HSE TLC October 2014

welcome

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TODAY’S AGENDA

matt sketch8:30-8:45 — Welcome and intros

8:45-10:00 — Teaching in a Paperless Classroom

10:10-11:30 — Connecting Your Classroom to the World

11:30-12:30 — Lunch

12:30-2:00 — The Imaginarium: Imagine the unit of your dreams and create it! (+GAFE stuff)

2:00-3:15 — UbD final project work time

 


 

FREE STUFF!

Make sure you put your name and e-mail address on the sign-up sheet being passed around. You’ll be entered to win a copy of Camtasia Studio (REALLY good video editing software) or Snagit (REALLY good screen capture software). By signing up, you’ll also be signed up to receive Matt’s e-mail newsletter with tips and tricks for teaching with technology and creativity.

kahoot logo sketchAlso, the winner of the Kahoot! game right before lunch will win a FREE Kahoot! t-shirt!

More info about Camtasia Studio

More info about Snagit

 


 

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Matt MillerMatt Miller (@jmattmiller) is a high school Spanish teacher at Turkey Run High School in Marshall, IN. His students engage in Spanish through educational technology regularly, including tools like blogs, digital videos and photos, QR codes, Google Voice and more. He blogs regularly at Ditch That Textbook, which is dedicated to teaching with less reliance on the textbook with an emphasis on technology and creative teaching. He can be contacted at matt@ditchthattextbook.com.

For more information about Matt, visit the About page. For more information about Matt’s presentations, visit the Conferences page.

 


 

TEACHING IN A PAPERLESS CLASSROOM

Session slides:

Video from session: Digital Natives – 3 years later

Why go paperless?

  • Access to people and places
  • Efficiency
  • Defeat insecurity
  • Empower students
  • Reinvent education
  • Real-world skills
  • We’re not the gatekeepers to info
  • Fun and magic

why

 

View the full-sized image of Matt’s sketch HERE.

 

 

What does it look like to be paperless?

A lot like your class looks now! It’s definitely not a silver bullet …

 

Creating a website to hold everything

Matt’s suggestion for creating a class website: education.weebly.com

Matt’s class webpage: turkeyrunspanish.weebly.com

 

Good basic tools to make it happen

Google Apps for Education: drive.google.com

TodaysMeet: todaysmeet.com

Socrative: socrative.com

Infuse Learning: infuselearning.com

 

Practical advice for creating a paperless classroom

20 features of a great paperless classroom (Ditch That Textbook)

paperless

 

View the full-sized image of Matt’s sketch HERE.

 

 

Resources for teaching without textbooks

NBC Learn: indiana.nbclearn.com (FREE for Indiana educators!)

SAS Curriculum Pathways: sascurriculumpathways.com

Discovery Education: discoveryeducation.com/teachers

Khan Academy: khanacademy.org

 


 

CONNECTING YOUR CLASS TO THE WORLD

Link to video in the session: Connect Classrooms Globally with Skype

GETTING STARTED CONNECTING GLOBALLY:

MYSTERY SKYPE:

FINDING SKYPE PARTNERS:

10 Ways to Start Using Skype in the Classroom: http://www.edudemic.com/10-ways-to-start-using-skype-in-the-classroom/

Mystery Location Call Roles (jobs that students can do while the call is going on): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UkFXBUyseKZN6yfVpW9Mye6hbSc8JNHl_yu3ExLanMA/edit?hl=en&forcehl=1

 


IMAGINARIUm

What is the Imaginarium? It’s kind of like an aquarium, a terrarium, an oceanarium, an insectarium. In those places, certain living things live, grow and develop. It’s a place designed to help them flourish based on their unique needs.

Teachers need an Imaginarium: a place where they can take their ideas and help them flourish.

This is a session dedicated to helping YOU create the unit or lesson of your dreams. Add creativity, technology, design or whatever you want to it to create the kind of experience your students will never forget.

Let’s get started!

Session slides

 


 

STEP 1: Identify a unit/lesson.

Which unit/lesson do you have in mind?

  • Why have you picked that one?
  • Is it lacking?
  • Is it already good and you want it to be legendary?
  • Is it important?

Analyze the unit/lesson you’ve picked.

  • What are its strengths? Weaknesses?
  • Why do students like it/dislike it?
  • Why is it important?

Think of what you really want students to take away from the unit/lesson.

  • Is it information? A process? A life lesson? Inspiration?
  • How will that take away affect them in the future (in their post-schooling lives)?

Before we touch on some ideas that could spice this unit/lesson up, think about how it could be improved.

  • Can you pinpoint something (or is there something general) that would give it more impact?

 


 

STEP 2: Add some PIRATE.

“Teach Like a PIRATE” is a book written by high school social studies teacher Dave Burgess. The jacket of the book states: “this book offers inspiration, practical techniques, and innovative ideas that will help you increase student engagement, boost your creativity, and transform your life as an educator.”

PIRATE is an acronym for:

  • Passion
  • Immersion
  • Rapport
  • Ask and Analyze
  • Transformation
  • Enthusiasm

It also draws upon 32 “hooks” (pirate … hooks … see what we did there?) to draw students in and engage them. See them all in the sketch below. Then, find out what they mean in the PDF below that!

Helicopter rescue survivor list: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w82CP2vhCoSFmJ7Ki2OHJIYEcCrBrn11tRtrqRxj4CI/edit?usp=sharing

Haiku Deck on “Teach Like a PIRATE”: https://www.haikudeck.com/teach-like-a-pirate-education-presentation-QdRVoLXaE4#

Teach Like a PIRATE Day video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOnfdjHa_AQ

Matt’s Duck Dynasty post: https://ditchthattextbook.com/2013/09/26/social-media-duck-dynastys-jase-robertson-and-my-class/

 

pirate

 


 

STEP 3: Add some flash.

qr code scavenger hunt

 


 

 

STEP 4: Get in the students’ shoes.

A great place to start: A veteran teacher turned coach shadows 2 students for 2 days — a sobering lesson learned

Key takeaway 1: Students sit all day, and sitting is exhausting.

  • Stretch halfway through class.
  • Put a Nerf basketball hoop on the back of the door and encourage kids to play in the first and final minutes of class.
  • Build in a hands-on, move-around activity into every single class day.

Key takeaway 2: High school students are sitting passively and listening during approximately 90 percent of their classes

  • Offer brief, blitzkrieg-like mini-lessons with engaging, assessment-for-learning-type activities following directly on their heels.
  • Set an egg timer every time I get up to talk and all eyes are on me. When the timer goes off, I am done.
  • Ask every class to start with students’ Essential Questions or just general questions born of confusion from the previous night’s reading or the previous class’s discussion.

Key takeaway 3: You feel a little bit like a nuisance all day long.

  • Find wells of patience and love you never knew you have (rooted from experience as a parent).
  • Personal goal: no sarcasm in public (and ask students to hold you accountable).
  • Structure every test or formal activity like IB exams: five-minute reading period with questions but NO writing.

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