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Team 9: McKenna Crockett Candace Jamison, Clyde Shafer

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Team 9: McKenna Crockett Candace Jamison, Clyde Shafer

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1. How can we promote student literacy and innovation through canva?
2.  Doing book synopsis or reviews on canva.
3. 16-18 Juniors in Spanish II
4. World Language Essential standards use:
Standard 1: Interpersonal communication
Standard 2: engaging in interpretive communication
Standard 3: Presentational writing/speaking
Standard 4: Promoting cultural competencies
5.  Students will start reading the novel, Esperanza, October 21st-25th and complete their PBI project October 28th-November 1st
6. The novel, laptops for students to create their projects, canva, technological devices
7. The benefits include more environmentally efficient, more engaging for students, and promotes creativity and innovation.  Challenges include finding in class time and finding equal resources for students, making sure that students are on task, and abiding by digital learning competencies.
8. Transmedia means learning across different digital platforms that creates storytelling.  It helps approach PBI by understanding your students true colors and MBTI, and different learning styles.
9. With shifts towards 1:1 and more professional development opportunities being offered on personalized learning is promoting more technology use so that teachers can reach the needs of all students. Our school is roughly 1:2 so many technology resources are available throughout campus and most all students have student devices daily.

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What are some potential compelling questions your team is considering?

What initial ideas do you have for your PBI?

What is your target age group?

What specific Common Core or Essential Standards learning objectives will your PBI address?

What is your timeline for implementing and completing your PBI?

What materials and resources do you need to be successful?

What are the benefits and challenges of marrying traditional formats with the new literacies? How will your PBI address this?

What is transmedia, and how is it influencing the way students learn? How does this help you approach your PBI?

Identify the changes in curriculum, instruction, and assessment that have taken place in your school or classroom to promote new literacies. What technology is available to support your efforts?

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READ Chapters 7  &  8  in Learning First, Technology Second: The Educator's Guide to Designing Authentic Lessons.

READ  Chapters 8, 9 &  10 (Teaching with Transparency, Teaching Kids How to Reflect & Conclusion) in  DON'T Ditch That Tech: Differentiated Instruction in a Digital World

READ   Chapters 7  &  8 Learning Supercharged: Digital Age Strategies and Insights from the EdTech Frontier

SYNTHESIZE "key" ideas, concepts, findings from Unit 5 required materials.

ANSWER the following questions

1. SELECT one case study (Kolb) that RESONATED with you. Explain why and what new idea did you glean, BE SPECIFIC.

2. Why is Formal, Nonformal and Informal the "new normal" in today's classrooms? Support your assertions.

3. To what degree is "transparency in teaching" achievable in today's education profession? Support your assertions.

ADD a sticky in this column to leave  your response to the questions above.

You can TYPE, MAKE A VIDEO, MAKE AUDIO RECORDING (YOUR CHOICE)

CLICK the 3 dots at the bottom of your sticky to see ALL your options.

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Team 1: Megan North And Lindsey McDermott

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Team 1: Megan North And Lindsey McDermott

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Team 2: Abby Atwood, Claire Smith and Kara Bumgarner

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Team 2: Abby Atwood, Claire Smith and Kara Bumgarner

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1. Potential Compelling Question:
a. How can we use technology in the classroom to promote the study of sociology and help students better understand the world around us?
2. What initial ideas do you have for your PBI?
a. Sociology is the subject of the class in which the PBI is being designed for.
b. Students will be assigned to create an infographic Canva. Students will be given class time to complete this assignment.
3. Target Age Group?
a. 10th-11th
4. What Common Core Essential Standards learning objectives will our PBI address?
a. 12.C.1 “understand how culture and its diversity sustain humanity and has multiple smaller objectives such as “exemplify various subcultures and how they distinguish themselves from the larger culture.”
12.C.3 “Analyze human behavior in terms of conformity and deviance.”  And the smaller objective that said “Analyze ways in which society uses social control to discourage deviant behavior.”
5. What is your timeline for implementing and completing your PBI?
a. Have an outline for project by second week of October.
b. Have PBI draft completed by end of October
c. Have "final" draft completed by November 15th
d. turn in by November 20th for review
e. Have final project completed by first week of December.
6. What materials and resources do we need to be successful?
a. Computers to access Cava
b. Video Recording Device
c. Framework
7.  What are the benefits and challenges of marrying traditional formats with the new literacies? How will your PBI address this?
a.I would say a challenge with using this as opposed to traditional formats would be the time required to set it up.  They students will have to make accounts and play around with it a little bit.  A benefit would be the more options it presents for presenting material as well as a chance to get creative in a social studies classroom. Canva is easily sharable as well.
8. What is transmedia, and how is it influencing the way students learn? How does this help you approach your PBI?
a. Transmedia is a way of bringing multiple “medias” together.  In the classroom we can see it used to have info or stories/ideas shared.  Using the arena of the classroom, the textbook, websites such as the one we are using Canva, and perhaps video streaming of some sort.  All of these different “medias” are sharing similar information and/or adding to the lesson and learning going on in the classroom.
9. Identify the changes in curriculum, instruction and assessment that have taken place in your school or classroom to promote new literacies. What technology is available to support your efforts?
a. Technology is readily available throughout the school. Students have access and are encouraged to use smartphone as well as computer carts and computer rooms are available for teachers to rent out or use during class times. Teachers and administration encourage the use of technology as it engages students and there is a wide range of resources available online.

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Team 3: Jessica Eagle, Laura Jacobs, and Katherine Mitchell

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Team 3: Jessica Eagle, Laura Jacobs, and Katherine Mitchell

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Potential Compelling Question:

How can we facilitate student print and sub-screenic literacy and through the use of CS First in the classroom?

What initial ideas do you have for your PBI?

Short story unit-> mini lesson-> CS first dialogue activity

What is your target age group?

9th grade

What specific Common Core or Essential Standards learning objectives will your PBI address?

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3.B
Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, reflection, and multiple plot lines, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.6
Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology's capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.

What is your timeline for implementing and completing your PBI?

October

What materials and resources do you need to be successful?

CS first account + familiarity with tool + anchor story + laptops +prior lessons on theme and tone to create parameters for student-coded dialogue products

What are the benefits and challenges of marrying traditional formats with the new literacies? How will your PBI address this?

Extra time and effort needed to program the character dialogue rather than traditionally writing it out in normal language or drawing

What is transmedia, and how is it influencing the way students learn? How does this help you approach your PBI?

Telling a story across multiple platforms. This is exactly what the technology tool facilitates!

Identify the changes in curriculum, instruction, and assessment that have taken place in your school or classroom to promote new literacies. What technology is available to support your efforts?

The school is 1:1 student to laptop.

Adoption of StudySync curriculum: a dynamic digital curriculum with interactive lessons and skill activities

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TEAM 7: Emily Giglio, Carrie Johnsen, & Palmer Phillips

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TEAM 7: Emily Giglio, Carrie Johnsen, & Palmer Phillips

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1. What are some potential compelling questions your team is considering?

Factual— How have world religions influenced and impacted societies?
Conceptual— How are other religions are interrelated?
Debatable— Can people start in one religion and transfer to another?
How can we facilitate students literacy in religion through the use of various technologies?
2. What initial ideas do you have for your PBI?

Create an online magazine

Make an infographic

Slideshow presentation

Video

Screencastify

3. What is your target age group?

11-13, 6th grade Middle School Students

4. What specific Common Core or Essential Standards learning objectives will your PBI address?

6.C.1.1 Analyze how cultural expressions reflected the values of civilizations, societies and regions (e.g., oral traditions, art, dance, music, literature, and architecture).

6.C.1.2 Explain how religion transformed various societies, civilizations and regions (e.g., beliefs, practices and spread of Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism).

6.C.1.3 Summarize systems of social structure within various civilizations and societies over time (e.g., Roman class structure, Indian caste system and feudal, matrilineal and patrilineal societies).

5. What is your timeline for implementing and completing your PBI?

Tuesday, October 1st to Friday, October 18th

6. What materials and resources do you need to be successful?

Chromebooks

Interactive Notebooks

Books for research

7. What are the benefits and challenges of marrying traditional formats with the new literacies? How will your PBI address this?

When you put the two together more than anything it can save time for the teacher as they can type things out and make videos rather than handwriting. Another benefit is it can peak students interests more. The PBI will address this by showing our combination of digital technology with traditional standards.

8. What is transmedia, and how is it influencing the way students learn? How does this help you approach your PBI?

Transmedia is a storytelling technique/approach to teaching. In this teachers and learners use multiple digital formats to enhance their learning. This can help our PBI where we can tell a story about religion across one of the digital platforms we decide to use.

9. Identify the changes in curriculum, instruction, and assessment that have taken place in your school or classroom to promote new literacies. What technology is available to support your efforts?

Within the school and classroom, there have been many changes starting with students ability to be one to one with computers.  This has changed how students are accessing information and completing assignments.  I have seen and use a variety of different apps that allow students to work with articles online and be sharing the information with myself and other students.  Applications like Kami, google docs, slides, padlet and many more allow students to work together virtually on assignments. I have had a variety of different technologies available as my school promotes being a 21st century learner.  The biggest support to this is using Kids Discover online to incorporate new literacy with access to online magazines.

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1. Potential Compelling Questions
-How can we increase literacy within the context of the Age of Exploration through the use of primary sources and Google Tour Builder as a technological resource to drive student learning?
-How would using DIIGO as an annotation resource to strengthen student literacy while studying the Age of Exploration?

2. Initial Ideas
-Create a project which has the students collect, formulate, create, and synthesize the movement of people as groups and as individual explorers during the historical time period known as the Age of Exploration. They will use the digital resource called Google Tour Builder to represent the content they derive from primary sources.

3. Target Age Group
-High School World History Students (9th- 12th Grade)

4. World History Essential Standards
-Explain causes and effects of exploration and expansion. WH.H.5.2
-Support interpretations with historical evidence. WH.H.1.4.3
-Differentiate between historical facts and historical interpretations. WH.H.1.2.2

5. Timeline for Implementation
--2-3 days (90 minutes classes)
-Planning the next two weeks, implementing the middle of October, collecting data and filming during implementation. Working on video editing and essay writing during November.

6. Materials and Resources Needed
-Each student (or group) will need access to a computer (Google Tour Builder cannot be fully accessed from a mobile device) and will need access to the internet. Will also need access to primary source materials such as readings, photographs, journals, etc.

7. From New Literacies Chapters
-Gamification and Collaboration- Students will not be playing a game as much as creating a game-like world for their peers to explore. Students will use Google Tour Builder to create a pathway for viewers to travel along while incorporating primary sources. Students have autonomy to create their own tour, and work collaboratively with partners.

8. Benefits and Challenges
-This will allow students to learn information in a format much closer to the ways they learn outside of school. They will be gaining access to information through multiple senses, and through organic research and inquiry discovery. Students will work collaboratively with peers and present their mastery of content knowledge in an interactive format on Google Tours.
-Google Tour Builder can provide an educational experience that closely resembles the style of a video game that they play outside of school. Therefore it could peak their interests and help meet them where they are as learners.

9. Transmedia
-Transmedia is a technique in storytelling that employs multiple different technologies to carry meaning to the audience. Transmedia could be related to the Marvel Universe. Marvel employs comic books first and foremost, feature length movies (both live action and animated), tv series, and conventions to add detail to the ever expanding MU. Transmedia is therefore the collaboration, not just adaptation of one story medium to another.
-In our PBI, we will be allowing students to build a transmedia Google Tour using primary (originally) hard copy sources, virtual space for the actual tool, and created content for analysis and synthesis.

10. Changes in Curriculum
-Increased access to professional development that focused on implementing increased literacy in the classroom. One example is the use of Castle Learning which is an online platform with preloaded readings and questions for teachers to choose from and assign to students as desired. In New Hanover County, we also have online digital learning badges that we, as teachers can earn for demonstrating increased use/mastery of digital learning tools. After learning about and implementing certain digital tools with our students, we can apply to earn a digital technology badge for that particular technology. There are a wide variety of badges available including ones related to canvas, wordcloud, twitter, google classroom, google docs, moodle, Kahoot, plickers, etc. All teachers are encouraged to learn and master new digital literacies and then apply to earn the badges.

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* What are some potential compelling questions your team is considering?

How can Poppet be used to help students gather, evaluate and synthesize information for formal writing assignments?

*What initial ideas do you have for your PBI?

Poppet seems like it would be an effective tool to brainstorm ideas for writing projects related to theme, characterization, etc. for assigned novels

* What is your target age group?

8th grade

*What specific Common Core or Essential Standards learning objectives will your PBI address?

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.8.5

Compare and contrast the structure of two or more texts and analyze how the differing structure of each text contributes to its meaning and style.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.8.9

Analyze how a modern work of fiction draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths, traditional stories, or religious works such as the Bible, including describing how the material is rendered new. (This could be something they compare.)

*  What is your timeline for implementing and completing your PBI?

Students will begin reading a novel during the second quarter (Animal Farm) and based on class discussion and their reading, they will begin their concept map on November 16th, completing their Popplet in the pre-writing phase a week later.

* What materials and resources do you need to be successful?

Assigned (modern fiction) novel, popplet, Teacher assigned notes on understanding of theme, characterization, and other rhetorical devices

* What are the benefits and challenges of marrying traditional formats with the new literacies?

Non-traditional literacies combined with traditional literacies allow students to combine text with images and video in an organized and interesting way that provides them opportunity to think about their ideas in a non-linear way. This provides more opportunity for "outside of the box" thinking.

* How will your PBI address this?

Popplet allows them to use text and traditional rough draft formatting with other modes of communication such as images, quotes from the text, video, etc.

* What is transmedia, and how is it influencing the way students learn?

Transmedia allows students to show their work across multiple media platforms, such as in social media and traditional formats like Google slides. It's allow students to understand how to effectively use language across a variety of genres of writing as the rules of communication and messaging change for each genre.

* How does this help you approach your PBI?

It gives us an idea of how Popplet can work effectively in accordance with the traditional literary analysis essay.

* Identify the changes in curriculum, instruction, and assessment that have taken place in your school or classroom to promote new literacies.

We are a 1:1 school and use technology a lot for formal and informal assessment. For example, students might participate in a quizlet in order to review which would earn them points for an informal assessment. Then, they might use Google docs to create a group project for a formal assignment. We have more options for assessment which allows us to use various mediums that promote new literacies.

* What technology is available to support your efforts?

We are blessed that each student has a Chromebook at our school. We have accounts with Storyboard That, Castle Learning, Canva and other learning sites that allow students to work on assignments with their devices.

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Team 4: Kayla Bullock and Kendall Robinson

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Team 4: Kayla Bullock and Kendall Robinson

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What are some potential compelling questions your team is considering?

Can infographics/posters made on technology tools such as Canva be an effective way to demonstrate mastery of content knowledge? (Framed around TPACK)

What initial ideas do you have for your PBI?

At that time, the class will be looking at Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. It would be cool if they could make a presentation using different dialect samplings collected from the student body and do a presentation on linguistic diversity and the what effects dialect may have on CCR.

What is your target age group?

We will be focusing on the juniors in my (Kayla’s) advanced composition course.

What specific Common Core or Essential Standards learning objectives will your PBI address?

W.11-12.4 Use digital tools and resources to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments or information.

W.11-12.5 Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.

What is your timeline for implementing and completing your PBI?

We have another on-campus class together, so we will meet once a week for the next couple of weeks to plan the project and will implement it near the end of November. The project will take the students at least 4-5 days.

What materials and resources do you need to be successful?

We will need to do more research on how to show mastery of 1-2 whole standards of content using quick tech like Canva.

Also necessary will be the resources to travel to one another. We live 90 minutes apart.

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SOLID plan. I LOVE Google Tour! Folks are coming back to Diigo...as we have to teach kids to CLOSE read online.
WATCH YOUR QUESTIONS...are they actually answerable??? LITERACY...you are gonna FIX all of their literacy...NARROW down to one specific ASPECT(inferencing, identifying themes etc.

CONSIDER instead of "how" as your question...what about TO WHAT EXTENT.. AND SPECIFICALLY name technology in your question. Cool?

I look forward to what you find.

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NICE start. What is the tool? Picktochart? Canva?

WATCH YOUR QUESTIONS...are they actually answerable??? LITERACY...you are gonna FIX all of their literacy...NARROW down to one specific ASPECT (inferencing, identifying themes etc.

Your QUESTION can NOT be a yes or no question...that is not what research can do...PROVE anything...just coorelations etc.CONSIDER TO WHAT EXTENT... AND SPECIFICALLY name WHATEVER will be directly in your technology in your question. Cool?

I look forward to what you find.

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What are some potential compelling questions your team is considering?

How can we create engaging lessons leading to advancements in literacy using Google Virtual Tour in the Social Studies Classroom?

What initial ideas do you have for your PBI?

Google Expeditions   Garbino’s Ecology of Adolescent Development

Google Virtual Tour  Unit: Colonization and Global Powers

What is your target age group? 7th graders (11-14)

What specific Common Core or Essential Standards learning objectives will your PBI address?

7.H.2.1 Analyze the effects of social, economic, military and political conflict among nations, regions, and groups (e.g. war, genocide, imperialism and colonization).

What is your timeline for implementing and completing your PBI?

Tyree’s school Tracks back in Oct 22, the unit will start that day. 3 week unit so end research November 12th, compile PBI for project, find connection to Theorist and turn in for Review by the 20th, and edit and submit for Review Dec 6th.

What materials and resources do you need to be successful?

1:1 devices (ipad cart), lesson plans, primary source materials

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EXCELLENT plan. CANVA is great toll!
DEFFINENTLY provide students a PLEARN (Session Zero) ONBOARDING session to PLAY, LEARN Canva... e.g. Create a Canva about your weekend plans (PG13 obviously  LOL
WATCH YOUR QUESTIONS...are they actually answerable??? KNOW WORLD...you are gonna FIX all of their world knowledge...NARROW down to one specific ASPECT(culture, themes, geography)
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CONSIDER instead of "how" as your question...what about TO WHAT EXTENT... AND SPECIFICALLY name CANVA as your technology in your question. Cool?

I look forward to what you find.

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EXCELLENT plan. Never heard of CS First?

CONSIDER instead of "how" as your question...what about TO WHAT EXTENT... AND SPECIFICALLY name CSFirst as your technology in your question. Cool?

I look forward to what you find.

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EXCELLENT plan. poppLET is the name of your tool. Oldie but goodie! BE sure to see about HOW many students can make for FREE...I stopped sharing it cause they went PAY to PLAY...HEADS UP

CONSIDER instead of "how" as your question...what about TO WHAT EXTENT... Cool?

I look forward to what you find.

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NICE start. What is your actual TOOL? Canva?

WATCH YOUR QUESTIONS...are they actually answerable???

Your QUESTION can NOT be a yes or no question...that is not what research can do...PROVE anything...just coorelations CONSIDER instead of "how" as your question...what about TO WHAT EXTENT... AND SPECIFICALLY name your technology in your question. Cool?

I look forward to what you find.

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NICE plan. ALSO take a look at Google Tour Builder

WATCH YOUR QUESTIONS...are they actually answerable??? LITERACY...you are gonna FIX all of their literacy...NARROW down to one specific ASPECT(inferencing, identifying themes etc.

CONSIDER instead of "how" as your question...what about TO WHAT EXTENT... Cool?

Your timeline SEEMS awful TIGHT.

I look forward to what you find.

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NICE start. Canva is great.

WATCH YOUR QUESTIONS...are they actually answerable??? LITERACY...you are gonna FIX all of their literacy...NARROW down to one specific ASPECT(inferencing, identifying themes etc.

Your QUESTION can NOT be a yes or no question...that is not what research can do...PROVE anything...just coorelations CONSIDER instead of "how" as your question...what about TO WHAT EXTENT... AND SPECIFICALLY name your technology in your question. Cool?

I look forward to what you find.

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SOLID plan. I LOVE Google Tour! Folks are coming back to Diigo...as we have to teach kids to CLOSE read online.
WATCH YOUR QUESTIONS...are they actually answerable??? LITERACY...you are gonna FIX all of their literacy...NARROW down to one specific ASPECT(inferencing, identifying themes etc.

CONSIDER instead of "how" as your question...what about TO WHAT EXTENT.. AND SPECIFICALLY name technology in your question. Cool?

I look forward to what you find.WATCH YOUR QUESTIONS...are they actually answerable??? LITERACY?INNOVATION...you are gonna FIX all of their literacy/innovation...NARROW down to one specific ASPECT(inferencing, identifying themes, creativity, growth mindset etc.

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REVIEW the FOLLOWING

https://goformative.com/

https://www.activelylearn.com

https://edpuzzle.com/

https://classflow.com/

https://spiral.ac/

TWEET - which do you like BEST & WHY (include #eci546)

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Listen below!
I am challenging myself to have more transparency- Add me on instagram @historywithmcdermott

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Unit 5 Week 1 Synthesis- Play me!- Lindsey McDermott

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1.potential compelling questions
-- How can Canva be used to  engage the students  in learning goals instead of technology tool itself?
--How to enhance the implement of the tool without distracting the students from the activities such as communication with partners,and writing assignments?
2.initial ideas for our PBI  ？Apply Canva to the reading process -
* show the story line on the screen
* edit the picture and teaching plan
*creat a poster of a certain theme
3.What is your target age group?
9-11,4-6th grades in Middle School
4.What specific Common Core or Essential Standards learning objectives will your PBI address?5.What is your timeline for implementing and completing your PBI?
Oct.5  introduce the app to the Ss
Oct.11 give a class using Canva and  make an interview
Nov.1 summary and evaluation
6.What materials and resources do you need to be successful?
*reference books on applying the technology to teaching process
*digital resourses including images and videos

7.What are the benefits and challenges  of marrying traditional formats with the new literacies?How will your PBI address this ?
8.What is transmedia,and how is it influencing the way students learn?How does this help you approach your PBI?
9.Identify the changes in cirriculum,instruction,and assessment that have taken place in your school or classroom to promote new literacies .What technology is available to support your efforts?

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1.  The case study that resonated with me is UN Poets by Evelyn Daugherty.Evelyn Daugherty helps us to find an effective way of teaching students how poetry, media, and text can create powerful messages for them.Students were engaged in the learning process (co-use of the digital tools). They worked together all through the technology.Students have the flexibility to use iMovie to show their understanding of water as a source of energy through a multi-modal representation.Google Docs allowed them to learn how to fuse text and art in order to represent ideas via text. In addition, students and teachers were able to collaborate via Google Docs to give constructive and collaborative feedback.Students are extending their knowledge by publicating on the UN website . which equipped students with tools and life skills one can use when communicating to a global audience about an important topic or idea.

What we often do before we ‘re fully aware of the Triple E Framework  is to take it for granted that it should be a great and modern teaching style as long as we integrate a certain technology tool in our class,without considering weather it is promoting the outcome of the learning process.Providing very few benefits compared to a more traditional option,It can not cause a shift in the behavior of the students or move them from a passive to an active learner,let alone the enhancement and extension of the learning goals.

2.Formal,nonformal,and informal are the “new normal” simply because the traditional class has changed greatly since the technology was integrated to enhance the process of teaching. Thanks to the technology tools, we are not limited by the boundaries of in-school or out of-school ,formal or nonformal ,informal.We now have technology widely available to allow the type of interactions to improve the learning experience of individual students.We can take everywhere as a classroom to inspire and lead our students to do something .As John Dewey puts it ,Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking, learning naturally results .Technology collectively contributes to a culture where students are encouraged to find their own voice and passion.Truly prepare learners need to equip themselves not only with content knowledge and high-tech tools but also the skills and creativity needed to navigate a rapidly changing
society. Our role is to provide the inspiration that gives them confidence for their aspirations.

3.    Transparency is now becoming more convenient and effective than any time in the past due to the popularity of the advanced technology tools.Its differentiation makes it possible for our classroom to become more varied ,intentional and allow us to provide reliable,comprehensive interaction with the students as well as their parents and family members.Take the modeling as an example: What if we offer an quality model when our students have trouble to deal with a pitfall that occurs along the way?What if we show the steps to assist them work out a certain problem without wasting time rather than trapped in it?What if our students have access to these models at any place and any time and get help from their families who are fully aware of their troubles? We even don’t need to rely on Canvas to distribute our materials and models ,instead ,a Google Doc and Google Drive is enough .We can meet the needs of the students who have disability in learning through providing extra appropriate exercises ,or additional exposure to skilled students who even study in a different school.We can also educate our students on everything assisted and keep their parents informed by updating information at any times.

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https://padlet.com/mbcrockett16/e3surkh5w850

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1. The case study that resonated most with me was 10, "Civilization Creation," from chapter 8.  The primary reason that I say this, is because high school social studies is what I will be teaching.  This is also not the first time that Minecraft has been talked about in our readings for this class, so it stood out to me.  At first I was skeptical of how such technology and gaming could be useful in class, but reading about how it was implemented over the course of a year made a lot of sense to me.   Not only did this classroom integrate technology that many of the students were already using, but it allowed them to put their knowledge from class to the test.  In order to be successful in the game, they would have to remember what made a good civilization.  What was necessary?  I   really liked this teacher's use of the game as a year-long project.  It was something that they could always come back to, thus not taking about too much class time all at once, but spreading it out and allowing for students to build upon their villages while they built on their knowledge.

2.Formal, Nonformal, and informal education are the "new normal" because classrooms and schools are adapting to what they feel will be create the most successful learners.  Especially with changing technology, who students are and how they learn, and WHAT they are learning is changing.   Nonformal education allows for the learning and teaching going on to be flexible and done, as put in Learning Supercharged, in a "highly adaptable manner."  Schools realize that learning is done through all of these forms of education, so it is important to utilize them in school.  A quote that stood out to me from the reading was that of Ryan Haug, "Academics are important, but we also focus on social emotional learning, and the notion of grit and resilience."  Students need to be taught the skills to learn, think, and question.  By utilizing forms of nonformal education, students are able to question, research, discover, and create.  A good example of this is the student from Michigan who created a light-up football.  He was supported by people outside of school, but was given the opportunity to showcase this work in school.  By the school allowing this, they encouraged the nonformal education that had taken place.

3.Transparency in teaching is achievable in today's classrooms because of our ability as teachers to communicate our expectations, goals, strategies, and schedules to our students and families.  This transparency is achievable thanks, in part, to the technology that is available to us and our school community.  As a teacher I am able to update parents on a weekly, daily, etc., basis through emails and resources like Remind.  The same technologies can also be used to reach and update students, especially high school students.  Modeling is also more productive through the introduction of technology to the classroom.  How-to videos, or even additional support videos are easily done and posted online for students and parents alike.  Such videos can be viewed inside and outside the classroom, allowing for support to be had at any location or time.  A student who might have forgotten the steps to setting up their webpage for their project could watch their teacher's video.  While similar "how-to" videos might already exist on a platform like YouTube, the specific goals of the project will not be targeted like they would be by a teacher's.  Since the technology allows for the classroom to be reached after hours and around the globe, students are able to have their projects displayed.  They are able to come back to them years later, and they can serve as a reference down the line.

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1.  I really liked the cross-curricular nature of Case Study 8 All-American Road Trip.  This project seemed so “real world” to me in that students are actually synthesizing important planning and budgeting to applying geography for an authentic purpose, hence the trip itself.  The idea of giving students an abundance of choices as they navigate through a task that is often difficult for adults that have a multitude of planning trials and errors in budgeting and discovery of best practices for their families.  I could really capitalize on the writing/reading aspects of the assignments and use that as an opportunity to increase student response to great language communication, in a variety of ways.  This is likely a project that students will never forget.   This activity would have to be greatly scaffolded for my 3rd grade students, but I find it just as relevant as for the 6th grade students for which it was intended.

2.   I think that we have always known that nonformal and informal learning is as valuable, if not more valuable than formal learning.  During our current time we just simply embrace it more openly and give it due credit.  According to “Learning Supercharged” p. 153 “...learning can take place across boundaries, and what has been learned out of school can help shape what is learned in school.”  On an on-going basis I am ever mindful of student prior knowledge when presenting a lesson.  If the students don’t have that prior knowledge it is up to me as the teacher to make sure they do in order not to facilitate their learning.  Often my assessments are informal and drive how my lesson will be navigated “on-the-fly” throughout my presentations and the goals set for my students.  I navigate their understanding and make corrections as I proceed or stop and take those necessary turns and u-turns.  Many of my observations are just simply scribbled on legal notepads as “to-do” type lists of which to respond and tailor my instruction.
3. Transparency in teaching today is extremely achievable.  The popularity of today’s cell phones and other devices alone lends itself to instant, constant connection and collaboration at any point throughout the day or night.  ClassDojo has changed the ways in which I choose to communicate with parents and offers me an instant tracking of my parental  involvement attempts.  Students cannot get away with saying “I don’t have homework.” because before students step inside their homes after school I have already notified parents of all assignments and provided them with a link to copies of the assignments.  Parents can speak with confidence to their children about assignments and have great “models” (Matt’s Note-Don’t Ditch That Tech) from which to offer additional support.  There is little reason or obstacles to justify not keeping parents informed.

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1. The case study that resonated with me most from learning first, technology second was study 12, Simulated Gaming. This study involved two University of Michigan professors who had the idea to create online collaborative projects that students could take on from grade levels 6-12. There were multiple tech formats created in which students would basically be placed in a game like simulation. For example, on page 147 one of the simulations is the “Arab-Israeli conflict” in which students are put in a political and diplomatic character-playing exercise. In this they must simulate what it is like to be in the conflicts situation to make decisions to better understand the dynamics of national and international politics. This case study resonated with me because I am interested in teaching History and this was one of the case studies that involved history and really stood out to me. A new idea that I got from this case study was that it is possible to use a game like simulation for students to learn better about political situations rather than just having them read dynamics and possibly acting them out in a town hall meeting situation. This is great for when I have my own classroom to be able to use these different simulations during units.
2. Formal, Nonformal, and informal education are the “new normal” in education because, schools want to see students learn in different ways that will prepare them for the real world. They want student to learn in the ways that will help them best. Schools are aware that students learn at all three levels but want teachers to be able to differentiate to the class, so students can learn best. It is an everchanging world with technology and as Learning Supercharged said, students spend a lot more time outside of school than in it.  Learning Supercharged also says that “what has been learned outside of school can help shape what is learned in school”. This shows that the job of the teacher is to be able to bring all three types of learning into the classroom. With this the rate of success should be able to become greater, and it makes the learning much more authentic in the classroom, which has been a key component in all our readings this year. Also, vice versa students will be able to take what they learn in school out into the real world, which is one of the main goals as an educator to have students actually put into practice what they learn.
3.Teaching with transparency in today’s educational profession is very attainable for teachers. The reason I say this is because teachers today have so many new cool tools that they can use to reach out to not only the students but their guardians themselves. With the exposure of cellphones to younger people, one of the best ways to reach them is with utilizing those phones for good and using different apps to help the students as well as yourself. One of the most common apps that I see used, is remind. It is simple, free, and has the ability for multiple groups to be organized so it is easy for students and guardians alike to use. In chapter 8 of Don’t Ditch That Tech, there are many examples of apps to use in the classroom (and at home) to help students keep up with work and activities, and the best part about them is that many of them are free to use. Another way to be transparent in todays classroom is to utilize social media (also on cellphones). Students enjoy using various platforms of social media, so if it is something they are on while home, and something cool pops up about what they did in class that day it will attract their attention and have them invested into that activity. On page 125 of the book, it says “if your class does something amazing and nobody knows about it, did it really happen”. This is a great quote, to think about using social media to get out information about all the cool new things that you do in your classroom.

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1 I chose Case Study 5 - UN Poets. The case study involved ELA and science students making interactive nature poems which also connects to World Water Day which is a day we plan lessons for at my school.  This lesson resonated with me because I teach AP literature and there is a lot of poetry on the AP test, however, poetry is the type of literature that students struggle with the most. It’s hard to find ways to make it relevant to their lives, as well as "interactive."

The new idea I gleaned from this case study is the interesting connections the teacher helped students make between nature poetry and real environmental issues. Although I’ve thought of connected nature poetry with the environment, I had not thought of how an interactive poem would help students submerge themselves in a real way in the sensory imagery and details of a poem. This is genius! This is also a cross-curricular project so that students are not only working on ELA goals but also science and  civic goals.

2 A blend of formal, informal and nonformal assessments are the new normal, simply because of the skills that 21st century learners need to practice while in the classroom. So much of technology that educators use in the classroom has to include opportunities for students to simply explore and tinker with different ways of doing things so that they have opportunities to truly think outside the box without having to worry about their grades. They also need opportunities to collaborate with one another using new technology and approaches to doing things. Of course we need formal assignments to assess what they have learned, but informal and nonformal assignments give them the opportunity to explore without having to worry about their performance.

For example, I allow my students to blog on their digital portfolios which is informal writing because I’m not grading for mechanics, grammar, organization, but rather giving them a time and place to “think out loud / on paper / in digital spaces.”

3 Transparency in teaching is certainly achievable on the part of educators, administration and schools in this day and age. We now have websites, interactive calendars, online learning management systems as well as tools like PowerSchool which keep students and parents in the loop of what is happening at school on a 24/7 basis. Not to mention the emails, newsletters, and even reminder texts that go to parents and students on a regular basis. One example if the reminder texts we get from you; how can we forget about due dates when we get these reminders!

There should be no reason why parents and students are left in the dark about what goals, objectives and lessons are being covered in their classes. If schools and teachers are not utilizing the tools they have to communicate with parents, it’s not because those tools are not available to them. For example at our school we use Canvas as well as PowerSchool, but we also send emails to parents and have an electronic newsletter that goes to all parents - Charter Chatter - in addition to the calendars and other information available on our main website.

On the other hand, what about parents from low-income areas who don’t have access to technology? Certainly there are still traditional ways for schools and educators to keep parents in the loop on what’s going on outside of the use of technology. But even in those instances, I think it’s pretty rare that a parent or legal guardian doesn’t have access to a smart phone or email. However, it’s certainly possible. In those situations, administration and educators are definitely responsible for implementing paths of communication with parents / guardians.

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1. SELECT one case study (Kolb) that RESONATED with you. Explain why and what new idea did you glean, BE SPECIFIC.

Case Study 11 resonated the most with me, for two specific reasons, both personal and professional. First, I am a first generation college student who comes from a working-poor family. When I was growing up I had to learn on my own how to craft emails such as the ones described in this E-Mentor assignment. I had to search for online resources during hours hidden at public and school libraries, as there was no one in my home-life who had the skill set to teach me. I only wish that this had been a lesson taught to me. The second reason this lesson resonated with me is because it is similar to a lesson I conduct with my students. Every year we collectively craft a letter to be sent to our district’s NC General Assembly Representative. Then, over the course of our final unit, students are expected to identify ONE other public servant/representative they want to reach out to and start a dialogue around one of the NC current events we had discussed during the first two quarters. While very few students typically get responses, this Case Study has me reflecting on ways to support a continual dialogue between these students and a public servant.

2. Why is Formal, Nonformal and Informal the "new normal" in today's classrooms? Support your assertions.

Schools have begun to shift their thinking in order to support life-long learning and meaningful integration of technology. It is the “new normal” in today’s classrooms, because what is learned out of school shapes what is learned in school. Informal learning, or students’ various Experience and real-world understanding impact what they want and what they need to know. Every student comes to a classroom with a wealth of resources and background knowledge, and while this knowledge may not be directly related to the content being taught, their expertise and knowledge should be harnessed to engage, enhance and extend their learning. The use of technology makes nonformal learning all that more accessible. Through the use of Skype, virtual field-trips, community partners or cultural centers (museums, theaters, etc…) nonformal education can be intertwined with the formal schooling and informed by students’ informal knowledge base. d

3. To what degree is "transparency in teaching" achievable in today's education profession? Support your assertions.

Transparency in teaching is not only achievable, it is encouraged! Accessibility of the classroom and teacher has been encouraged for decades now, and something that has been made much easier by new technology. However, this accessibility does not automatically translate to transparency. The chapter in “Don’t Ditch that Tech” on transparency has an interesting quote:  “If something amazing happens in your classroom and no one knows, did it really ever happen?”. With technology and protocols put in place for student resource accessibility should also come the ability of students, parents, administrators, community members and other stakeholders to see the fantastic things you do in your classroom! That is not to say that every moment need to be documented or tweeted, but that when kids do great things or when great things are planned, make it known. You could inspire other educators, help parents feel “looped in” and make students feel proud of what they have accomplished. If all the necessary procedures for student privacy are followed, transparency is easier than ever to achieve and arguably more important to tackle.

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1. One case study that really resonated with me was case study 10 that used Minecraft to explain civilizations and the choices that civilizations in the past have made. This resonates with me for two reasons. The first is that I played Minecraft when I was in high school. This is a nostalgic way for me to include something that I loved to play into a tool for student learning. Second, I want to teach secondary social studies, and I am currently observing a World History class. This case study takes place in a 9th grade World History class and Minecraft was able to be used throughout the entire year. The new idea that I gleaned from this case study is using Minecraft in the classroom. This is another example of gamification that students would enjoy. The use of Minecraft to learn about civilizations as they advanced through history is truly revolutionary to me. The ability for the teacher to alter the landscape with things like invasions, natural disasters, and terrain altering events, lets students discover how civilizations problem solved. This is a great hands-on tool for the students to learn about history.

2. Formal, Nonformal, and Informal learning are the new normal in today’s classrooms because schools are adapting to provide students with the most amount of learning possible. To do this, they must use all three types of learning. The book, Learning Supercharged, states, “We know that much of what any individual knows is not learned in a formal classroom setting; after all, we spend far more time out of school than in it.” This shows that teachers need to understand how to use all three types of learning in order to provide the maximum amount of learning and learning opportunities for students. As technology progresses, it becomes easier to blend the three in the classrooms. As the book mentions, “The idea of blending Nonformal and informal learning with learning into formal educational settings has expanded during the last decades, and technology has played a role in the potential and reality.” To help teachers with this task community learning centers are reaching out to combine learning in and out of the classroom.

3. I would say that teaching with transparency is extremely achievable today. I would argue that it is more achievable today than it ever has been before. This is due to the fact that technology has helped teachers out tremendously. There are hundreds if not thousands of tools on the internet that teachers can use for their students and for the students’ parents. Tools such as remind, online calendars, Powerschool, and websites have made it easy for parents and students to understand their grades, what is expected of them, and what is happening inside the school. As the book Don’t Ditch That Tech says, “More than has ever been possible before, teachers can distribute quality, accessible models of thinking, expectations, processes, and products to students and their families.”

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1. A field trip comes easily and creatively in Case 1.   Everyone can’t resist the attraction of and exploring exotic locations, which makes it smoothly for students to carry on tasks in the project . By reading the book before the following detailed trip, students can get an general idea of the exotic life, connecting to their life on a daily basis consciously. By cooperation with their sister classroom, students are really involved into the task. They are engaged in the project as participants instead of passive audiences. Google Earth presents pictures of what Paris daily life is like, which at same time intriguing them to get curious of and know more about exotic life in another country. After generating their own idea, students can present them in front of the class by Street View and Google Cardboard, which provide an visual chance to show life in Paris. Though students are in classroom, the technology make it happen to be involved in Paris as   authentic as possible. Compared to read about the city in book, such a comprehensive and real way with the help of technology is difficult to argue. By completing the project, each of the students are allowed to connect themselves with students living in Paris. Communications between students are not only the superficial greetings, but detailed and valuable sectors in real life due to the help of teacher’s hunt list. By completing each of spot on the list, students are make authentic connections with life of students’ from their sister school. At the same time, Technology integrated in the project allow students to acquire useful life and communication skills which is essential in their future life .

2. It is known that much of what any individual knows is not learned in a formal classroom setting. After all, we spend far more time out of school than in it. It makes the blending a necessary. To meet the needs of the real life of students, educators need blend nonformal and informal learning with formal learning. Besides, mobile technologies make it possible to learn across different contexts, which allows the blending to happen in schools today. With technology integrated in classroom, different types of information and knowledge streamed in, nonformal and informal learning has huge platform to present in front of students. What’s more ,in order to increase some form of new knowledge, skills, abilities and understandings ,which can not gained from school, and at the same time are beneficial to the future life , students should  learn from informal learning .It can help shape what is learned in school in return. It is essential that the connection between theoretical and practical work should be restored. From the point of view of educations, the blending learning create prospective teachers with opportunities to apply their knowledge of concepts covered in class to solving real-world problems. Teachers improved, students are equipped with more skills, to meet the needs of 21sth century.

3. a. Make models available to students and parents. Demonstrating demands and aims using technology, making larger projects smaller by giving check points, which increase communication between teachers and students. Expose student models of work to enhance discussion among students’ discussion. Make classes’ content and skills accessible. Keep parents and students alike informed of weekly or daily events. Update work in projects and even involve students in assessing or grading practices. By creating and sharing class content through technology, educator showing their own page, which provide more advanced access to content. what students are learning. To meet the communication needs of 21st century students and parents, educators can have more examples , expectations and communications at school community’s fingertips. With the help of remind or bloomz, they can easily involve parents in to enhance classroom organization and communication. Increase and ease communication between teachers, parents and students. One tweet, phone call, or digital portfolio can be sent to school’s families and communities., which can more transparent the amazing activity in students.

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1. SELECT one case study (Kolb) that RESONATED with you. Explain why and what new idea did you glean, BE SPECIFIC.

Scenario 4 really resonated with me. It says, “a kindergarten teacher focusing on early literary goals has each student come up to the interactive whiteboard to trace letters with the whiteboard pen”. A lot of the scenarios were familiar to me, but this was a scenario I’ve practiced with students. I can see why it is a “red light”. I believe that the idea of a white board is seen in the eyes of children as traditional and less creative than other approaches. There are also cases where children don’t like to be singled out, or they might have trouble with the whiteboard and get frustrated. There’s this one website found called ABCYa!, and on it, children trace letters to the beat of whatever music they’d like to hear. There is a colorful background, and certain letters have colors, and if students worked on that website on an iPad, I think that would be more stimulating than a whiteboard. They also wouldn’t have to worry about standing in the front of the classroom if they’re shy.

2. Why is Formal, Nonformal and Informal the "new normal" in today's classrooms? Support your assertions.

As defined, formal learning happens in a “school curriculum in which learning might be characterized as focusing on structured content, extrinsic motivation, and strict assessment”. Nonformal learning is “in a planned but highly adaptable manner in institutions, organizations, and situations beyond the spheres of formal educational entities”. Informal learning “occurs at home, work, and during leisure hours in order to increase some form of new knowledge, skills, abilities, and understandings”. The book goes on to talk about how “technology has played a role” in students developing a well rounded idea of the study of ecology. I agree with this, and I also believe technology is responsible for the “new normal” in all of these different learning environments. Students used to be so much more active in playing outdoors than they are today, and now, because there is access to technological tools everywhere, there is more time spent at home playing video games, watching television, and going on the computer. Then, when students are in school, they sometimes focus so much more on their phones than they do with each other. Technology has influenced the way we socialize, work, and learn in all aspects of our lives, and it contrasts with these environments being the “new normal”.

3. To what degree is "transparency in teaching" achievable in today's education profession? Support your assertions.

From what I read, “transparency in teaching” has to do with a student and teacher collaboration, and through that collaboration, there is a progression of figuring out ways to complete and understand assignments through various techniques and models. The transparency element comes into play when there is certainty that the different areas of thoughts is assessable for everyone. As Don't Ditch That Text is quoted, “for every successful amazing activity and spark ignited in a child, we should show off our awesomeness and keep doing so.. One tweet, phone call, or digital portfolio sent to our school’s families and communities can change the way your students’ great learning is promoted”. Students’, teachers’, and parents’ knowledge of the digital world effecting learning has a great impact on the progression of technology in our society. It is achievable only if a teacher monitors it in our classroom and has full awareness of the way her students are figuring out different ways to collaborate and turn in assignments.

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1. SELECT one case study (Kolb) that RESONATED with you. Explain why and what new idea did you glean, BE SPECIFIC.

The case study that resonated with me most from the Kolb text was the UN Poets case study. This case study is a brilliant and powerful example of how cross-curricular learning of English Language Arts and science are possible. There are several reasons why this case study stood out to me. First, I love poetry about nature. Second, I believe it is imperative that students learn the importance of conservation of natural resources. Preserving Planet Earth is paramount! If we neglect to teach our children about conservation, and fail to put in the effort to save the environment, we will cease to exist. Additionally, the case study appears to have appealed to the students on a personal level as well as an academic level. Upon receiving the official letter from the United Nations the students appear to have felt called to action. This inspired them to feel there was purpose in their creative writing endeavor. Their poetry was not a frivolous creative effort that would remain unnoticed but something that could make a positive and immense impact on the world stage. This motivates me to make an effort to create language arts lessons that speak to students on this level: calling them to make a positive difference in the world through their writing endeavors.

2. Why is Formal, Nonformal and Informal the "new normal" in today's classrooms? Support your assertions.

The world is evolving and becoming less formal almost constantly. The way we learn also continues to evolve. In this increasingly more informal age of innovation it is imperative that we as teachers and student learners embrace all forms of learning: informal and formal. If we are to reach the students of today it is crucial for us to be able to meet them on their level. A teacher must present to the students as relatable and as someone who cares about them as both students and as people, who live both inside and outside of the classroom. Famous educational advocate Dr. Madeline Hunter asserted, “Students do not care how much you know unless they know how much you care.” Students perform better and achieve at higher rates when teachers demonstrate unconditional positive regard. This is repeatedly demonstrated across the country at schools that have implemented the Time To Teach curriculum. This methodological approach includes effective strategies for achieving successful classroom management and also utilizes the successful implementation of unconditional positive regard.

3. To what degree is "transparency in teaching" achievable in today's education profession? Support your assertions.

Transparency in teaching is arguably more achievable currently in the education profession that ever before. With recent innovations and advancements in technology, it is now possible for teachers to maintain heightened transparency about teaching expectations, procedures, and questions the student learners and their parents may have. Different technological tools are available to seamlessly integrate technology as a vehicle for inciting conversations and intellectual interactions to occur that previously may have been impossible. Remind is a great tool to help everyone stay connected. Teachers can also use technological tools to create educational instructional videos and to respond in a more personal way to parents (and potentially also student learners). (Video responses are a much more personal method of communicating than email.)

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1. SELECT one case study (Kolb) that RESONATED with you. Explain why and what new idea did you glean, BE SPECIFIC.

The case study that grabbed my attention the most was the third case study that used Project Based Learning centered around the Flint Water Crisis. While my content area is Spanish, I love how literacy was being taught through authentic real life situations - as this makes the material more meaningful to students and thus promotes increased levels of engagement. I am currently teaching a unit on the Bolivian Water Crisis in which we discuss if access to water is in fact a human right and how the government plays a role in protecting (or violating) this right. It could be worth comparing the Bolivian Crisis to Flint to help me cover the World Languages connections/ comparisons standards. I like that this uses Piktochart as well as I have recently been experimenting with creating infographics in my classes and this has been very helpful as students can not only show they understood the material, but I can transform this into a gallery walk after as part of the extension.

2. Why is Formal, Nonformal and Informal the "new normal" in today's classrooms? Support your assertions.

One thing that grabbed my attention is when the reading mentions that “informal learning is embedded in meaningful activity, builds on the learner’s interest”. This makes me think about how in education today, we strive to integrate student voice/ interest to make content more relevant for our students. We know that when students are interested in what they are learning, they naturally want to continue to learn about it. Another note was when it states that “what has been learned out of school can help shape what is learned in school”. Through technology, we are given an opportunity with our students to promote learning outside of school. We can use technology to give them tools to be able to continue to learn as they continue with their day after leaving the building. As project based learning, blended learning, and personalized learning become more and more relevant and popular, we are teaching our students skills that they in turn use at home. This goes hand in hand with the 21st century learner concept in which we are trying to prepare our students for the real world - which is done by creating authentic resources, and helping students to realize their own strengths.

3. To what degree is "transparency in teaching" achievable in today's education profession? Support your assertions.

I believe transparency in teaching is highly achievable. One way the Don't Ditch that Textbook points out is to increase communication to help bridge the gap between your class and your students’ outside worlds. This can be done through things like Remind, Class Dojo, etc. to help bring stakeholders into the class. One quote that resonated with me is “if something amazing happens in your classroom, and no one sees it, did it really happen?” I think personally, we are continuously learning and we should encourage transparency with what we are doing in our classrooms so that we can share our awesome and pull awesome from other teachers. This can help us continue to grow in the profession and doing so helps promote transparency in teaching because you are once again pulling the outside into your classroom.

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1. I really enjoyed the poetry case study; it made me smile to read about the students getting so into this form of art when I typically have a tough time teaching it. I taught a poem just a few days ago, and some of them already went into it with the attitude that they probably won’t understand it. It’s really tough to push away the stigma that poetry is unreachable. I like the idea of interactive poetry as it makes me think out of the box with how to approach poetry.  I thought of maybe annotating a poem for a ridiculous meaning, or perhaps making posters with the poetry and attributing them to celebrities that seem like they would relate to a poem like that.

2. Various types of learning is more acknowledged now-a-days. We are in a wave of education that believes strongly that students should not be judged only by test scores, the bill that was signed into law a few weeks ago shows that. There is research on “multiple ways of knowing” and we are, as a society, re-entering a stage where it is vogue to push career paths on kids that don’t require a college education. Because of this new wave in education, we see more acceptance on the idea that sometimes a student doesn’t need an actual curriculum in order to learn skills that would make them successful. Honestly, my own skills in reading and explicating text were self-taught; since I was homeschooled by parents that didn’t have higher education, my curriculum in high school was almost non-existent, yet here I am, pretty adept in these abilities to the point where I actually teach these skills to others. In today’s classrooms, we are encouraged to be original and intentional about the way we teach students. These types of nonformal and informal ways of learning are ways to do just that.

3. Transparency in teaching is not only achievable in today’s education profession, it is absolutely necessary. Due to the unstable world that students live in now-a-days and the constant flows of information, students need to know that there is someone that they can completely believe in and trust that is on their team. This level of transparency exists in a delicate balance, however, as too much transparency and openness can often make the distinction between authority relationship and peer relationship very muddled. If students lack that feeling of you as the teacher being the authority, it results in an unmanageable classroom which results in a loss of potential learning. However, this transparency while still maintaining the proper relationships can still be achieved through discussions as long as the ball is always in the teacher’s court.