rigorous learning with 21 st -century technology: are your students doing the heavy lifting?
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Rigorous Learning with 21 st -Century Technology: Are Your Students Doing The Heavy Lifting?. Kristin Fontichiaro blog.schoollibrarymedia.com [email protected] @ activelearning. Share Your Ideas: Twitter Hashtag #aisd. My Lens: Where I’m Coming From An Unfocused Lens: The Dizzying Choices - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Rigorous Learning with 21Rigorous Learning with 21stst-Century Technology:-Century Technology:Are Your Students Doing The Heavy Lifting?Are Your Students Doing The Heavy Lifting?
Kristin FontichiaroKristin Fontichiaroblog.schoollibrarymedia.comblog.schoollibrarymedia.com
[email protected]@umich.edu@activelearning@activelearning
Share Your Ideas:Twitter Hashtag #aisd
• My Lens:Where I’m Coming From
• An Unfocused Lens:The Dizzying Choices
• Refocusing Our Lens: What Do We Mean by Rigor?
• Testing Our Lens: Student Work Samples
• Sharpening Our Lens:Retooling for Rigor
• Sharing Our Lens: Our To-Do List with StaffTo
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My LensMy Lens
School Librarian /Staff Developer
• From Lab to Laptops• Pressures on Classrm.Teachers• Anxiety About “Looking Good”• Limited time for Deep Work• Work Smarter, Not Harder
Author / Blogger
• Inquiry• What Am I Willing to Disclose Online?• How much Process vs. Product Am I Comfortable Sharing Online?• What is My Future Art Form Going to Look Like?
Summer Adjunct, UM School of Education
• Guiding Principles for Tech Adoption• Technology Best Practices • Tchr & Student Metacognition
Clinical Assistant Professor, UM School of Information
• P-I-T•Who is the 21st-Century Schl. Librarian?• Meaningful Instructional Design• Guiding Principles for Tech Adoption• Meaningful Instructional Design
An Unfocused Lens:An Unfocused Lens:Dizzying ChoicesDizzying Choices
The Web 2.0 Candy StoreThe Web 2.0 Candy Store
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Refocusing Our Lens:Refocusing Our Lens:What Do We Mean By Rigor?What Do We Mean By Rigor?
It’s so easy to make things look fancy…
Fancy Nancy (O’Connor)
…that sometimes we credit students what programmers behind the scenes have actually facilitated.
(Little input > Big output)
Twitter Parade
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iNyt1ywrbQ
But let’s look behind But let’s look behind the scenes… the scenes…
And sometimes, our students expend a disproportionate amount of
e-effortoverknowledge-building.
(BIG INPUT > LITTLE OUTPUT>
My Explorers Report
By Kristin FontichiaroMy Explorers My Explorers Report!!!!!!!Report!!!!!!!
By Kristin Fontichiaro
Christopher Columbus was born in 1461.
He was born in Italy.
HOME OF PIZZA!!!!!!! YUM!!!!
He had three boats:
NinaPintaSanta Maria
He discovered AMERICA!!!
He died in 1506.
It was sad.
TIME FOR RESEARCH &
THINKING
TIME FOR TECHNOLOGY
Balance?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34926381@N08/3345848890
STATE STANDARDSSTATE STANDARDS
So Many Visions!
Where’s the Beef?How Do We Know Rigor When We See It?
You can’t justpush away the uncertainties; you have topush through them.”
-Jeff Stanzler
So I started pushing ….
Why is she showing us this? Got me.
With apologies to Mo Willems: http://pigeonpresents.com/data/interiorspreadls/eleph_pig_fly_spread_lg.jpg
Rigorous Learning
with Technology
Content / Curric
ulum
Informated(Value-Added)
Automated
Synthesis
Retelling
Student-Centered
Teacher-Directed
Authentic
Decontextualized
(with thanks to Roberta Sibley, Laurie Olmsted, Jeff Stanzler, and Raya Samet for contributing their feedback!)
Testing Our LensTesting Our LensStudent Work SamplesStudent Work Samples
Sofia’s Animal Report
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vp8w1zByAs
(embedded video removed for Web archive of this presentation)
Rigorous Learning
with Technology
Content / Curric
ulum
Informated(Value-Added)
Automated
Synthesis
Retelling
Student-Centered
Teacher-Directed
Authentic
Decontextualized
(with thanks to Roberta Sibley, Laurie Olmsted, Jeff Stanzler, and Raya Samet for contributing their feedback!)
Hamlet: The Search for Revenge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J31y1zztt5o
(embedded video removed for Web archive of this presentation)
Rigorous Learning
with Technology
Content / Curric
ulum
Informated(Value-Added)
Automated
Synthesis
Retelling
Student-Centered
Teacher-Directed
Authentic
Decontextualized
(with thanks to Roberta Sibley, Laurie Olmsted, Jeff Stanzler, and Raya Samet for contributing their feedback!)
Glogster Example – Grade 6 http://stppx95.edu.glogster.com/the-watsons-go-to-birmingham-1963/
Rigorous Learning
with Technology
Content / Curric
ulum
Informated(Value-Added)
Automated
Synthesis
Retelling
Student-Centered
Teacher-Directed
Authentic
Decontextualized
(with thanks to Roberta Sibley, Laurie Olmsted, Jeff Stanzler, and Raya Samet for contributing their feedback!)
Sharpening Our LensSharpening Our LensRetooling for RigorRetooling for Rigor
RE-FOCUS yourself as an instructional design leader
Stretch
Our
Role
ProceduresProcedures
ProductsProducts
ProcessProcess
GO ZEN: Embrace the Realities of What Students Use and Need
PRODUCT
S.
Sharing Our LensSharing Our LensOur To-Do List with StaffOur To-Do List with Staff
Your Staff Meeting To-Do List• Database Review:– Be pragmatic:
don’t talk“expert resources” vs.“amateur”
– Differentiation– Efficiency
I just wanna
I like me some
Your Staff Meeting To-Do List• Tour Google Tools– Search Strategies– Wonderwheel– Timeline– News– RSS Feeds– Reader– Scholar– Books
Quick Google Strategies:A 5’ Staff Mtg. Demo
• Better searches– More words. Then again, fewer words.– Synonyms/keywords: pull from expert resources– Quotation marks
• Better scanning of results– Personal Web sites (~)– Domain extensions– Think before you click
(remember dial-up?)
Your Staff Meeting To-Do List
• Stop Demonizing Wikipedia– Emphasize
history,citations,reading level
Wikipedia: A 5’ Overview
• 8 of 10 college students say they use it (Project Information Literacy, 2010)
• College kids look to TEACHERS to identify good sources and to LIBRARIANS for navigation strategies
• Wikipedia’s editors are down 20,000 from its peak (USA Today)
• Is crowd-sourcing still working?
Wikipedia: Sticking My Neck Out
• They use it … but should they? And for what?
• Beware information overload– Average picture book: less than 800 words– Giraffe Wikipedia entry: 3150 words, 12 single-
spaced pages
Wikipedia: Sticking My Neck Out
The giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) is an African even-toed ungulate mammal, the tallest of all land-living animal species, and the largest ruminant.
Giraffe
• African• even-toed• ungulate• mammal• tallest of all land-living animal species• largest ruminant.
I have no idea what
that means. Hope the teacher doesn’t notice.
The giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) is an African even-toed ungulate mammal, the
tallest of all land-living animal species, and the largest ruminant.
Wikipedia: Sticking My Neck Out
• History tab– Who has edited?– What can you learn about authors’ expertise?
• Readability– Under MOB > Word Options > Proofing (enabled by
default)– Run spell-check – comes up in summary at end– Or
http://www.online-utility.org/english/readability_test_and_improve.jsp
Wikipedia: Sticking My Neck Out
Wikipedia: Sticking My Neck Out
Wikipedia: Sticking My Neck Out
• So what’s it good for?–Pop culture–Mentor text:
citations at bottom–Gathering basic keywords
Your Staff Meeting To-Do List
• Refocus the citation conversation
Citation• Why?– Track student resources and thinking– Credit those whose work you’ve used– Help others extend their research by following
your tracks– Cite non-clip art images!
• What?– Easybib.com, NoodleTools, or Bibme.com
• Worry less about format, more about citizenship
Your Staff Meeting To-Do List
• Mantra to Staff: Lead with the Learning Need, Not theTechnology
Final Takeaways• Make thoughtful
choices: mix protein with the candy
• You are your building’s tech leader
• Use your MLIS-developed critical eye
• Be focused on learning, not tools
• Reinforce savvy use of resources
• Go deeper!
