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Tuesday, June 14, 2016

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-ChildrenÅ› Online Privacy Protection Act
  • CIPA-ChildrenÅ› 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



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