Getting Practical

2:45 – 3:15	Please sit in subject-based or grade-level teams (“job-a-like” groups) Review Key Components (particularly TIM, TPACK & SAMR) below
3:15 – 4:00	As a team: Discuss a “standard” project for your group (something most students would do at your grade level/subject area) Map the transformation of this type of project using the SAMR model (feel free to use the project examples below) Note: this could be inspiration for your workshop project! Add them to this doc: Brainstorming Project Ideas
4:00 – 4:15	Wrap-up & Suggestions for Tomorrow Decide on Tech Tools for Talking Tech tomorrow

 

Key Components:

• The Technology Design Cycle
• TPACK & SAMR
• The Technology Integration Matrix
• Technology Integration Matrix Teacher Indicators
• Technology Integration Matrix Student Indicators
• TIM Setting Indicators
• TIM Summary of Indicators
• The Great Design Challenge: Introducing the MYP Technology Design Cycle
• Creating Independent Learners: The MYP Technology Design Cycle
• Getting to Know GarageBand (an MYP Technology Design Cycle example)
• Digital Citizenship: YIS Digital Dragons
• Online Safety & Responsibility
• UbD
• The Perfect Match: Technology Integration and Understanding by Design
• A Step-by-Step Guide to Global Collaboration
• The Technology Toolbox: Choosing the Right Tool for the Task
• How to Connect Your Students Globally
• First Steps Toward Becoming a 21st Century Educator
• Looking for Learning
• Tips for Managing Tech Tools in the Classroom
• Making the Implicit, Explicit
• Partnership for 21st Century Skills Route 21
• Fair Use graphic from Common Sense Media
• Creative Commons
• Everything is a Remix

 

Project Examples:

• Famous People of the Civil War+ rubric + reflective blog post (see many more fantastic projects on YIS Humanities teacherRebekah Madrid’s class blog)
• IB Lang & Lit Diigo Group (Madeleine Cox)
• 7th Graders (And One Teacher) Learning With Minecraft (Rebekah Madrid)
• Minecraft Mania (Alex Guenther)
• Code Blue! (Kim Cofino & Maria Gomez)
• Blogging (Kim Cofino)
• Students as Tutorial Designers, YIS Tutorials, ISB Tutorials (Kim Cofino)
• Tornadoes, Earthquakes, Tsunami – “in Plain English” Videos by NIST students (Will Kirkwood & Ivan Beekmans)
• Podcasting Power: Students Teaching Students (Kim Cofino, Chrissy Hellyer, Ali McAloon, Robin Bulzsa)
• QuakeStories + backstory (Kim Cofino & Mary Fish)
• 1001 Flat World Tales (Clay Burrell, Kim Cofino, & many others)
• Field Studies Blogs: ex Tobi + HS Field Reporting + MS Field Reporting
• Books Go Global!
• KinderKids Draw!
• Flat Classroom Projects (Digital Bridges) (Julie Lindsay, Vicki Davis, & many others)
• Kiva Loans (Rebekah Madrid)
• Moving on Up! (Kim Cofino, Diane Mongno, & many others)
• Influence (Kim Cofino, Teresa Belilse, grade 4 team at ISB)
• @manyvoices (George Mayo)
• iPads in Kinder – Zoe Page & Tasha Cowdy
• Blogging and Tweeting in Grade 2 (Jamie Raskin)
• YIS Early Learning Center – a Reggio Emilia environment (Clair Wain, Emma Chan, Junko Kanchemi, Barbara Folliot)
• Literature Circles Voice Thread, Grade 5 (Kristen Blum)
• The Learning Hub(YIS Teacher Blogs), other elementary teacher blogs from YIS:
  • Clair Wain (ELC)
  • Zoe Page (Kinder)
  • Tasha Cowdy (Kinder)
  • Jamie Raskin (Grade 2)

 

Useful Videos:

• Kim’s bookmarks labeled “video”
• Project Based Learning at High Tech High (New Learning Institute)
• (For more videos from NLI see their Vimeo channel)
• Caine’s Arcade (Mindshift article)
• Diana Laufenberg TEDx: How to Learn? From Mistakes!
• From Paper to Practice: Maria Knee (for Early Years)
• The Power of Dreams: Failure: the Key to Success (from Honda)
• Math Class Needs a Makeover (Dan Meyer)