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Laura Stockman- share, connect, collaborate, collective action
Matt Moe- share, connect, collaborate, collective action
Personal Learning Networks
Community-- in and out of the classroom
Are you “clickable”- Are your students?
Letting Student Passion and Interest Rule the Curriculum
Lisa Duke's students at First Flight High School in the Outer Banks in NC created this video as part of a service project in her Civics and Economics course curriculum.
Focus on Possibilities–Appreciate “What is”
–Imagine “What Might Be”–Determine “What Should Be”
–Create “What Will Be”Blossom Kids
Classic Problem Solving Approach
– Identify problem
– Conduct root cause analysis
– Brainstorm solutions and analyze
– Develop action plans/interventions
Most families, schools, organizations function on an unwritten rule…
–Let’s fix what’s wrong and let the strengths take care of themselves
Speak life lifeto your students and teachers…
–When you focus on strengths, weaknesses become irrelevant
Spending most of your time in your area of weakness—while it will improve your skills, perhaps to a level of “average”—will NOT produce excellence
This approach does NOT tap into student motivation or lead to student engagement
The biggest challenge facing us as educators: how to engage the hearts and minds of the learners
What will be our legacy…
• Bertelsmann Foundation Report: The Impact of Media and Technology in Schools
– 2 Groups
– Content Area: Civil War
– One Group taught using Sage on the Stage methodology
– One Group taught using innovative applications of technology and project-based instructional models
• End of the Study, both groups given identical teacher-constructed tests of their knowledge of the Civil War.
Question: Which group did better?
Answer…
No significant test differences were found
However… One Year Later– Students in the traditional group could recall almost nothing about the
historical content
– Students in the traditional group defined history as: “the record of the facts of the past”
– Students in the digital group “displayed elaborate concepts and ideas that they had extended to other areas of history”
– Students in the digital group defined history as:
“a process of interpreting the past from different perspectives”
Last Generation