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What skills and competencies do our students need to be successful in college and their careers? learn to learn grit be self-aware problem solving creativity communication attention to detail community awareness What are the characteristics of learning activities that will help students develop these skills? open-ended realistic situations / authentic connect with peers  collaborative authentic speakers  feedback   ISTE's Ed Tech Coaches Network  (Links to an external site.) How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School  (Links to an external site.) Designing Classroom Environments Chapter 6  of this volume proposes a framework to help guide the design and evaluation of environments that can optimize learning. Drawing heavily on the three principles discussed above, it posits four interrelated attributes of learning environments that need cultivation. 1.   Schools and classrooms must be learner cente...

Last year I felt like I was moving at warp speed for most of the year. Last week we finished the New Year Orientation and fortunately I didn't have that feeling quite as much. Still, it was a week where I wish there was more time.  One day of orientation we broke the faculty into groups and had conversations about how we integrate technology into our classrooms.  I first joined the PE teachers (since that is a subject I would like to work with more this year) and was able to listen to their reflections. I also heard some strong opinions as to why it doesn't work. I was then pulled into the math teachers group where I heard some opinions that sounded similar. There is no time to integrate technology I have things that need to be covered Students are not interested in staying inside for that sort of thing The big creative projects are great, but I have to prepare my students for their IB exams I put these comments in the back of my mind. I see them as ...

I just realized the title could be interpreted in other ways. I'll leave it. I've had this a form template that  +Geoffrey Derry  shared with back in the autumn. I didn't do much with it, in fact, I did nothing with it until last week. Then I started playing with it. This is his creation, so it suits his needs. I still need to tweak it. But I like this. I like being able to quickly visualize what I have done on a particular day. I like the idea of being able to quickly show what

In this activity, we are asked to work with another teacher. Since it is summer, I am going to pull a lesson from our Atlas Rubicon and go this one alone to get practice coming up with suggestions. I'm not sure if it's because of the summer, but lately, I have been trying to brainstorm ideas for interesting lesson ideas but have been coming up flat. Ask if they have an activity that the two of you might improve through collaboration. Character stories - Realism/Fantasy/Plays Review the information about ways that technology might enhance learning from the last activity with your learning partner.   Questions to ask ... How could we add a real-world problem to this unit? Are there any tools that might scaffold learning? How can we provide more opportunities for feedback, revising, and reflection? How can we give students access to quality information, primary documents, or points of view not available otherwise? How can we allow students to engage in lea...

Lesson being examined: Your goal is to identify some of the educational tasks like communication and collaboration the teachers who created this project wanted their students to complete.  In addition, draw on what you learned about how technology enhances learning from the last activity to identify ways technology is being used to enhance learning in the River Yamuna example. When I read "educational goals", I think of skills. When integrating technology, I think teachers should first look to learning outcomes/standards, and then think of what skills they want students to learn, so that is how I am approaching this assignment.  Standards: Class 11 th NCERT:- Environmental Education Unit III, Environment Pollution and Global Issues, (Project and activity ) Collect samples of water from different sources and study their physical characteristics like turbidity, colour, odor; the measure of pH, the nature of suspended and dissolved impurities and poll...

The following is from ISTE The authors of How People Learn (2000) believe technology enhances learning by: Bringing exciting curricula based on real-world problems into the classroom Providing scaffolds and tools. Giving students and teachers more opportunities for feedback, reflection, and revision Building local and global communities that include teachers, administrators, students, parents, practicing scientists and others. (Bransford, et al., 2000). Technology enhances learning when it is used to: Give students access to quality information, primary documents, or points of view not available otherwise. Allow students to engage in learning activities that would otherwise be infeasible (examples: human/animal anatomy, or online scientific investigations). Differentiate learning for students with different needs. Help students understand abstract concepts. Gather information, organize, synthesize, analyze information and draw conclusions. Foster student discovery ...

After reviewing both the teacher standards and the student standards, think about a learning activity you, or one of the teachers you might coach, are currently offering to students. How can you use the ideas found in the NETS-S to integrate technology effectively? One way I am using the ISTE Standards is by giving examples of what the standards look like in the form of a Scope and Sequence. We adopted our technology standards around the 2007 ISTE Student Standards, and we are building upon the Scope and Sequence developed by Singapore American School. The examples in Slide 4 will eventually be linked to a blog post/video explaining/showing the lesson. I hope to complete a linked document showing the development from standard to lesson in a hyperdoc  format. Below is a sample. For me, a large part of the coaching role is to help teachers help themselves. (Give someone a fish ...) As a teacher, reviewing the Student Standards can help me see th...