Flipping with Kirch: CUE14 - Notes and Reflections (Thursday)

Sunday, March 23, 2014

CUE14 - Notes and Reflections (Thursday)

I had the privilege of attending the annual CUE conference in Palm Springs this last week/weekend. Here are my notes and thoughts from the sessions I was able to attend.

THURSDAY:

1. Free Software Tools for Common Core Mathematics - David Thornburg

Thornburgthoughts.wordpress.com
Fibonacci - I already do a lot with Fibonacci and the Golden Ratio in my Math Analysis class - here are a few more ideas to try out next year

Actually show the geometry from the spiral with the area of the square with side length from Fibonacci series. (google search fibonacci spiral for images)
Make google spreadsheet with formulas in it to automatically calculate the ratio as we continue down. Instead of just telling the students what the ratio is, start putting the numbers in the series in, and see what they notice.
Awesome --> If you come up with another sequence that is Fibonacci like, meaning that the next number is the sum of the previous two, it ALSO converges at a ratio of 1.618

QUESTIONS- WHY IS THIS TRUE?!?! Ask the students that!!

This activity meets all eight of the standards for mathematical practice

Knights of knowledge- collection of two minute videos to get students thinking. See website here

Now has a Chrome web app you can add to your browser

Geogebra. Use it.
MIT site- scratch
Wolfram-

Mathematica
Wolfram alpha
Wolfram language and system documentation center

2. 7 steps to flipped professional development using interactive agendas - Laura Conley

Padlet.com/wall/CUE2014
@Lconley86
Flipped-pd.com
Takeactionreporting.com
See article here
See slides here
What is flipped pd?

Teacher centered. Teachers are asked ahead of time what they would like to learn (based of technology use in the class). A lot of times they didn't know what they needed so she would give them suggestions about what would be good starting points. Smaller groups, not a huge room a time. Broke them into content area groups
Technology rich and interactive. Teachers are sent email ahead of time with links and what accounts they need to have created, what logins they need, and what they should have downloaded, etc.
Promotes active learning.
Values teachers time and input.
Facilitated

What is it NOT?

It's not watching videos ahead of time
endless talking by presenters
not the same every time

SEVEN STEPS

PLANNING

what are the principals goals?
What are the teachers goals and needs?
Who is the facilitator?
What are the different levels of technology usage that you will be encountering?

CREATING AN AGENDA AND MODELING

interactive agenda (she uses thinglink, sample here)
Make background image with Piktochart - Infographic made in piktochart and saved as jpg and then put into thing link
Agendas sent BEFORE pd

They are sent ahead of time so people know what to expect and can ask questions ahead of time.
Even the agenda is used to model how teachers could create something like this and use it in their classes
Search her name on thinglink to see some of her interactive agendas

Make sure when creating agendas and timelines you always make time for teachers to PLAY!!!
Modeling- begins before the actual pd day. Teachers actually need to do it themselves

CONTENT

Relevant
Teachers needs
Remember - less is more!!
Give "take aways"
Unique for each group and dept

DIGITAL TOOLS

Evernote
Padlet.com
Socrative.com
Todaysmeet.com

MONITOR AND ADJUST

change course as needed
Remember your students are a great resource
Time
Tech problems

EXIT SURVEY

Continue modeling
Create ahead of time
She uses Socrative

Check out space race thing on Socrative
Students do not need to log in with Socrative

FOLLOW UP

use exit surveys
Actively listen to follow up
Know change is possible
Create change

3. Deeper learning through online communication and collaboration

Bit.ly/dlsomera
What is deeper learning?

Rigor
Critical thinking
Applying to real world situations
Being able to teach and share things with someone else
Not teaching to the test
When a student learns something beyond just the content, able to apply their knowledge from other classes to what they are learning. Internalizing the information
Knowledge that is transferable
Deeper learning =content mastery + 21st century skills

21st century skills

Critical thinking
Creative problem solving
Communication
Collaboration
Motivation and self regulation

See rest of notes online Bit.ly/dlsomera

4. KEYNOTE#1 - Dan Meyer

Cue14.mrmeyer.com

What is your edtech mission statement?

Tools that will help me

Capture perplexity
Share perplexity
Resolve perplexity

Perplexity is not boredom or confusion. It is not engagement. It is having a notion, knowing it can be answered and wanting to get it answered
CAPTURE PERPLEXITY

A bunch of tools that do what he wants, with explanations
TIP: J key will move to next article in feedly
TIP: Social bookmarking (diigo)
TIP: YouTube -keepvid.com to download them off YouTube and without comments or ads
TIP: Call my own google voice number to leave a voice message about something I want to remember but can't write down at the moment

SHARE PERPLEXITY

Document camera
Keynote. Cover things up from pictures with white rectangles to make them more perplexing
Blog and twitter
The classroom is an unforgiving place to teach. Put your stuff online to test it out first

RESOLVE PERPLEXITY

with math. With your discipline. That's how students resolve it.

He used to...

Start with the objective ... The ones who finished first got to do the perplexing things...
Now he starts with perplexing things... And then helps get you unperplexed.
"You'll be tested on this stuff and that makes it important" argh!
"Today we are going to ask about..."
Matt vaudrey starts with daily doozy. A question! A perplexity!

Thursday sessions I wasn't able to attend but wanted to: