LIL Review 792
Gottfried Review
Clearly Gottfired's LIL site is intended for teachers, they start with the prompt challenging teachers to bring more resources to their students to support their efforts in finding jobs and a career. This is an important aspect that is often overlooked other than career counselor input; I think it's a great prompt to expand what teachers are offering. I think Gottfried is very effective in conveying this message. They emphasize using tools that are accessible to most students, blogging. The rationale for this is creating connections with other professionals through the blogging experience. She boasts that one of her students received 300 views on one of her blogs, and that another student wrote about a technical aspect of photoshop and received encouraging comments from a professional graphic designer. I think this is the type of encouragement and real world connection that our students need to make connections. Most jobs are gained by some positive connection, networking, or impression made to the right person. Gottfried is great at conveying this worth, providing lessons, and clever info graphics to share it's value.
Dearborn Review
This LIL is for teachers, this is clear from the content. Dearborn is suggesting that blogging be used by primary age students, she makes the case that reading logs are not engaging. What she is suggesting will definitely need more scaffolding for parents to accomplish. They focus on developing 21st century skills as well as digital citizenship. This is an important lesson for young students to master early on, as digital citizenship is often overlooked, and has negative outcomes for the community and the student's reputation. In their info graphic the rational for using digital tools is well expressed, the blogging tools and digital tools were 2-3 times as effective to engage students to respond to the assignment. Focusing on the 4 C's Dearborn does a great job of showing how their suggestions promote creativity, collaboration, communication, and critical thinking. My take away from their site is that students respond to the digital format because it promotes personal agency and voice & choice. This is a great idea to pass on to teachers to create this important scaffolding for students.
Vale Review
Again, Vale joins the chorus encouraging teachers to ask if their classroom is an academically safe space for their students. This tag line drew me in to see what they are implying. I searched and found another direction on their learn more page. The author suggests the the 4 C's are critical, but then launches into a barrage of data about race, county, etc and how they create and reeforce the achievement gap. The topic somehow changes to a discussion of culturally responsive teaching. Which is important, but I don't see the tools necessary to accomplish this. What is needed in this important step is an emersion into the community to learn what the communities face, and how responsive teachers can become. their lesson provided a flipped lesson example, which does reduce anxiety in students and supports more time for connection in the classroom, but what connections. The 4 C's are great, but since the author brings up culturally responsive teaching, I fell that they should have devoted more energy to accomplishing this awareness, it will not arise without a lot of effort by the teacher. I did not think the author provided the tools to effectively accomplish the goals they set forth. Perhaps they should have narrowed their foci to instead of speaking to various components briefly.
Clearly Gottfired's LIL site is intended for teachers, they start with the prompt challenging teachers to bring more resources to their students to support their efforts in finding jobs and a career. This is an important aspect that is often overlooked other than career counselor input; I think it's a great prompt to expand what teachers are offering. I think Gottfried is very effective in conveying this message. They emphasize using tools that are accessible to most students, blogging. The rationale for this is creating connections with other professionals through the blogging experience. She boasts that one of her students received 300 views on one of her blogs, and that another student wrote about a technical aspect of photoshop and received encouraging comments from a professional graphic designer. I think this is the type of encouragement and real world connection that our students need to make connections. Most jobs are gained by some positive connection, networking, or impression made to the right person. Gottfried is great at conveying this worth, providing lessons, and clever info graphics to share it's value.
Dearborn Review
This LIL is for teachers, this is clear from the content. Dearborn is suggesting that blogging be used by primary age students, she makes the case that reading logs are not engaging. What she is suggesting will definitely need more scaffolding for parents to accomplish. They focus on developing 21st century skills as well as digital citizenship. This is an important lesson for young students to master early on, as digital citizenship is often overlooked, and has negative outcomes for the community and the student's reputation. In their info graphic the rational for using digital tools is well expressed, the blogging tools and digital tools were 2-3 times as effective to engage students to respond to the assignment. Focusing on the 4 C's Dearborn does a great job of showing how their suggestions promote creativity, collaboration, communication, and critical thinking. My take away from their site is that students respond to the digital format because it promotes personal agency and voice & choice. This is a great idea to pass on to teachers to create this important scaffolding for students.
Vale Review
Again, Vale joins the chorus encouraging teachers to ask if their classroom is an academically safe space for their students. This tag line drew me in to see what they are implying. I searched and found another direction on their learn more page. The author suggests the the 4 C's are critical, but then launches into a barrage of data about race, county, etc and how they create and reeforce the achievement gap. The topic somehow changes to a discussion of culturally responsive teaching. Which is important, but I don't see the tools necessary to accomplish this. What is needed in this important step is an emersion into the community to learn what the communities face, and how responsive teachers can become. their lesson provided a flipped lesson example, which does reduce anxiety in students and supports more time for connection in the classroom, but what connections. The 4 C's are great, but since the author brings up culturally responsive teaching, I fell that they should have devoted more energy to accomplishing this awareness, it will not arise without a lot of effort by the teacher. I did not think the author provided the tools to effectively accomplish the goals they set forth. Perhaps they should have narrowed their foci to instead of speaking to various components briefly.
Capstone Resources 792
My prototype will look at instructional models that support student Social Emotional Learning (SEL). As Baggio points out everything is filtered through the affect. How we can engage students and their affect sets the stage for learning. This is obvious, but a challenge to achieve; students learn better from those they respect and enjoy. This has been a natural skill set in my teaching, learning how to codify it is the next step.
My resources focus on looking at tools, programs, and websites that promote SEL. My capstone will include education around SEL, a "TPACK" of sorts based on CASEL's SEL standards, and an interactive guide to help teachers incorporate SEL more thoroughly. The goal is to allow teachers to input their lesson plans with optional SEL moments suggested.
Readings:
List of tools that work:
The following are links that I've found to support exploration of 791 topics:
http://www.digitalcitizenship.net/Nine_Elements.html
http://www.teachthought.com/the-future-of-learning/technology/10-meditation-apps-classroom/
https://www.edutopia.org/social-media-case-education-edchat-steve-johnson
https://www.iste.org/docs/excerpts/DIGCI2-excerpt.pdf
https://www.edutopia.org/blogs/tag/digital-citizenship
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/digital-bytes
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/training/9-12/pdf-lessons
https://www.cde.state.co.us/cdesped/accommodationsmanual_ccss_k12_techscope
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2015/04/50-great-edtech-tools-for-teachers.html
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2015/08/6-new-edtech-tools-for-teachers.html
https://jennscheffer.wordpress.com/2015/05/04/10-edtech-tools-teachers-can-use-tomorrow-literally/
https://www.edutopia.org/blog/12-awesome-edtech-apps-vicki-davis
http://www.cue.org/professional-development-for-teachers
http://www.gcflearnfree.org/
http://www.gettingsmart.com/2015/05/22-cant-miss-edu-conferences/
http://tech.co/18-influential-people-ed-tech-2015-06
https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/6-ed-tech-tools-to-try-in-2016/
http://k-2mathapps.blogspot.com/
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/timeline_2/
http://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2014/12/31/3-steps-for-building-a-professional-learning.html?cmp=SOC-SHR-TW
https://www.edutopia.org/social-media-case-education-edchat-steve-johnson
https://quill.org/
https://www.peardeck.com/
https://www.canva.com/
https://animoto.com
https://www.powtoon.com
https://www.venngage.com
Research Table:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13fuT3xR5FDZyQ_DSXTFn23CfRNI-6ReSaCXCeElb8Ig/edit?usp=sharing
My resources focus on looking at tools, programs, and websites that promote SEL. My capstone will include education around SEL, a "TPACK" of sorts based on CASEL's SEL standards, and an interactive guide to help teachers incorporate SEL more thoroughly. The goal is to allow teachers to input their lesson plans with optional SEL moments suggested.
Readings:
- Couros, G. (2015) The Innovator's Mindset: Empower Learning, Unleash Talent, and Lead a Culture of Creativity. San Diego: Dave Burgess. Kindle edition available.
- Thomas, D. & Seely-Brown, D. (2011). A new culture of learning: Cultivating the imagination for a world of constant change. San Francisco: Sage.
- Chen, M. & Lucas, G. (2010) Education Nation: Six Leading Edges of Innovation in our Schools. San Francisco: Jossey Bass Kindle edition available
- Medina, J. (2010) Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving at Work, Home and School. Pear Press. Kindle edition available
- Wagner, T. (2010) The Global Achievement Gap: Why Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need--and What We Can Do About It. Basic Books. Kindle edition available
- Trilling, B. & Fadel, C. (2009). 21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Times. San Francisco: Jossey Bass .
- Prensky, M. (2007). Digital game-based learning. St. Paul Minnesota: Paragon House.
- Gee, J. P. (2008). Good video games + good learning. New York: Peter Lang.
- Clark, R. & Mayer, R. (2011, third edition). E-learning and the science of instruction. Pfeiffer: San Francisco.
- Pink, D. (2006, second edition). A whole new mind. New York: Riverhead Books.
- Hattie, J. (2012). Visible learning for Teachers: Maximizing the Impact on Learning. New York :Routledge.
- Carr, N. (2010). The shallows: What the internet is doing to our brains. New York: W.W. Norton.
- November, A. (2012). Who owns the learning? Solution Tree.
- Robinson, K. (2011). Out of our Minds. Capstone Books, 2nd edition
Robinson,K. (2016). Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education. Penguin Books
List of tools that work:
The following are links that I've found to support exploration of 791 topics:
http://www.digitalcitizenship.net/Nine_Elements.html
http://www.teachthought.com/the-future-of-learning/technology/10-meditation-apps-classroom/
https://www.edutopia.org/social-media-case-education-edchat-steve-johnson
https://www.iste.org/docs/excerpts/DIGCI2-excerpt.pdf
https://www.edutopia.org/blogs/tag/digital-citizenship
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/digital-bytes
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/training/9-12/pdf-lessons
https://www.cde.state.co.us/cdesped/accommodationsmanual_ccss_k12_techscope
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2015/04/50-great-edtech-tools-for-teachers.html
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2015/08/6-new-edtech-tools-for-teachers.html
https://jennscheffer.wordpress.com/2015/05/04/10-edtech-tools-teachers-can-use-tomorrow-literally/
https://www.edutopia.org/blog/12-awesome-edtech-apps-vicki-davis
http://www.cue.org/professional-development-for-teachers
http://www.gcflearnfree.org/
http://www.gettingsmart.com/2015/05/22-cant-miss-edu-conferences/
http://tech.co/18-influential-people-ed-tech-2015-06
https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/6-ed-tech-tools-to-try-in-2016/
http://k-2mathapps.blogspot.com/
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/timeline_2/
http://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2014/12/31/3-steps-for-building-a-professional-learning.html?cmp=SOC-SHR-TW
https://www.edutopia.org/social-media-case-education-edchat-steve-johnson
https://quill.org/
https://www.peardeck.com/
https://www.canva.com/
https://animoto.com
https://www.powtoon.com
https://www.venngage.com
Research Table:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13fuT3xR5FDZyQ_DSXTFn23CfRNI-6ReSaCXCeElb8Ig/edit?usp=sharing