Sunday, January 29, 2012

Curriculum 21: Making the Transition in Our School

by Heidi Hayes Jacobs

Edmodo Group FS6696
Continuing and deepening the themes from her keynote, Heidi asks participants to bring their laptops to experience Dr. Jacobs' new professional development model on HOW TO bring colleagues both locally and globally into professional learning communities focused on three essential curricular questions: What to keep? What to cut? What to create? Examine web 2.0 strategies for helping faculties REPLACE dated curriculum and instruction. Determine how to globalize the curriculum with strategic interactions with worldwide classroom Skype or Google plus sessions. Practice using new web 2.0 applications for PD in you school as an administrator Walk through the Upgrading Model for assessment design.


Excellent site!

My random notes. Check out the above site, especially!

Implementing in schools:

Quality Upgrades
  • start with a Unit of study
  • deepen examination of content
  • engender INDEPENDENCE
  • reflect quality in student products/performanc

    On average, 40% of achievement test errors are READING errors

Everyone agrees to 1 upgrade (school-wide)
meet the enemy: #2 pencil & standardized testing


3 types of pedagogue:
  • antiquated (devoid of relationship)
  • classical - timeless (about the relationship between students and teacher)
  • self-navigation (teacher role: coach, co-learner, classical -- all 3)
Twitter: WW2 Tweets from 1940
@RealTimeWWII

The NEW Common Core Standards are an Opportunity to Upgrade




Strategy: combine the use of wordle and worldmapper.
Also use visual thesauraus






Global Competence Matrix - ways to upgrade in the classroom

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Curriculum 21: The New Literacies: Digital, Global, and Media

by Heidi Hayes Jacobs



How can we GLOBALIZE our classrooms? Do you wish to engage your school into DIGITAL LITERACY upgrades? How do we help our students critique and create MEDIA that prepares them for future careers and college? A new kind of learner needs new literacies and teachers who embrace them. Based on her groundbreaking ASCD book, Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World, Heidi Hayes Jacobs will take you through approaches on how to engage your staff in UPGRADING dated curriculum with dynamic modern alternatives. She will zoom in on the distinctions of each literacy, the relationship between them, and need revisions in our school programs to engage learners in acquiring proficiency. She will share practices from her newest work, Mapping to the Core: Integrating the Common Core Standards into your Local School Curriculum which is being released in a new format: LiveBook and LivePlanner, by SINET. Specifically she will show the new literacies are embraced by the CCSS. 



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Thank you to Steve for posting his notes:



Keynote Session
Heidi Hayes Jacobs - Curriculum 21

Not reform, new form

People do dumb things with smart boards
We must get teachers using webinars - just like powerpoint, once they learn how it works they can apply how it's useful for their students
19th century schedules - 45 minutes, 180 days, factory based
Curriculum 21 - Essential Curriculum for ..

Social production, social network, semantic web, media grids, non-linear learning (be discerning)
What's wrong with being interested in something other than what's happening at the moment?  Isn't that a 'wanting to learn something'?

Research - means search again
Strategic Upgrades - at least one upgrade per unit

Digital Literacy - Active and strategic selection of web 2.0 tools, Re-search, Active and strategic selection of repository sites, Technical expertise with keyboarding, voice recognition and touch technologies
Media Literacy, Global Literacy
http://www.gapminder.org - change in income from 1800's to 2010 - Cool example.  What other stats available?

Curriculum specific - do one thing well  don't worry about the whole mass of stuff out there
Replace an oral report with a podcast
http://googleartproject.com - Choose five works of art and describe the changes that occured over time
Media Literacy - new forms, quality, transition our PD, Critical analysis of ALL forms of media
Jacob Burn Center
Global Literacy - Recognizing the relationship between place and people, integration of active geography, linking 
Two tier model

short term - revision and replacement of dated curriculum
Long term - new versions of program structures that house curriculum and instruction

"I'm against graduation." as we now know it
Basic elements - content, skills, assessment
upgrading maps for learner engagement - text messaging for taking notes
Students need to own their learning - create a facebook page of a historic figure, self publishing, skype grandmothers, video trailer for upcoming units, podcast

We need to be doing what we expect our students to do for the next century

How about (for assessment):  Every student - create an app

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Making Mobile Media Meaningful in Your Classroom and Beyond


Edmodo Group FS5772
Making Mobile Media Meaningful in Your Classroom and Beyond
Hall Davidson
Make your classroom walls expand and the world come alive with information. iPads, tablets, and mobile phones make engaging learning possible both in classrooms and the extended anywhere/anytime universe. On computer or mobile, build interactive projects and assessments that expand learning with apps, QR codes, Web 2.0 sites. Learn how free or fee resources, media libraries, and the web can work mobile—even for students without smart phones. iPad and mobile will be used but applies to other platforms.

Linkyy.com/MakingMobileMeaningful

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The iOS Support Group Meeting for 2012


Edmodo Group: FS4704
The iOS Support Group Meeting for 2012 (New members welcomed)
It's that time of year again! Grab your iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone and head over to see all the new and fun apps that have been released since the last time we got together. Are you new to the group or maybe thinking about buying your first iOS device? You are welcomed to join as well! We will be reviewing some of the best apps we have discovered for the classroom as well as personal productivity over the years as well as talking about tips, tricks, accessories and all the new apps that make us even more productive than last year.


Sorry, I have no notes of this session. If YOU took some, please send them to the email address on the main page of this blog.

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Saturday, January 28, 2012

Flip Your Classroom? Introducing Your Personal 10 Point Tech Plan


Edmodo Group FS3904
by John Kuglin
A recent development called cloud computing is changing classrooms. Numerous cloud-based applications provide new methods of assessment, assist in individual learning plans, and facilitate building customized online tutorials. This workshop challenges participants with a 10 Point Personal Tech Plan built around innovative and mostly free web-based services! Discover new collaboration tools, distribution techniques, and ways to present information in a cost effective systems oriented approach.

From John's Edmodo Group:


Please visit http://www.kuglin.com and click on the wiki tab for all my information.


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