breaking barriers-technology cohort
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Presentation to kick off a student-centered, constructivist cohort with a focus of using technology to enhance learning.TRANSCRIPT
Breaking Barriers
Bode Middle School
Terri Johnsonteach pape
rless
By the time we leave today, you should have a
clear idea of why we need to design for
learning and how we plan to get there.
AgendaWelcome and Introduction
Did You Know
Constructivist Theory
Designing For Learning
T-Pack
Bode LIVE
Next Steps
Why Breaking Barriers?
Did You Know...
Thoughts?
TRANSFORMING LEARNING
Engaging the Bode Community in global communications – developing educators, transforming
classrooms, preparing global workers.
“What if school wasn’t like real life? What if it was real
life?”
~Chris Lehmann, SLA Principal
Teachers seek and value their
students’ point of view.
Classroom activities challenge
students’ suppositions.
Teachers pose problems of
emerging relevance.
Teachers build lessons around
primary concepts and “Big Ideas”.
Teachers assess student learning in
the context of daily teaching.
(Brooks and Brooks 1999)
Classroomthe teacher searches for students’
understandings of concepts, and then structures opportunities for students to refine or revise by posing contradictions,
presenting new information, asking questions, encouraging research, and/or
engaging students in inquiries designed to challenge current concepts.
(brooks and brooks 1999)
Success = IQ x EQEQ = Think, Learn, Communicate
Take Away from Top 20
Curios
ity
inquiry
PBL
Constructivist Learning
Writer’s Workshop
Designing for learning rather than planning for
teaching demands a different way of thinking.
Book Study
• Constructivist Learning Design (1-6)
• Elements of Design (7-10)
• Precedents for Constructivist Learning Design (11-14)
• Teacher Learning Circles (14-17)
Protocol
What is still circling around in your head?
What is square with your thinking?
What are 3 points we need to remember.
PCK by Shulman
T-Pack
A Squirrelly Example Try To Do
Technology
Pedagogy
Content Knowledge
T-PaCK
Pandora
Pandora
Social Networks
eVite
Google Earth
Blogging
Flickr
Delicious
animoto
Diigo
You Tube
The Networked
Get your tool belt ready.
First Tool: Blogging!
• Blogs in Plain English
Examples of School Networks
• http://virtualsouthside.ning.com/
• http://www.classroom20.com/
• http://sjsdliteracynetwork.ning.com
• http://lhsirishnet.ning.com
What do you see? What kinds of conversations do you notice?
A Web Site Story
Next Steps
• Become a member of BodeLIVE.ning.com
• Read Chapter 1 in Design for Learning
• Respond to Discussion Question at BodeLIVE.
Artwork Thanks• Image: 'Union II' by Orcoo at www.flickr.com/photos/
47815255@N00/3598076216
• Image: 'The Burden of Thought' www.flickr.com/photos/13152844@N00/102953776
• Image: 'Atlas, it's time for your bath' www.flickr.com/photos/73645804@N00/440672445
• Image: 'Tools' www.flickr.com/photos/10488545@N05/1596898776
• Image: 'Hammer' www.flickr.com/photos/36045027@N00/2054989998
• Image: 'Raleigh Sprite 1976' www.flickr.com/photos/87555792@N00/254286233
Artwork con’t
• Image: 'O sol no destino' by Eduardo Amorim at www.flickr.com/photos/75133058@N00/514244830
• Image: 'Its Future is in our Hands -+Live+Earth' by aussiegall at www.flickr.com/photos/14516334@N00/759309122
• Image: 'Jonny Wilkinson Squirrel - Rugby World Cup+Final+Practice..:O)' by law_keven at www.flickr.com/photos/66164549@N00/1575325110
• Imagae: ‘Up Close with Botany’ by Sean Nash