Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Cheryl Lemke

Go back in history and change what happened and how is today different because of that event?

podcast, art work - scanned in, digitize all of their work so it is public

Self-authorship:

Student Content, Knowledge, Skills
need a single sign on

Instructional Space

Building basic skills, developing social-emotional and cognitive maturity, advanced deep learning

Digital Content:

OER Commons Open Educational Resources, find free to use teaching and learning content from around the world

Need to have a way for teachers to collectively vet resources

math forum through Drexel University

Steger and Horn Blended Learning Models

CK-12  http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/

gooru  http://www.goorulearning.org/gooru/index.g#/home

learn bird songs

Adobe Youth Voices


Reason Ability increased by 32%, processing skill 27% increase
Deck of Cards
Blink
Azada
SET
Perfection
Chocolate Fix
Rush Hour
Qwirkle
Brickbuster

Civilization
Demorcracy2
Scratch
Beetle Breeders
Invasion of the Beasties
Island Hoppers
Chomp!

Research base? multi-modal learning
non-interactive: average kid increases percentile 21% for basic skills

interactive: simulations and modeling: use for higher order skills 32%

Internet communications

Communities of Interest: the Math Forum at Drexel\

Remind101

Subtext: read the same book - together

Instructionally agnostic: online news

data.gov with visualizations

leafsnap - mobile app to identify leaf shape


takingitglobal


meaningful choice: they will go layers deeper than you can imagine
engage the in setting learning goals: what is the purpose? involve them in the standards they are trying to reach
self-regulation: 75% of HS kids are doing some type of self-regulation, start at 4th grade with those habits of mind
Fred Newman:

We need units of practice other teachers can use: aggregate units of practice






Monday, June 25, 2012

Notes from June 24, ISTE 2012

Global Learning

http://www.iearn.org/

"We can't have a world class education without the world." Vicki Davis

Receive, Read, and Respond

Collaborate and co-create, change me into we.

International da Vinci Decathlon 12/13 and 14/15 year olds

http://education.skype.com/projects/2646

http://www.kidstalkradiousa.com/Kids_Talk_Radio/Welcome.html

http://education.skype.com/projects

Sir Ken Robinson


"Any growth requires a temporary loss of security" Madeline Hunter


Do not confine your children to learning in your time, they were born in another time. Chinese proverb

Out of our Minds rewrote the book - "the next 10 years are less predictable than the last 10 years were"