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November 29 – Class Highlights

November 29, 2019 / / 0 Comments

FreshGrade (Sam, Mitra, Jess S.)

Includes

  • communication tool, between parents and teachers
  • lesson plan option
  • digital portfolios – audio/video difficult to hear if not very quiet in surrounding area
  • Announcements
  • Activities
  • Report Cards

FreshGrade & FreshGrade NEXT

  • talk to teachers about use and frustrations
  • FreshGrade NEXT is just upgraded version of the program
  • (ACTIVITY* make hearts out of modelling clay)
  • NEXT is a bit slower

Features

  • can connect to curriculum and tag posts as they connect to curricular outcomes
  • can connect to google translate – would impact privacy laws when connected to third-party sites
  • needs to be explained to parents
  • can increase pressure from parents, communicate with parents that your posting quality vs quantity and its a benefit and takes time, expectations

 

bobka – Anne

Google Teacher

OpenED!

 

Class Highlights – November 22, 2019

November 22, 2019 / / 0 Comments

Presentations

Technology in the Classroom !

Language and language technologies in the Classroom

Digital Storytelling

Video in the classroom

Coding

A couple websites to learn about code!

Scratch

Code Monkey (for young learners)

Glitch

Grashopper

Looking for ways to learn to code without being on a computer? look at Coding Unplugged.

Challenge

The Fun they had by Isaac Asimov

  • write a story about yourself teaching in 2040!

Class Highlights – November 15

November 15, 2019 / / 0 Comments

Guest Speaker – Verena Roberts

Open Learning Design Intervention

  • Real learning begins when we are left to figure something out, it’s about the doing.
  • Learning happens everywhere, creating access

Design for learning – teacher job to create access

Learning is learning, doesn’t matter the name

Formal learning theorists: Vygotsky, Dewey, Barth, Scardamalia & Bereiter

Informal: other teachers, environment

Personal Learning environments 

Interactions – Collaboration – Connections (outcomes, objectives, competencies)

  • Students being creative and innovative
  • Digital literacy ; space to build personal learning environments

Reflective

  • Journaling

OLDI

  • Relationships
  • Co-designing learning pathways
  • Building & sharing knowledge (assessment – using dig. Lit. to build PLNs)
  • Building Personal Learning Networks

Scaffolding has to happen slowly and be very intentional :

Learning Plan #1 – searching and communicating online

LP #2 – who is my online audience?

LP#3 – How do I solve community Problem?

LP #4 – What it my story based on? What is my perspective? How does my story inform my identity?

 

It was good to see the struggle-in-action of using technology. I think that it’s really important to really prepare and have pretested your system of communication if using technology. I will always prepare for the worst-case scenario when using technology. Just to know that my back-up pathways will work. and if all goes perfectly that’s great. I just would want to be prepared for any potential technological issue.

 

Presentations

OpenEd Resources – Hannah and Ruth

commonsense.org education

Integrating Technology in the Classroom – Anna, Sydney, and Kathleen

Using technology needs to be appropriately, meaningful and empowering.

Question use of technology; screening content – what is being accessed/age appropriateness/its the world but in a tiny mirror so rules and boundaries need to be discussed and held.

Is a supportive tool – use it only when it enhances activities.

3D design & printing – Nick & Jamie

amazing applications for biology, chemistry, any science topic really, math, design, and story telling!

 

Class Highlights – Nov 8 – Presentations

November 8, 2019 / / 0 Comments

Keiro’s presentation – stop-go animation

stop motion (can be downloaded)

used imovie to fade into the graphic

Photo shop

  • twinning (allows you to take two photos and then it will make it stop go in between)

Pros

  • can be used in any subject to make it fun and engaging
  • hits all core competencies
  • simple concept that can be taken deep

Cons

  • limiting technology available
  • its a slow process and then technology can be difficult
  • takes time and error can occur

Things to watch for

  • camera stability
  • time is really needed
  • have fun!

REsources

  • makerspaceforeducation.com
  • iste.org
  • onf-nfb.gc.ca
  • wiobyrne.com
  • waldprotfolio
  • education.microsoft.com (lessons for all grades!)
  • giphy.com

Google Geographic Products

Google Maps

  • google: My Maps (can make own maps including points of interest, save in layers (stores, parks), can colourize icons, can share & collaborate, can change to satellite images)
  • can add photos and videos of places, could upload audio and link it to places
  • map out: different places in the world using language of place, map fictional settings.
  • Street view : can look at natural wonders, talking about being able to go through museums
  • Google Cultural Institute – information about cultures, arts, natural wonders, repository of historic documents

Google Earth

  • experience – high resolution 3D imagery, can be used for immersive experiences in the class
  • find your house – to get them excited about looking at the world
  • flight simulator – flying around
  • view the past – going back 15-20 years, looking at development land-use change, agriculture, growth
  • Layers: different data can be looked at over layed on maps
  • Im feeling lucky – click button and get sent to a place
  • google moon (immersive interactions with apollo missions, landers, narrated by astronauts), mars, and sky (planets, galaxies, view from telescopes around the world)
  • Voyageur : nasa, the bbc, jane goodall, and sesame street teamed up (narrated tours of places around the world)

Lesson Ideas

  • 20-questions (pick a place, ask questions have students guess)
  • math – maps, measuring, distance
  • explore different environments
  • can make own tours
  • scavenger hunts (coordinates, clues, pictures)

Lessons – My Maps

  • Grade 4 curriculum;
    • following routes travelled during Euro-western exploration
    • make own road trip
  • add journal entries in my maps, historical timelines, distances measured

Privacy

  • Google can track you if you don’t opt out
  • corporations selling information to sell you products
  • benefits – convenience
  • creation/erasure of national boarders

cartography has nationalism built into it. Originally the way that countries were delineated.

Digital Literacy

Information Literacy

      • what is fake and what is real? how to recognize, quality and credibility
      • awareness and critical thinking. who benefits from what is being said, is there bias?

Ethical use

  • citing, use, etc

Understanding digital footprint

  • what are you sharing, cookies, ip address, passwords, service provider, etc
  • what are you leaving behind when you use the internet?

Protecting yourself online

  • you have to be critical or what is offered and what you want to leave on the internet.
  • vpns, data encryption and hacking
  • self-regulation, awareness, screen time

Handling digital communication – cyberbullying

  • the internet is a public space
    •  don’t be a dick
    • there is a history of what you say
    • would you say what you are about to say to peoples faces? if not, don’t say it

Pros & Cons

Risks

Strategies, Tips, and Best Practice

  • Crash Course ; youtube series – navigating digital media (10-11 videos in series), media literacy (amazing for middle school – more intellectual)
    • fact checking – double check your info and teach students how to do this
    • lateral reading – when discovering new information, looking into who is writing articles, when was it written, is there corporate backing/who published this?
    • evaluating evidence
  • Mediasmarts.ca
    • Canadian specific content (know Can Law, applicable to Canada and BC) includes resources for all stakeholders
    • some outdated information
  • Choice & Voice
  • creation v. consumption (more creation = more interesting, increased awareness)
  • multimodalities (diversify, diversify, diversify) –  pick meaningful things, but many
  • collaboration
  • accessibility – make sure learners are given skills to use technology (physical) and apps, go over them
  • crowd-accelerated learning (citizen science – using people’s brains to categorize and process; ie NASA sorting galaxies) – involve outside school that are meaningful and authentic
  • social learning  – spend time on this peer-to-peer interaction, acknowledge role as a social guide.

Parents and Dig Lit

  • assume ignorance, figure out parents involvement in their child’s digital life
  • is part of BC curriculum (21st century citizens)
  • communicate with parent so they understand
    • digital engagement family night (class or school wide)
  • risks and benefits – be compassionate, explain why, patience

Sex, sexuality and the digital world

  • lots of misinformation, single stories, confusion, and shame
  • awareness of this, provide positive digital resources where they can find real true information
  • internet can be a safe place for all people as they explore sexuality
  • common sense education

House hippo – media smarts

 

Class highlights – November 1

November 1, 2019 / / 0 Comments

Good Morning November!

SD 63 strike

Indigenous Resurgence Workshop (Saturday November 23) – Sign-up through link on EDSA face book page.

MINECRAFT

Popularity of minecraft has increased of late.

kids share IP addresses to connect to play minecraft

Entire city of Florence replicated in the minecraft world.

(take a screenshot or video – screencastify)

Minecraft requires a minecraft server (what is this?) – costs ~5000$.

Microsoft bought minecraft from Mojang, and the server was changed, so now don’t have

MInecraft can relate to a number of subject areas, sorts of projects, and core competencies:

  • ancient civilizations
  • community building
  • problem solving
  • natural resources
  • navigation
  • x,y,z axises
  • building, architecture, art

Verdict: Minecraft is cool.

October 18 – Class Highlights

October 18, 2019 / / 0 Comments

Jesse Miller  Recap

The use of information that technology users provide is often used for another purpose.

Important to remember that technology is embedded in our colonial, patriarchal, capitalist society and to use with caution.

Pacific School of Innovation and Inquiry Recap

I wonder if having a deep dive into Inquiry before we do an inquiry would be helpful? A very useful question posed by Katrina

Inquiry definition – in the reading, first time seen, as people who are all grown in a scholastic environment of tests, assignments, products, and grades this is really uncomfortable.

Book recommendation

  • Dive into Inquiry – Trevor Mackenzie

Inquiry can be a meaningful way of incorporating Indigenous People’s Principles into learning.

Some words we used to describe the students at PSII were:

empowerment, eloquence, courage, enthusiasm, inventiveness, variety of skills, depth of knowledge

Rebecca Bathhurst-Hunt 

Using Inquiry in the classroom – Great ideas start with a Question, Wonderwall

Trello

Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes projects into boards.

App on phone

Good for keeping inquiries or ideas organized.

Screencastify

  • for screen capturing and sharing videos and photos online

Notion – similar options

Graphics

Pixels – dots

Vectors – how computer stores information, can change size, has clear crisp lines. mathematically based, so just grows as size increased or decreased.

Graphic creation options: browser based – easy access for students/learners and often free or open source.

GIMP – often used, tries to replicate photoshop, but just slightly more annoying

Pixlr – right in browser.

Powerpoint

  • can be used to create short video and photo graphics
  • everything created in PP can be exported as an image (this is powerful)
  • Can make jpegs, edit images, change images, insert text, build posters, create logos, SMARTART, vectors
  • building activities – interactive, conversation, incorporate powerpoint in class room

Apps 

Screenshots

Prisma – filters

Mirror Lab

Comica – turn photos into comic strips

https://bryanmmathers.com/ – Visual Thinkery

https://remixer.visualthinkery.com/

Oct 4 – Class Highlights and Reflections

October 4, 2019 / / 0 Comments

Guest Speaker – Jesse Miller @mediatedreality

https://twitter.com/MediatedReality

Jesse Works with Social Media, having the conversation with teachers and students to help them understand the internet.

Here are some interesting highlights of his talk today:

Internet/App By-Products

This can be easily looked up on the internet. All (?) but definitely most things that occur on the internet have by-products that are saved and used for another purpose. Google “internet by-products” “saved information from free apps” to find more information

An Example of this:

Captcha (Prove you are not a robot by picking all the cars in this 9×9 grid)

  • by-products of when people verify that they are not a robots are in fact used to teach computers (Artificial Intelligence) to recognize objects, people, lights, powerpoles, etc to be used in self-driving cars in the future.

 

Sometimes the conversation around the internet will only focus on internet safety, but we need to talk about our networked citizenship.

It is important to ask yourself – what is your_______?: 

  • Digital Identity – online; multi-versions of ourselves.
  • Digital Rights – screenshots & sends to a thousand photos (2014) – intimate images act; can’t show photos to people legally.
  • Digital Literacy – people and behaviours changing, what is “normal dialogue around technology,internet”
  • Use – Personal, Professional, and Social
  • Safety
  • Security of self

HEADLINES – designed to get people to click  by causing an emotional response.

Some examples of headlines:

Should Your Child Have a Social Media Account?

This article is BIASED but this is a questions that everyone should be asking

  • differentiated between needs and ages.
  • how is media being used? what platforms, apps, media do people  choose based on their use and preferences

Why Social Media is Not Smart for Middle School Kids

  • good science, under developed and not prepared. don’t have enough data.

The Kids (Who Use Tech) Seem to Be All Right

  • anxiety linked to social media

 

“We shape our tools and, thereafter, our tools shape us” – John Culkin

 

A Double Edged Sword

Media and technology can be a positive addition to our lives but also has a lot of potential to be misused.

August 1941 – movie horrors & radio crime – “radio is causing nightmares” – content is what is the problem, not the technology, how did that technology shift society. double edged sword.

Cyber Bullying – important to know how to deal with bullies, who to talk to, how to avoid providing opportunities to a bully.

#teacherproblems

teachers fired over social media incidents

check with your school and district about appropriate communications. Understand policies and expectations.

any social media issues, texting, communicating – the more discussed and boundaries and expectations set the better it will work. Think of social perceptions.

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Sept 20 – Class Highlights and Reflections

September 29, 2019 / / 0 Comments

Today in class we talked about:

Tech Inquiry

Twitter

Trello – Lists, emails, questions for Michael

Open educational resources, content creators and educators, creative commons (licensing tool for sharing material), teachers pay teachers (creating content and trying to sell it to other teachers).

Open Education: creativecommons.org/openeducation concerns: quality, who’s work is being put in this forum – (often teachers not being credited), who puts this together?

copyright – seeking permissions, fair allowances, open source, Copyright Act and Fair Dealing in Canada (Bill C-11).

Think about practice, have a good practice of giving credit to model good practice. Why is it important to copyright?  – give credit where credit is due, people want to be acknowledged for their work.

bit.ly links – at bit.ly dot com put in the url so that you can more easily copy and share the link.

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