DAY ONE (July 23)
Workshop #1
Using the iPad for Assessment
Liz B. Davis
Director of Academic Technology Belmont Hill School Gr. 7-12
Workshop #1
Using the iPad for Assessment
Liz B. Davis
Director of Academic Technology Belmont Hill School Gr. 7-12
BLC Conference
July 22-26, 2013
Park Plaza Hotel
Boston MA
access her list of these sites via: http://bit.ly/lizbdavisblc13
Nearpod.com
Allows teachers to take control of the student iPads. Can push out only what you want to address during the lesson.
Can also show videos directly on their iPads.
Students can also hand-write the answers (ex. math calculations), saved as a JPEG, then teacher can share it with the rest of the class (as an example)
Works by teacher creating PDF docs that get uploaded to Nearpod. Then adding multiple choice Qs in-between these teacher created PDFs.
Socrative.com -
can add multiple choice or open-ended Qs; also can add images (can now add algebraic/calculus math formulas this way too). Rec to create quizzes on a laptop (easier) and send out on iPads
Has pre-made quizzes (ex. exit tickets) already in the program
It also has a Space Race. Teams (up to 10) can compete on how quickly they can answers a series of questions. (Can turn any quiz into one of these).
Explain Everything (iPad only @ $.2.99)
Great tool to provide feedback for writing. Allows teacher to record voice and write editorial comments. It saves this feedback as an exported QuickTime video file (or as a PDF if no voice element used). Can also send it to Dropbox or Notability or to YouTube or to the iPad's camera roll.
Same thing can be done by the students and they send their answers to the teacher.
It's time-consuming as a teacher to grade written work this way. It also needs a super quiet environment to record the voice feedback. Presenter recs. doing it for only one key writing piece/paper per term. (She would have to pre-read the essay. Think about/ prepare the verbal comments and then record the feedback.)
Goodle Forms
Nearpod.com
Allows teachers to take control of the student iPads. Can push out only what you want to address during the lesson.
Can also show videos directly on their iPads.
Students can also hand-write the answers (ex. math calculations), saved as a JPEG, then teacher can share it with the rest of the class (as an example)
Works by teacher creating PDF docs that get uploaded to Nearpod. Then adding multiple choice Qs in-between these teacher created PDFs.
Socrative.com -
can add multiple choice or open-ended Qs; also can add images (can now add algebraic/calculus math formulas this way too). Rec to create quizzes on a laptop (easier) and send out on iPads
Has pre-made quizzes (ex. exit tickets) already in the program
It also has a Space Race. Teams (up to 10) can compete on how quickly they can answers a series of questions. (Can turn any quiz into one of these).
Explain Everything (iPad only @ $.2.99)
Great tool to provide feedback for writing. Allows teacher to record voice and write editorial comments. It saves this feedback as an exported QuickTime video file (or as a PDF if no voice element used). Can also send it to Dropbox or Notability or to YouTube or to the iPad's camera roll.
Same thing can be done by the students and they send their answers to the teacher.
It's time-consuming as a teacher to grade written work this way. It also needs a super quiet environment to record the voice feedback. Presenter recs. doing it for only one key writing piece/paper per term. (She would have to pre-read the essay. Think about/ prepare the verbal comments and then record the feedback.)
Goodle Forms
(Doesn't need an iPad)
Simple Jeopardy-style Q layout --
what is your name?
what is your answer?
It creates a spreadsheet showing which student/team answered the question first/ correctly/etc.
Also used for CR behavior
Checklist Grid (add names and then provide 3 categories --
Ex: class roster with radio buttons No HW Disruption Not prepared options
select only if applies to a specific student
Edmodo (similar to another app called Schoology) Sends out assignments with text messages or email (looks similar to a Facebook page)
let's you know who has completed assignments
iBooks
Can have students send the teacher their highlighting and notes (as an email) Look at notes, select (check) all of the notes from the chapter, and Share (via mail)
Have students make their own books using BookCreator app (vignettes). It can be shared online with parents and can be a summative portfolio piece.
ClassDojo
not as functional on the iPad (best on laptops)
set up CR (can have photos of each kid)
on the iPad it will select a student randomly
keeps a tally of have many times each student is answering/participating
iMovie
has templates on the iPad so students can create movie trailers really easily
students write out a story board and can drop video clips/images into the storyboard on the margin. (She used it for a book report presentation- a challenging skill for students how to summarize in short, concise phrases or soundbites
iStopmotion ($9.99 for iPad only $4.99 if purchase more than 20) Kids can use it for claymation vignettes too. (very time intensive)
ex. a PSA for anti-bullying curriculum
creates a overlay of the previous image an "onion skin" so you can offset and add each new image/photo based on exactly where the previous image was.
Maybe a free equivalent ... WeVideo in Chrome web browser
Definition of assessment = to sit beside (Latin) the learner; what are you learning?
Learning is a triangle of
Observations == Interpretation==Cognition==...
Simple Jeopardy-style Q layout --
what is your name?
what is your answer?
It creates a spreadsheet showing which student/team answered the question first/ correctly/etc.
Also used for CR behavior
Checklist Grid (add names and then provide 3 categories --
Ex: class roster with radio buttons No HW Disruption Not prepared options
select only if applies to a specific student
Edmodo (similar to another app called Schoology) Sends out assignments with text messages or email (looks similar to a Facebook page)
let's you know who has completed assignments
iBooks
Can have students send the teacher their highlighting and notes (as an email) Look at notes, select (check) all of the notes from the chapter, and Share (via mail)
Have students make their own books using BookCreator app (vignettes). It can be shared online with parents and can be a summative portfolio piece.
ClassDojo
not as functional on the iPad (best on laptops)
set up CR (can have photos of each kid)
on the iPad it will select a student randomly
keeps a tally of have many times each student is answering/participating
iMovie
has templates on the iPad so students can create movie trailers really easily
students write out a story board and can drop video clips/images into the storyboard on the margin. (She used it for a book report presentation- a challenging skill for students how to summarize in short, concise phrases or soundbites
iStopmotion ($9.99 for iPad only $4.99 if purchase more than 20) Kids can use it for claymation vignettes too. (very time intensive)
ex. a PSA for anti-bullying curriculum
creates a overlay of the previous image an "onion skin" so you can offset and add each new image/photo based on exactly where the previous image was.
Maybe a free equivalent ... WeVideo in Chrome web browser
Definition of assessment = to sit beside (Latin) the learner; what are you learning?
Learning is a triangle of
Observations == Interpretation==Cognition==...
Workshop #2
July 23, 2013
Mark Schulte from the Pulitzer Center
A Walk Around the World -- One journalist's 7-year journey retracing the steps of our ancestors out of Africa
Paul Salopek - a foreign correspondent who won 2 Pulizter prizes for scientific journalism
Use Mark to make a connection with Paul (blogs and Q&A sessions and possible Skype sessions)
Pulitzer Center (funds global reporting projects; 300+ projects funded since 2007) puliztercenter.org (Education tabs; Gateways)
BG Info about the Pulitzer Center - goal for promote global empathy
July 23, 2013
Mark Schulte from the Pulitzer Center
A Walk Around the World -- One journalist's 7-year journey retracing the steps of our ancestors out of Africa
Paul Salopek - a foreign correspondent who won 2 Pulizter prizes for scientific journalism
Use Mark to make a connection with Paul (blogs and Q&A sessions and possible Skype sessions)
Pulitzer Center (funds global reporting projects; 300+ projects funded since 2007) puliztercenter.org (Education tabs; Gateways)
BG Info about the Pulitzer Center - goal for promote global empathy
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Global news is on the "chopping block" in the US. There is a shrinking pool of
reporters that are based around the world.
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Americans are terrible at working with people from other cultures and thus they often
get fired
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Global empathy is being negatively affected.
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Alisa Millers TED Talk re: US media consumption
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July 2009 News Map (CNN and ABC) showing a map of where in the world the news
stories came from that the Americans were exposed to in the news.
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ex., American are exposed to a lot of fear/hate-based media from Arabic/Muslim
countries.
(side note rec. great author Anna Badhkam. Her latest book The World is a Carpet)
OutofEdenWalk.com - Paul Salopek
in response to his belief that we've been buried under "a tsumani of nano headlines. We've been moving too fast to listen"
Food aid has caused nomadic cultures to become stationary. Their animals don't need to be eaten for food, so the herds increase in size and then overgrazing becomes a problem.
They are losing their knowledge of how to survive in the wild and during times of famine.
PS gives CR kids an invitation to "Let me be your reported in the field - your foreign correspondent."
pulitzercenter.org/node/11012/education
look for Unit Maps Who Am I? and How Did I Become the Person I am?
Project Zero (from Harvard's school of ed) used Edmoto to push out info/updates and
curriculum connections to teachers
walktolearn.outofeden.com
for MS and HS students to follow Paul's journey
Workshop #3
Re-Imagining School with Julia Leong (julia.Leong@me.com)
(I left this session, just a discussion forum of what others schools are experiencing)
Small Shifts, Big Impact:: Closing the Gap to Empowered Learning
Shelly Paul (Woodward Academy) Sara Wilke (November Learning)
notes are being taken to be posted at: http: // bit.ly/ssbi13
http://bit.ly/ssbi13notes
The "small shifts" concept was inspired by the book Switch by Chip & Dan Heath "Change is a process, not an event."
Write a single statement of "destination" for your ideal learner. Where do you want your learns to be at the end of the year?
Think/Pair/Share: I want my students to be curious, creative individuals who understand and utilize the scientific method as they work collaboratively to solve problems.
Shift 1: Find the bright spots.
(To boost morale and broadcast your little accomplishments)
Focus on strengths rather than problems/struggles
Tweet the good things that are happening in your school. It amplifies it "like nobody's business". The moment in the classroom that shows that learning is happening.
Shift 2: Making Thinking Visible (from Project Zero Artful Thinking website) I see...
I think...
I wonder....
• Use it to examine visuals and promote conversations between people.
• Helps students to develop a global perspective and notice things outside of their
localized world view.
walktolearn.outofeden.com
for MS and HS students to follow Paul's journey
Workshop #3
Re-Imagining School with Julia Leong (julia.Leong@me.com)
(I left this session, just a discussion forum of what others schools are experiencing)
Small Shifts, Big Impact:: Closing the Gap to Empowered Learning
Shelly Paul (Woodward Academy) Sara Wilke (November Learning)
notes are being taken to be posted at: http: // bit.ly/ssbi13
http://bit.ly/ssbi13notes
The "small shifts" concept was inspired by the book Switch by Chip & Dan Heath "Change is a process, not an event."
Write a single statement of "destination" for your ideal learner. Where do you want your learns to be at the end of the year?
Think/Pair/Share: I want my students to be curious, creative individuals who understand and utilize the scientific method as they work collaboratively to solve problems.
Shift 1: Find the bright spots.
(To boost morale and broadcast your little accomplishments)
Focus on strengths rather than problems/struggles
Tweet the good things that are happening in your school. It amplifies it "like nobody's business". The moment in the classroom that shows that learning is happening.
Shift 2: Making Thinking Visible (from Project Zero Artful Thinking website) I see...
I think...
I wonder....
• Use it to examine visuals and promote conversations between people.
• Helps students to develop a global perspective and notice things outside of their
localized world view.
Use Flickr Creative Commons for images/photos that can be used for this activity (just
give credit)
"Headlines" activity:
"Write a headline for ______ (fractions) that summarizes a key aspect you feel is significant and important." (Do this as both a pre- and post-lesson)
Shift 3: Shape the Path (multimodal and asynchronous communication) synchronous (real time) and asynchronous (delayed time)
Use of Facebook or Twitter or other digital modes to encourage conversations between people, student-student, student-teacher, etc.
Open up new opportunities to pursue what is interesting to the individual student Ex., a science blog created by a student (linking to her video of a live dogfish shark dissection, etc.)
This directly relates to Marzano's 6 steps to better vocabulary instruction Step #3: "Ask students to construct a picture/image of what the students understand the meaning of the word to be." (showed a page of MultiModal Lab Reports)
Peer Feedback forum to have students blog to discuss topics/ideas and to peer review.
Diigo - a centralized bookmarking site
Used by a Spanish teacher as students had to find examples of key concepts. They then shared this with each other thru diigo.
Shift 4: Mind the Process
Learning Out Loud - teachers verbally discuss or use Google docs with various colors to id the various writers contributing to the doc.
Metacognition -overt
Wrong Turns (failure as an opportunity) FAIL = First Attempt, Iterate, Learn
Shift 5: Grow the Culture
...of learners that reach beyond the confines of the walls of the classroom.
Create a "Relatives Network" - any relative (parent, aunt, uncle, etc.) of the students who are willing to share their professional expertise with the school.
Change Leadership - empower students to become leaders of their own education
Workshop #4
"Headlines" activity:
"Write a headline for ______ (fractions) that summarizes a key aspect you feel is significant and important." (Do this as both a pre- and post-lesson)
Shift 3: Shape the Path (multimodal and asynchronous communication) synchronous (real time) and asynchronous (delayed time)
Use of Facebook or Twitter or other digital modes to encourage conversations between people, student-student, student-teacher, etc.
Open up new opportunities to pursue what is interesting to the individual student Ex., a science blog created by a student (linking to her video of a live dogfish shark dissection, etc.)
This directly relates to Marzano's 6 steps to better vocabulary instruction Step #3: "Ask students to construct a picture/image of what the students understand the meaning of the word to be." (showed a page of MultiModal Lab Reports)
Peer Feedback forum to have students blog to discuss topics/ideas and to peer review.
Diigo - a centralized bookmarking site
Used by a Spanish teacher as students had to find examples of key concepts. They then shared this with each other thru diigo.
Shift 4: Mind the Process
Learning Out Loud - teachers verbally discuss or use Google docs with various colors to id the various writers contributing to the doc.
Metacognition -overt
Wrong Turns (failure as an opportunity) FAIL = First Attempt, Iterate, Learn
Shift 5: Grow the Culture
...of learners that reach beyond the confines of the walls of the classroom.
Create a "Relatives Network" - any relative (parent, aunt, uncle, etc.) of the students who are willing to share their professional expertise with the school.
Change Leadership - empower students to become leaders of their own education
Workshop #4
Critical Processes and Decisions for Leadership
Alan November
Brainstorm session: What is the single most important leadership skill needed? Then peoples' responses guided the topics discussed in the rest of the session.
Alan believes that it's INFORMATION AND GLOBAL RELATIONSHIPS
Alan's wondering "Who's controlling the learning?"
Discussion Point 1: School leaders need to help colleagues learn how to shift
control back to the learner - to take responsibility for learning (from the Socratic method in Ancient Greece). Students from one-room schoolhouses have better performing students/higher schools than those in regular classroom settings.
We have taken control away from students.
Leadership also starts with vision. We should revisit models of education that are historic but have been rejected over time. Figure out where we came from.
Eric Mazur 80% who do well on tests cannot apply that knowledge in a novel setting. YouTube "Abridged Confessions of a Converted Learner"
He's a big believer in the Socratic process because adolescence and pre-adolescence is social . The power of the group beats the power of the individual. The Socratic process is key. The role of the teacher is to add the most interesting questions.
A classroom in Indonesia had students take a test individually and then immediately take it again a second time AS A TEAM OF FIVE. Collaborative learning! Students debated and argued and had to come to consensus and provide an answer. There was less work for the teacher and more learning for the students.
Add the two scores together for a grand total. Therefore it was critical that students help each other learn -- because they ALL benefit when everyone learns it.
Then they are asked to define a problem AFTER they have taken the test.
Discussion Point 2: Have a global network and call upon the perspectives and expertise of people from all around the world.
What is the contribution that students are being asked to bring to the learning process? Brought up HS students from Club Academia. They have 500+ videos about various topics they are trying to learn and understand. They feel like they challenge themselves, they don't have the teachers challenge them. It's self-generated learning.
Alan November
Brainstorm session: What is the single most important leadership skill needed? Then peoples' responses guided the topics discussed in the rest of the session.
Alan believes that it's INFORMATION AND GLOBAL RELATIONSHIPS
Alan's wondering "Who's controlling the learning?"
Discussion Point 1: School leaders need to help colleagues learn how to shift
control back to the learner - to take responsibility for learning (from the Socratic method in Ancient Greece). Students from one-room schoolhouses have better performing students/higher schools than those in regular classroom settings.
We have taken control away from students.
Leadership also starts with vision. We should revisit models of education that are historic but have been rejected over time. Figure out where we came from.
Eric Mazur 80% who do well on tests cannot apply that knowledge in a novel setting. YouTube "Abridged Confessions of a Converted Learner"
He's a big believer in the Socratic process because adolescence and pre-adolescence is social . The power of the group beats the power of the individual. The Socratic process is key. The role of the teacher is to add the most interesting questions.
A classroom in Indonesia had students take a test individually and then immediately take it again a second time AS A TEAM OF FIVE. Collaborative learning! Students debated and argued and had to come to consensus and provide an answer. There was less work for the teacher and more learning for the students.
Add the two scores together for a grand total. Therefore it was critical that students help each other learn -- because they ALL benefit when everyone learns it.
Then they are asked to define a problem AFTER they have taken the test.
Discussion Point 2: Have a global network and call upon the perspectives and expertise of people from all around the world.
What is the contribution that students are being asked to bring to the learning process? Brought up HS students from Club Academia. They have 500+ videos about various topics they are trying to learn and understand. They feel like they challenge themselves, they don't have the teachers challenge them. It's self-generated learning.
Replace the term "technology" with "learning design"
Stop worrying about technology. Instead what
Socrates never wrote. He believed that books are a one-way conversation. Also, memorization is important and books take that away (if written down, there's no need to memorize)
Discussion Point 3: With technology and the internet, info is available instantaneously so teachers no longer need to be "fonts of wisdom". Instead ....
Teachers have a new role -- which is to demonstrate how to learn. Show students how do you take in new info and process it to really learn or master it?
Administrators need have to be on board for this "subversive" new/ancient approach to education. (Socratic method)
Skilled leaders run interference for the people working for them. They take the heat for them. They support their teachers and allow them to practice their craft and to revolutionize their classrooms. (Alan doesn't think this is being taught in Admin Grad Schools)
Discussion Point 4: How do you deal with the emotional roller coaster of change? It's important to have balance in your life.
Take risks. Have teachers be willing to be a learner alongside their students. This means demonstrating how to cope with failure. (ex. Play a video game with a student and then go to a counselor to discuss the awkward feelings of loss-of-control, being a failure, etc.)
Discussion Point 5: Empower students to be better consumers of the Internet and the information on it.
Demos how to use Advanced Search Limiters
in the Google web browser type
site: edu "breast cancer"
site: gov "breast cancer"
Advanced Search - select time "within the last month"
Another example of professors in England who have prepared Powerpoints of Romeo and Juliet around different themes.
filetype:ppt site:ac.uk "Romeo and Juliet" love
filetype:ppt site:edu "Romeo and Juliet" love (these are from profs in the US)
Can then compare the two opinions and debate the value of the viewpoints. This is a VERY POWERFUL experience for the students. The teacher doesn't know this advanced info, They are FACILITATORS helping the students direct their own learning.
Socrates never wrote. He believed that books are a one-way conversation. Also, memorization is important and books take that away (if written down, there's no need to memorize)
Discussion Point 3: With technology and the internet, info is available instantaneously so teachers no longer need to be "fonts of wisdom". Instead ....
Teachers have a new role -- which is to demonstrate how to learn. Show students how do you take in new info and process it to really learn or master it?
Administrators need have to be on board for this "subversive" new/ancient approach to education. (Socratic method)
Skilled leaders run interference for the people working for them. They take the heat for them. They support their teachers and allow them to practice their craft and to revolutionize their classrooms. (Alan doesn't think this is being taught in Admin Grad Schools)
Discussion Point 4: How do you deal with the emotional roller coaster of change? It's important to have balance in your life.
Take risks. Have teachers be willing to be a learner alongside their students. This means demonstrating how to cope with failure. (ex. Play a video game with a student and then go to a counselor to discuss the awkward feelings of loss-of-control, being a failure, etc.)
Discussion Point 5: Empower students to be better consumers of the Internet and the information on it.
Demos how to use Advanced Search Limiters
in the Google web browser type
site: edu "breast cancer"
site: gov "breast cancer"
Advanced Search - select time "within the last month"
Another example of professors in England who have prepared Powerpoints of Romeo and Juliet around different themes.
filetype:ppt site:ac.uk "Romeo and Juliet" love
filetype:ppt site:edu "Romeo and Juliet" love (these are from profs in the US)
Can then compare the two opinions and debate the value of the viewpoints. This is a VERY POWERFUL experience for the students. The teacher doesn't know this advanced info, They are FACILITATORS helping the students direct their own learning.
Recs. the book: Stratosphere by Michael Fullen
Workshop #5
Apps for the Classroom
Rosa and Elizabeth Ruvalcaba
The How To (the technical stuff that students know)
The Why (what the teacher can provide. Puts things in context)
showed 2 videos
iDoctor - med school student who developed the app to speed up the process and allows doctors to have more time to spend w/ patients.
iStanford app. Puts a map and GPS technology to help students get oriented to a new campus. Ex., Where my classroom? available washing machines? etc.
Apps are constantly being created and a very responsive to feedback about bugs or "can it do _____?" queries from users.
WikiNodes helpful for visual / graphic-org types. The Wiki articles are laid out on a mind map format.
Wolfram Alpha accesses same research papers as $$$$ university databases Barefoot World Atlas
Workshop #5
Apps for the Classroom
Rosa and Elizabeth Ruvalcaba
The How To (the technical stuff that students know)
The Why (what the teacher can provide. Puts things in context)
showed 2 videos
iDoctor - med school student who developed the app to speed up the process and allows doctors to have more time to spend w/ patients.
iStanford app. Puts a map and GPS technology to help students get oriented to a new campus. Ex., Where my classroom? available washing machines? etc.
Apps are constantly being created and a very responsive to feedback about bugs or "can it do _____?" queries from users.
WikiNodes helpful for visual / graphic-org types. The Wiki articles are laid out on a mind map format.
Wolfram Alpha accesses same research papers as $$$$ university databases Barefoot World Atlas
Zite
Pinterest
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customizable news app from various newspapers in the world
theme-based organization tool for notes/webpages/photos/lessons
with helpful graphics. It also suggests other things based on your
history.
historical images and info about buildings/historical site in a city
....
apps that track when other apps are available FREE
historical images and info about buildings/historical site in a city
....
apps that track when other apps are available FREE
