The HyperRubric: A Rubric for the Digital Age
I’ve long been a fan of Hyperdocs; a lesson-building format that focused on providing students with the resources they need to work at their own pace throughout a lesson or unit.
Hyperdocs also gives teachers the chance to provide supports for students in a lesson exactly when they need it most. The format works well in either virtual or blended learning environments, giving students control over the pace of the lesson.
With a bit of a different twist, there’s now the HyperRubric.
Think of it as a traditional rubric super-powered with examples and supports that will give students the resources they need to complete a task.
HyperRubrics can give help students answer the “why” behind what they are doing in a lesson rather than just the what. We’ve all had great lessons that students loved but at the end of the lesson, students can’t really express what they were supposed to be learning during the lesson, only remembering the cool stuff they did.
Using HyperRubrics can provide a focus for students and help teachers think critically about what supports students will need to achieve outcomes.
Mike Paul is an education technologist, teacher, blogger, and doctoral student based in Louisville, KY. He is a respected presenter and workshop facilitator on a variety of educational technology tools and pedagogies. Prior to entering the education world, Mike trained and supervised hundreds of employees in the retail technology & sales industry.
A Google Certified Innovator and Educator, Mike co-founded the popular Edcamp Kentucky professional development conference which has provided teacher-led training to hundreds of teachers since 2014. He helped start the #KyEdChat Twitter chat in 2013 as an undergraduate teaching student.
He is a Digital Learning Coach and maintains a daily blog at Pike Mall Tech with longer-form content at MikePaul.com.
He is a dad to one daughter and husband of one wife. He plans to retire one day and own a trinket shop in downtown Gatlinburg, Tennessee.