teacher kickoff-meeting
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Group Share
Even if you’re not totally sure you’re going to join us, let’s havean exchange - share a picture or blog post about your classroom
or work in the chat as you enter. Tell everyone your grade and where you are located.
As you enter the room:• Check your sound (Click on up arrow, choose Audio
options, click “Test Audio” UNDER the Red button, follow onscreen instructions.”)
Today’s hosts: Lead Teacher, Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher (Westwood Schools), Lisa Durff @mrsdurff, AdminAlefiya Bhatia, Crescerance / MAD Learn
Kickoff Meeting
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–Guiding QuestionMAD about Mattering Project
“What breaks your heart and how can you use that
heartbreak to develop an app that matters to our world?”
www.madaboutmattering.com Mad About MatteringWebsite & Where We’ll be Blogging: www.madaboutmattering.com
Teacher Document: http://bit.ly/mad-matter
Give your Skype handle to Lisa Durff for the Skype chat group.
Wiki (including timeline) http://madaboutmattering.wikispaces.com
Hashtag: #appsthatmatter
Schools http://madaboutmattering.wikispaces.com/Schools
Calendar: http://madaboutmattering.wikispaces.com/Calendar
Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mad-about-mattering
www.madaboutmattering.com Today’s Agenda
Welcome
Project Overview
Guiding Question
Current Timeline
Getting Started
Questions
www.madaboutmattering.com Let’s introduce ourselves
Go around the room
Share:
Who you are
How long you’ve been teaching
The grade you’re teaching
Why you're participating in this project
One unique thing about you
What you hope to get out of this project.
www.madaboutmattering.com TimelineApplication Deadline: February 1
Online Teacher Information Meeting: February 1
Classroom and Student Handshake: February 8-19
Wiki Editing and sharing of heartbreaks: February 19-28
Non Participating classrooms removed from project: February 23
Meet your lead learnersMAD about Mattering Project
Alefiya Bhatia Angela Maiers Vicki Davis
www.madaboutmattering.com
Guiding Question:
“What breaks your heart and how can you use that heartbreak to develop an app that matters to our world?”
As you enter the room:• Check your sound (Click on up arrow, choose Audio
options, click “Test Audio” UNDER the Red button, follow onscreen instructions.”)
Project Website: www.madaboutmattering.com
Today’s hosts: Lead Teacher, Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher (Westwood Schools), Lisa Durff @mrsdurff, AdminAlefiya Bhatia, Crescerance / MAD Learn
Kickoff Meeting
February Activities1. Map Your Heartbreak
http://www.angelamaiers.com/2013/11/heartbreak-mapping-in-action/
p 61-62 in Classroom habitudes by Angela Maiers2. Keynote by Angela Maiers3. Students blog and share
www.madaboutmattering.com Background Info
www.madaboutmattering.com Project Aims1. To use compassion driven innovation & collaborative teamwork to develop an
app that matters to the world
2. To facilitate collaborative social entrepreneurial teams using leading computer science technology to create apps that tackle important problems to the students
3. To develop a network of supporters and investors to help fund & develop student apps and take them to market.
4. To document & demonstrate the next generation of global collaboration harnessing the power of collaborative technology, social media, and emerging partnerships of organizations wanting to help students pursue their passions and become excellent collaborators in the world today.
5. To create a duplicable model of quad-engineering where four classrooms work together to solve important global problems and release that model as an open education resource (OER) for teachers around the world to use and adapt.
6. To ensure that students are not just consumers of technology, but also creators of it.
www.madaboutmattering.com What is quad engineering?
Kids have been writing together using quad blogging.
With programming, STEM and compassion-based student projects growing, we need to develop a way for classrooms to co-engineer together. We’re calling this quad engineering.
www.madaboutmattering.com NOTE!
NOTE: This timeline may change. After the other three classrooms are selected, we will discuss specific issues with timeframe. Vicki’s school is out the week of May 20th so efforts will be made to get this done by then. Some dates may be changed for standardized testing or exams in some schools. We can work with schools within reason.
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One of our secrets of success is the weekly teacher meetings!
Recorded and sent to all teachers
Expect to have them weekly for the first 5-6 weeks and then as needed (usually bi-weekly)
Make sure you read your email!
Communication is key
We are in alpha modeWe are taking what Vicki
has learned from more than 20 collaborative projects + Choose2Matter knowledge from Angela + Top-notch
app development expertise from Alefiya to create
something new!
www.madaboutmattering.com Questions?
Cover the project basics to ensure a good fit
Answer your questions to determine if it is a good fit for your curriculum
Recruit a “dream team” of schools who believe in compassion-driven innovation, global collaboration, and STEM learning and programming.
Project document: http://bit.ly/mad-matter
Meet your lead learnersMAD about Mattering Project
Alefiya Bhatia Angela Maiers Vicki Davis