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cwjohnstone

Johnstone Change Project EDCI325 - 8 views

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    My outliner with links to resources for my change project.
Nathan Gingras

Educational Leadership:Giving Students Meaningful Work:Seven Essentials for Project-Bas... - 1 views

  • A project is meaningful if it fulfills two criteria. First, students must perceive the work as personally meaningful, as a task that matters and that they want to do well. Second, a meaningful project fulfills an educational purpose. Well-designed and well-implemented project-based learning is meaningful in both ways.
  • Teachers can powerfully activate students' need to know content by launching a project with an "entry event" that engages interest and initiates questioning. An entry event can be almost anything: a video, a lively discussion, a guest speaker, a field trip, or a piece of mock correspondence that sets up a scenario.
  • A good driving question captures the heart of the project in clear, compelling language, which gives students a sense of purpose and challenge.
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  • In terms of making a project feel meaningful to students, the more voice and choice, the better.
  • A project should give students opportunities to build such 21st century skills as collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and the use of technology, which will serve them well in the workplace and life. This exposure to authentic skills meets the second criterion for meaningful work—an important purpose. A teacher in a project-based learning environment explicitly teaches and assesses these skills and provides frequent opportunities for students to assess themselves.
  • Formalizing a process for feedback and revision during a project makes learning meaningful because it emphasizes that creating high-quality products and performances is an important purpose of the endeavor. Students need to learn that most people's first attempts don't result in high quality and that revision is a frequent feature of real-world work.
  • In addition to providing direct feedback, the teacher should coach students in using rubrics or other sets of criteria to critique one another's work. Teachers can arrange for experts or adult mentors to provide feedback, which is especially meaningful to students because of the source.
  • When students present their work to a real audience, they care more about its quality. Once again, it's "the more, the better" when it comes to authenticity. Students might replicate the kinds of tasks done by professionals—but even better, they might create real products that people outside school use.
Nathan Gingras

How to Reinvent Project Based Learning to Be More Meaningful | MindShift - 1 views

  • If PBL is to become a powerful, accepted model of instruction in the future, a vocabulary change may be in order — preferably to the term project based inquiry.
  • 1. Put PBL on a continuum of inquiry.
  • 2. Blend surface knowledge and deeper learning.
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  • 3. Start with a sophisticated student-centered culture.
  • 4. Make collaboration as powerful in school as it is in life.
  • 5. Understand that PBL cannot be done alone.
Chelsea Turley

SOPHIA and the Flipped Classroom - 0 views

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    This will be helpful for me as I continue my pitch for change project. However, if anyone else is interested in Flipped classroom resources- this looks like it could be helpful. 
Jen Reeve

Project Disco - 0 views

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    The Disruptive Competition Project (DisCo) is a project to promote disruptive innovation and competition to policymakers. Plenty of other groups in DC defend incumbent industries and protect the status quo; DisCo brings together experts to explain how disruptive change in the modern economy promotes growth and advances our society.
Emily Wood

TCEA Responds: Beginner's Guide to Classroom iPads * TechNotes Blog - 0 views

  • they can also amplify student voices and their creativity
  • ensure you have a case and screen protector for each device
  • Many school districts take advantage of mobile device management (MDM) solutions
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      We use Meraki
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  • remember to avoid being overly restrictive. Create a culture of care and learning
  • Ask three before me” to encourage students to become reliant on each other
  • Use consistent key phrases to control usage
  • Make posters that summarize guidelines
    • Emily Wood
       
      Just like your other classroom rules.
  • Clarify behaviors
    • Emily Wood
       
      Just like everything else you do the first 6 weeks of school. Do guided discover with the iPads and establish rules.
  • “Avoid focusing on apps…focus on what students can create using iPads
  • Instead, focus on projects that deepen reading and writing using blended media (e.g. video/audio)
  • One way to accomplish that includes changing the way you teach to present students with projects and problems that require collaboration, communication, and problem-solving.
    • Emily Wood
       
      PBL!
  • These are simple, powerful ways to engage students. Use them for everything to get students thinking and making their thinking visible. Looking for more ideas? When you are ready, explore Dr. Wesley Fryer’s iPad Media Camp, Playing with Media video collection, Greg Kulowiec’s app smashing concept, and Lisa Johnson’s (@techchef4u) website. Kathy Schrock has a few resources for you, too. When you’re ready to buy apps, let me know. Green screen is one area you need to investigate more.
    • Emily Wood
       
      So many more resources here.
  • Seesaw (Free):
  • This is the TOP, must-have app to have in your classroom.
    • Emily Wood
       
      I agree!
Cathy Knight

Diigo - Educational Leadership:How to Be a Change Agent:The Tug of War Between Change a... - 0 views

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    This was an amazing article that tied in perfectly with our other readings.
Michael Oquendo

Help! I'm a Teacher -- How Do I Get into Education Technology? | Deborah Chang - 1 views

  • Education technology companies need educators.
  • you may also be missing some knowledge and skills that would help you add value to an education technology company,
  • Being able to translate between education needs and technological needs is crucial.
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  • As a teacher, be curious about how money at your school is being allocated, why your school makes the purchases it makes, and how the purchasing process work.
  • planning events at your school, deliberately tweaking your classroom or school procedures to be more effective, and supporting other teachers in implementing education technology.
  • Make an effort to gain different perspectives by collaborating with teachers who teach in very different situations.
  • Identify a pain point in your classroom and try to solve it.
  • The more you try to solve problems using technology, the more comfortable you will get with technology and the more you're able to articulate what works and what doesn't.
  • Ultimately, working in the education technology space, whether as a leader in you school or as a member of a company, means contributing significantly to the practice of teaching and learning.
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    Steps to integrating technology into the classroom. Though this post focuses on ed tech companies, there are several ideas that could be used to integrate tech into the classroom.
jessvanorman

6 Qualities Every Teacher Leader Should Have - Leadership 360 - Education Week - 1 views

  • A learning facilitator offers professional development opportunities to colleagues, keeping learning relevant and focused on what is important in their classrooms.
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      I want to do this more- recently in our leadership's weekly memo I offered up a "Instagram How To" we'll see if anyone bites and actually wants to do it...
  • A catalyst for change have a strong commitment to continual improvement, holds the vision for improvement, and tend to ask questions that generate thought and movement forward.
  • A catalyst for change have a strong commitment to continual improvement, holds the vision for improvement, and tend to ask questions that generate thought and movement forward.
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      I feel I am a catalyst, but I often spin wheels when trying to make change. I will be more deliberate in my change project.
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  • Find and Develop Those Teacher Leaders
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      This seems to be where we are right now, our district is starting to embrace teacher leaders. They are finding and developing them.
mjheald

College Students Don't Know How To Research, Study Shows - 0 views

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    According to a new report released by Project Information Literacy, college students do not know how to research correctly. The study, which surveyed 8,353 students from 25 colleges, reports that 84 percent of respondents found "getting started" to be the hardest part of research projects.
Jen Reeve

Wi-Fi Zones and Hotspots - 0 views

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    More Wi-Fi Projects Take Shape Thanks to Collaboration with the VTA One of the most exciting services that we are delivering through the Vermont Digital Economy Project is the installation of Wi-Fi zones and hotspots in communities throughout the state. Our goal is to positively impact 25 towns with this...
Jen Reeve

About the Vermont Digital Economy Project - 0 views

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    This is a slideshare that explains how some towns have created free wifi within their towns.
Hannah Fjeld

ISTE 3: Teaching Research Using the Big6 Model - techy becky librarian - 1 views

  • surprisingly few number of schools have a comprehensive information literacy program. They found that many programs are “irregular, partial, and arbitrary” (Eisenberg, 2011, pg. 10)
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      Here's the problem.
  • incorporating the skills into the students’ classroom curriculum
    • Hannah Fjeld
       
      Collaboration and a cohesive approach is key.
  • super-speed lesson
    • Hannah Fjeld
       
      This is often the problem---when the model comes from the library and isn't the norm in all classrooms, it has to be presented super quickly and is not reinforced regularly.
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  • they will be lacking the ability to keep track of what they’ve found and (the hugely important task of) determining if the information is reliable
    • Hannah Fjeld
       
      scaffold these skills / have standard worksheets that students can use
  • Providing students will print handouts that help walk them through the final stages of Big6™.
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    Research paper/lesson plan from school librarian on a collaborative project to introduce the Big6 research process model to 6th grade. Reinforces the importance of 1. Teacher buy-in and 2. a comprehensive approach
rledwidge

11 Essentials for Excellent Digital Portfolios | Edutopia - 1 views

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    Great suggestions for keeping the relevance and reflection in portfolios, not just a summative dumping ground for projects.
Emily Wood

What does research really say about iPads in the classroom? | eSchool News - 0 views

  • would like to use iPads meaningfully in their classrooms, they can’t because of time, access, and training
  • very few of her school’s teachers were using iPads in the classroom beyond the usual Friday afternoon fun time and as a reward for being “good.”
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      This is the current use of our limited number of iPads.
  • time to “play” on the iPads
    • Emily Wood
       
      Free Space like the Heath's proposed in their book.
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  • Working with mentor teachers, we found that they had an assumption that young student teachers would naturally know the latest and greatest. The truth is that some do but many don’t, so training is essential!
  • They became models for the classroom teachers
  • All classes in our research site were inclusive with a diverse community of learners at every grade level including students with IEPs, 504 plans, autism spectrum disorders, and English language learners.
  • made the mistake of assuming the kids would immediately know how to use the technology in an appropriate way.
  • Success was more attributable to the fact that teachers who integrated iPads into their lessons tended to do more Project Based Learning (PBL), which has been found to improve student learning across grade levels (Cheu-Jay, 2015)
    • Emily Wood
       
      This fits one of my change visions from my destination postcard: more PBL!
  • the hard-to-reach, reluctant, oppositional Edwards all became engaged when introduced to opportunities that the iPad gave them.
  • students enjoy learning and stay more focused when using iPads
  • with a little hands-on support, created technology-rich lessons with a minimum of training or professional development. The bottom line was that when we mixed training with support we created a successful and innovative learning experience for teachers and their students.
pwarmack

Information Literacy and Librarian-Faculty Collaboration in Academic Library for Sustai... - 0 views

  • The ultimate goal is to make information literacy an integral part of the academic curriculum, thus helping students to succeed not only during their years in college but also for their lifelong career choices.
  • discussion about librarian-faculty collaboration for developing information literacy skills among the students are considered briefly.
  • ACRL further describes information literacy as abilities to: a. Determine the extent of information needed b. Access the needed information effectively and efficiently c. Evaluate information and its sources critically d. Incorporate selected information into one’s knowledge base e. Use information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose f. Understand the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information, and access and use information ethically and legally.
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  • That solution has two fundamental underpinnings: the first is that information literacy is an issue for every college and university; and the second is that librarians should occupy a position in attempts to define and achieve campus-wide information literacy.
  • While it is legitimate to use some of the information available on the web, students need to learn how to evaluate that information.
  • A study conducted by two researchers at the Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom found that 75% of the students surveyed used Google as their first port of call when locating information, with the university library catalogue used by only 10%.
  • In general, faculty members involved in the process were willing to collaborate with librarians who served as consultants, as instructors, and as team players in designing, teaching and implementing course assignmen
  • One particular model which has proven to be effective is course integrated instruction. With this model, librarians and teaching faculty co-design a course, and make sure that information literacy is incorporated in the course.
  • They not only sought to build short-term programmatic partnerships but more importantly, formal long-term working relationships with campus units, groups, departments and administrators.
  • “Integrating Literacy into the Liberal Arts College Curriculum.
  • launched a campaign to recruit faculty as partners in the process
  • took advantage of the liaison system already in place
  • Symposiums were organized for faculty and librarians to focus on assessment and science disciplines.
  • offered a workshop
  • More and more course-related or integrated instruction sessions have come to play a bigger role in making students more information literate.
  • Changing fee structures, student experience and access to digitized information on the internet, librarians have had to rethink their approach to teaching IL skills
  • McGuinness (2007) argues that librarians tend to act in a reactive manner to the needs of academics, rather than proactively to promote IL skills.
  • eads to ad hoc, short-term solutions designed only to address one or two issues.
  • dds that librarians should align their own goals of incorporating IL skills into the curriculum with the goals of academics and institutions to influence the power structures within institutions and help shape educational content.
  • highlights both the ambiguity around how IL should be taught, and the important role faculty awareness of IL and integration of library staff plays in integrating IL
  • unpack the “culture clash” between librarians and academics
  • cGuinness (2006) found that academics expected students to “learn by doing” through collaborative projects with peers and dissertation reports with occasional support from staff, without a clear sense of how students would develop critical and analytical IL skills
  • aculty also tended to believe that a student’s ability to gain IL skills were driven by the student’s own motivation, interests and innate abilities, rather than the quality and format of the available instructional opportunities
  • Multiple literacies, including digital, visual, textual, and technological, have now joined information literacy as crucial skills for this century”
  • These collaborative efforts have enabled librarians to encourage and support faculty in establishing learning priorities which will ensure that students be equipped with the competencies to become effective lifelong learners.
  • Only by establishing a successful partnership between librarians and faculty, can the goal of mastery of information literacy by students be accomplished.
  • The goal of librarian-faculty collaboration in integrating information literacy into the curriculum is to enable students to learn the skills and competencies needed for success during their life time
  • To make sure that everyone is able to become an educated, skilled, and information-literate person, librarians and faculty at institutions of higher education throughout the world will need to work together as partners to provide the education
Chelsea Turley

Why You Should Flip Your Classroom - 0 views

  • Teachers from around the world have adopted the model and are using it to teach
  • Flipping speaks the language of today's students
  • These students understand digital learning. To them, all we are doing is speaking their language
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  • busy students
  • flexibility
  • work ahead
  • work ahead
  • she did not miss any of the content in that class
  • science,
  • . Students are helping each other learn
  • s in a flipped classroom for
  • we spend most of our class walking around helping the students who struggle most
    • Chelsea Turley
       
      Special educators themselves will also have access to the lecture material 
  • science
  • Giving students the ability to pause their teachers is truly revolutionary.
  • We often move too fast for some students and too slowly for others
  • overall interaction increases: teacher-to-student, and student-to-student. Because the role of the teacher has changed from presenter of content to learning coach,
  • students with special needs can watch the videos as many times as they need to learn the materia
  • carry out meaningful activities instead of completing busywork.
  • Because we were not just standing and talking at kids, many of the classroom management problems evaporated.
  • . Because students are coming with the primary focus on learning, there are two real questions now: Is each student learning? If not, what can we do to help them learn? These are much more profound questions, and when we discuss them with parents, we move the focus to a place that will help parents understand how their students can become better learners.
  • As it turns out, many of them were watching right alongside their children and learning science
  • flipping opens the doors to our classrooms and allows the public in
  • prerecord a lesson for our students ahead of time when we knew we were going to be gone
  • in which students move through the material at their own pace.
  • flipped-mastery mode
  • Our journey has been a process that has occurred over several years, and we recommend that those interested in flipping make the change gradually.
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    This article gives reasons why to flip a classroom including reducing classroom management issues to differentiating instruction to all levels of students. 
Cally Flickinger

Shop | Quirky - 0 views

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    This is a NYC based operation created by one man in 2008.  They believe in helping people design solutions to problems they see around them.  Their focus is on household, environmental or societal changes.  They offer Thursday night sessions for people to come with ideas that they choose to take from ideas to completion and implementation.  
holly_esterline

Technology Integration Research Review: Avoiding Pitfalls | Edutopia - 0 views

  • Professional development should be job-embedded, linking technology usage to specific content standards and learners in teachers' classrooms, and should also provide technical support.
  • Successful schoolwide technology integration ultimately requires a schoolwide cultural shift
  • In explaining how people become digitally literate, breadth of use, experience, gender, and education are more important than generation
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  • Designing projects and systems that require or allow for collaboration is a key challenge for teachers who wish to integrate technology effectively.
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