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Welcome
Wayne RESAInstructional Technology Leaders
• Welcome
• Information Sharing from RESA and MDE
• Update on changes in 21 Things for Students
• Sharing from the districts
• Creativity – an overview
• 10:15 am – Break
• Creativity – digging deeper and examples
• 11:30-12:30 – Lunch
• 12:30-1:30 – Breakout Sessions
• Creativity for Free - Carole Vettrus
• Creative Ways to Implement Mobile Devices in Your Network - Jeff Trudell
Today’s Agenda
Planning Group
• Mary Jane Mielke, Director of Instructional Technology, Wayne Westland
• Jeff Trudell, Technology Coordinator, Wyandotte
• Carole Vettrus, MS Technology Teacher, Riverview
• Lynn Wietecha, Technology Director, Dearborn Heights #7
• Anupam Chugh, Instructional Media & Technology Wayne RESA
• Carol Mayer, Instructional Technology Consultant, Wayne RESA
Goals
• Focus on the effective use of technology for teaching and learning.
• Create a professional learning community
• Share resources and best practices
• Provide a forum for instructional technology leaders to connect
Meetings• Oct 14, 2011 - Engaging Students
It’s Not Your Grandfather’s Classroom
• Dec 16, 2011 - Collaboration and Communication
• Feb 2, 2012 - Technology Breakout Sessions Joint Meeting with REMC Advisory Council
• Mar 30, 2012 - Digital Citizenship
• May 14, 2012 - Creativity
Meetings 2012 - 2013
• Friday, Sept 14, 2012
• Friday, Nov 9, 2012
• Friday, Jan 25, 2013
• Monday, Mar 4, 2013
• Friday, May 10, 2013
Meeting Resources
itl-wcresa.wikispaces.com
Local and State Updates
• Teacher evaluation systems showcase (May 11, 2012) – 6 vendors
• Moodle• Moodle 1.9 server will be gone after June 2012 - make sure you are
on the new Moodle 2.1 (running on moodle21.resa.net/xx website). Send all inquiries to [email protected].
• Moodle 2.1 demo and open lab day – July 17, 2012
• Upcoming PD (FREE)• NetTrekker-Digital Storytelling (# 4090) – May 21, 8:30-3:30• NetTrekker & Web 2.0 (# 4091) – May 24, 8:30-3:30
(These sessions are being hosted at Wayne RESA. To register, go to www.resa.net and click on the “Professional Development” link.)
Local and State Updates
• Michigan Learns Online Portal update• RESA scheduled to host a local content creation session on July
18-19, 2012
• MACUL grants• Technology Readiness Assessment (due by tomorrow)• 8th grade tech literacy reports due by June 30, 2012• Jeff Trudell – MACUL Initiative
Local and State Updates
Updates to 21 Things for Students Carolyn McCarthy, REMC Association
Creativity in the Classroom
http://tinyurl.com/itl-creativity
NETS for Students
Creativity and Innovation
Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students:
a. apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes
b. create original works as a means of personal or group expression
c. use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues
d. identify trends and forecast possibilities
NETS for Teachers
Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and CreativityTeachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning,
creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments.
Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and AssessmentsDesign or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.
Partnership for 21st Century Learning
Partnership for 21st Century Learning
Think Creatively•Use a wide range of idea creation techniques (such as brainstorming)•Create new and worthwhile ideas (both incremental and radical concepts)•Elaborate, refine, analyze and evaluate their own ideas in order to improve and maximize creative efforts
Work Creatively with Others•Develop, implement and communicate new ideas to others effectively •Be open and responsive to new and diverse perspectives; incorporate group input and feedback into the work•Demonstrate originality and inventiveness in work and understand the real world limits to adopting new ideas•View failure as an opportunity to learn; understand that creativity and innovation is a long-term, cyclical process of small successes and frequent mistakes
Implement Innovations•Act on creative ideas to make a tangible and useful contribution to the field in which the innovation will occur
Fostering Critical & Creative Thinking
Examples of Creativity in Teaching and Learning
• Angry Birds Project – Joe Hilliard• LiveBinders for student portfolios (example of senior portfolio)• Animoto (7th grade science example)• Google Sites (Interactive Periodic Table of Elements)
Students researched a particular element and created a web site about their element using Google Sites. Students included text, images, video/audio and links to other web sites. Each individual site was then linked to a central Red Team Periodic Table web site to create an interactive periodic table of elements.
• KidBlog - http://kidblog.org/ififthexplorers• Masher (alphabet example)• Fakebook - http://www.classtools.net/fb/home/page• Video Blocks (lab safety video)• QR Codes in the classroom (http://qr-codes.wikispaces.com/)
