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Much of the Web site(s) private
- Good reasons for privacy
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Good reasons for openness
- Accountability
- Community buy-in
- Parent Buy-in
- School/Home Communication
- Communication
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Excellent use of Technology
- Google Forms & Docs for Coach scheduling "book a coach"
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Departmental Collaboration
- Wikis
- Google Site(?)
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Experimentation
- Gaggle
- Edmodo
- Glogster
- Toondoo
- Why not ask students for suggestions
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Kiva Project in SS
- Students choose & defend
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Paper graph showing gains
- Why not have a dynamic digital chart
- Ask students to figure out how to do it
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Many tools being explored
- Are there too many interfaces for the learners
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Strategies of Note
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Language Arts Strawberries
- Students reflect and journal about Strawberries
- Student read one of many articles about child laborers
- Students reflect and journal from chd lbr point of view
- Students will wrte a monolog from perspective of chld lbr
- Students will write a poem with interlaced lines from the two perspectives
- If completely digital, a word cloud could be generated from students initial reflections, and those words utilized in the poem
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Using response systems
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Math 1
- Facilitates conversation
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Teacher is engaged in a conversation
- "Waiting on 3 people"
- Students want to see the results, as a team
- Do response systems indicate how well you've been taught. Can it be used to engage in knowledge building conversations.
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Math 2
- Used digital textbook page on whiteboard
- Used Memio Pad to add notes based on conversation
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Impressions
- Would love to see that page with notes available to the students
- Would love to see teacher's demo video recorded and made available to learners
- Then watched teacher make students copy vocabulary definitions from the board
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Google Docs & Forms
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Did a lab last week with three of the four science teachers
- 1 Results reported via google docs
- 2 Students saw accumulation of reports
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Did experiments with Apples & different solutions
- No apparrent leading question or problem
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Students are reading out loud what the want
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Each group is reading the same book
- They group around the books
- One student is reading to the rest
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Will discuss based on questions the establish
- Discussion some time oral
- Sometimes online
- Create -- Write the script or chapter idea that didn't occur and then perform it in small groups to illustrate something that impressed them about the book
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Starting iMovie instruction
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Had video stock for students to play with
- Create -- Next step, give them 20 stills & ask them to select ten, sequence them in iMovie and insert text/oral information to tell a story.
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Some General Questions
- How are teachers encouraged to watch each other work?
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General Observations
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KMS earned attention
- Enormous responsibility
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Literacy
- Access
- Work
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Express
- Student Learning
- School Communication
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New Pedagogies
- Fueled by Questions
- Provokes Conversation
- Is Responsive
- Compells Personal Investment
- Safely Make Mistakes