Making Thinking Visible: Using Online Tools to Initiate Teachers' and Students' Thinking.

This paper shares findings from a formative evaluation that explores a professional development program, Intel® Teach to the Future Workshop on Interactive Thinking Tools. The Workshop trains K-12 teachers how to use online tools with their students, which are designed to foster higher-order thinking skills, and combine technology and disciplinary content, with projectbased learning activities. We found that the range in project types that were developed demonstrated that teachers, like their students, are learners in the process of understanding the higher-order thinking skills and concepts targeted by the tools. This research has implications for in-service teachers, teacher educators, and student learning.