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In this seminar, we talked about how to get collaboration started in our classrooms.

The main focus was answering the questions, "if you sit two students together, does this guarantee productive collaboration?"

According to research and a study done by Nick Nachowitz and Nancy Brummer, middle school students engaged in deeper conversations when given the vocabulary needed to have a collaborative conversation.  They created sentence stems that gave students a framework to begin their conversations.  This was the main takeaway from our seminar and this study and my other research on the topic can be found below.

Resources:

Fisher, D. Rothenberg, C., & Frey, N. (2008).  Content-area conversations: How to plan discussion-based lesson for diverse language learners. (ch. 1). Alexandria, Va: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

Harrison, C. (23 April 2015) Banishing the Quiet Classroom. Education Review, 19.2, 67-77. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275340695_Banish_the_Quiet_Classroom

Nachowitz, M. & Brumer, N. (1 September 2014).  Teaching the talk, not the text.  Voices from the Middle, 22(1), 15-21. http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/VM/0221-sep2014/VM0221Teaching.pdf

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This seminar, lead by Michelle, explored how we can establish experiences in the classroom. One example was a quickfire, which is a task you're given to work on or complete within a set of constraints. Our quickfire was tell your life story using only emojis and you only have 2 minutes. Research explains how "microfailures" can deepen student understanding and push students to look for patterns and connections to their previous experiences. Productive Struggle is a way to stretch all students and pushes them just outside of their comfort zone.

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Learners need to be at the center.
Learning collaboratively is best.
Learning should span across all subjects.

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eanes independent school district (school district)

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Collaborating in the Learning Spaces
-open spaces
-grouping students
Think-Pair-Share
-depends on the student

Productive Struggle
-providing students with opportunities to learn and fail in a safe environment

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Seminar 3
The importance of focusing on the things that are important. Skills. Yes, I think these should be assessed :)

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1. Create environment to foster students' love of learning.
2. Design learning environments to help students build skills useful in today's changing world.
3. Active engagement is key to getting and keeping students' attention.
4. Learning should be inter-disciplinary.

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adaptive expertise of teacher is key!
ILE principles distilled: learner-centered, social, emotion-inclusive, allowing for differences, appropriately challenging, cross-disciplinary, purposeful assessment

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21st Century Learning Skills go beyond the classroom. Include critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, time management. Classroom set-up is important in developing and encouraging these skills.

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Learning spaces – Different spaces and their purposes

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Stephen Collis – Sydney Centre for Innovation in Learning

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Some more resources to check out!
Link
Edutopia Link

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Flexible Classrooms: Providing the Learning Environment That Kids Need

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Session 3:
- We want our student to learn skills beyond the content. An ILE allows this to happen.
- Technology is a way to help students develop these skills which will prepare them for future careers (even jobs that are not created yet)

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Learning takes place in different forms. Give students choice.

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Unlocking the potential of innovative learning environments

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This video introduces the Innovative Learning Environments and Teacher Change project (ILETC) - a four year ARC Linkage project being conducted from 2016-2019 by The University of Melbourne Learning Environments Applied Research Network (LEaRN). This project involves 15 industry partners across Australia and New Zealand in exploring how teachers can enable learning most effectively in innovative learning environments.

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"We can't just have things remain in silos that never interact."
An interdisciplinary approach is key to keeping content relevant and useful when applied to "real-life" applications

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Students need to be stretched, but not too much.
I like this. At times I can give tasks to my more able children that could perhaps give them a confidence blow as it can be a bit too far beyond them. Yes, failure is good but a task that is something that is beyond their current level can be disheartening.

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Flexible Classrooms: Making Space for Personalized Learning

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 importance of teaching students how to collaborate

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 importance of teaching students how to collaborate

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Seminar 1
Really like the idea of supporting children with sentence starters for collaboration. Especially for lower grade classes.
Has made me think about the layout of my room. How can I better make use of the space that I have.

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- "You may be proficient, but without adaptive expertise you can get stuck very quickly as the world shifts.” This quote really highlights the importance of being flexible in our teaching!
- Learning = CENTER of classroom, how room is set up, emotion motivates learning
- School culture: safe space where students can embrace failure

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Productive Struggle

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- "Key principals for designing learning environments that will help students build skills useful in a world where jobs are increasingly information and knowledge-based."
- Developing Adaptive Expertise is a way to ensure that we are prepared for a future in a world that is always shifting.
- How can we ensure that we address the power of emotions and motivation? If a student comes in upset, what if we are unable to help calm them?
- How do we use the idea of assessment for learning when we are required to do so many formal assessment? Also, how do we make this happen when there is parent push-back?
- It is so important to make real world connections!

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ILE from students' perspectives.

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This video is about Innovative Learning Environments

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-Real world application and real world learning enviros
-Learners have to be at the center of what happens in the classroom
-Learning is a social practice and can’t happen alone
-Emotions are an integral part of learning.
-Learners are different
-Students need to be stretched, but not too much.
-Assessment should be for learning, not of learning.
-Learning needs to be connected across disciplines

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-develop self-directed learners.
-students need to be taught "adaptive expertise" so they don't get stuck.
-learning is social! Kids learn best from and with each other.
-It helps if your school is on board with ILEs, but it is possible to create in your classroom alone.

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Seminar 1: Collaboration in the Learning Space
-grouped tables vs. open spaces
-provide students with tools for collaboration** (i.e. sentence frames for students to work from)

Seminar 3: Skill Development in an ILE
-self reflection, nice, passionate, problem solving, communicating = not content related at all!!!
-ILE: touches on these skills
-21st century learning skills

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Collaboration in the Learning Space
How: create groups; think-pair-share, depends on stds, arrangement of furniture, eg, grouped tables & open space
Research: Offer tools for building collaboration skills
Link available to Sentence Frames pdf
Pinterest: "partner talk", "accountable talk"
Think about how to do this in our classrooms...

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Session 1:
- Collaboration in the classroom:
Grouped Tables
Open Spaces
- Think about how students interact and what are effective ways to ensure that collaboration is beneficial.
- Teaching students how to collaborate with sentence starters led to deeper discussions and better use of collaborative time.

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Daily Tasks are here to guide you on your learning journey.
You must  complete all tasks, but you can do so in any order.

Time management is key in an ILE, and you must manage your time in order to complete all 3 tasks below.

You know what helps you learn best, and we trust that you will make positive learning choices. This includes where you work. If you work best as an individual, make your way to the quiet Lion's Den. If you work best in groups or partners, make your way to the Watering Hole. Our seminars take place at the Campfire.

You have until 11:10 am to finish the tasks.

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Task: Read and Annotate or Take Notes on this Article

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Task: Read and Annotate or Take Notes on this Article

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7 Essential Principles of Innovative Learning
You may choose any annotating or note taking method you'd like, this may be digital or nondigital methods.

Document your evidence by either uploading a picture of your handwritten notes, uploading a document of notes, or attaching a link to your digital annotations.

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Find a video that demonstrates an element of ILE.
Upload the video to the "ILE Videos We Found" column.
View and respond to other posted videos.

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Choose two seminars that interest you. After each seminar, post a reflection in the "Summary of Seminars" column.

Collaboration in the Learning Space by Andrea (10:41-10:48)

Productive Struggle by Michelle (10:49 - 10:56) bring a mobile device

Skill Development in an ILE by Stephanie (10:57 - 11:04)