Digital Learning Day Make Space for Learning

11/5/13

Backwards Design…Acknowledgements First• Many thanks are in order…

• Glenville School for hosting• Presenters/Facilitators• Custodial Staff / All that helped put together

materials• Visitors

• All the participants for engaging in a new type of Professional Learning experience

Todays ObjectivesWhy new technology isn’t enough...

• Teachers provided an“own their own learning” day through collaboration, authentic and relevant exploration of instructional practices.

• Provide time, resources and structure to“explore closely- online tools, resources and strategies to support CCSS and SBAC and model student-centered learning.

• Encourage teachers to develop a PLN (Personal Learning Network).

• Improve home-school connections and parent engagement.

• Determine barriers and challenges as well as rewards of the experience through reflections in each activity.

• Maximize the power of local and global sharing of ideas.

Structure, Resources & Answers or…Where do I go? • Structure of the Day

• Review Agenda• Locations• Descriptions/Grid

• Wikispaces address: http://DLday.greenwich.wikispaces.net

• Be sure to sign-in on Full Workshop registration plus individual session attendance forms in rooms.

• Backchannel - Questions/Observations• Todays Meet:

https://todaysmeet.com/DLDay• If any of the pages load too slowly – let us know

immediately and we’ll try to correct it.• Reflection & Final Group Presentation in google

presentation – take a look at a previous presentation so your group knows the expectation.

The New Digital Divide : Information Fluency

• Those who know how "think" about search vs. those who don't

• Those who know how to validate information vs. those who don't

• Those who know where to find information – use PLNs and be in control of their own learning – and those who don’t

• Those who know how to get information to travel to them vs. those who still chase it.

• Those who have the knowledge to create and re-mix digital media and those who don't .

Most Frequent Words in CCSS

SBAC Readiness ReflectionsELA

SBAC Readiness ReflectionsMathematics• Prove incorrect scenario• Fractions, decimals• Reading comprehension for directions• Online tools: graphing, calculators (very

different – need practice)

SBAC Readiness ReflectionsTechnology Skills

SAMR Model of Technology Integration

Focus…Learn one Tool, Use it throughout your curriculum …Remember, it’s just a

tool…

Another acronym

This is called FLNThis is called FLNFlipped Learning Flipped Learning

NetworkNetworkNot another acronym….Not another acronym….

Have Fun!!Have Fun!!