Reflections on Recent Readings (weekly)

• Education Week: Ed Tech 'Has Over-Promised and Under-Delivered'
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CUE#16 Notes - Friday- Tools You Can Use Tomorrow (Leslie Fisher)

I'm only writing about tools that have new notes or things to think through.  See entire presentation here.

Assessment

• Kahoot... really?!?!?! (sorry, not a fan anymore)
• try Quizizz or Quizalize for a game-based, competitive assessment tool that actually gives better real-time, authentic data that can affect your instruction
• At least she says "don't use it to grade your kids" 
• Good ideas
• "Selfie Kahoot" - make a Kahoot about yourself to introduce your students.  Then have the students each make a question about themselves and add it to a class Kahoot. 
• "Blind Kahoot" - use it at the beginning of class to see what they know with an emphasis on honest answers so teacher knows where they are at (don't mark any right answers then???)
• use Ghost mode again at the end of class and students compete against themselves to see how they have improved
• It looks like you have access to all of your Kahoots so you don't have to remember to download that data right after you finish the quiz.  That's an update!  This is where you launch ghost mode and have them join in the same session
• Need to check? -  if a student logs off how do they get connected to their same account??
• Quizizz
• "homework mode"
• self-paced
• much better for data and assessing
• I already use this
• EdPuzzle (or Zaption / Educanon since our district has filters with EdPuzzle)
• Can add audio notes
• Need to do a sample one and see how it works with our filter and see what limits there are to uploading own videos

Classroom Communication (nothing new)

Content Creation

• Look at SeeSaw

Photo and Video (nothing new)

Teacher Productivity (didn't get to)

CUE#16 Notes - Thursday - Opening Keynote

Opening Keynote: Brad Montague - Founder of Kid President

Choices you can make...

1. Choose Awesome
1. Choose to hug the haters - they are just people who "forgot to be nice" 
1. "Haters gonna hate, but huggers gonna hug"
2. Treat everybody like it's their birthday - like they are somebody worth celebrating
3. Treat your craft / your work like it matters - it's not just something you are doing. It's an act of love.
2. Choose People
1.  You can choose people or you can choose stuff... choose PEOPLE!
2. Invite everybody to the party
3. It's not about the video they watch (on Kid President's channel), it's about what they do with it afterwards.  They aren't views, they are heartbeats. 
4. It doesn't matter who gets the credit... it just matters that it happened
5. Choose to take a chance with what you have - you don't have to have a lot of stuff!
3. Choose Joy
1. Be a "joy rebel"

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Reflections on Recent Readings (weekly)

A little behind so not all of these are from the last week... or month... but they are still really good!

• 5 Questions to Ask Yourself About Your Unmotivated Students | Cult of Pedagogy
  5 great questions to reflect on...I challenge you to blog and reflect on these 5 questions :)
  
  
  • "Multiple studies have shown a significant connection between student motivation and the quality of the teacher-student relationship. A good teacher-student relationship provides students with a sense of stability and safety, which sets the stage for more academic risk-taking. So what kind of relationship do you have with your least motivated students? How well do you really know them? Do you have conversations with them about the things they care about? Or have you more or less given up on them?"
• To Textbook or Not To Textbook | Five Twelve Thirteen
  goes well with a common conversation we've been having lately...
  
  
• Deadlines Matter: Debunking the Myth That Standards-Based Grading Means No Deadlines « Competency Works
  Valuable read. I've been a fan of SBG since I first learned about it my first or second year teaching. It's definitely a mindset shift from the traditional "no late work accepted" and "learn it on my timeline" attitude that pervades some classrooms. Now the question is, how to help shift minds...
  
  
• Show Your Thinking: Instructional Coaching is Needed
  Great read about why coaching can be a tough sell yet why it is so important!
  
  
• Putting Students in the Driver’s Seat: Public Speaking Self-Critiques using @Zaption #edtech | techieMusings
  What an interesting idea! Sharing this with my teachers now.
  
  
• Just doing what makes sense. - Crazy Teaching
  How many teachers consistently ask themselves "Why"? I hope to inspire / encourage / support more of my fellows and other teachers to constantly be in the reflective practice of asking "Why" and moving forward to make teaching and learning even better.
  
  

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