UNIT 6: Bring Meetings Online

Important take aways from this unit:

• Attach a Google Doc Agenda to a Google Calendar Event so everyone is held accountable.
• Work on minutes within the doc. collaboratively
• Google Hangouts can be done with 10 people, or 15 with Google Apps For Education accounts.
• You are even able to share your screen during the Hangout so everyone is able to see what you are talking about. "Screenshare."
• "Add a Video Call" to the Google Calendar with a link once the date and time is made for the Hangout.
• Continue a conversation where you left off in Google Chat.

Educators CONNECT for SUCCESS Conference June 14

1) Back to the Future: The 21st Century Classroom

• Flipped classroom
• STUDENTS NEED CHOICE!
• Problem based learning
• Research DAILY
• WRITING DAILY
• Individualized Learning
• Non-fiction reading DAILY
• One-on-one attention DAILY
• Student accesses lesson at home, then in class, students' misconsceptions are corrected.
• Doing this with 85% free-reduced lunch.
• Students have to do front loaded information in order to do the science experiment.  
• Have students ask, ¨I Wonder¨ questions.
• Area students struggle with the most, becomes your first flipped lesson.
• Write GRANTS!
• When you apply something you learned, you remember it!
• Minute and a half of each grade level.  4th Grader = 6 minutes for homework.
• Teach them HOW to watch a video.  It´s ok to pause!!
• 10 MINUTES MAXIMUM!
• Make your own videos.  THEY CONNECT WITH YOU!!!
• Prezi with voice over
• Screen cast 
• Do more collaborative projects with teachers.  Let them see that specials classes are important also. Integrate- classroom teacher check in, special check in.
• Student building a website portfolio in education.weebly.com- you can password protect.  May be an age requirement.
• Go to http://mrjonesflippedclassroom.weebly.com/ for great project ideas for a project based classroom.
• Essential Questions- take students beyond skimming the surface.
• Mindcraft-7 sacraments of the Catholic religion.  On tapestry in a church.
• Cups based on Magellean
• emaze- art museum idea... easel.ly... TEDEd (can answer questions and go to part of video where question was.) INCOMPETECH (royalty free music that can be used) TubeChop- LinkedIn- Powtoon

2) Please Enter Your Username and Password

• Know what your district is using for technology.
• FERPA-Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
• COPPA-Childrenś Online Privacy Protection Act
• CIPA-Childrenś Internet Protection Act
• PPRA
• ORC
• Privacy Technical Assistance Center-http://wwwptac.ed.gov
• Need a committee
• Need agreement for online programs (iReady-is not included because it is used in place of something the school needs to use for instruction)
• Using a pseudonym is not permitted

3) Coding Decoded: Making Sense of Computer Science for Kids

• Agriculture is technologically savvy  
• Kids think of game development
• App Development as well 
• Hour of Code- all kids have access to one hour of code
• CS Envy-taking apart computers and putting them back together, parent involvement, celebrate and expose kids to computer science (Kind of like STEM night)
• Code.org is a good place to start with computer science. The curriculum is free online too.
• Code Studio is a part of Code.org- Split screen code and web development 
• Scratch is more advanced
• Toy Engine- use code to create video games
• Keep an eye on Twitter
• Code Academy (grade 8 and up)
• Apps
• The Foos (lower elementary) algorithms, patterns
• Block Island
• Bootstrap (maybe 5th)
• App Inventor 
• Virtual Reality lab- Google cardboard, buy lenses online, get cardboard from lunch or paper boxes
• 360 Kodak Camera- 
• Reynoldsburg  Schools-implementing a special for computer science with a virtual reality lab
• App Inventor!!!!!!!!Have students create apps and push them out to the entire school.
• Dan Patterson- After the Hour of Code (book)
• Coding helps Elementary Students by:- design and problem solving, growth-mindset, trouble shooting, collaboration
• Take a risk- Make a mistake-Change the Outcome
• Code Studio-
• How do we measure student achievement for the 21st century? Math and ELA- can not measure collaboration, problem solving etc..
• Explain what computer science and what it is not!!! 
• k12cs.org- similar to ISTE standards for computer science
• (1st Grade Course 1 of Code.org)
• Need to add Computer Science to 4-5 Curriculum
• Check out code.org for 3rd party resources

Educators CONNECT for SUCCESS Conference June 13

1) Sparking Curiosity to Improve Student Learning:

• Wait a little- don´t instruct right away.
• There is a place for both inquiry learning and the assessments.  
• Show Your Work Book by: Austin Kleon (putting work online/out there for the public is more meaningful than a Google Doc- need display info. online for the public, not just your teacher.  The world is your audience.)
• Inspire curiosity-Involuntary Curiosity (fill the informational gap)
• Spark #1- Missing Information (U.S. example- marriage and drought) Visual Pictures 
• Spark #2 Anticipated Information (Tackle the misconceptions: candle and oxygen, Steve Jobbs and the iPhone intro. Stop something early)
• Spark #3 Surprising information (heart cyclist from Verizon, flames joining with together and removing quarter)
• Want kids to want to find out more. (Uses Fight Club)(safefrom.net) to download Screenflow Mac based screencast. Think about the acid/base demonstration.
• Get students to CRAVE knowledge. Break down Bloom´s Taxonomy.
• Spark, Quench, Track Student curiosity.
• Part 1 Find And Save Videos- Khan is good, but not super motivating.  See the world differently. ifthisthanthat (website- connects) if there is a new liked video, then add row to spreadsheet in Google Sheets. 
• Part 2 Download and Trim- Have video playing as kids come in savefrom.net to download videos.  DO NOT need to rely on the Internet. https://ssyoutube.com  Click return to download.   Edit and ¨trim¨.  Find the point. 

2) Recruiting Your Best Advocate: Engaging Parents in Elementary School STEM:

• School of Innovation- grades 3-5
• How are parents involved in your school? Do they understand what STEM actually is or is it just an acronym for them? 
• Difference between involvement and engagement? 
• Envolvement- school driven help from parents  
• Engangement- directly helping students 
• Parent Engagement Ideas:
• Quarterly Exhibitions-parents are invited to come in and share learning that has been done.  May even be in the middle of the learning and working through problems together.  How are students learning in our school? TPBL (21st learning skills) Core Values: Curiosity, Compassion, Complex Thinking, Collaboration, and Communication.
• TBPL- How can we create a tinkerspace on our playground to keep our minds as active as our bodies?
• TBPL- How can we reduce our carbon footprint both here at school and in our community?
• TBPL-How have STEM leaders of yesterday impacted today and how will  STEM leaders impact tomorrow?

3) Fun in Middle School? Yes, Virginia, it Can be Done!

• Nearpod-Wall of Honor-PBIS
• Teach rules, expectations, routines+reward the positive 4:1 = positive behavior and cultural changes
• Start with a committee
• *E-mail for matrix glawn@midviewk12.org
• Individual rewards-tickets (ticketmaster very cheap). Everyone has a ticket! Bus drivers, playground monitors, lunch, etc..
• 3 tickets = Wall of Honor  cleaned every two weeks. 
• 5 sets of 3 tickets = handprint on the wall with paint. (15 tickets in a month)
• School rewards- 
• 1) Office Referrals (20 or less in a month)
• 2) Bus Tickets
• 3) Zeros
• 4) Bulling Name Calling
• Assembly- Do something fun- Minute to Win It, Dance Off, Staff Trivia, Academic Trivia, Student Skits, Family Feud Student Edition, Guess the muscle! 
• All 4 Met- Student Council chose awards.
• Let students take a part in making videos of the goals.

4) More Than A Game-Gamefication 

• Point System
• Incentives- reward/leaderboard
• Badge Systems - military.boy scouts girl scouts.
• Quests-list of procedures the game master wants you to do. What is the goal? Scan QR Codes .
• School is a game! It´s just designed badly.  A´s don´t go back.
• NEED FEEDBACK!
• GPS- What is your goal?
• It works because...
• Positive Reinforcement
• Never lose points, only gain.  Maybe small points, but some more for better choices.
• Builds on Existing Schema
• Gaming is fun!
• Changes in Nomenclature
• The data does show it works!
• Check presentation for vocabulary, quest or challenge, groups/squads,  incentives, point system, etc.. (What color are you? Manage groups using the same math language for the middle school)
• Publish scores
• Mr. Robot as an avatar to give the assignment 
• ¨unlock"for expansion pack
• Think Tanks- kids know a lot about gaming  Ask them for their guidance ¨Prestige Ranks.¨ 
• Patch or Think Tank Day to discuss how the game is going.
• XP= experience points
• Prezi Templates- Pirate Ship.
• Pop-Up events for Bonus Points
• Use this for Teacher Professional Development
• Get feedback from teachers and students

5) STEM Education Quality Framework

• 65% of today´s  grade school kids will end up at a job hat has not been invented yet.
• There are 100,000 coding jobs available in Ohio but only 1,000 students are graduating ready to do this.
• Failing is very important.
• Design challenges.
• We need to add careers to the framework!
• STEM Quality Framework:
1. Potential for Engaging Students of Diverse Academic Backgrounds
2. Degree of STEM Integration
3. Connections to Non-STEM Disciplines
4. Integrity of the Academic Content
5. Quality of the Cognitive Task
6. Connections to STEM careers
7. Individual Accountability in a Collaborative Culture.
8. Nature of Assessment(s)
9. Application of the Engineering Design Process
10. Quality of Technology Integration
• www.daytongregionalstemcenter.org

Unit 4: SAVE TIME COMMUNICATING

Important take aways from this unit:

• Google Translate in Gmail can be very helpful to ESL students and their parents, who may not speak English at all.  The teacher can easily communicate.
• Organize your Gmail.  Add labels to help sort out the important ones.  Add mutiple labels to one e-mail.
• Save Hangout Messages from students and groups.  Use Hangout Messages to give real-time feedback for any content and answer questions.
• In Google Groups, it is beneficial to create groups so that you do can bypass Gmail's 100 email sending a day quota.  
• The four types of groups include:
• Email list
• Web forum
• Question and Answer (Q&A) forum
• Collaborative inbox

Unit 5: ORGANIZE ACTIVITIES FOR YOURSELF AND OTHERS

Take aways from this unit:

• Use Google Calendar to share with others or make it public.
• Google Keep to take notes: Has an added extension to make it easier.
• Add a Task and have it assigned in your calendar.

Unit 3: Have a (Mostly) Paperless Classroom

Important take aways from this unit:

• Be sure your device is set to "offline" to be able to work without an Internet Connection.
• Know the different reasons to choose what Google Tool you would like to use.