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Department of Social Sciences

Social Sciences Digital Training

“A New Era in Social Sciences: A Digital Timeline for Success”

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A New Era in Social Sciences: A Digital Timeline for Success

Today you will participate in:

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Our DIGITAL DEVICES resources

Interactive participant AGENDA

Schedule DAY 1

Schedule DAY 2

FIRST day LESSON PLAN device integration GRADE 7 & GRADE 9

Group Discussion Group Work Self-Reflection Device training

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TIME Civics 7th Grade Civics 7th Grade World History 9th World History 9th 8:00 A.M. - 8:30 A.M.

WELCOME & INTRODUCTIONS

BELL RINGER DAY 1: MAKE NAME TAG AND DEVICE SCAVENGER HUNT

8:30 A.M. – 9:15 A.M.

Dr. Sherrilyn Scott Guillermo Ramos Crystel Dunn Robert Brazofsky

9:15 A.M. -11:30 A.M.

IPREP Trainers IPREP Trainers IPREP Trainers IPREP Trainers

11:30 A.M. -12:15 P.M.

LUNCH

12:20 P.M.-1:05 P.M. Lan School Nancy Orellano, presenter

One Note/One Drive Tessie Mederos, presenter

My Big Campus Daniela Mitchell, presenter

Speed Networking

1:10 P.M. -1:50 P.M. One Note/One Drive My Big Campus Speed Networking Lan School

1:55 P.M.-2:40 P.M. My Big Campus Speed Networking Lan School One Note/One Drive

2:45 P.M.-3:30 P.M. Speed Networking Lan School One Note/One Drive My Big Campus

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My Big Campus is the buzzing educational hub between students and the Web. It takes all the features of an LMS (like lessons, assignments, reporting, calendars) and puts them into a safe, collaborative community. With My Big Campus, students are engaged, educators are inspired, parents are involved, and IT is confident that everything's safe.

Take notes the easy way. Gather all your ideas in your notebooks stored online with OneDrive, so they’re always with you. Easily capture ideas, whatever form they come in. Type, handwrite, or sketch your thoughts. Clip links and webpages, insert photos and videos, embed tables, and attach files. Ink away! Draw, erase, and edit smoothly, using your finger, stylus, or mouse, with OneNote. Keep all your notes together. Gathering information in one go-to notebook saves time and can spark your creativity

LanSchool delivers the security, services and teaching tools to let teachers do what they do best – teach. LanSchool is used by to monitor students' activity and improve learning in a digital classroom. It includes a screen monitor, keystroke monitor, teacher-to-student chat feature, URL monitor, and various other features

Speed Networking is an efficient, face-to-face professional networking model similar to “speed dating”, that enables participants to make new contacts and share one-on-one focused conversations on Digital Devices lasting between 2-5 minutes. It’s organized chaos – loud, energizing, and fun! Participants are split into two groups and are seated at tables in pairs facing each other. The person sitting across from you is your first partner

ActivInspire empowers teachers to blend real-time assessment and real-world experience into the learning process. ActivInspire integrates dual-user pen and multi-touch functionality* and Promethean’s award-winning student response systems to support collaborative teamwork and ongoing assessment in the classroom. With access to premium content, including assessment templates and unlimited visual and auditory resources, ActivInspire provides teachers u with all the building blocks needed to create differentiated lessons filled with rich, hands-on activities in a fraction of the time.

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Session Title: A New Era in Social Sciences: A Digital Timeline for Success

Audience: Civics and World History Teachers

Facilitator(s): Department of Social Sciences

Resources: http://socialsciences.dadeschools.net

Guiding Questions:

• Why digital devices? • How can digital devices improve classroom instruction, increase content knowledge, and assist in student mastery of

Florida Standards? • How will I effectively implement the digital device into my social studies classroom work flow?

What? So What? Now What?

What did we do?

What was significant to you? What inferences can you make about what we did or why we did it this way?

How might I use this at my school? What would I do differently?

Hopes & Fears (Share out your hopes & fears) Why Digital, Why Now?

Digital Immigrants vs. Digital Natives (10 min)

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What did we do?



What does effective digital learning look like in the social studies classroom? ( 5 min)

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What did we do? (5 min)



How will the digital devices improve student learning in the social studies classroom? How does digital teacher confidence in the use of technology affect student learning?

What not to do with your digital device in the social studies classroom. After watching video: How confident are you in the implementation of a digital device in your classroom?


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What did we do?

What was significant to you? What inferences can you make about what we did or

why we did it this way?


WORKFLOW: What plans do you have to implement in your social studies classroom workflow? How to retrieve and return device To include turning on device Log in How to access my big campus

Discuss My Big Campus. What sites are the main sites available through your Digital Device?

45 MINUTE SESSIONS: Reflect on how the following programs/resources can assist you to improve teaching and learning in your classroom. Write comments below.

Lan School

My Big Campus

One Note

Networking

Home Learning Day 1: Bring in your best research/teaching resources for your assigned benchmark. Think of the best lesson you have for your course, the one that you KNOW the students love and the one that you KNOW is EFFECTIVE. Bring in a copy of the lesson, write some notes about the lesson, or be able to verbally share about that EXEMPLAR lesson for tomorrow.



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TIME Civics 7th Grade Civics 7th Grade World History 9th World History 9th

8:00 A.M. - 8:30 A.M.

WELCOME & BELL RINGER DAY 2- Share with your partner the resources you have for your assigned benchmark.

8:35 A.M. – 10:00 A.M.

Promethean/ ACTIVInspire


McGraw Hill

McGraw HILL

10:05 A.M. -11:30 A.M.

McGraw Hill McGraw Hill Promethean/ ACTIVInspire


11:30 A.M. -12:30 P.M.

LUNCH

12:35 P.M. – 1:35 P.M.

7th grade Civics

Lesson Demonstration

7th grade Civics Lesson Demonstration

9th grade World History Lesson Demonstration

9th grade World History Lesson Demonstration

1:40 P.M. - 3:30 P.M.

PREPARING FOR 1st Day of Instruction MY BIG CAMPUS BUNDLE BUILDING




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Session Title: A New Era in Social Sciences: A Digital Timeline for Success

Audience: Civics and World History Teachers

Facilitator(s): Department of Social Sciences

Resources: http://socialsciences.dadeschools.net

Guiding Questions:

• Why digital devices (merging the old with the new) infusing ACTIVInspire/Promethean boards into the social studies classroom to address Civic/U.S.History EOC’s?

• How can digital devices improve classroom instruction, increase content knowledge, and assist in student mastery of Florida Standards by bundle building in the social studies classroom?

• Which Microsoft (pre-assigned) video can be used to enhance a Civics/World History assignment? • How will I effectively utilize the textbook digital device integration into my social studies academic work flow? • Describe your workflow plan for implementing your digital device on the 1st day of instruction for the 2014-2015 school

year. What? So What? Now What?

What did we do?



Discuss merging the old with the new? What’s out (old) and what’s in (new)?

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What did we do?



The ActivInspire/Promethean boards will be used to enhance what benchmark/topic for your Civics/World History lesson? How will this technology assist students in grasping the social studies content knowledge?

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What did we do?



As teachers we all have lessons that are exemplar/stellar. Think of one of these lessons. Turn to a partner and describe the lesson (2 minutes). Brainstorm with your partner concerning ways technology, specifically

our digital resources (LANSCHOOL, MYBIG CAMPUS, etc.) will enhance and improve this exemplar lesson. Have your partner do the same.

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What did we do? 2 minutes: Social Studies, Why Digital,

Why Now?



Reflect on our earlier discussion of Hopes & Fears, what are the changes? In today’s workshop you were introduced to various digital device tools that will enhance your social studies classroom. Describe your workflow plan for implementing your digital device and 1st day of instruction for the 2014-2015 school year.


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*A college student is more likely to be familiar with SparkNotes than CliffNotes, Wikipedia than WorldBook, and more comfortable locating bibliographic material in an online search engine versus a card catalog. Peek in on college classroom and you are likely to see desks lined with iPads, laptops and Smartphone’s. The instructor may be using online videos as lecture notes and social networking and blogs to post information on homework problems or challenging course material, and office hours might be replaced with instant message chat times. While utilizing many of these newer technologies in the classroom may seem foreign to veteran teachers, the youth entering colleges today are accustomed to creating, learning and communicating using technology (Green & Hannon, 2007).

Why Digital, Why Now?

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DEVICE LESSON TITLE: Being an Informed Digital Citizen and Social Science Researcher

LESSON OBJECTIVE: Grades: 7TH & 9th STANDARDS/BENCHMARKS

Florida Standards • LAFS.68.RH.2.4 Determine the

meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies.

• LAFS.68.RH.3.7 Integrate visual

information (e.g., in charts graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.

• LAFS.68.WHST.3.7 Conduct short

research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.

• LAFS.68.WHST.3.8 Gather relevant

information from multiple and digital sources, using search terms effectively.

The students will be able to integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g. visually, quantitatively, as well as in words) in order to address a question or solve a problem.

DEVICE PROCEDURES AND LOGISTICS

PRE-LESSON PREPARATION:

*Please note: Teachers can access this lesson plan on My Big Campus by doing the following:

• Go to the Library tab and enter in the Search tab the title of this lesson - Being an Informed Digital Citizen and Social Science Researcher.

• For the discussion activity in the lesson the teacher needs to create Groups (by period) through My Big Campus prior to delivering the lesson. If not, students can have the discussion in class.

• (Web Limiting) Limit the websites by using that can be accessed by one of more student computers/devices. The teacher can choose to restrict all web activity, allow only certain websites, or block only certain websites. This is often used to keep students focused or to create lessons that require students to access only certain sites.


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Note: LanSchool is not meant to replace a school-wide web content filter but rather to guide students’ attention in the classroom

Please also note: LanSchool MAY NOT be available at the beginning of the 2014-15 academic year, if it is not, you will not be able to block student access to websites and will not be able to do the words in green below. However, the M-DCPS filter will still be active.

HOW TO CONFIGURE LIMIT WEB: in Use the following Procedures: Select the drop-down arrow to the right of the “Limit Web” button in the toolbar.

1. Select the “Configure Web Limiting…” option 2. Select either “Block All”, “Allowed Web Sites” or “Blocked Web Sites” and add

website addresses to those lists. 3. Teacher may only allow for this lesson activity the following websites to be

viewed and accessed: 4.

For both 7th and 9th Grade: http://www.dadeschools.net/ www.bing.com

For 7th grade only:

http://worldjusticeproject.org/what-rule-law http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rule%20of%20law http://definitions.uslegal.com/r/rule-of-law/

For 9th grade only:

http://loc.gov/teachers/tps/quarterly/historical_thinking/article.html http://sheg.stanford.edu/rlh

Next Generation Sunshine State Standards- Social Sciences

• SS.7.C.1.9 Define the rule of law and recognize its influence on the development of the American legal, political, and governmental systems.

9th Grade World History Standards & Benchmarks Florida Standards

• LAFS.910.RH.1.2 Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.

• LAFS.1112.RH.3.7 The students will be

able to integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g. visually, quantitatively, as well as in words) in order to address a question or solve a problem.

• LAFS.1112.WHST.3.8 Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively.

HOW TO CONFIGURE LIMIT WEB: In

http://www.dadeschools.net/

http://www.bing.com/

http://worldjusticeproject.org/what-rule-law

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rule%20of%20law

http://definitions.uslegal.com/r/rule-of-law/

http://loc.gov/teachers/tps/quarterly/historical_thinking/article.html

http://sheg.stanford.edu/rlh


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o Teacher Introduction – First Day of School/Class

o Class/Subject Introduction

o Take Class Attendance

o The new Social Studies Classroom with Mobile Devices (7th Grade Civics and 9th Grade World History)

o What are our roles in the Digital Classroom?

o Overview of Classroom Workflow

o Designation of Classroom Device Student Leaders

o Distribute/Assign Student Devices

*(Please refer to more specific directions in the Scavenger Hunt activity completed during Mobile Device trainings for the following procedures regarding starting the students with the device.) If you did not attend that training, please see the link to the Scavenger Hunt Activity below:

http://socialsciences.dadeschools.net/files/Social Studies - Scavenger Hunt.docx

OPERATING YOUR DEVICE

1. Turn on Device

2. Wireless Connection – make sure it is working and picking up the school site Wi-Fi connection.

3. Log-in to Device (Please note initial log-in to device will take longer than usual - first time only)

Next Generation Sunshine State Standards- Social Sciences

• S.912.A.1.2 Utilize a variety of primary and secondary sources to identify author, historical significance, audience, and authenticity to understand a historical period.

• SS.912.A.1.4 Analyze how images, symbols, objects, cartoons, graphs, charts, maps, and artwork may be used to interpret the significance of time periods and events from the past.

• SS.912.A.1.5 Evaluate the validity, reliability, bias, and authenticity of current events and Internet resources.

• SS.912.W.1.3 Interpret and evaluate primary and secondary sources.

• SS.912.W.1.4 Explain how historians

use historical inquiry and other sciences to understand the past.

For both 7th grade Civics & 9th grade World History Students – Day 1

http://socialsciences.dadeschools.net/files/Social%20Studies%20-%20Scavenger%20Hunt.docx

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4. Glance overview with students the Windows 8.1 Screen and different tiles. Select with students the Internet Explorer tile or Google Chrome tile to search for log-in portal access.

5. On Internet Explorer web address bar, have students enter the following web address: http://www.dadeschools.net/, have students select the Student (Red) tab on top of page, and log-in through the Student Portal webpage.

6. Have students locate the My Big Campus tab to automatically Log-in to My Big Campus (through the Apps/Services/Site menu).

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GETTING STARTED WITH MY BIG CAMPUS

Getting started with My Big Campus is easy! My Big Campus accounts were created for you automatically by Miami Dade County Public Schools.

o The first time you login you will be asked to accept the terms of use policy. This policy is accessible at any time from the foot of every My Big Campus page.

o Once you login, you will be taken directly to your Activity Page. The Activity Page is like a news feed of group discussions, assignments, group member posts, and (if your network administrators allow it) wallposts and blogs of people you follow.

o At the top of your Activity Page (under "What's Happening") you can post to your wall, share photos, files library items, or items from Your Stuff.

o Keep up with Bob's Announcements and Bob's Blog Posts (located on the right side of the page) to know when features will be released, bugs fixed and so on. You can also post questions to Bob's wall for a real-time response by clicking on the "Bob Campus" link found next to his picture.

o Quick overview of Announcements, Calendar, Activity (for assignments, projects, etc.)

ACCESSING THE MY BIG CAMPUS PLEDGE

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o School Work (Daily class assignments) and Home learning.

o Introduce to the class, What is “Digital Citizenship?”

o Have students brainstorm, probe students.

o Explain to the students the importance of being a good and informed digital citizen and the pledge that will read and accept as mobile device digital learners.

My Big Campus has created a pledge that includes good online citizenship practices for students and teachers. It is located conveniently at the bottom of most pages within My Big Campus (found in the Schoolwork tab – bottom page – left side, click on the word “Pledge.”)

1. I will not share personal information online about myself or others such as home address, telephone number or age.

2. I will not use bad language including acronyms or abbreviations. 3. I will not have conversations or create posts that would be inappropriate

in the classroom. 4. I will not threaten, insult, gossip, tease or be mean to others. 5. I will respect the feelings and ideas of others. 6. I will not add pictures or videos that would not be appropriate to share in

MY BIG CAMPUS DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP PLEDGE

ACCESSING THE MY BIG CAMPUS PLEDGE

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the classroom. 7. I will flag any inappropriate content I find. 8. I will not share my login information with anyone or allow anyone else to

use my account because I will be held responsible for anything that they do.

9. I will not spam others. 10. I will try to use correct grammar and spelling. 11. I understand that using ALL CAPITALS is considered yelling and may

offend others. 12. I will check with my teacher whenever I have questions about any of the

rules.

o Explain that Good Digital Citizenship starts with them!

o Have students go to the Groups tab (left side menu) and join their class group (titled by Period #, created by the teacher before the lesson), go to the Discussion tab.

o Have students have a discussion about the pledge. Students should discuss/think what is their understanding of the pledge, what is most important, and what else would they add, etc.

o Be sure that students respond to at least three classmates in a substantial way about how they all need to be good digital citizens and abide by the digital citizenship pledge.

o Conclude Pledge activity by discussing with students that one of the essential pledge agreements of digital citizenship is on the importance on

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how to use reliable sources in the internet for researching and sourcing information for classroom and home learning activities.

o Have students go to Windows 8.1 and locate the Internet Explorer tile.

o Have students go to the following website address: www.bing.com

o Have students type in the search bar: “What is a primary source?” Have students share their findings. Have students type in the search bar: “What is a secondary source?” Have students share their findings. Ask: “Why is it significant in a social science classroom to be aware of the differences between a primary and a secondary source?”

o Staying on the Bing website, have students click on the Images tab (left top of screen).

o Have students type the following in the search bar: Primary Source Documents Have the students view images that reflect and interpret what is a primary source. Have students select one image and write one paragraph (either on paper) or on the device (Microsoft Word) describing in their own words which image they selected and why they think it represents what is a primary source and how the study of primary sources will help them understand social science concepts/content. (If time is an issue, have the students complete writing activity for home learning.)

http://www.bing.com/

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o Have the students read and review the various definitions and information about the rule of law from the following websites:

o http://worldjusticeproject.org/what-rule-law

o http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rule%20of%20law

o http://definitions.uslegal.com/r/rule-of-law/

o Ask students to compare/contrast the information from the three sites and write their own definition of the rule of law. Have them share accordingly.

o Have students search for images by clicking on the images tab on Bing and searching for rule of law. Have the students select one image of the rule of law and write one paragraph (either on paper) or on the device (Microsoft Word) describing in their own words which image they selected and why they think it represents the rule of law and their interpretation of what the rule of law means. (If time is an issue, have the students complete writing activity for home learning.)

o Share student responses, collect or save work on Word (time permitting).

o Log-out

o Collect Devices

Specific Activity for 7th Grade Civic Students- Day 2

http://worldjusticeproject.org/what-rule-law

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rule%20of%20law

http://definitions.uslegal.com/r/rule-of-law/

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o Have students access the following link: Thinking Like a Historian:

o http://loc.gov/teachers/tps/quarterly/historical_thinking/article.html

o Have students access the following link and watch the video- Reading Like A Historian:

o http://sheg.stanford.edu/rlh

o Ask students: How do Historians think and read. Have a class discussion accordingly. (Students should respond to the idea that historians analyze primary source documents and spend a great amount of time looking at the source, setting, and intended audience of a particular piece of information).

o Have students conduct a Bing image search by typing in “thinking like a historian.” Ask students to choose one of their favorite images and then have them share the images. Have students compare/contrast the images.

o Debrief the activity by asking the students to complete the following sentence: To be a successful historian, one must…… (have students share their answers). If time is an issue, have them finish this portion of the lesson for homelearning.

o Share student responses collect or save work on Word (time permitting). * Log-out

Specific Activity for 9th Grade World History Students- Day 2

http://loc.gov/teachers/tps/quarterly/historical_thinking/article.html

http://sheg.stanford.edu/rlh

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Time: Two- 55 minute periods

Assessment: Class participation, Group Discussion (through My Big Campus), Researching, Image Search and Discussion, Writing Activities.

Home Learning: Have students create five additional pledge statements to add as part of being a Digital Citizen and how can the rule of law – (7th grade) apply or being a social scientist/thinking like a historian – (9th grade) apply to their additional pledge statements.

For both 7th grade Civics & 9th grade World History Students