I want a new tag: ILD

Interactive Lesson Design.

I want to use the power of the global network to share ideas about Interactive Lesson Design. The broad notion of Interactive Lesson Design takes us beyond the hardware and software - it goes to the peopleware. Interactive lesson design is a concept dependent on teachers and students creating, collaborating, analyzing and synthesizing using formative assessment and student-centered activities that give students a leadership role in their own learning. Interactive Lesson Design brings concepts behind 21st Century teaching and learning into the daily classroom.

As you twitter, blog, skype about your interactive white board lessons or ideas, if you are getting at the heart of the matter - the student engagement in the learning process, use the ILD tag. How about it?

An Interactive Example

Here's what one page of a simple flipchart looks like. The page can be setup for use with activotes or activexpressions (or any personal response system device) that sends radio signals to the board and so each student can easily and/or anonymously. With these deviced every student participates - not just those who tend to raise their hand first. Students who do respond often and eagerly are joined by the rest of their classmates. That can be a good feeling. Discussions are richer and fuller. Another way lessons become student-centered is the way the iwb lesson lends itself to student participation and leadership at the board. Another bonus: the end result can be printed and handed out to students who may have missed the class.