Charles E. Smith

Jewish Day School August 24-25, 2016

2-Day Boot Camp

transforming education one BLOG at a time

THANK YOU for being part of this cohort. I am excited and honored to work with you!

•  About Us •  Exploring the EduBloggerSphere •  Learning Intentions & Success

Criteria •  Why transform education? •  NOW Literacies •  Why blogs? •  Hopes & Fears •  Welcome to your blog

Day 1

Andrea Hernandez

Selfie Share: 1) Take a selfie. 2) Add your teaching passion. 3) Share with me by text: 904-237-8401 OR email: andrea@edjewcon.org

with the End in Mind Begin

Explore blogs that connect with

I SEE I THINK I WONDER

your passion

Learning Intentions

To build relationships that will contribute to the success of the virtual coaching

To build understanding of modern literacies, pedagogies, heutagogy and metacognitive reflection

To learn and practice skills & habits of mind that will be used to support your students & shift your thinking about teaching & learning

To build understanding of pedagogical documentation (a reflection tool for your own learning & a teaching tool for others)

Success Criteria What do you think “success” will look like, feel like, etc? What will you need to understand, do or experience in order to feel successful?

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It’s a

mind shift

You First

Where the

MAGIC happens!

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Learning is Messy

ActionResearch

“We do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience.”

-John Dewey

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WHY

TRANSFORM education?

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CHANGE Happens

What will they

NOT KNOW?

Our world

changing back is NOT

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“If you don’t like

CHANGE you’re going to like

IRRELEVANCE even less.”

-General Eric Shinseki

What YEAR

our preparing are we

STUDENTSfor?

What do we…?

KEEP UPGRADE THROW AWAY

-Heidi Hayes Jacobs Curriculum 21

LITERACY has always been defined by

TECHNOLOGY

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-Nichole Pinkard

The power of LITERACY is effective COMMUNICATION

LITERATE

In 2016?

Discuss What does it mean to be

Literacies

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Now

For

Basic Literacy

Information Literacy

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Media Literacy “If students are not taught the language of sound & images, shouldn’t they be considered as illiterate as if they left college without being able to read & write?” – George Lucas

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Visual Literacy

Network Literacy

Global Literacy

Attention Literacy

Meta Literacy

“In hunting culture, kids play with bows & arrows…

In information society, they play with information”

THINK PAIR SHARE

What do you want to

THINK & LEARN more about?

What will you REFLECT on?

WHY

Blogs?

“Blog is just software, but scientists & science writers are using that software in serious ways, making the world a better place.”

To CHANGE the WORLD Why Do We Blog?

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How Blogging Transformed My Teaching…and MORE!

“Are you holding back?”

“We all decided to walk through the same door on the Internet so we could THINK TOGETHER.”

–Alec Couros @courosa

Conversation?

Are

YOU part of the

story Tell

YOUR

“All knowledge is self-knowledge.”

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Gain perspective

See Things Differently

–Deborah Meier in Visible Learners

through the eyes of others

is an essential part of

strong professional development and the one most seriously lacking from schools.

Seeing the same practices

Courage Transformation

takes

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Hopes

Fears

and

Face Fear Your

WELCOME to Your Blog

THINK…

I used to

THINK… Now I

•  What do YOU want to learn? How will you learn it? What will you do with what you know?

•  From pedagogy to heutagogy •  Documenting Learning Why? How? •  Learning challenge…… •  Visible thinking routines? •  Video Conferencing- 2 PM •  Reflect

Day 2

What do you want to learn? How do you want to learn it?

What will you DO with it?

(Paper) Tweet It!

Heutagogy: The study of self-determined learning

TRAVEL BOOKS

PODCASTS VIDEOS ARTICLES

CONVERSATIONS CONFERENCES

Some ways we learn…

“LEARNING is an in-process activity. We need to lay aside the desire to

KNOW

LEARN.” and embrace instead the desire to continue to

Discuss

The role of a

coach

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What about

ASSESSMENT?

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Documenting Learning

One Word

What does

DOCUMENTATION mean to you?

Text-Rendering PROTOCOL

Learning Artifacts: the products & process of

students’ & teachers’ learning made visible

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quotes drawings videos

reflections photographs

Learning Artifacts:

Documentation by TEACHERS

share practices with colleagues

gather & showcase artifacts for teaching portfolio

reflection

formative assessment

document professional growth

Documentation by STUDENTS

to build positive digital footprint

gather & showcase artifacts For portfolio

reflection & metacognition-

to become aware of their learning

to articulate & showcase their learning

document growth

Documentation by SCHOOLS

attract like-minded Future employees

examples for professional learning

communication with parents/

community

marketing

document growth

Headlines Write a headline for

Documenting for Learning

that captures the most important aspect

to be remembered

Documenting

Toolkit

What tools can we use to document learning?

The importance of ROUTINES

Documenting ROUTINES

Thinking ROUTINES

The

Paper Airplane

Challenge

Video Conferencing

Silvana Scarso: Teaching & Learning Coach

at Graded American School of Sao Paulo Interests: Global Learning, Cognition,

STEAM (especially participation of women)