Day 2 Summary

Review assignments day 1
Revisiting those tough introspective questions

O' Brother Where art Thou opening scene

chain gang

innovating

getting your feet swept out from under you

being resilient

"My goal in life, which has been my major activity over the last 10 years, has been to find ways children can use this technology as a constructive medium to do things that no child could do before, to do things at a level of complexity that was not previously accessible to children." 

Seymour Papert "Child Power: Keys to the New Learning of the Digital Century 1998 www.papert.org/articles/Childpower.html

"Never worry about solving a problem. Just find the right person." - Marvin Minsky

Powerful words to live by.

"To Boldly Go" requires a sense of adventure."

Digital Citizenship

The challenges of our time

Recapping the challenges we used to have. To much:

music, tv, talk on the phone too much...

doodling in class

The new challenges of immersion: smart phones, social media
It's getting faster all the time
Imagine what smart phones will be able to do five years from now
"Denial of service is not educational." It doesn't serve kids needs.
Engagement on 'their' challenges in life.
Preparing them for their future and the challenges in it.
If the institution isn't ready... you can be in your classroom.
You can get the conversation escalated to be 'educational.'

Ryan Patrick Halligan Story

informational site

tips

Or just carry on with a conversation! No worries... it came back on ; )

Finding people, finding knowledge, and parsing

Twitter!

personal thread, hashtag searches (#edchat), and following others
A tremendous resource for personal and professional learning

Try searching for hashtags that interest you

ie. #photoshop

See who others are following!
Great way to fond resources
Build your PLN (personal learning network)

Complete guide to Twitter hashtags (lists many... but "complete"?

13 Twitter chats for educators

Search review: Build skills, find answers to...

Google Apps Overview:

gmail: rules, search, from: , to: , sent box searches, labels, filters

calendar: creating new calendars, sharing

collaborative editing

Inquiry and Perplexing Questions: Dan Meyer: CUE (full video embedded above)
'The tool effect'
Parsing volume for quality is the key... but keep trying some new things!

Finite resources <--------> Infinite tools

"What is your edtech mission statement?"

Boredom

Confusion
Capturing perplexity
Share perplexity
Resolve perplexity

RSS Feed introduction
https://feedly.com/i/welcome

subscribe to:
http://practicaltheory.org/blog/
http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/education/index.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/education/

What does ‘Digital Citizenship’ look like in your school? In your class?
What could it look like?

Your Project work

Strategy and planning: Research and collaboration

Day 1 Summary

Day One: Thursday 9/24/2015

4-8pm

Introductions and overview of the course

Your challenges in this course:

"Learning new."

Do, make, and create...

‘Tech’

Tommy Emmanuel Video, “The Band”

link to it on YouTube

The importance of "learning to play the bass line."

Get things moving, get some momentum and then build.

Tough for teachers to do sometimes!

The great Seymour Papert

Creating and Inventing

Hard fun

Taking risks and chances

Do, Make, Create: “Take off your teacher hat, and put on your learning hat.”

"Leonardo da Vinci tried to invent an airplane. If you look at his drawings, you see that he had some really good ideas—not that they would have worked. But I think that by looking at his drawings, you can see that if he had been able to experiment with those ideas, he would have seen the ways in which they didn't work and very likely would have made a successful airplane or participated in the making of the airplane in his time. However, he could not even begin that process because in order to do it, you needed a lot of technological infrastructure. You needed machine tools. You needed fuels. You needed some source of power. You needed materials. You needed a knowledge of physics."

-Seymour Papert "Child Power: Keys to the New Learning of the Digital Century 1998

www.papert.org/articles/Childpower.html 

The basis of our work:

Core values from the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia

Review Accounts:

Gmail

Multiple Intelligences: Howard Gardner

Group chat: Where do I you land on this chart? Why? Give evidence!
Are you the same as anyone near you?

Evidence, right? That we can (should?) teach in diverse ways.

The Student for a Day project
Do a web search for "student for a day project"
Multiple references, articles, journals, etc.

Seeing the schedule and day through the students eyes
Process and product vs 'learning, collaboration, and empathy.'

Design Thinking

Learning:

Breaking down big tasks into workflow
Teaching:

For whom am I designing? 'Empathize' is often looked over in "coverage vs depth" and "initative overload."

 

Spiral Curriculum: Jerome Bruner

The art of revisiting things and weaving goals together

 The Romeo and Juliet Story

 Review the important elements:

• Student ownership: "How can we reivew this story."
• Student choice: Write a paper, Audio tale (NPR style), or video. Whatever you chose last time you can't repeat. Must cycle through all three. Creates natural teaming and sharing of experience where 'the students become teachers.'
• Builds interdisciplinary thnking: Appeals to multiple different types of learners. Builds on strengths and weaknesses!

Dan Meyer Reference: Math class needs a makeover (TED)

Searching to learn: Searching the web

"... 101"

"Introduction to..."

Phrase based searching: tips to search using google

Search tips (from Lifehacker): quotes, exclusions using a minus sign, colon (inclusion).
Exploring ideas of how to use more search options with students... and personally!

"Always take time to sharpen your axe."

Wise person who has cut a lot of wood.

Reggio Approach Discussion (from class prep assignment)

Read: The 100 Languges of Children

The importance of "teaching children and not just subjects."

Revisiting this concept with multiple inteligences.

Independent Project Guidelines

This must be meaningful to you personally and / or to your work.
Group learning or Individual Learning
Think Tank Sessions: Walkabouts to chat over ideas.
Core Values: Inquiry, Research, Collaboration, Presentation, Reflection

Design Thinking Model
Class reflection / Presentation Gab

Reflection:
How can I create an 'emotional weather forecast' for my students?
Where do my students fall on Gardner's multiple intelligences?
How can my students have a voice in telling me? (aka maybe I don't have to do it all... and shouldn't!)

And finally, some tough introspective questions:

• What type o teacher am I? Do I tend to teach toward one or a couple disciplines?
• Is this because of how I learn best? Does it lean one way because of my subject / grade level?
• How can I build practices and ideas into my teaching to cater to different intelligences?

Tough questions!

Down the rabbit hole we go!