ANESU teachers

This is one of our stops during the Australia trip.  New technologies enable museums to create learning experiences for teenagers where they can authentically research, create, communicate and collaborate. Museum Victoria is using 21st century communication technologies to support students to investigate the past, both online and onsite. This session will outline how two programs developed by Museum Victoria, Making History and 600 million years in 60 seconds, are transforming museum learning for 21st century learners. The new programs enable teenagers to collaborate with their peers, communicate their ideas, create new digital media and make sense of the world around them. 600 million years in 60 seconds is an onsite education program at Melbourne Museum where exhibition objects are the learning focus and ICT tools are used by students to communicate their understanding of key concepts. Making History is an online resource where experts share historical knowledge and experience as well as an online gallery that can host student generated digital histories.

This might be useful as we define teacher centered learning for the PD model in MALT.

Yes/No checklist for parents to assess teens readiness for high school

Teri and I got intrigued by the concept of a bank of iPads while we were at ISTE.  Here are a few things to consider.

Quiz maker/corrector in situations where many kids are answering the same questions with one correct answer.

Cheryl Lemke of Metiri Group's talk at ISTE. Marvelous background "stuff" for the importance of personalizing.

The city progress reports for high schools this year included new information about college readiness of students. As part of the chancellor's attempt to improve middle schools, the city should also start including a high school readiness index for students, a high school principal writes.

SuperSylvia has a wonderful series of videos where a young girl has her own makerspace, called mini maker show.

Potential for creating graphic organizer.  For digital backpack?

Thoughtful slide show at ISTE about personalizing learning. Lots to use here to let the faculty understand what we mean by the term.  Our own tech plan calls for a digital backpack (I didn't know that was a trademarked concept when I used it in the tech plan!)

read up on copyright rules, though

Woah!  Looks very cool.

7 lessons on concepts of proportional reasoning, ratio, and indirect measurement.  Recommended by middle school math specialist Heather.

Recommended by BES teacher Emily.  Fun!

Recommended by our own local expert Heidi, this site is filled with great ideas for Literacy stations in grades K-2.

I like Warlick, and Finland's educational system has been in the news a lot lately.