AISI 2011 Conference Presentation

1. Technology Mediated Student Engagement “If you always do what you’ve always done, you will always get what you always got.” Albert Einstein . Joan Coy PAVE FarouqHassanali PWA PWSD#76

3. Your educational role

4. What brought you to this session

6. Learning Theory

7. "All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem." (Martin Luther King Jr., 1926–1968.) PWSD staff and students talk about the blend of online and traditional approaches in the classroom. http://collaboration.pwsd76.ab.ca/mod/book/view.php?id=2778&chapterid=351

8. What do you think?

9. Disengagement Students are sometimes labeled as lazy, unmotivated, off-task, and disrespectful. We can do something about this!

10. 8 Setting the stage… A Metaphor with permission from Inquiry Learning Chris Toy

11. TWO WOLVES Adapted from A First Nations Story

12. An old chief and his grandson sat by a lake and talked about life. 10

13. “A fierce battle is raging inside me.” he told his grandson. “It is a terrible battle between two powerful wolves.”

14. “One wolf is bad - filled with negativity, judgementalism, arrogance, and closed mindedness”

15. “The other wolf is good - filled with courage, generosity, diligence, respect, and openness.”

16. “This battle is raging inside everyone.” “One wolf will win.”

17. The old chief’s grandson thought for a moment then asked... “But Grandfather,whichwolf will win?”

18. The old chief gazed at the lake, smiled and replied simply…

19. “The wolf you feed.”

20. The boy nodded, then asked, “But Grandfather, what happens when one wolf wins?”

21. The chief asked, “What do YOU think happens when one wolf wins the battle inside of us?”

22. The boy gazed at the surface of the lake, smiled, and exclaimed, “I know what happens!” 20

23. “We become that wolf.”

24. The chief smiled “Yes, each moment of our lives we decide which wolf to feed”

25. Which wolf are you feeding… At this moment?

26. Which wolf will you feed... Today?

27. Which wolf will you feed... this year?

28. Which wolf will you become?

29. “We must become the change we want to see in the world”-Mohandas Gandhi

31. persist despite challenges and obstacles.

32. take visible delight in accomplishing work.Wikipedia definition

33. One Simple Rule - Respect When students feel valued, honored, and respected, there is an interest and energy in the process of learning that reaches far beyond the content we teach. Isn’t that all anyone wants?

35. A clear connection to the purpose and use motivates learning.

37. To have thinkers and innovators we need to bring FUN into our classrooms complete with giggles and laughter, and enthusiasm.

39. Discuss with students what they already know.

40. Help students integrate their new experiences.

41. Peer assessments.

43. Flow - Measure of Student Engagement (http://austega.com/education/articles/flow.htm)

44. What we do matters

45. What do you think?

46. Student Engagement Students Talk about Learning Inquiry Learning Personal Responsibility for Learning Real Cooperation with Parents, Community Why use Inquiry Learning?

48. Students are encouraged to ask questions which are meaningful to them, and which do not necessarily have easy answers.

49. Teachers are encouraged to avoid giving answers when this is possible.

50. In any case, teachers avoid giving direct answers in favor of asking more questions. Wikipedia

52. Attention to work that is relevant, meaningful and authentic for students

53. Thoughtful, intentional designs for learning

54. Guide students from prior knowledge to new knowledge

57. Clarify expected outcomes and final product

58. Know and need to know list

59. Prior knowledge and content needed

60. Requires detailed look at project (beginning of unit)

61. Driving question

62. What to do

64. Roles and responsibilities of group members

65. Journals & scaffolding

66. Checks for understanding

67. Helps both learners & facilitators

68. Workshops (direct teaching)

69. Collaboration

70. Find strengths & weaknesses to produce best product

71. Presentation & celebration

74. How on-line courses support learning We will take you to a couple of the on-line courses and show some of the features of these Moodle courses we are finding very productive. Farouq – Math 8 (Example of collaborative glossary) http://ecommunity.pwsd76.ab.ca/course/view.php?id=530 Joan - Pure Math 30 http://ecommunity.pwsd76.ab.ca/course/view.php?id=452

76. three important features of inquiry Learning and Project Based Learning

77. Blend of on-line and classroom enriches resources easily available to students

78. On-line courses support assessment FOR and AS learning

79. help teacher guide effective differentiation

80. Respect efforts and encourage small successes so that the students know what praise and responsibility feel like so they’ll want more.

81. Questions?http://ecommunity.pwsd76.ab.ca/

82. http://www.teachanyware.ca/ Interested participants Moodle Mini Summit Our goal is to find a way to share courses so we are not ‘recreating the wheel’. Participants could upload courses to share to a common site. Participants could download fully editable courses they need from the common site Open Sharing – not ownership.

83. Moodlemoot 2011May 1 - 5, Edmonton Open Learning & Open Collaboration in Canada Call for proposals open until Feb 25, 2011 Early Bird Registration until Feb 27, 2011

84. Credits Slide 1 & 2 Clip art Slide 3 http://www.etsy.com/listing/19456793/curious-yellow-stained-glass-question Slide 4 http://stephenslighthouse.com/2010/02/26/the-learning-pyramid/ Slide 5 My Photo Slide 6,7 PWSD students FOIP clear Slides 8 to 27 With permission from Chris Toy http://christoy.net/ Slides 28 to 33 PWSD students FOIP clear Slide 34 http://austega.com/education/articles/flow.htm Slide 35, 36 PWSD Slide 37 Joan Coy joancoy@pwsd76.ab.ca Slide 43, 44 PWSD student work Slide 49 PWSD Slide 50 Adapted from Alberta Education Slide 51 With permission from Eric Merrill Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericmerrill/sets/72157616161194847/