tst boces
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Project-based learning and the Common Core StandardsTRANSCRIPT
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(with connections to the Common Core Standards and 21st-Century Skills)
Heather Sheridan-Thomas, TST BOCESCynthia Sarver, SUNY CortlandJuly 21, 2011
Free cool tools (and a tech assistant!) for increasing student outcomes
+Goals
Begin developing a long-range, interdisciplinary, project-based unit plan that: Integrates Common Core “Standards for Literacy in
History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects”; and
Embeds 21st-century skills
Play with, learn (and even take home!) a few “cool tools” that will help with the above: Flip video camera Ning Google docs Delicious
+Goals (cont’d)
Disabuse: 21st-century skills ≠technology (integration).Technology enables 21st-century
skills.Enhances your teaching and
students’ learning experiencesExpands and extends your
classroom, pedagogical repertoire, disciplines’ relevance, and students’ world
+Freewrite (6 mins)
What is your definition of “learning community”?
Can you describe a successful learning community, broadly defined, that you have been/are involved in?
+Flip Video
Watch video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEQ9xwdVZSs
+PLAY AND RECORD!
Henry Jenkins and the New Media Literacies Collective http://newmedialiteracies.org/the-literacies.php
1. Play2. Performance 3. Simulation4. Appropriation5. Multitasking6. Distributed Cognition7. Collective Intelligence8. Judgment9. Transmedia Navigation 10. Networking 11. Negotiation 12. Visualization
+UPLOAD to YouTube/Vimeo, then UPLOAD to Ning
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=vimeo
Youtube.comhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6vErybZTh8
+Ning http://tst21stcenturylearning.ning.com/
Tasks (to do now and throughout the day): i) Upload video ii) Answer Profile questions iii) Upload a photo (if you have one; otherwise do it
later) iv) Add a link to one of your favorite apps or websites
(try a textbox is you’re brave!) v) Comment on the profile of someone else (not your
partner) vi) Set up a group for you and your partner (on the
front page) OR do we want to set these up in advance vii) PLAY!!!
+Problem-Based Learning
http://www.edutopia.org/project-based-learning-introduction-video
http://olliebray.typepad.com/olliebraycom/2011/01/project-based-learning-from-commoncraft-.html
+Unit Planning
Find local problem relevant to your team’s “content area”; outline a unit plan that will engage students in researching, analyzing, and making a “digital intervention” in the issue.
-- Common Core Standards for ELA and/or Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science and the Technical Subjects (Focusing on Anchor Standards in Writing)
-- Cool Tools #3 & #4: Google Docs and Delicious
+Common Core Standards
http://www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/common_core_standards/
+Project prompt & outline
Students research and analyze the issue Write short research reports Transfer findings into a digital/online format (e.g., video,
website, wiki, and/or social network) in order to make some sort of “digital intervention” in the issue.
+Student Process
Suggested Project Timeline:
Presenting the problem (Anticipatory Set, Motivation, Inquiry, Constructivism)
Students inquiring into the problem and developing essential questions (Asking Questions, Inquiry, Analysis, Multiple Perspectives, Constructivism)
Seeing the problem through a disciplinary lens (Application, Synthesis)
Students researching the issue: traditional research reports (Research Skills)
Students sharing their research and reconsidering the problem (Synthesis, Evaluation, Reflection)
Students acting on their understanding: What are we going to do about it? (Action, Application, Culminating Project)
+Brainstorm
Your task: Locate a real-world problem related to the (curriculum of the) content area discipline that students can researching, analyze, and make a “digital intervention” in. Brainstorm a list of possible topics with your partner. Winnow this down to one-two ideas.
+Google Docs
Google for educators http://www.google.com/educators/p_docs.html
+Delicious
My delicious http://www.delicious.com/
Delicious in education
More on delicious
+Share unit so far
Go to team Ning.
A. Rename it;
B. Link your Google Doc page to the toolbar; and
C. Subscribe via email to their group’s Delicious feed
D. Link this Ning to the TST learning community Ning (under your Group, which they also should rename, if need be).
+Wrap up
Share work
Next steps: Finish unit Plan for implementation (preferably in fall) Plan to work with students present today and those in the
fall. Talk to your student partners today about this. Plan to stay connected through the Ning, and through other
social media (including ENG 506 social network), which I will subscribe to on my page on the TST BOCES Ning
+Thank you!
Have a great summer!
Heather and Cynthia