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Review your "Thinking Skills / Habits of Learning Taxonomy."
- Review the assessment standards identified in your Project Plan and note those assessment standards that could benefit from the use of the Showing Evidence Tool. Look for
- analyze
- argument
- conjecture
- debate
- evaluate
- evidence
- hypothesis
- investigate
- persuade
- position
- premise
- social issue
- thesis
- other
| Note: In your search of the assessment standards, do not be limited by these key words. You may need to look for the hidden opportunities for higher-order thinking, especially if your assessment standards focus mainly on very specific knowledge-based tasks or understanding. |
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Review your learning objectives and identify which objectives could be supported by Showing Evidence. You may want to highlight them in your Project Plan.
- Consider how the learning objectives for the sample project descriptions would be supported through using Showing Evidence. Keep your assessment standards and objectives in mind as you think about your own project.
| Note: If you do not believe Showing Evidence is a good fit for your project, you can try out another idea for a different project. |
