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-Facilitate higher-order thinking through collaboration and communication
-Socratic Seminars
-Debates (research based)
-Carefully grouping students

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Creating a student centered classroom where the students are doing the work. Teachers need to be asking questions to get students thinking about the task.  The bulk of the teacher's work becomes providing meaningful experiences and guiding students to understand their own pathway of learning.

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As a teacher, I must learn to step back a little and become a facilitator.
Develop ways for students to master content through critical thinking, problem solving, communication and collaboration.
Engaging activities.
Great for differentiation

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Takeaway... teacher must prepare for lesson rigorously. It is not just plug students into tech and walk away.

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Teachers are shifting the culture in their classroom from teacher led learning to more of a student led learning experience. They will shift from lecturing to facilitating.
This concept seems to follow the workshop model where teachers modle briefly and then confer with the students during their independent work time. Teachers focus on designing an engaging lesson and facilitate their learning.

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Teachers become guides for students' use of technology and encourage deeper levels of thinking while fostering collaboration, communication, and problem-solving.

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I feel like free inquiry  would be very difficult in a middle school classroom.  I feel like I usually use more of a guided inquiry.

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Free Inquiry would be very difficult, but how can I get my students there? I see if just as hard for me as for my students. I not only need to train them to lead themselves, but I have to learn to not always be in control.

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I feel that if you were to follow free inquiry you would need to build the kids up to it by using modeling and expectations. I do, we do, and then you do. Start this at the beginning of the year.

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I tend to be a Guided Inquiry teacher.

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Need to first train students to use the different platforms and to come in to class and get right on to Chromebooks and get going.
Build in discussion by having them read each others' and comment.

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Model diff tech platforms - them allow students to choose which one works best for them.
Personally, I can see that using a few platforms will allow student success and understanding.

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Need to focus on the learning target and allow students the opportunity to choose what topic they will study to master that learning target. Might have to start by providing some examples they can choose from.

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Using chrome books purposely with intentionality

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Allow students the choice of what they would like to do to demonstrate their understanding of the learning objectives.

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"Look for technology that uses questions to foster curiosity and the joy of discovery."
This goes back to our keynote speaker in finding technology that thinks with you and not for you.

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Structured Inquiry through Free Inquiry--Moving to Free Inquiry will allow student have a choice which will create depth in their learning because they are interested in the subject matter.

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Allowing students choice can increase student buy-in. Also, this lets the teacher step back to a facilitator role. They will need modeling to guide them as to what this will look like whether it is teacher modeling or peer modeling. A rubric would be a great guide and direction for their outcome.

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The teacher gives the student the opportunity to be creative and owning their own learning.

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Empower students to be in charge of their own learning by decreasing the structure provided by teachers and providing tools for students to learn and share.

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Teachers need to model and structure the use of technology because it creates consistency. Learning objectives.

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The shift from Structured all the way to Free Inquiry is achieved step by step.

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Allow students to take ownership of their own learning by giving them choice.

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Keep the learning goal in mind when choosing the technology platform to use, not vice versa.

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Teachers need to evolve as well.  You may not be ready to move to free inquiry right away, but take one step forward.

Look up different lessons/teachers experiences to get some advice, on how to effectively use free inquiry in your classroom.

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It is important for teachers to become comfortable with a digital platform. It will be messy at first and it will get better with time! PERSEVERE!

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The thing that I have trouble with is TIME. Students working at different speeds and providing meaningful opportunities when they are completed and waiting for others.

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Hard for teachers to change roles to more of a facilitator
The teacher has to construct "learning experiences"
Socratic Seminars instead of lectures.

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The teacher is the ringmaster, but the student do the work, analyze the work, and and discuss the work.
Looking at Inquiry...there are a variety of types of inquiry. Structured Inquiry, Controlled Inquiry, Guided Inquiry and Free Inquiry. The goal of more self directed learning would be moving toward Free Inquiry.

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Strategic Design of Learning Experiences
Learn how to create a real world environment.
Teachers allows students full independence in accessing various platforms and resources.
Platforms such as Padlet, Book Creator or Storyboard That.
Read and comment on other students posts if completed with own post.

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Designed to increase student ownership of content selection around essential standards.
The teacher needs to understand ways to make student choice a consistent part of the learning experience.
I can share some platforms with teachers in classroom settings in my support work to make more student centered classrooms