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Sample Questing Thread
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Deliverable Parameters
Student Learning Assessments
Reflection
Sample Questing Thread
Coda
Appendix A: Frequently Asked Questions
How Can I Help Administrators Understand My Pedagogical Choices?
How Can I Help My Students Learn to Self-Direct and Fully Participate in the Quest?
How Can I Help Parents See the Benefit of This Type of Instruction?
How Can I Better Manage My Time When Hosting a Quest?
How Do I Scaffold Quest Elements for Learners With Different Abilities?
How Do I Support Student Choices That Differ From My Own Design Opinions?
What Might My School Consider About Its Current Network Spaces?
About the Authors
Marie Alcock is president of Learning Systems Associates, founder of Tomorrow’s Education Network, and an educational consultant in the United States and internationally. Marie has worked in public and private education as a teacher, administrator, and public advocate since 1996. Her work focuses on the areas of curriculum, instruction, and assessment.
Marie is a member of the Curriculum21 faculty, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, and the American Educational Research Association. Marie coauthored Bold Moves for Schools: How We Create Remarkable Learning Environments and Mapping to the Core: Integrating the Common Core Standards Into Your Local School Curriculum—Planner and contributed to The Power of the Social Brain: Teaching, Learning, and Interdependent Thinking. Marie is also a contributing author to Solution Tree’s Contemporary Perspectives on Literacy series and has written a number of papers and articles about student mobility, innovative models of education, curriculum mapping, gaming in education, leadership, and organizational change.
Marie has a doctorate in philosophy from Walden University and a master’s degree in the art of education from Marygrove College, and she graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor of arts in social science from Castleton University.
To learn more about Marie’s work, visit Learning Systems Associates (www.lsalearning.com), or follow @mariealcock on Twitter.
Michael Fisher is an educational consultant and instructional coach working with schools and districts in the United States and internationally to facilitate curriculum upgrades, design curriculum, and modernize instruction with immersive technology. Previously, Michael taught a variety of grade levels and content areas, working primarily in middle schools.
Michael is a member of both the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) faculty and the Curriculum21 faculty. He is an active blogger who writes often for the blogs Curriculum21 and ASCD EDge. Michael is the author of Digital Learning Strategies: How Do I Assign and Assess 21st Century Work? and Ditch the Daily Lesson Plan: How Do I Plan for Meaningful Student Learning? and a coauthor of Upgrade Your Curriculum: Practical Ways to Transform Units and Engage Students. He is also a contributing author to Solution Tree’s Contemporary Perspectives on Literacy series and has written Hacking the Common Core: 10 Strategies for Amazing Learning in a Standardized World.
Michael holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and a master’s degree in English education from Buffalo State College. He also holds post-baccalaureate certificates in teaching science, language arts, and gifted students.
To learn more about Michael’s work, visit his website The Digigogy Collaborative (http://digigogy.com) or follow @fisher1000 on Twitter.
Allison Zmuda is a full-time educational consultant specializing in curriculum, instruction, and assessment. She works with clients in the United States and internationally to imagine learning experiences and design work that is relevant, meaningful, challenging, and appropriate. Previously, Allison taught high school social studies for eight years.
She has coauthored nine books, including Learning Personalized: The Evolution of the Contemporary Classroom; Real Engagement: How Do I Help My Students Become Motivated, Confident, and Self-Directed Learners?; and Students at the Center: Personalizing Learning With Habits of Mind. With Bena Kallick, she developed a series of online personalized learning courses.
Allison holds a master of arts in liberal studies in American studies from Wesleyan University and graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor of arts in American studies from Yale University.
To learn more about Allison’s work, follow @allison_zmuda on Twitter.
The authors invite you to their affinity space to share the things your students are learning by questing. Use the hashtag #Quest4Learning on Twitter to interact with the authors and other educators.
To book Marie Alcock, Michael Fisher, or Allison Zmuda for professional development, contact [email protected].
Foreword
By Heidi Hayes Jacobs
Fusion creates new energy, and the integrative force of Alcock, Fisher, and Zmuda in The Quest for Learning ignites innovative possibilities for learners and their teachers. But their fusion does more than that. It genuinely shifts pedagogy into fresh territory with regard to approach, time, and motivation. As educators at every level of learning ask, “How can we engage our right-now learners in meaningful queries?” this trio of authors takes a deep dive into this question with creative and powerful
