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05/29/2015
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Grant Wiggins on Twitter “Grant Wiggins, of brilliant mind and dearest heart, died yesterday. The world has lost a true champion of learning.Carry on the work.-Denise”
05/07/2015
We've overhauled our main online course in Understanding by Design, adding new features for both course takers as well as school and district supervisors. Check it out: https://www.authenticeducationonline.org !
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UbD 101 An introduction from Grant Wiggins to his new UbD101 course in Understanding by Design. Enroll today: https://www.authenticeducation.org/courses
02/10/2014
How might you use the tips Grant proposes in order to heighten student understanding?
Lectures, part 2 As I mentioned in Part 1, numerous attempts to improve the lecture have been proposed and implemented over the past 100 years. So much so that in some cases the “lecture” has disappeared – even if ...
11/06/2013
We are hiring! Please share!
Job (Washington): Math Curriculum Designer What will it take to make students jump out of bed and say, "I can't wait to get to school!" Authentic Education is looking for brilliant and passionate
08/12/2013
Authentic Education, is hiring GREAT designers! Join Grant Wiggins' team! http://www.authenticeducation.org/jumpoutofbed/
Authentic Education - Make Students Jump Out of Bed! Authentic Education is looking for brilliant and passionate educators to help us answer that question, then design the learning experiences to make the vision come alive. Currently, these positions are available: · Secondary ELA Learning Designer · Secondary Math Learning Designer · Secondary Soc...
Join in Milan, Italy - Sept 28-29th? www.authenticeducation.org
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05/16/2013
Thanks to participants in last night's webinar w & - To see the archive, https://smore.com/w955
An Open Webinar on the Common Core Design beautiful online flyers with Smore!
05/09/2013
Join for his next open webinar on the - https://smore.com/w955 May 16th 7pm EDT
An Open Webinar on the Common Core There has been a great deal of debate surrounding the Common Core Standards and Grant's recent blog post on the subject has been...
: new blog post: my defense of the Common Core: grantwiggins.wordpress.com
04/18/2013
Join for an open webinar on providing effective feedback - 4/29 @ 7pm EDT - https://www.smore.com/m0bw
Open Webinar on Feedback Click here to reserve a FREE TICKET for Grant's webinar on providing good feedback! During the webinar, we will explore ways to provide...
04/08/2013
Join and for a free Webinar on Essential Questions tomorrow night! https://smore.com/hnfr
Open Webinar on Essential Questions We're crowd-sourcing a list of the BEST Essential Questions to share with UbD Educators. What EQs have worked best with your students?...
03/13/2013
We hope you can join us for an open webinar on Essential Questions!
Open Webinar on Essential Questions Grant Wiggins, president of Authentic Education and world-renowned author of Understanding by Design, is hosting a series of free and...
Going to ? Stop by & say hello! will be hosting a 3-day pre conference & has 2 workshops scheduled as well.
03/08/2013
Thanks to everyone who was able to join us this evening! See you on April 9th for our next webinar on Essential Questions
Open Webinar on Design Thinking Join us online for this amazing, global conversation. Register here.
02/14/2013
will hold a webinar on 3/7 with & ! See details here: http://smore.com/05r3 & we hope you are able to join the conversation!
Open Webinar on Design Thinking Join us online for this amazing, global conversation. Register here.
01/25/2013
The first in a series of *FREE* education webinars led by will occur on Feb 5th -- Register now & join the conversation!! http://www.toledolearn.org/?p=440
Toledo Learn » Grant Wiggins 2013 Open Webinar Series Grant Wiggins 2013 Open Webinar SeriesPosted on January 15, 2013 by Kristen Swanson — No Comments ↓Grant Wiggins, President of Authentic Education and world-renowned co-author of Understanding by Design, will host a series of School-Leadership focused webinars beginning in February 2013.In the true ...
Join & for learning, discussion, & design this July! authenticeducation.org/events/upcomin…
Authentic Education's very own, Grant Wiggins, was nominated for an EduBlog award. Please cast your vote in support! - http://edublogawards.com/2012awards/most-influential-education-blog-post-of-2012/
Most Influential Education Blog Post of 2012 | The Edublog Awards Most Influential Education Blog Post of 2012Shortlisted Finalists4C in ELT – Academic reading circles (ARC)Angela Maiers – 12 Things Kids Want from Their TeachersBianca Hewes – Feedback, feed-forward, peer-assessment and project-based learningChia Suan Chong – Things students say that break my heart...
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11/29/2012
Authentic Education has begun to track our trainings throughout the world via this Google Map. Stay tuned for additional updates, coming soon! https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=213146576678502682138.0004cedb54bcca952a23e&msa=0&ll=28.921631,87.890625&spn=125.649129,266.132813
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11/28/2012
Check out Grant's latest blog posts here - http://grantwiggins.wordpress.com
Granted, but... thoughts on education by Grant Wiggins
Agendas for our 3 summer workshops are now up on our homepage, www.authenticeducation.org
Summer Institutes Flyers now up on the website
03/15/2011
Today's Shout-out
Authentic Education - Shout-Out to Verona Staff Members Today we are giving a personalized shout-out to 2 members of the Verona School District for their ongoing work in bringing UbD to their school district:
Also, we're thinking of doing a breakout session on "Teaching UbD" - a session for those putting together and teaching courses on UbD in higher Ed. Any UbD Professors interested in heading it up?
Let's Talk UbD by the Sea: Topic suggestions for the breakout sessions? What would you like to see?
03/05/2011
I saw the ad for Interrobang on various pages and clicked on it - a very cool system for student projects and public recognition.
Check it out: http://playinterrobang.com/about
?! InterroBang is a game in which you complete real-world missions to win prizes, learn problem solving and connect with others to change the world. It is for students, grades 6-12. In order to be eligible for prizes, students must register through their teachers or parents.
Ted Update #2 from Denise
Check out Denise's running blog on her time at the TED Conference. Thoughts on her two questions?
Authentic Education - Greetings from TED Greetings from TED! I'm here for my second TED conference in Palm Springs, the satellite location called TEDactive. I've already had great conversations with fascinating people, and I'll be filling you in on what's what for the next four days. My questions for the week are:- Given the work you do
02/28/2011
Great ideas from the Ny Times on how to use the daily paper to generate real problems and projects.
12 Ways to Use The Times to Develop Math Literacy Ideas for using The New York Times any day to foster math skills.
Check out my article in the new issue of Ed Leadership (March 2011) on why we should abolish the HS diploma as we know it, and 'design it backward' from the needs of adult life.
02/18/2011
Photos - UbD by the Sea
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