Sunday, March 27, 2016
Friday, March 18, 2016
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
Classroom Communication (nothing new)
Content Creation
Photo and Video (nothing new)
Teacher Productivity (didn't get to)
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)
Thursday, March 17, 2016
CUE#16 Notes - Thursday - Opening Keynote
Opening Keynote: Brad Montague - Founder of Kid President
Choices you can make...
Choices you can make...
- Choose Awesome
- Choose to hug the haters - they are just people who "forgot to be nice"
- "Haters gonna hate, but huggers gonna hug"
- Treat everybody like it's their birthday - like they are somebody worth celebrating
- Treat your craft / your work like it matters - it's not just something you are doing. It's an act of love.
- Choose People
- You can choose people or you can choose stuff... choose PEOPLE!
- Invite everybody to the party
- 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.
- It doesn't matter who gets the credit... it just matters that it happened
- Choose to take a chance with what you have - you don't have to have a lot of stuff!
- Choose Joy
- Be a "joy rebel"
Saturday, March 12, 2016
Saturday, March 5, 2016
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!
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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?"
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goes well with a common conversation we've been having lately...
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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...
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Great read about why coaching can be a tough sell yet why it is so important!
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What an interesting idea! Sharing this with my teachers now.
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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.
Saturday, February 13, 2016
Reflections on Recent Readings (weekly)
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Using Hyperdocs In The Chemistry Lab | A Flipped Approach
Shared this with my fellows; figured I'd share it here, too :)
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Teacher Coaching & Evaluation: Using Zaption to Give Feedback on a Recorded Lesson - Zaption
What a great idea! This would enhance the videotaping reflection process and also embed in the teaching of a tool they could use in class. Only bummer is the threaded discussions are only available with Premium, so a teacher would already need to be using it to use that feature. They could still do the open response questions throughout with the free version though.
Saturday, January 30, 2016
Reflections on Recent Readings (weekly)
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- As a coach, my priority is not what device or technology tool a teacher uses (although, I do, of course have my own opinions about what works best for learning), my priority is the teacher’s mindset. I’m not marketing a gadget, I’m marketing a belief about teaching and learning, and a pedagogical approach to learning with technology.
- What an important point (see quote)! I run a lot of PD sessions and work with fellows on different tools, but all of it is embedded with mindset / purpose / intentionality / pedagogy. Why would we use this? How would it make things more effective, efficient, engaging, or enjoyable (my 4 E's of technology use)? The image in below this quote is so powerful!
- in order to be successful in marketing to the mainstream population, we can’t market our product the same way to both groups.
- Basically the early adopters will buy in because of the new and exciting nature of the innovation – even if it’s not perfect yet and still has kinks to be worked out, which is a fun and easy part of a coach’s job. The problem is that the mainstream market wants to see a complete product, practical applications, and know exactly how it will work (and that it will work consistently). This is not an easy task when we’re actually really talking about good pedagogy, but we’re perceived to be talking about technology.
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"Try flipping your class with quizzes to drive, not measure, learning" This is such an important quote! Quizzes should not be "gotcha" moments, but rather great opportunities to gather feedback on where students currently are at in relation to where you want them to be. If you do give a quiz when kids come in to class, is it a "gotcha" or "I hope you watched it" or a "measurement" of their learning? Or is it a way for you to drive what will happen that day (and the following days) in class?
Saturday, January 23, 2016
Reflections on Recent Readings (weekly)
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Some interesting ideas on different ways that teachers can reflect and document their journey. I've really emphasized journaling more this year (since last year most fellows did not do it consistently) and I think that has been really valuable. I like to ask follow-up questions and probe more with their journal entries, which normally takes the first 5-15 minutes of our coaching meetings, but I think is very valuable in their journey. I've challenged my fellows to get on Twitter and to even consider blogging, but I know those are huge steps for some teachers. I started a collaborative blog at techfellowship.blogspot.com (currently empty, but hopefully will have posts soon!) for fellows to join in and share what they are trying in their classrooms. I have some interest; it's just a matter of helping them "find the time" and see the value in finding that time. There are several that want to do it, so I hope this will be the start of something great. Beyond the collaborative fellow blog, I've challenged each of my fellows to write a guest blog post for my blog once this semester, either on a specific lesson they implemented or a year-end reflection on their journey. We'll see how this goes!
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I like the idea of tech being your "secret sauce" that makes your classroom better, not something extra to add on. Teachers that are struggling to adopt a technology-enhanced pedagogy struggle with that fact and can't get past the "it's one more thing" mindset. I like to think of technology as impacting teaching and learning in four ways: making things more effective, efficient, engaging, or enjoyable for teachers and/or students. My fear is that teachers won't see the immediate impact of a tool (and really how it can shift pedagogy to something new and different than what they are used to) and say, "well this won't make teaching / learning more effective / efficient / engaging / enjoyable so I'm not going to try it". Sometimes we need to take risks and try new things without knowing how it is going to turn out or how it's going to affect our classroom - and then we can reflect and judge after the fact if it's worth continuing. Not after one attempt, because that doesn't give a fair view of it, but after you "Reflect, Refine, and Collaborate" and try the tool in a few different ways. At that point, I'm okay with giving something a "no-go"... but we have to get to that point first!
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