Agenda Welcome and Greetings Project Discussion and Q&A
Network Driven Inquiry: Technological Pedagogy in Action Break - 5
min Network Driven Inquiry Group Discussion Questions/Concerns-
5min
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Shifting FromShifting To Learning at schoolLearning
anytime/anywhere Teaching as a private eventTeaching as a public
collaborative practice Learning as passive participant Learning in
a participatory culture Learning as individuals Linear knowledge
Learning in a networked community Distributed knowledge
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What do we need to unlearn? Example: * I need to unlearn that
classrooms are physical spaces. * I need to unlearn that learning
is an event with a start and stop time to a lesson. The Empire
Strikes Back: LUKE: Master, moving stones around is one thing. This
is totally different. YODA: No! No different! Only different in
your mind. You must unlearn what you have learned.
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Let Go of Curriculum
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6 Free range learners Free-range learners choose how and what
they learn. Self-service is less expensive and more timely than the
alternative. Informal learning has no need for the busywork,
chrome, and bureaucracy that accompany typical classroom
instruction.
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FORMAL INFORMAL You go where the bus goesYou go where you
choose Jay Cross Internet Time
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MULTI-CHANNEL APPROACH SYNCHRONOUS ASYNCHRONOUS PEER TO PEER
WEBCAST Instant messenger forums f2f blogsphotoblogs vlogs wikis
folksonomies Conference rooms email Mailing lists CMS Community
platforms VoIP webcam podcasts PLE Worldbridges
Shifts focus of literacy from individual expression to
community involvement.
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TPCK Model There is a new model that helps us think about how
to develop technological pedagogical content knowledge. You can
learn more about this model at the website:
http://tpck.org/tpck/index.php?title=TPCK_-_Technological_Pedagogical_Content_Knowledge
http://tpck.org/tpck/index.php?title=TPCK_-_Technological_Pedagogical_Content_Knowledge
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9000 School 35,000 math and science teachers in 22 countries
How are teachers using technology in their instruction? Law, N.,
Pelgrum, W.J. & Plomp, T. (eds.) (2008). Pedagogy and ICT use
in schools around the world: Findings from the IEA SITES 2006
study. Hong Kong: CERC-Springer, the report presenting results for
22 educational systems participating in the IEA SITES 2006, was
released by Dr Hans Wagemaker, IEA Executive Director and Dr Nancy
Law, International Co-coordinator of the study. SITE 2006 IEA
Second Information Technology in Education Study
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Increased technology use does not lead to student learning.
Rather, effectiveness of technology use depended on teaching
approaches used in conjunction with the technology. How you
integrate matters- not just the technology alone. It needs to be
about the learning, not the technology. And you need to choose the
right tool for the task. As long as we see content, technology and
pedagogy as separate- technology will always be just an add on.
Findings
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See yourself as a curriculum designer owners of the curriculum
you teach. Honor creativity (yours first, then the students)
Repurpose the technology! Go beyond simple use and integration to
innovation! Teacher as Designer
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Spiral Not Linear Development Technology USE Mechanical
Technology Integrate Meaningful Technology Innovate Generative
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Shifts focus of literacy from individual expression to
community involvement.
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Connected Learning The computer connects the student to the
rest of the world Learning occurs through connections with other
learners Learning is based on conversation and interaction Stephen
Downes
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Connected Learner Scale This work is at which level(s) of the
connected learner scale? Explain. Share (Publish & Participate)
Connect (Comment and Cooperate) Remixing (building on the ideas of
others) Collaborate (Co-construction of knowledge and meaning)
Collective Action (Social Justice, Activism, Service Learning)
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Digital literacies Social networking Transliteracy Privacy
maintenance Identity management Creating content Organizing content
Reusing/repurposing content Filtering and selecting Self presenting
cc Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, 2010
http://www.mopocket.com/
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Have we replaced doing with mastering skills? Have we
subordinated our students initiative to a schedule we designed
according to pragmatic factors other than their creative needs? We
require them to try and become interested in hours of listening to
talking and there is little time for those students to express
themselves.
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Three Rules of Passion-based Teaching Move them from extrinsic
motivation to intrinsic motivation Help them learn self- government
and other- mindedness Shift your curriculum to include service
learning outcomes that address social justice issues 1.Authentic
task 2.Student Ownership 3.Connected Learning
http://bit.ly/lUxRIR
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21st Centurizing your Lesson Plans Step 1- Best Practice
Researchers at Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning
(McREL) have identified nine instructional strategies that are most
likely to improve student achievement across all content areas and
across all grade levels. These strategies are explained in the book
Classroom Instruction That Works by Robert Marzano, Debra
Pickering, and Jane Pollock. 1. Identifying similarities and
differences 2. Summarizing and note taking 3. Reinforcing effort
and providing recognition 4. Homework and practice 5. Nonlinguistic
representations 6. Cooperative learning 7. Setting objectives and
providing feedback 8. Generating and testing hypotheses 9. Cues,
questions, and advance organizersClassroom Instruction That
Works
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Bloom's Taxonomy Blooms Digitally By Andrew Churches
http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/file/view/bloom%27s+Digital+taxonomy+v2.12.pdf
http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/file/view/bloom%27s+Digital+taxonomy+v2.12.pdf
http://www.techlearning.com/shared/printableArticle.php?articleID=196605124
Andrew has embedded 21 st centurized verbs into the new levels of
Blooms taxonomy.
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Pick the Content Choose the Strategy Choose the Tool Create the
Learning Activity Use Shirky to Make it 21 st Century
---------------------------------------- 1. Get in groups 2. What
are the Essential Instructional Activities you typically use? 3.
Have a discussion and list possible Web 2.0 tools that fit nicely
with your disciplines essential instructional activities.Essential
Instructional Activities 4. Create a 21 st Century type
instructional activity Think: Share, Connect, Collaborate,
Collective Action
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How do you do it?-- TPCK and Understanding by Design There is a
new curriculum design model that helps us think about how to make
assessment part of learning. Assessment before, during, and after
instruction. Teacher and Students as Co-Curriculum Designers 1.What
do you want to know and be able to do at the end of this activity,
project, or lesson? 2.What evidence will you collect to prove
mastery? (What will you create or do) 3.What is the best way to
learn what you want to learn? 4.How are you making your learning
transparent? (connected learning)
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It is never just about content. Learners are trying to get
better at something. It is never just routine. It requires thinking
with what you know and pushing further. It is never just problem
solving. It also involves problem finding. Its not just about right
answers. It involves explanation and justification. It is not
emotionally flat. It involves curiosity, discovery, creativity, and
community. Its not in a vacuum. It involves methods, purposes, and
forms of one of more disciplines, situated in a social context.
David Perkins- Making Learning Whole 21 st Century Learning Check
List
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Academic Learning Time David Berliner Pace- Is each learner
actively engaged? Timing and delivery paced well? Focus Are
learning activities within core content aqnd aimed at helping them
get better at something? Stretch Are learners being optimally
challenged? Not too easy or difficult. Stickiness Is activity
designed such that it will stick and not be memorized and
forgotten?
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ASSESSMENT NEEDS TO CHANGE. WE KNOW THIS. Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach
21stcenturycollaborative. com NEW DIRECTIONS IN ASSESSMENT
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KWL What do you know about assessment in the 21 st Century? How
do you use formative assessment? What do you wonder?
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Shifting FromShifting To Learning at schoolLearning
anytime/anywhere Teaching as a private eventTeaching as a public
collaborative practice Learning as passive participant Learning in
a participatory culture Linear knowledgeDistributed knowledge
Learning as individualsLearning in a networked community Teacher
driven (teacher gives knowledge)Student driven (student constructs
knowledge) Summative assessmentFormative assessment Teacher is
expertStudents knowledge is valid starting point PassiveActive
Content driven (memorization and regurgitation of facts) Process
driven (analysis, exploration, synthesis)
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Shift from emphasis on teaching NEW DIRECTIONS IN ASSESSMENT TO
AN EMPHASIS ON CO-LEARNING
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Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach 21stcenturycollaborative. com NEW
DIRECTIONS IN ASSESSMENT Photo Credit
:http://www.annedavies.com/assessment_for_learning_tr_tjb.html
Shift From Shift To
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Summative vs. Formative assessment NEW DIRECTIONS IN ASSESSMENT
Summative assessment is commonly used to certify the amount that
individuals have learned and to provide an accountability measure.
Summative assessments hold teachers accountable for standardized
performance. They measure how well the teacher taught the
curriculum. Formative assessment, in which the assessment is
integrated with the instruction (and sometimes serves as the
instruction) with the purpose of deepening learning, can replace
summative assessment in many cases. Formative assessment measures
and supports learning, not teaching.
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Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach 21stcenturycollaborative. com NEW
DIRECTIONS IN ASSESSMENT Formative Assessment Can be used to: Gauge
students prior knowledge and readiness Encourage self-directed
learning Monitor progress Check for understanding Encourage
metacognition Create a culture of collaboration Increase learning
Provide diagnostic feedback about how to improve teaching
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Technological change is not additive, its ecological. A new
technology does not change something, it changes everything"
Source: Mark Treadwell - http://www.i-learnt.com [Neil
Postman]
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What does it look like? NEW DIRECTIONS IN ASSESSMENT
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Feedback Task -oriented- Provides information on how well the
task is being accomplished. Clarification- Looks at process. How to
improve the work. Self-regulating - Encourages learner to evaluate
their own work. Appreciation- specific praise linked to affective
growth. What makes a difference to student learning? Constant and
meaningful feedback -- The Student --Teacher relationship
--Challenging goals John Hattie, University of Auckland 2003
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Sheryl Nussbaum- Beach 21stcenturycollaborative.com NEW
DIRECTIONS IN ASSESSMENT Change is inevitable: Growth is optional
Change produces tension- it pushes us out of our comfort zone.
Creative tension- the force that comes into play at the moment we
acknowledge our vision is at odds with the current reality.
--Senge
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Evaluating Best Practice What do you look for during the walk
through? How do you tell the difference between chaos and 21 st
century best practice? Whats different? Whats shifted? Evidence
that an administrator may be able to observe in three minutes would
include: 1) the level of excitement in the classroom is it bubbly
excitement, which may indicate some novelty in using the
technology? or is it a humming excitement, which may indicate a
comfort with technology which is driving student motivation? 2) the
comfort level of the teacher with the technology is the teachers
use of the technology fluid or choppy? 3) teacher/student
collaboration does the teacher appear to be comfortable with having
the students in the drivers seat? 4) student motivation are the
students purpose-driven, using their time purposely to achieve
their goals? 5) authentic experiences could the lesson be conducted
just as well without the technology involved? NEW DIRECTIONS IN
ASSESSMENT
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Courage to Shift the way we teach and learn the art of release
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly
secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what
is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous
and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is
power. ~~Alan CohenAlan Cohen NEW DIRECTIONS IN ASSESSMENT
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Project-Based Learning Rigor without sacrificing excitement !
Credit: Some slides from George Lucas Foundation
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The biggest obstacle to school change is our memories. -- Dr.
Allen Glenn Obstacles
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Change We must be the change we want to see in the world. --
Mahatma Gandhi
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Project-Based Learning (PBL)
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What is Project-Based Learning? PBL is curriculum fueled and
standards based. PBL asks a question or poses a problem that ALL
students can answer. Concrete, hands-on experiences come together
during project- based learning. PBL allows students to investigate
issues and topics in real-world problems. PBL fosters abstract,
intellectual tasks to explore complex issues.
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How Does Project-Based Learning Work? Select and research
topic: Make sure the topic is of personal interest to you and the
students and that it is based on their needs and developmental
levels. Consult the state and local curriculum guides, teachers
editions of textbooks, trade books on the topic, and other expert
learners. Involve the children in planning. Identify
concepts/brainstorm topic: Identify key concepts or subtopics
related to the theme of the project. A semantic map is an excellent
way to visualize and brainstorm content related to a theme. Use
K-W-L with the children for their input about what they want to
know. Get ownership through their questions. Locate materials and
resources: Locate diverse materials and resources related to the
topic, i.e., childrens literature, films, manipulatives, music,
arts/crafts, resources, and people from your Web community. Utilize
diverse global perspectives. Plan learning experiences: Develop a
variety of learning experiences related to the topic. Include
hands-on activities using concrete objects. Plan for small and
large group activities, learning centers/stations, independent
research, exploration, problem-solving, using both
divergent/convergent learning activities.
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Use Internet resources and models when gathering materials and
planning learning experiences. Online Correspondence and Exchanges:
Involves setting up keypal (e-mail penpal) connections between your
students, their online peers, and subject matter experts (SMEs)
like scientists and engineers working in the field. Also includes
the formation of learning communities. Information Gathering: These
projects challenge students to use the Internet to collect,
analyze, compare, and reflect upon different sources of
information. Problem-Solving and Competitions: Online competitions
are projects through which students must use the Internet and other
sources to solve problems while competing with other classrooms.
Student created learning products are an outcome. WebQuests and
Treasure Hunts: Online learning activities in which students
explore and collect a body of online information and make sense of
it from an inquiry-driven approach. Online Conferencing: Students
use asynchronous and synchronous learning environments or audio or
video conferencing software to collaborate and complete various
project objectives
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Guidelines to PBL Continued Integrate content areas: Use a
webbing approach to organize concepts and activities into content
areas: the arts, sciences, social studies, mathematics, literature,
and technology. The goal is seamless integration of all content
area learning within the planned activities. Organize the learning
environment: Consider space, time, materials, learning experiences,
teacher/learner roles, methods of assessment and evaluation.
Initiate integrated/interdisciplinary study: Arouse students
curiosity and interest with stimulating introduction. Consider
visual display of theme as well as introductory activities.
Culminating activity: Bring closure to the theme by concluding with
an event. Incorporate parent involvement, collaboration with other
classes both in the school and the blogosphere, and allow students
to use technology to enhance learning and celebrate success!
Assessment and authentic evaluation: Use assessment and evaluation
which may include the following: kidwatching, observations,
anecdotal records, checklists, conferences, informal interviews,
rubrics and digital portfolios.
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Question Take a real-world topic and begin an in-depth
investigation Start with the Essential question(s). Have students
do a concept map with you around the topic. (You have already
created one during your planning) KWL Questions from group to
research
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Plan Plan which content standards will be addressed while
answering the question. (I start with my concept map, then I break
into a topic map, then I match standards) Involve students in the
questioning, planning, and project-building process. (I decide
which areas I will teach and then I put them in cooperative
learning groups of mixed ability and let them choice their area to
become experts) Teacher and students brainstorm activities that
support the inquiry.(I use a tic tac toe activity chart. Groups
will choose three to do.)
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Schedule Teacher and students design a timeline for project
components. Set benchmarks--Keep it simple and age- appropriate.
Learning contracts help with individual passions. Learning stations
help support exploration and discovery Schedule individual and
group meetings with you. Schedule initiating and culminating events
well in advanced.
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Monitor Facilitate the process. Mentor the process. Utilize
rubrics and peer assessment/relfections.
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Assess Make the assessment authentic. Know authentic assessment
will require more time and effort from the teacher. Vary the type
of assessment used. Electronic portfolios work well (video,
podcasts, and digital pics of work)
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Evaluate Take time to reflect, individually and as a group.
Share feelings and experiences. Discuss what worked well. Discuss
what needs change. Share ideas that will lead to new inquiries,
thus new projects.
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Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul,
impossibilities vanish. -- Jean de la Fontaine