charles e. smith edjewcon bootcamp
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Charles E. Smith
Jewish Day School August 24-25, 2016
2-Day Boot Camp
transforming education one BLOG at a time
THANK YOU for being part of this cohort. I am excited and honored to work with you!
• About Us • Exploring the EduBloggerSphere • Learning Intentions & Success
Criteria • Why transform education? • NOW Literacies • Why blogs? • Hopes & Fears • Welcome to your blog
Day 1
Andrea Hernandez
Selfie Share: 1) Take a selfie. 2) Add your teaching passion. 3) Share with me by text: 904-237-8401 OR email: [email protected]
with the End in Mind Begin
Explore blogs that connect with
I SEE I THINK I WONDER
your passion
Learning Intentions
To build relationships that will contribute to the success of the virtual coaching
To build understanding of modern literacies, pedagogies, heutagogy and metacognitive reflection
To learn and practice skills & habits of mind that will be used to support your students & shift your thinking about teaching & learning
To build understanding of pedagogical documentation (a reflection tool for your own learning & a teaching tool for others)
Success Criteria What do you think “success” will look like, feel like, etc? What will you need to understand, do or experience in order to feel successful?
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It’s a
mind shift
You First
Where the
MAGIC happens!
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Learning is Messy
ActionResearch
“We do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience.”
-John Dewey
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WHY
TRANSFORM education?
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CHANGE Happens
What will they
NOT KNOW?
Our world
changing back is NOT
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“If you don’t like
CHANGE you’re going to like
IRRELEVANCE even less.”
-General Eric Shinseki
What YEAR
our preparing are we
STUDENTSfor?
What do we…?
KEEP UPGRADE THROW AWAY
-Heidi Hayes Jacobs Curriculum 21
LITERACY has always been defined by
TECHNOLOGY
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-Nichole Pinkard
The power of LITERACY is effective COMMUNICATION
LITERATE
In 2016?
Discuss What does it mean to be
Literacies
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Now
For
Basic Literacy
Information Literacy
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Media Literacy “If students are not taught the language of sound & images, shouldn’t they be considered as illiterate as if they left college without being able to read & write?” – George Lucas
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Visual Literacy
Network Literacy
Global Literacy
Attention Literacy
Meta Literacy
“In hunting culture, kids play with bows & arrows…
In information society, they play with information”
THINK PAIR SHARE
What do you want to
THINK & LEARN more about?
What will you REFLECT on?
WHY
Blogs?
“Blog is just software, but scientists & science writers are using that software in serious ways, making the world a better place.”
To CHANGE the WORLD Why Do We Blog?
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How Blogging Transformed My Teaching…and MORE!
“Are you holding back?”
“We all decided to walk through the same door on the Internet so we could THINK TOGETHER.”
–Alec Couros @courosa
Conversation?
Are
YOU part of the
story Tell
YOUR
“All knowledge is self-knowledge.”
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Gain perspective
See Things Differently
–Deborah Meier in Visible Learners
through the eyes of others
is an essential part of
strong professional development and the one most seriously lacking from schools.
Seeing the same practices
Courage Transformation
takes
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Hopes
Fears
and
Face Fear Your
WELCOME to Your Blog
THINK…
I used to
THINK… Now I
• What do YOU want to learn? How will you learn it? What will you do with what you know?
• From pedagogy to heutagogy • Documenting Learning Why? How? • Learning challenge…… • Visible thinking routines? • Video Conferencing- 2 PM • Reflect
Day 2
What do you want to learn? How do you want to learn it?
What will you DO with it?
(Paper) Tweet It!
Heutagogy: The study of self-determined learning
TRAVEL BOOKS
PODCASTS VIDEOS ARTICLES
CONVERSATIONS CONFERENCES
Some ways we learn…
“LEARNING is an in-process activity. We need to lay aside the desire to
KNOW
LEARN.” and embrace instead the desire to continue to
Discuss
The role of a
coach
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What about
ASSESSMENT?
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Documenting Learning
One Word
What does
DOCUMENTATION mean to you?
Text-Rendering PROTOCOL
Learning Artifacts: the products & process of
students’ & teachers’ learning made visible
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quotes drawings videos
reflections photographs
Learning Artifacts:
Documentation by TEACHERS
share practices with colleagues
gather & showcase artifacts for teaching portfolio
reflection
formative assessment
document professional growth
Documentation by STUDENTS
to build positive digital footprint
gather & showcase artifacts For portfolio
reflection & metacognition-
to become aware of their learning
to articulate & showcase their learning
document growth
Documentation by SCHOOLS
attract like-minded Future employees
examples for professional learning
communication with parents/
community
marketing
document growth
Headlines Write a headline for
Documenting for Learning
that captures the most important aspect
to be remembered
Documenting
Toolkit
What tools can we use to document learning?
The importance of ROUTINES
Documenting ROUTINES
Thinking ROUTINES
The
Paper Airplane
Challenge
Video Conferencing
Silvana Scarso: Teaching & Learning Coach
at Graded American School of Sao Paulo Interests: Global Learning, Cognition,
STEAM (especially participation of women)