Solutions for Creating Engaging Content in the 21st Century Cody Classroom a LoTi Perspective

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Solutions for Creating Engaging Content in the
21st Century Cody Classroom a LoTi Perspective
Todd A. Fishburn http//codywy.wikispaces.com/
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Are we doing the same thing differently?

• Ironing

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• Technology does not necessarily improve
  education. Take a simple innovation like the
  pencil One can use it to write a superlative
  essay, to drum away the time, or to poke out
  someones eye.

Shirley Veenema Howard Garner
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Day 1 Agenda

• Welcome
• This I believe..
• Did you know?
• How are we going to make this work?
• Possible roadblocks?
• Principles of good practice
• Break
• LoTi introduction
• LoTi videos
• Web resources
• Group activity
• Wrap-up

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Sliver Bullet?

• Princess Bride Video

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This I believe..

• It may not be WHAT we are teaching (curriculum),
  but HOW we are teaching!
• Emphasis on critical thinking and multiple
  solutions (open-endedness)
• Information Overload grab at least 3
• We are doing most of this

But Todd...this too shall pass!
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Whos a learner?

• We all are - by modeling our own learning
  endeavors and sharing these endeavors with
  others, we are thus creating a culture where
  learning is valued, and supported by
  participation
• Work shifts from producing results, to
  encouraging the growth of people who produce
  results, Peter Senge, co-author of Presence

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Did you know?

• Change is happening.
• http//toddstest.wikispaces.com/13

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Our Students Today.

• Kansas, Chicago, Boston, and Alabama are places,
  not groups
• The Tonight Show has always been with Jay Leno

• They dont know who Mork is and where he was from
• Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave
• Roller skating has always meant inline for them

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Volunteers Please
Video answers

• Questions to be answered at the end of the day
• Pick a principle of good practice that resonates
  with you and describe what youre doing or going
  to do about it
• Summarize in your own words what Glassers
  research reveals
• What could make a lesson a Loti 3 or higher
• What are you going to do to make the laptop
  initiative work for you

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How are we going to make our 1-1 initiative work?

• Get into groups and brainstorm whats going to
  work and how this may help US grow
• Listen for the timer to finish up your discussion
  
• http//html_help4u.tripod.com/javatime.html
• Share

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Possible Roadblocks?

• With your group write possible problems or
  roadblocks on a sheet of paper
• Crumble-up and throw in boxes
• Throughout the next two days we will ask people
  to pull one out, toss it across the room
• Whoever catches it will read it out loud
• Next, each group has 1 minute to brainstorm
  possible solutions prizes will be given!

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Its Not the Technology.Its High-Level Thinking
Strategies!

• I have a spelling checker it came with my PC. It
  clearly marks four my revue miss steakes I cannot
  sea I ran this poem threw it, Im sure youre
  please to no. Its let her perfect in its weight,
  my checker tolled me sew.
• Author Unknown

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We Remember.
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Glasser, 1990
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Talk a Mile a Minute

• Get into groups of two (A B)
• A face the screen
• B turn your back
• The next slide will have 5 separate words and A
  must give verbal clues while B tries to guess
• Ready?

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Talk a Mile a Minute

• Canyon
• Butte
• Valley
• Mountain
• Plain
• Now switch rolesready?

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Talk a Mile a Minute

• Dances with Wolves
• The Sound of Music
• Saving Private Ryan
• Spiderman
• Shrek

Games engage!
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Principles of Good Practice
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Principles of Good Practice

• Good Practice 1 - encourages frequent contact
  between students and teacher
• Increases motivation and involvement
• Show a genuine interest in the students (show you
  care)
• Model appropriate behaviors and skills (practice
  what you preach)
• Builds relationships
• Find learner interests

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Relationships whats the learners perception
and feeling toward the instructor?

• Establish a relationship with the learner buy
  sharing something of value
• Listen to the learner with empathic regard
• Treat the learner with warmth and acceptance
• Use the two-minute intervention strategy

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Two Minute Intervention

• For a minimum of 3 days, once a day, give this
  student your undivided attention
• Keep it positive and light
• Move from talking to listening
• Give one sincere compliment for each two-minute
  intervention and make each different

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Principles of Good Practice

• Good Practice 2 - develops reciprocity
  cooperation among students
• Learning is enhanced in team efforts
• Good work is collaborative and social, not
  isolated and competitive (model)
• Sharing ones ideas and responding to others
  improves thinking and deepens understanding
• Increases communication and social skills
• No one and done!

C3B4Me
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Principles of Good Practice

• Good Practice 3 - uses active learning
  techniques
• Learning isnt a spectator sport
• Students must talk, reflect, relate and apply
  learning experiences
• They must make what they learn part of themselves
• Authentic learning experiences
• Multiple intelligences

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Principles of Good Practice

• Good Practice 4 - gives prompt feedback
• Knowing what you know and dont know focuses your
  learning
• Students need frequent opportunities to perform
  and receive feedback
• Students need chances to reflect what they have
  learned, what they still need to learn, and how
  to assess themselves

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Principles of Good Practice

• Good Practice 5 - communicates high expectations
• Expect more and you will get it

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Principles of Good Practice

• Good Practice 6 - respects diverse talents and
  ways of learning
• Many roads lead to learning
• Students need opportunities to show their talents
  and learn ways that work for them
• Differentiated instruction

Chickering, Arthur C. and Stephen C. Ehrmann.
Implementing the Seven Principles Technology as
a Lever. AAHE Bulletin
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• 10 Minute Break

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Baby Name Wizard - Data
www.babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html
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LoTi Levels of Technology Implementation
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Lower order thinking...
Higher order thinking...
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LoTi Level 0

• Lack of access or non-use

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LoTi Level 1

• Strictly teacher use
• Teacher may take students to lab
• Little or no links to curriculum

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LoTi Level 2

• Technology as a supplement
• The technology is employed either as extension
  activities, enrichment exercises
• Technology-based tools and generally reinforces
  lower level activities

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LoTi Level 3

• Technology tools are integrated into activities
  that reflect analysis, synthesis, and evaluation
  levels
• problem-solving
• decision-making
• reflective thinking
• experimentation
• scientific inquiry

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LoTi Level 4a

• Technology-based tools are integrated in a manner
  that provides rich context for students'
  understanding of the pertinent concepts, themes,
  and processes
• Technology is perceived as a tool to identify and
  solve authentic problems as perceived by students
• Emphasis on student action and resolving issues

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LoTi Level 4b

• Technology-based tools are integrated in a
  routine manner that provides rich context for
  students' understanding of the pertinent
  instructional concepts, themes, and processes.
• Teachers can readily design and implement
  learning experiences (e.g., units of instruction)
  that empower students to identify and solve
  authentic problems (e.g., multimedia
  applications, internet, databases, spreadsheets,
  word processing) with little or no outside
  assistance.

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LoTi Level 5

• Technology access is extended beyond the
  classroom
• Classroom teachers actively elicit technology
  applications and networking from other schools,
  business enterprises, governmental agencies
  (e.g., contacting NASA to establish a link to an
  orbiting space shuttle via internet), research
  institutions, and universities to expand student
  experiences directed at problem-solving, issues
  resolution, and student activism surrounding a
  major theme/concept.

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LoTi Level 6

• Technology is perceived as a process, product
  (e.g., invention, patent, new software design),
  and/or tool for students to find solutions
  related to an identified "real-world" problem or
  issue of significance to them.
• At this level, there is no longer a division
  between instruction and technology use in the
  classroom. Technology provides a seamless medium
  for information queries, problem-solving, and/or
  product development.

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Welcome Back

• Walk throughs
• http//toddstest.wikispaces.com/14

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Our Students Today.

• Have never owned a record player
• Bottle caps have not only always been screw off,
  but have always been plastic they have no idea
  what a pull-top can looks like

• They have always had cable
• There have always been VCRs, but they have no
  idea what BETA is
• There has always been MTV

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LoTi Levels

• Assigning a LoTi Level - videos

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Cool Google Tip!

• www.google.com
• Advanced search
• Enter search term (s)
• Choose file format - PowerPoint

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Cool Google Tip!
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Gliffy
http//gliffy.com
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Web Exploration

• http//codywy.wikispaces.com

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Engagement

• Graphic Organizer activity
• Staged scenarios
• Reflective Discovery
• Current events
• Contests/games
• Surveys
• Discrepant event
• Music

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Engagement

• Your turn
• Tic-tac-toe

unit of study
culminating performance task
engage
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What we know about learners

• We know that learning happens best when a
  learning experience pushes the learner a bit
  beyond her independence level (Howard 1994,
  Vygotsky 1966).

• We know that motivation to learn increases when
  we feel a kinship with, interest in, or passion
  for what we are attempting to learn (Piaget,
  1978).

LoTi Levels 4-6
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Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)

• Lev Vygotskys Social Development Theory
• Vygotsky (1978) maintained the child follows the
  adult's example and gradually develops the
  ability to do certain tasks without help or
  assistance. He called the difference between what
  a child can do with help and what he or she can
  do without guidance the "zone of proximal
  development" (ZPD).

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Excerpted from R.G. Tharp and R. Gallimore
(1988). Rousing minds to life (p.35).Reprinted
with the permission of Cambridge University
Press.
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ZPD - Scaffolding

• Scaffolding is an instructional technique whereby
  the teacher models the desired learning strategy
  or task, then gradually shifts responsibility to
  the students.
• Scaffolding supports ZPD as learning tools,
  people, and resources
• What are some tools (scaffolding) that can
  support students to be successful in your
  classroom?

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Tools to serves asScaffolding

• Research (searching)
• Web page evaluation
• PowerPoint
• Multi-media ethics
• Visual Literacy
• 21st Century Technology
• Publishing
• Feedback
• Graphic organizers
• Talking about thinking
• Reflection
• Differentiated Instruction

• Modeling
• Guided practice
• Its temporary
• Negative scaffolding
• Safe environment
• People (classmates, parents, teachers, ETC)
• Subtle hints
• Prompts
• Nudging
• Electronic resources
• Vocabulary
• Index cards
• Multiple Intelligences
• Choice
• Multiple assessments
• Student readiness

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Three Components of Effective Technology
Integration

• 1 Critical Thinking Students should be
  engaged in higher level thinking while using
  technology
• 2 Content Students should gain content
  knowledge while working with technology
• 3 Technical Skills Students should gain
  technical skills while using technology
  (keyboarding, imaging, cutting/pasting,
  searching) to acquire 21st Century Work Skills

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Solutions for Creating Engaging Content in the
21st Century Cody Classroom a LoTi
Perspective- Day 2
Todd A. Fishburn http//codywy.wikispaces.com/
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Day 2 Agenda

• Review from yesterday - videos
• Blooms Taxonomy
• LoTi Survey and results
• Choice, graphic organizers and vocabulary
• Differentiated Instruction
• Web Resources Wikis
• Path forward..

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When I grow up

• http//toddstest.wikispaces.com/15

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Cool Google Tip!
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Review from yesterday - Pictionary

• Get into groups of two (A B)
• A face the screen
• B turn your back
• The next slide will have 5 separate words and A
  must give written clues on a piece of paper while
  B tries to guess
• Ready?

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Review from yesterday - Pictionary

• Delaware
• Engagement
• LoTi Level 0
• Squirrel
• Wikipedia
• Switch..ready?

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Review from yesterday - Pictionary

• Delaware
• Baby Name Wizard
• Server
• LoTi Level 6
• Laptop

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Proverbs for the 21st Century

• What boots up must come down
• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day
  teach him to use the Web and he wont bother you
  for weeks
• Home is where you hang your _at_

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Blooms Taxonomy
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Blooms Taxonomy

• Knowledge arrange, define, duplicate, label,
  list, memorize, name, order, recognize, relate,
  recall, repeat, reproduce, state
• Comprehension classify, describe, discuss,
  explain, express, identify, indicate, locate,
  recognize, report, restate, review, select,
  translate
• Application apply, choose, demonstrate,
  dramatize, employ, illustrate, interpret,
  operate, practice, schedule, sketch, solve, use,
  write
• Analysis analyze, appraise, calculate,
  categorize, compare, contrast, criticize,
  differentiate, discriminate, distinguish,
  examine, experiment, question, test
• Synthesis arrange, assemble, collect, compose,
  construct, create, design, develop, formulate,
  manage, organize, plan, prepare, propose, set up,
  write.
• Evaluation appraise, argue, assess, attach,
  choose, compare, defend, estimate, judge,
  predict, rate, core, select, support, value,
  evaluate

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Blooms Taxonomy Exercise
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PowerPoint Jeopardy
www.hardin.k12.ky.us/res_techn/countyjeopardygames
.htm
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Winners of the worst analogies, high school
essay contest

• Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
  (unknown)
• Her date was pleasant enough, but she knew if her
  life was a movie this guy would be buried in the
  credits as something like Second Tall Man.
  (Russell Beland, Springfield)

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Winners of the worst analogies, high school
essay contest

• McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement
  like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.
  (Paul Sabourin, Silver Spring)
• He was as tall as a six-foot three-inch tree.
  (Jack Bross, Chevy Chase)

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Winners of the worst analogies, high school
essay contest

• He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from
  experience, like the guy who went blind because
  he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those
  boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around
  the country speaking at high schools about the
  dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one
  of those boxes with a pinhole in it. (Joseph
  Romm, Washington)

www.jasonohler.com/resources/educ-wisdom.cfm
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LoTi Survey

• 38 questions
• Pedagogy
• Technology use and comfort ability
• Classroom management
• Approach to assessing student understanding
• 35 minutes

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LoTi Lounge
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LoTi Level
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LoTi Current Instructional Practice (CIP)
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LoTi - Personal Computer Use (PCU)
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LoTi Self Assessment Data
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Welcome Back!

• http//oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/

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LoTi Lounge

• www.lotilounge.com

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The Impact of Images!

• www.johnstanczak.com/files/2005NBCPhoto_s.ppt

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Choice A Great Motivator

• Modes (multiple) of assessment
• Partners
• Roles
• Variety
• Personal word lists
• Design a day
• Bloom Days

• Student generated writing prompts
• Where to sit
• Order of tasks
• Negotiate rubrics
• Author studies
• Work alone or together
• Due dates

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Menu Planner For _____________ Due __________
All items in the main course and specified of
side dishes must be completed by the due date.
You may select among the side dishes and you may
decide to do some of the desserts as well.
Main Course (complete all)
1
2
Side dishes (select ____)
1
3
2
Desserts (optional)
3
1
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How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability
Classrooms, Carol Ann Tomlinson, 2001
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• Exit Cards Decimals Fractions
• Name __________________________ Date
  ________________
• How is a decimal like a fraction?
• How are they different?
• Whats a light bulb moment for you as you
  thought about fractions and decimals?
• Create a crazy scenario applying todays
  concepts.

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Student Readiness
Knowledge Rating

• Never heard of before
• Heard of this, but unsure
• Know about this and how to use it

_____ Direct Noun _____ Direct object
pronoun _____ Indirect object _____ Indirect
object pronoun _____ Adjective _____ Add yours
here __________________________________
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3-2-1 Card
Name _______________________ Date
______________ 3 things I learned from the
friction lab. 2 questions I still have. 1
way I see friction working in the world around
me..
Tomlinson, Carol Ann. "A Look at Differentiation
at the Middle and High School Levels." Seaford
School District. , Seaford. April 2005.
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Student Feedback Sheet (cooperative groups)

• Today, the topic that we investigated.
• My teacher should give me 5 4 3 2 1 (circle
  one) bonus points today because
• One thing I learned from my partner (s) was
• I could also use this information to/in
• The neatest thing I did today was
• One thing that I am still wondering about is
• A song or a movie that will remind me of today
  is________ because .

Dr. Paul Vermette, Niagara University
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Way Out Cards

• Cable I got it and my connection is
  blazing!
• DSL I get it for the most part, but I still
  havequestions (some downloads are slow).
• Dial-up I still dont get it (I cant
  connect)!

Or.Dip Stick Check full, half full, need
oilOr.Beaker Check full, half full,
emptyOr.create your own specific to your
content area
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Vocabulary Strategies 6 Steps

• Provide a description, example, or explaination
  of the new term
• Ask student to restate in own words
• Ask student to construct a picture, symbol,
  graphic organizer of the term
• Engage students periodically to extend their
  knowledge beyond their notebook
• Ask students to discuss new term with others and
  share their thoughts
• Involve these terms in games with students
  allow them to play with the terms

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Tips for Technology Using Teachers

• Think differently step outside the box!
• Be kind to techies!
• Have a plan B, C, D.
• Dont be afraid of 7 year olds who know more than
  you do!
• Practice

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Directions Complete the chart to show what you
know about Jazz. Write as much as you can.
Jazz Music
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• I like this class because theres something
  different going on all the time. My other
  classes, its like peanut butter for lunch every
  single day. This class, its like my teacher
  really knows how to cook. Its like she runs a
  really good restaurant with a big menu and all.
• Vary your delivery, allow students to show you
  they know the material in different
  ways.differentiate!

• Comment from a course evaluation written by a 7th
  grader

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Web Site Evaluation
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The way we do things around here

• This is my company. I spend 40 of my waking
  hours here and I know that what I do contributes
  to its success or failure.
• Nothing in life can be accomplished alone, but
  my efforts influence what we can achieve together
  and how successful we can be. I take pride in my
  work. Quality is important to me because it is a
  reflection of how I see myself. Theres a part
  of me in everything I touch and this is no
  exception.
• Thank you for choosing this product and I hope
  you enjoy using it as much as I enjoyed making
  it. This is made with pride in Americas
  Heartland.
• _________________
• Employees signature RADA Mfg. Co.

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Kinesthetic Board
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MoreProverbs for the 21st Century

• The geek shall inherit the earth
• C\ is the root of all directories
• Dont byte off more than you can view
• Pentium wise pen paper foolish

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Links

• http//www.sfett.com//movie.php?mov5-parents
• http//codywy.wikispaces.com

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Cool Tools to Support the 21st Century Classroom
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Carousel Activities

• Builds on the knowledge of the entire group

• Review for an assessment in the computer lab
  (or classroom computer), students open a word
  processor and type for 5 minutes what they know
  about the particular topic
• Switch computers, and read the content and add to
  it
• Continue
• Print
• Use music to signal the stop and switch

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Carousel
Student Outcomes or Product
Student
Student Outcomes or Product
Student
Student
Student
Student
Student
Student
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Jigsaw
Student Roles
Student Roles
Principles of Good Practice.What works!
Student Outcomes or Product
Student Roles
Student Roles
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Readiness Grouping
Group 2 Students with some understanding of the
skill or concept
Group 1 Students who are struggling with the
concept or skill

Group 3 Students who understand the skill or
concept
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21st Century Nursery Rhymes

• Jack be nimble,
• Jack be quick
• Jack jump over
• The candle stick.

• Jack be nimble,
• Jack be quick
• Jack browse, surf,
• And double-click.

21st Century
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21st Century Nursery Rhymes

• Rain, rain, go away,
• Come again another day,
• Little Johnny wants to play.
• Rain, rain, go to Spain,
• Never show your face again.

• Pop-up, Pop-up go away
• Come again some other day,
• All I want is to view this site.
• Pop-up, Pop-up, go to Spain,
• Never show your face again.

21st Century
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21st Century Nursery Rhymes

• Hickory, Dickory, Block!
• The network made a lock.
• The site froze up,
• The network went down,
• Hickory, Dickory, Block!

• Hickory, Dickory, Dock!
• The mouse ran up the clock.
• The clock struck one,
• The mouse ran down,
• Hickory, Dickory, Dock.

21st Century
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21st Century Nursery Rhymes

• Star light,
• Star bright,
• First star
• I see tonight,
• I wish I may, I wish I might,
• Have the wish
• I wish tonight.

• Giga-byte,
• Giga-byte,
• First giga,
• I used tonight,
• I wish I may, I wish I might,
• Have the wish
• Of more giga-byte.

21st Century
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The Teacher!

• Know your strengths and weaknesses as a teacher
  reflection
• Choices
• Trusting climates (for teachers and students)
• By saying nothing, we are saying something
• Learners need time to share their ideas/thoughts
• Share your enthusiasm with your learners
• Learn with
• With hold information Upward Learning -
  Empowerment
• Dont talk so much
• Fib
• Negotiate rubrics
• Course menu planner

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So.what are some things you can do?
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Web Resources

• Surveys
• www.zoomerang.com
• www.surveymonkey.com
• www.supersurey.com
• www.coolsurveys.com

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Wonderville
www.wonderville.ca
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www.ikeepbookmarks.com/lotischools
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National Library of Virtual Math Manipulatives
http//nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html
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Assessment Rubrics

• http//school.discovery.com/schrockguide/assess.ht
  ml
• http//rubistar.4teachers.org
• http//www.rubricbuilder.on.ca/

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Grammar Bytes
http//chompchomp.com/menu.htm
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http//illuminations.nctm.org/
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Read, Write, Think
www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp
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Xpeditions
www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/
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Multimedia Scrap Book

• Open-ended topic that is student-centered
• Use cooperative groups
• Negotiate the rubric with students
• Let them go!

• Photos
• Maps
• Stories
• Facts
• Quotes
• Sound
• Video
• Blogs

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The Ultimate Refrigerator

• Publishing on the web!
• Wikis
• www.wikispaces.com
• Questions? E-mail me
• tafishburn_at_comcast.net

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Visual Impact in the Digital World
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Performance Analysis

• What we want, what we have, the difference is our
  performance analysis
• Students need to do a performance analysis during
  authentic tasks

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Wrap Up!

• Share with a neighbor something you learned
  today..
• What do you need help with?

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OK then!

• ZPD
• Differentiated Instruction
• Multiple Intelligences
• Student Readiness
• Few Computer Classroom
• Lesson Development
• Using the Internet to support content
• Graphic Organizers
• Cooperative Learning
• Assessment Building
• Extreme Technology Makeovers
• LoTi Mentor Certification

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A Connection.

• Push me! See how far I go!
• Work me till I drop. Then pick me up.
• Open a door and make me run to it before it
  closes.
• Teach me so that I might learn, then let me enter
  the tunnel of experience alone.
• And when, near the end, I turn to see you
  beginning anothers journey,
• I shall smile.

How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability
Classrooms, Carol Ann Tomlinson, 2001
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www.seaford.k12.de.us/it/dinj.htm
Thank You!

• tafishburn_at_comcast.net

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What do students want?

• Programs that teach keyboarding, computer, and
  Internet literacy skills
• Better availability of online information that is
  free and accessible without undue limitations on
  students freedom
• Educators to understand that the digital divide
  creates inequities among students

The Digital Disconnect, Pew Internet and American
Life Project 2002
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8 Shifts of Interactive Learning

• From linear to hypermedia learning
• From instruction to construction and discovery
• From teacher-centered to learner centered
  education
• From absorbing material to learning how to
  navigate and how to learn
• From school to life-long learning
• From one-size-fits-all to customized learning
• From learning as a torture to learning as fun
• From the teacher as transmitter to the teacher as
  facilitator and coach

Tapscott, Don. Growing Up Digital The Rise of
the Net Generation. New York McGraw-Hill. 1998.
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What we know about learners

• We know that learning happens best when a
  learning experience pushes the learner a bit
  beyond her independence level (Howard 1994,
  Vygotsky 1966).

• We know that motivation to learn increases when
  we feel a kinship with, interest in, or passion
  for what we are attempting to learn (Piaget,
  1978).

Authentic
LoTi Levels 4-6
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Authentic Tasks
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Authentic a definition

• Conforming to fact and therefore worthy of trust,
  reliance, or belief an authentic account by an
  eyewitness.
• Having a claimed and verifiable origin or
  authorship not counterfeit or copied an
  authentic medieval sword.

• If the teachers negotiates the task with
  students, the task becomes more
  authenticnegotiate rubrics!

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Authentic What does it look like?

• Realistic task or event
• Task transfer
• Interconnectedness
• Students identify with problem and become
  actively involved in generating a solution
• Searching for meaning
• Tasks are something an adult would do

• Eliminate fear of failing, yet challenge the
  learner
• Self criticism
• Make an emotional connection (the learner to the
  task)
• Let the students uncover, then you cover
• Allow student responses to drive lessons, shift
  instructional strategies and alter content
  Upward Learning

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Authentic What does it look like?

• Walls become transparent
• Call the actual tasks into question
• Pull the rug out!
• Introduce experiences that are _at_ odds with
  student perceptions

• Examples
• Mulch
• PowerBall
• Playground erosion
• Simple machines pulley to lift heavy materials
  (kit) to a shelf
• Local Events
• School/Classroom Issues

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Authentic What does it look like?

• 1st grade students do posters
• When students know that they will be displayed at
  parent night, the task becomes authentic

• A planned trip around the world
• Actually take the trip or someone in the learning
  environment takes the trip (a students family
  trip, the teachers spring break trip, ETC)

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• Avoid Conventionality
• When was the last time you had pancakes for
  dinner?
• When was the last time you ate cold pizza for
  breakfast?
• When was the last time you ate something other
  than turkey or ham at Thanksgiving?
• When was the last time you danced with someone
  without any music?
• When was the last time you went to the movies
  without knowing what was playing?

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• Avoid Conventionality
• When was the last time you modeled for a teacher
  how to differentiate instruction using
  technology?
• When was the last time you laughed so hard that
  your sides hurt at the office?
• When was the last time you modeled for a teacher
  how to use student questions to guide both the
  process and product of an instructional unit?
• When was the last time you modeled a lesson for a
  teacher involving higher order thinking aligned
  to the WY Performance Standards?