Educators guide

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Ideally, this page serves as a guide for parents, teachers and other students who are interested in leading students with the XO as a constructivist learning tool.

Workflow for lesson planning

Workflow for daily use

About the teaching aspects of the XO

Basics of constructivist learning theory

Rather than using teaching as a term because of the connotation of lecture-based or non-inquiry-based learning that can be associated with the term "teaching," a learning intervention can be used to described guiding a student to understanding.

Think of an intervention as a task where activities in context provide learners with an opportunity to discover and collaboratively construct meaning as the intervention unfolds.

With this mind shift, learners are each treated as unique individuals, and instructors act as facilitators rather than as teachers. Parents, siblings, classmates, other aged kids, any of these people can be facilitators.

Additional reading

Understanding why the XO is important to education

Creating or planning lessons that use the XO

Scenarios about extra practice on XO basics, based on age of child

(Look at LeapFrog's sample content)

Getting help with the XO

Getting help with the school server

Talking to other XO teachers

Classroom 2.0