Acknowledgments About the Authors Introduction: The Power of the Task 1. The Work of School A Task Is a Task Task Predicts Performance The Design Components of a Task Technology in a Working Model, or When Terri Met Sally (Ahem, John) The Powerful Task Rubric for Designing Student Work 2. Analyzing Learning With the Powerful Task Rubric One Content, Five Tasks Where Was the Power? 3. The Power of Engagement The Qualities of Engagement Interaction as Engagement A Task Is Powered Up 4. The Power of Academic Strategies It Starts on the Playground Strategies of Personal Response Identifying Similarities and Differences Summarizing and Note-Making Note-Taking Becomes Note-Making Reflection in Note-Making Nonlinguistic Representations Generating and Testing Hypotheses Reflection and Closure 5. The Power of the Question Where Does a Question Come From? See-Think-Wonder Where Do Teacher Questions Come From? How to Open a Question Technology and Questions 6. Engaged in What? The Power of Cognition Cognitive Demand Learning Through Accepting Meaning Thinking and Making Meaning Making Meaning on Top of Meaning Sliding Across the Cognitive Continua: A Hierarchy, Not a Sequence Math Cognition and the Task Rubric Encoding and Memory 7. Power Up: Using the Diagnostic Instrument to Analyze Learning The Diagnostic Instrument to Analyze Learning Premises and Research Behind the DIAL Using the DIAL Three DIAL Implementations Tips for the Tool 8. Putting It All Together Final Thoughts References Index
This book will help teachers use the Powerful Task Rubric using an easily digestible format to help them delve into the tool's design components. They'll be able to use technology to complete interactive tasks, and understand first-hand how technology is a critical design component in student task design that brings about more profound and relevant learning. It will also help them to identify opportunities for creating powerful tasks in the areas of engagement, academic strategies, questions, and cognition. Student performance has a direct correlation to the power of the learning task - this book will help positively impact both.