Integrating Free Digital Resources

To Support

Your Common Core

Chicago Principals & Administrators Association Annual Education Conference

Feb 7-8, 2013

Jeremy Dunn, Department of LibrariesEducation Tools and Technology

Today's Objectives

• Know the suite of free resources available to all CPS schools

• Understand how to access resources - from school and home

• Understand how resources can support the Common Core State Standards

• Develop strategies for creating inquiry-based projects to support CCSS-aligned curriculum

• Consider some Best Practices for using these digital resources

• Begin strategy development for integrating use at your school

Instructional Shifts with CCSS

1.Regular Practice with Complex Text

•Accessible texts used inconjunction with complex texts

Instructional Shifts with CCSS

2. Build knowledge through informational texts

•Inquiry-based projects = motivation

Instructional Shifts with CCSS

3. Reading and writing grounded in textual evidence

• Elementary - Narrative, Informational, Argument

• Middle - Multiple sources; explain; convince

• HS - Sophisticated arguments; variety of sources

Common Core State Standards

+

Authentic Learning Experiences

= Inquiry-based learning

This is Research!

Research Project Ingredients• Inquiry-based

• Aligned to CCSS

• Aligned to Research and Technology Skills

• Guided by a Process

Inquiry-based projects• Driven by student questions /

interests

• Guided by teacher

• Grounded in a thematic focus

• Personally relevant, Socially significant

Research Skills in CCSS

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Research Skills in CCSS

CCSS Standards > Research

• Short / sustained research based on focused ?s

• Gathering information, assessing credibility

• Integrating information

• Textual evidence to support analysis, reflection

What do you think?

Are students naturally skillful, or naturally not skillful, when

conducting Internet research?

Research Process

1.Developing the question

2.Identifying Source Information

3.Evaluating Data/Information

4.Organizing Information

5.Synthesizing Information

6.Sharing with Others

7.Reflect and Assess

Research Process

1.Developing the question

2. Identifying Source Information

3.Evaluating Data/Information

4.Organizing Information

5.Synthesizing Information

6.Sharing with Others

7.Reflect and Assess

Online databases contain important

resources to support 21st century

learning. They are:

•Aligned to standards

•Vetted for accuracy

•Authoritative

•Current

•Available 24/7 from home or school

•Provide ability to email and citations

•Some resources have audio narration

Access with these links:

•http://library.cps.k12.il.us

•http://www2.youseemore.com/cps/linkinclude.asp

Use your school’s four-digit unit number

← Multiple formats

← Option for Audio

Tools to support 21st Century skills

Primary sources located alongside current events

Currently, over 7,000+ eBooks and growing!

eBooks can greatly expand your students’ reading choices.

View on computers, whiteboards, & iPads (with a browser other than Safari)

Read-aloud options, too!

http://www2.youseemore.com/cps/

Research ModelGrade 7

Assessment

Students will create public service announcements about selected health

topics in the form of Animoto videos.

Key Elements

• Define the concept

• Highlight statistics to communicate scope of issue

• Offer tips for safeguarding well-being

Developing Questions

21st Century Tools

21st Century Tools

Process continues

1.Developing the question

2.Identifying Source Information

3.Evaluating Data/Information

4. Organizing Information

5.Synthesizing Information

6.Sharing with Others

7.Reflect and Assess

Organizing Information

• Identify three key elements

• Relevant images with URLs

• Citations and links

Students use Wikispaces

Final Product

http://animoto.com/play/50uJDtHkvxw789zKj9DYqA

Research ModelGrade 4

Assessment

Student pairs will create first-persondialogues with their selected rainforest

animal using the iPad "Puppet Pals" application.

Students begin with focused questions provided by teacher

Students use two online resources

to research their selected animal

21st Century Tools

Final Product

Review of Best Practices

• Link to resources from your school’s library or resource web page

• Embed resources into units and lessons - disintermediate -

“cutting out the middleman”

• Use deep linking on project pages to facilitate discovery

• Use a research process that guides students through steps and provides

academic language that they should understand

• Use online resources in the context of lessons built on inquiry

providing an authentic reason to go on a hunt for information.

Review of Best Practices

•Leverage model teachers to demonstrate use to other teachers

•Ask the librarian to develop online resource guides for major curriculum

projects

•Showcase student work so students are “published”

•Communicate with parents about the available resources

•Encourage students to access these resources from home