For our group inquiry, Denee, Dane, Jessica, and I looked at using Apps in Outdoor Education.
Here is a screencast of our slides! Feel free to pause and look at the slides as you go!
Category: Multimedia Learning Theory
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!
Code Monkey (for young learners)
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!
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!
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.
I have been delving into the world of Youtube videos to aid me with my pottery techniques.
Here are a few I have found that have provided important and useful information to achieve more efficient and functional technical skills for some of the following: throwing, centering, pulling, how to use a rib, trimming and how to make a handle. A big, huge THANKS to these amazing people who are willing to film and edit and share their knowledge via youtube!
Centering – This video addresses some of the issues you may encounter as a beginner when centerring clay
How to Make a Bowl – Useful demonstration of pulling and how to use a rib
Trimming and handle making! – gets very advanced at the end, but also very inspired!
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/
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.
Today in class we learned about video editing and audio recording.
Rich McCue lead this class. He posted instructions and links on how to use a couple different platforms for video editing and audio recording on his blog which can be found here: https://richmccue.com/
We discussed a couple ways that humans have historically used video for learning:
- slowing down to see things we can’t see with the human eye.
- speeding things up (taking multiple frames) to see a long process in a short amount of time
- Khan academy – videos of math problems for repetition and ease
Audio Editing
I recorded a small clip on Audacity, which is a free open-source cross-platform audio software. It, and more information about it, can be accessed on the website https://www.audacityteam.org/
Here is a small sample recording I made in class (the first 5 seconds are silent) :
Video editing
There are a couple options for video editing which are listed below.
- imovie – mac specific, need an apple product
- windows – similar but different – davinci resolve https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/
- screencastify – free version of captasia
Today was the first time I had ever used the program, imovie. I was able to successfully figure out how to make the following video. I used files provided to us by Rich Mccue. The first clip was of chickens in front of a green screen, the second was the fish swimming in the coral reef, and the third file was the audio file of the ocean sounds. I learned how to splice them together and add audio. I found this platform fairly user-friendly and though not intuitive for me I was able to sort through the steps and make it work.
A great watch!
I love the idea behind High Tech High and their practices of project and inquiry based learning. I want to implement these forms of learning in my teaching practice and this movie took away some of the ambiguity around how it looks and what it entails. I still wonder about how well it will be received by parents and the students, but I believe it is a worthwhile endeavour and a risk that will pay off.
I also loved the combination of topics as I believe that the division of learning into subjects taught in isolation without even acknowledging the cross over is outdated and unhelpful to learners lasting knowledge. I believe context is so key to knowledge synthesis and the intersection of art and science helps to create richness of understanding and relevance of content to learners.
This video is worth a watch. If you would like a preview check out the trailer at:
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