You can drive student learning by creating a classroom environment where students thrive and learn. What does differentiated instruction look like in today's classroom? How can you manage project based learning and reach every student? TIC13 Dubuque, Iowa
2. Taking IT Global
Collaborative
Project Contest
First Place 2007
ISTE SIGTel
Online Learning
Award Winner 2007
Included in
The World is Flat v3
Thomas Friedman
Included in
Grown Up Digital
By Don Tapscott
4. Revigator
“Restores lost element of
radio-activity. Creates
cellular energy and
removes cellular
poisons.”
“Treats and cures
arthritis, flatulence, seni
lity, and poisoning.”
16. Learning capital
• Created when you pilot or implement new
technology programs.
• Invest in people who can and will teach
others to simulate vicarious learning
(opinion leaders.)
17. “ Rather than dealing
with each technology in isolation, we
would do better to take an ecological
approach, thinking about the
interrelationships among different
communication technologies, the
culture communities… the activities
they support.”
Confronting the Challenges of Participatory
Culture, McArthur Report
37. T h e C l a s s r o o m C a r
The Tools
(Framework)
Learning
Environment
(essential link)
Learning Styles
Interests
Readiness
Level
Content
Process
(engine)
1
2
3
4 5
7
6
38. T h e C l a s s r o o m C a r
The Tools
(Framework)
1
39. Assembling My Class Framework
2005 Social
Educational Network
(Ning & Blogging)
2005 Wiki
2006 Student Personal
Learning Network
(iGoogle)
2006 Audio File
creation
2006 Video creation
2006 Global
collaboration
2007 Virtual Worlds 2010 Apps / QR Codes
2011 Cloud Storage/
Paperless
T h e C l a s s r o o m C a r
X
48. Student PLN’s Include
a. Their List (Toodledo)
3. Personal
Learning
Network (PLN)
a – Their List “To Do”
49. Student PLN’s Include
a. Their List (Remember the Milk/ Toodledo)
b. Class Calendar (Google Cal)
3. Personal
Learning
Network (PLN)
b. Google Calendar
51. Student PLN’s Include
a. Their List (Remember the Milk/ Toodledo)
b. Class Calendar (Google Cal)
c. Links to Class Websites
3. Personal
Learning
Network (PLN)
c. Links to Class Websites
52. Student PLN’s Include
a. Their List (Remember the Milk/ Toodledo)
b. Class Calendar (Google Cal)
c. Links to Class Websites
d. Email
3. Personal
Learning
Network (PLN)
d. Email
53. Student PLN’s Include
a. Their List (Remember the Milk/ Toodledo)
b. Class Calendar (Google Cal)
c. Links to Class Websites
d. Email
e. Google Reader (RSS reader)
• Blogs
• Wiki changes
3. Personal
Learning
Network (PLN)
e. Google Reader
55. Do they understand visual
grammar?
• Storyboards
• Screen Shots
• Production Schedule
• Editing
• SoundTracks
• Copyright
56. ISTE Nets™ Standards
4. Technology communications tools
Students use telecommunications to
collaborate, publish, and interact with
peers, experts, and other audiences.
Students use a variety of media and formats to
communicate information and ideas effectively
to multiple audiences.
6. Collaborate Globally
57. Phase one - Intra-connection
(within your own class)
Phase two - Inter-connection
(within school/ district)
Phase three - Managed global
connection
Phase four - Student to Student
(With Teacher Management)
Phase five - Student to Student
(with Student Management)
Flattening
your
classroom
6. Collaborate
Globally
www.flatclassroombook.com
59. My virtual world “toolkit”
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• Open Sim (Reaction Grid)
• Jibe
• Creates a VW for use on computer
(with no “viewer” required)
• Android and iOS coming soon. Look at
this if you’re using ipads.
• Second Life
• I used this to learn but not w/ students
60. Google Sketchup
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http://sketchup.google.com/
62. Turbo Tour of Digiteen Island
http://digiteendreamteam.blogspot.com
63. #8 Apps / QR Codes
http://tinyurl.com/qr-code-guide
64. #8 Apps / QR Codes
QR Code Implementation Guide –
http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2011/05/qr-code-classroom-implementation-guide.html
65. #8 Apps / QR Codes
QR Code Implementation Guide –
http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2011/05/qr-code-classroom-implementation-guide.html
Firefox plug in
http://tinyurl.com/qr-code-guide
66. #9 Cloud Storage/ As
Paperless as Possible
Adobe Acrobat Pro
• Gmail
• Google Docs
• Google Sites
67. Assembling My Class Framework
2005 Social
Educational Network
(Ning & Blogging)
2005 Wiki
2006 Student Personal
Learning Network
(iGoogle)
2006 Audio File
creation
2006 Video creation
2006 Global
collaboration
2007 Virtual Worlds 2010 Apps / QR Codes
2011 Cloud Storage/
Paperless
T h e C l a s s r o o m C a r
X
100. Digital
Storytelling •Script Writer
•Call Sheets
•Production
Schedule
•Asst Director
•Camera
•Editing
•Lighting
•Storyboarding
•Scene Scout
•Scene set up
•Storyboarding
101. Digital
Storytelling •Script Writer
•Call Sheets
•Production
Schedule
•Asst Director
•Acting
•Presenting
•Lighting
•Flow &
movement
•Camera
•Editing
•Lighting
•Storyboarding
•Scene Scout
•Scene set up
•Storyboarding
102. Digital
Storytelling •Script Writer
•Call Sheets
•Production
Schedule
•Asst Director
•Acting
•Presenting
•Lighting
•Flow &
movement
•Camera
•Editing
•Lighting
•Storyboarding
•Audio Editing
•Music Selection
•Sound Capture
•Scene Scout
•Scene set up
•Storyboarding
103. Digital
Storytelling •Script Writer
•Call Sheets
•Production
Schedule
•Asst Director
•Acting
•Presenting
•Lighting
•Flow &
movement
•Camera
•Editing
•Lighting
•Storyboarding
•Audio Editing
•Music Selection
•Sound Capture
•Scene Scout
•Scene set up
•Storyboarding
•Acting
•Directing
•Movie Ideas
•Vision Casting
104. Digital
Storytelling •Script Writer
•Call Sheets
•Production
Schedule
•Asst Director
•Acting
•Presenting
•Lighting
•Flow &
movement
•Camera
•Editing
•Lighting
•Storyboarding
•Audio Editing
•Music Selection
•Sound Capture
•Scene Scout
•Scene set up
•Storyboarding
•Acting
•Directing
•Movie Ideas
•Vision Casting
•Reflecting
•Status Reporting
•Journal
process
•Ideas
105. Use Multiple Intelligences as a
Planning Tool
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Step 5: Choice
PLACES: Creating a physical environment conducive for learning p 171-173
SPACES: Designing Electronic Spaces for Choice p 173- 186
106. Voice Thread
quick project •Write comment
•Uploading
photos
•Organizing
presentation
•Posing •Photography
•Audio
•Music
•Nature/map
related photos
•Opinions on such
topics
•Social aspects
•AUDIENCE!
•Reflections
107. T h e C l a s s r o o m C a r
The Tools
(Framework)
Learning Styles
Interests
1
2
3
108.
109. T h e C l a s s r o o m C a r
Interests
3
•Hobbies
•Music
•Theater
•Sports
•Poetry
•Arts
•Public Speaking
•Reading
•Academics
•Themes!
•“Causes”
111. T h e C l a s s r o o m C a r
The Tools
(Framework)
Learning Styles
Interests
Readiness
Level
1
2
3
4
112. Readiness Level in Subject
During projects
spend 1:1 time
daily w/ student
Sit beside
Check off rubric
items with student
Not
quite
Ready
Specific Rubrics
Self Track Rubrics
Over the Shoulder
and Verbal
Reporting to
Teacher Daily
Ready
Mentors for others
Awards
(Hall of Fame)
Competitions w/
other classrooms
Make them “cool”
by teaching cool
stuff
More
than
Ready
More ways to
excel past
the “100”
113. T h e C l a s s r o o m C a r
The Tools
(Framework)
Learning Styles
Interests
Readiness
Level
Content
1
2
3
4 5
114. Content
Facts / Dates / Timelines/ Events / Definitions
Classtools.net, dipity.com
Flashcard Exchange, Quizlet,
Group document creation on Google Docs, Backchannels
CRAM App, Flashcard apps on mobile devices, Mobl21
Details /
Significant Individual
Wiki Group Projects
Link sharing (Diigo)
Fake Facebook (www.myfakewall.com)
Livebinders
Events
Opinion Question Blog Posts
Role Playing
Video search and embedding
Interviews of people who experienced it. (Video)
115. T h e C l a s s r o o m C a r
The Tools
(Framework)
Learning
Environment
(essential link)
Learning Styles
Interests
Readiness
Level
Content
1
2
3
4 5
6
116. “I never
teach my
pupils,
I only
provide the
conditions in
which they
can learn"
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117. Cooperative Groups
•Harnesses power of all
•Each has their own ID (and e-mail)
•Group cooperation, individual
contribution
Learning Centers
•Equipped workstation
(webcam, audio, headsets)
•Specialty centers
(scanner, digital film, tripod)
Choice Boards
•Wiki Assignments with choices
•Question of the week with choice of
text response (blog post), audio
response (podcast) or video
response (digital storytelling)
Class Rules
• Discuss Netiquette
• Student Contribution
• Safety
• Administrative Support for Rule
Breaking
Materials/ Supplies/
Resources
• Functional Equipment
• Textbook
• Consistent ACCESS
• Knowledgeable Teacher
Learning Environment
Pit Crew
Pit Crew
Pit Crew
Pit Crew
Pit Crew
Pit Crew
121. T h e C l a s s r o o m C a r
The Tools
(Framework)
Learning
Environment
(essential link)
Learning Styles
Interests
Readiness
Level
Content
Process
(engine)
1
2
3
4 5
7
6
123. What does the best education
in the world look like?
“What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart”
The Wall Street Journal
By ELLEN GAMERMAN
February 2008
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126. Process
managementStart
blogging
Teach how to
Embed video
Weekly blog
Post with researchMonitoring
Peer review Admin
involvment
Weekly
voting
Comments
Plan Next
Step
Curricular
Involvement
Sample Teacher Flow Chart for embedding the framework
129. Cooperative Groups
•Harnesses power of all
•Each has their own ID (and e-mail)
•Group cooperation, individual
contribution
Learning Centers
•Equipped workstation
(webcam, audio, headsets)
•Specialty centers
(scanner, digital film, tripod)
Choice Boards
•Wiki Assignments with choices
•Question of the week with choice of
text response (blog post), audio
response (podcast) or video
response (digital storytelling)
Class Rules
• Discuss Netiquette
• Student Contribution
• Safety
• Administrative Support for Rule
Breaking
Materials/ Supplies/
Resources
• Functional Equipment
• Textbook
• Consistent ACCESS
• Knowledgeable Teacher
Learning Environment
Pit Crew
Pit Crew
Pit Crew
Pit Crew
Pit Crew
Pit Crew
Today we’re going to talk about Driving Educational Excellence with TechnologyDifferentiated Instruction and Assessment with Technology Vicki Davis 5013 Spotlight Take a look at learning styles and today's most current Web 2.0 tools to understand what differentiation looks like in a technology enhanced classroom. Learn about the classroom structure that will reach all learners. Madera Wyndham Hotel
Classroom teacher. Some people know me as
, ”poster child for the beginner” Like my youngest son, who has just learned to read, I’m a relative newcomer to these technologies. In November 2005, I attended the
Georgia Educators Technology Conference in Atlanta with a commission from my curriculum director to bring technologies back to my classroom that would enable me to betterfacilitiate
Research based best practices such as
Authentic assessment
Cooperative Learning and
Project based learning. I must admit, I felt a little like this (pause)
Pause for them to get it.
And that is what I suggest for you to do today. Your assignment for this webinar today is to come up with your “Big Three” at the end of the webinar. Pick three things – start there!
In the 1920’s and 30’s radioactivity was “all the rage” and everyone assumed because springwater was radioactive that it must be good for you – so here comes the revigator. This revigator cured all kinds of things including arthritis, flatulence, senility, and poisoning. Over 200,000 people bought this clay pot lined with radioactive clay.
However when a team of researchers studied this, they found toxic levels of many chemicals including arsenic and lead from the pure lead spout!
But understand this – there is only one person you can control in your district and that person, my friends is YOU!
But, remember just as this child is climbing a very high rock climbing wall – that there are safe ways to do what some consider dangerous. This is being done. Get past the fear and learn vicariously through others by reading their blogs and watching their videos at the k12 online conference to let them prove it to you. If you’re a technology phobic person remember that you become like who you hang around – start letting yourself learn from what others are doing to move forward your creativity – you may also find that you’ll save money!
The technology misconception is that it is not about the technology.
The technology misconception is that it is not about the technology.
Programs like the 23 things are SO effective for teachers and librarians because it allows them to embed their professional development. Take time during the week.
Instead your professional development should be in small succulent bites – on a weekly basis through these global connections – reading our RSS reader. In fact,
Our professional development looks like this – we put so much into 10 hours that they cannot digest it all. It is too much and overloads them.
So, I embed my learning and take 15 minutes 2-3 times a week to learn and explore new technologies and this, has been the thing that has led to the complete transformation of my classroom! But you don’t have time – you say.
There is too much information and you need to rely on your friends as your filter. Additionally, this isn’t just about lifelong learning but about lifelong renewal – we have to keep relearning or we FORGET!! As Socrates said, “we lose the remembrance of them.” Additionally,
The Flat Classroom project and the
Horizon Projects which have linked
The technology misconception is that it is not about the technology.
We don’t teach blogging, wikis, podcasting for their sake, but for what they let us do.
We’re on a journey. However, we need to know that
In that movie, the “precious” ring was evil. In our cases, we must know that
most technologies are morality-neutral. It is how you use them that determines its use.
How many of you think cupcakes are good! Are they?
What about when it is used to hurt someone’s feelings?
Or how about when a compulsion to eat them makes a person obese? What do we do?
Ban cupcakes? That is preposterous! We teach people to be kind and to use cupcakes in good ways? Shouldn’t we do the same thing with?
Cell phones
Cell phones
Cell phones
We don’t ban scissors and they could kill someone! We teach kids not to run with them! To use them well and our schools are full of other dangerous weapons such as
Pens, pencils, and even the human hand. Just thinking of that, they are completely full of the most dangerous weapon ever invented…
Man. Men, women, boys, and girls can do irreparable harm, and yet we don’t ban humans. Instead, we teach the humans in our school out to behave appropriately. That is what we do in school and
But the question remains, why do we need to change? My husband always says that the only people who like change are babies with dirty diapers and even then, they cry the whole time! (click on the baby for the Movie.)
Some people feel like this when considering merging their classrooms with another. But you don’t get there overnight. As you take a look at what I’m sharing with you today, remember this…
Just remember, the lesson of the watermelon as you consider today’s menu. How do you eat a watermelon?
If you eat it whole, you’ll choke.
No, the way you eat a watermelon is one bit at a time.
And that is what I suggest for you to do today. Your assignment for this webinar today is to come up with your “Big Three” at the end of the webinar. Pick three things – start there!
The technology misconception is that it is not about the technology.
People in our society are counting the cost of everything, so when we implement technology, we’d better make sure it is.
That the things we used in school are efficient, effective, and transport us to a better education for our kids.
That the things we used in school are efficient, effective, and transport us to a better education for our kids.
That the things we used in school are efficient, effective, and transport us to a better education for our kids.
We can implement technology but it better be for a purpose and not just to look cute, so today we’re going to talk about technology driven differentiation and the other things to make our schools successful.
The technology misconception is that it is not about the technology.
The successful are increasingly individuals who take risks, are good at what they do, and are persistent. This is what we need to create in our classrooms.
This is what our student must be. But what must our teachers be?
This is what our student must be. But what must our teachers be?
I’d like to ask you if Helen Keller were in your school today, would she become Helen Keller? It took one of the greatest teacherpreneurs of all time, Anne Sullivan, to reach and unlock this student!
We can implement technology but it better be for a purpose and not just to look cute, so today we’re going to talk about technology driven differentiation and the other things to make our schools successful, first we’ll talk about the classroom and then a few remarks about administration, which I call the “pit crew”
So, today in pursuit of excellence driven education, we’re going to assemble the classroom car as we differentiate with technology.
So, today in pursuit of excellence driven education, we’re going to assemble the classroom car as we differentiate with technology.
Please share what you’re doing while I share what we’re doing to network educationally at our school this year.Private Ning – My students and I.School Wide Ning – parents, students teachers – also private.Public Nings for
Some sort of field of dreams. Some states are building networks for their teachers and finding that the teachers are rebelling and don’t want to go there. In fact, I know of one organization that build a ntework for their IT directors and the IT directors built their own and refused to let the administrators in! Instead,
Elementary schools use private tools (free) tools like think.com to create private spaces for students to network all over the world. Cheryl Oakes from Maine works with this school and tells me she has enjoyed think.com for some time. In fact, my good friend Cheryl couldn’t be here tonight because she’s on Seedlings Bit By Bit on Edtechtalk.com right now – I hope that after tonight, you’ll listen to her new show at www.edtechtalk.com
Elementary schools use private tools (free) tools like think.com to create private spaces for students to network all over the world. Cheryl Oakes from Maine works with this school and tells me she has enjoyed think.com for some time. In fact, my good friend Cheryl couldn’t be here tonight because she’s on Seedlings Bit By Bit on Edtechtalk.com right now – I hope that after tonight, you’ll listen to her new show at www.edtechtalk.com
Every course has a launch page on the wiki – the Google cal is embedded there. Also, if you paste hyperlinks into the description, the hyperlinks are live as well, but it has many more features as well.
For me, my RSS reader includes so much more than just learning but life management – in many ways it has evolved into a PLM – “personal life manager!”
For me, my RSS reader includes so much more than just learning but life management – in many ways it has evolved into a PLM – “personal life manager!”
So, the students in 9th grades and up haveigoogle pages, and after adding my google calendar to their Google Calendar, they can use the igoogle widget to show what the work is for that day (they can just show one class.) Also, when you do this, if you type in the hyperlink, they can just click from their igoogle widget to get to the assignment for the day. You can print lovely copies of your lesson plans for a manual or book if you have one. And if you need to move things around, you just click and drag it. Also,
For me, my RSS reader includes so much more than just learning but life management – in many ways it has evolved into a PLM – “personal life manager!”
For me, my RSS reader includes so much more than just learning but life management – in many ways it has evolved into a PLM – “personal life manager!”
For me, my RSS reader includes so much more than just learning but life management – in many ways it has evolved into a PLM – “personal life manager!”
Digiteen Island
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Vicki:
So, today in pursuit of excellence driven education, we’re going to assemble the classroom car as we differentiate with technology.
So, today in pursuit of excellence driven education, we’re going to assemble the classroom car as we differentiate with technology.
So, today in pursuit of excellence driven education, we’re going to assemble the classroom car as we differentiate with technology.
So, today in pursuit of excellence driven education, we’re going to assemble the classroom car as we differentiate with technology.
So, today in pursuit of excellence driven education, we’re going to assemble the classroom car as we differentiate with technology.
Albert Einstein, a great mind and great teacher focused not on the facts of his textbook or theories but on the classroom environment and making it one in which students can learn.
So, today in pursuit of excellence driven education, we’re going to assemble the classroom car as we differentiate with technology.
Give students a starting point – all of your work must have a “home page” – one place to start online each day! Portal to the world.
So, today in pursuit of excellence driven education, we’re going to assemble the classroom car as we differentiate with technology.
Tools, learning styles, interests, readiness, content, process and environment as it relates to technology that will make our schools more efficient and justify what we are doing with technology.
If we look at arguably the best education system in the world, the Finnish teachers pick books and customize lessons as they shape students to national standards. "In most countries, education feels like a car factory. In Finland, the teachers are the entrepreneurs," says Mr. Schleicher, of the Paris-based OECD, which began the international student test in 2000.
Photo: - Today we’re talking about Teacherpreneurship to an audience of people I would consider teacherpreneurs. I’ve seen your videos and this is who you are, although you may not know it!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Loutherbourg-Spanish_Armada.jpg – Wikimedia Commons – Teacherpreneurs are to the floundering educational system what the English were to the spanish armada – the agile, deal creators and makers. Teachers must be agile, able to customize their environment to the students they teach.
We’ll start off talking about the classroom and then make a few points for administrators..
Tools, learning styles, interests, readiness, content, process and environment as it relates to technology that will make our schools more efficient and justify what we are doing with technology.
So, when I came back to Camilla, I started using wikis with my students immediately and sat down in my classroom to begin blogging. I turned to a student and said, “I have to create a blog and I have to name the thing – what should I name it?” The students sitting there said, “Well, Mrs. Vicki, you’re cool and we’re the wildcats, so, why don’t you call it the cool Cat teacher blog
Let me ask you this? How many of you would like to reduce your chances of getting alzheimers?
And that is what I suggest for you to do today. Your assignment for this webinar today is to come up with your “Big Three” at the end of the webinar. Pick three things – start there!