Perhaps down the road the Ed Tech Co-Op team will come back together to restart the show.
In the meantime, thanks to all of our listeners over the years!
-David
Guiding Question: What shift can we conceive with the concept of the school house?
Guest: Dr. Dan Keller
Resource Link: https://www.ssis.edu.vn/
Guest: Dr. Dan Keller
Today Dan Keller joins us to start a series of episodes on the topic of making shifts in our schools. Dan is the Elementary School Principal at Saigon South International School. He has worked as a classroom teacher, teacher trainer, principal, head of school and educational consultant. With a Bachelor’s in Philosophy, a Master’s in Educational Leadership and a PhD in International Education, Dan has served as a Visiting Scholar with the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education. Dan also has served in volunteer leadership roles within the International Baccalaureate Educators Network, the European Council of International Schools Administrators Committee, and the Council of International Schools. He has presented at a variety of international education conferences, including the IB Regional Conferences, the European Council of International Schools Administrators Conferences, and the East Asian Regional Council of Schools. Dan is passionate about challenging the traditional structures of education in order to favor holistic, transformational learning experiences.
Guiding Question: Dan, in our upcoming episodes with you what will we be talking about?
Resource Link: https://www.ssis.edu.vn/
Guest: Tan Huynh
Tan (@TanELLclassroom) is a career teacher specializing in language acquisition. He has taught students from fifth to twelfth grade in public schools, private boarding schools, charter schools, and international schools in Asia. He shares strategies on his blog, Empowering ELLs, and provides professional development training in places such as China, Thailand, Singapore, Italy, and Canada. Tan is currently working on an online course on scaffolding and writing a book about teaching ELLs. Tan’s goal is to support all teachers who are committed to empowering English learners.
Resource Link: https://www.ssis.edu.vn/
Guest: Jeremy Neldon
Jeremy Neldon has been teaching in a variety of elementary school classrooms for the past nineteen years. From a Gifted and Talented Specialist in Juneau, Alaska, to a multi-aged 3-4-5 classroom in a Portland, Oregon Charter School, to second and third grade classrooms at Saigon South International School, one thing hasn't changed: Jeremy's firm believe that when trusted and supported, children's agency over their educational experience at school can lead to greater personal confidence and academic success. Jeremy' currently shares his passion for Democratic Class Meetings with Grade Two students and with his school's Student Leadership group.
Resource Link: https://www.ssis.edu.vn/
Guest: Allison Ruttger
Allison has been living and teaching in Saigon, most recently at Saigon South International School. As a third grade teacher, she strives to meet children where they are
designing a learning environment and learning experiences that are engaging for a diverse group of young people. Allison is passionate about providing authentic and abundant learning opportunities so that learners can feel and experience what we value rather than simply view from afar.
Resource Link: https://www.ssis.edu.vn/
Guest: Evelyn Lucero
Guiding Question: How do we empower others to be more self-directed in their learning?
Evelyn Lucero is the Literacy and Social Studies Coach at SSIS. This is her 19th year in education and has worked with students and adults in many capacities, including general education teacher in grades 1-5, Math and Literacy Coach, and K-12 Curriculum Coordinator. She is a National Board Certified teacher and has won awards for her dedication and innovative work in schools. Evelyn has a passion of sharing great ideas with others.
Resource Link: https://www.ssis.edu.vn/
Guiding Question: What are the main ingredients that make the Saigon South International Elementary School a shifted school?
Guests: Dr. Donna Norkeliunas and Kattina Fox
Donna is the elementary school principal here at Saigon South. She has a BA and MA in elementary Education and a Doctorate in K-12 Educational Leadership. Donna has been an educator for the past 32 years having taught in New York, Washington, Germany and Vietnam and is passionate about empowering students become confident and independent decision-makers.
Kattina Rabdau-Fox is a science, math and engineering teacher, and an all around tinkerer and wonderer. She’s on her 20th year in education, starting as a marine educator, followed by years of interdisciplinary teaching in multi-aged classrooms and ten years in the middle school science lab. She now is the STEM Coach for the elementary school at Saigon South. Kattina most excited when students discover patterns when exploring phenomena, and is probably the only person on this podcast who knows how to feed a giant pacific octopus.
Resource Links: https://www.ssis.edu.vn
Guiding Question: What will the new Ed Tech Co-Op podcast look like?
Resources: http://edtechcoop.posthaven.com/ https://www.ssis.edu.vn/
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Perhaps down the road the Ed Tech Co-Op team will come back together to restart the show.
In the meantime, thanks to all of our listeners over the years!
-David
Guiding Questioning: How do you go from collaborative TPACKing to implementation in the classroom?
Guiding Questioning: How does your learning community TPACK?
Links:
Guiding Question: Is your school/district ready for the possibility of extended school closure due to weather or other factors?
Links:
Blog post at Lessons Learned with helpful links
Guiding Question: How do you help your students build awareness and understanding of the national educational technology standards (NETS)?
Tech Titans at Fairfax County Public Schools
Lessons Learned Blog Posts- Introduction | Shari | Sherlock | more Tech Titan posts coming soon]]>
Guiding Question: What are some lessons learned by the Ed Tech Team with e-learning?
Tips of the Week:
Jeff- Nano degrees Udacity. History of Distance Edu Timeline. Tech Crunch career advice for a 13 year old. Google for Education Expeditions
Mark- Five Digital Platforms Leading the Future of Ed Tech and Six Models of Blended Learning are both great resources to consider both different models and learning platforms to support a range of different approaches to online learning in K-12 and higher education.
David- New Explain Everything site. Changes to the app to offer a “junior version” that one can toggle to, a community of shared EE use examples. Mark’s Luminaris podcast where he focuses on the art of teaching in higher education.
Guiding Question: How to design a library for 21st century learning?
Guest: Alanna Graboyes, Head Librarian at George C. Marshall High School in Fairfax, VA
Resources: The Marshall High School Library site | Lessons Learned blog post with photos of the library
Resources:
-RAT model for technology integration
-Project Zero Website on Explanation Game
-Thinglink for image annotation
-Object presentation sites like British Museum History of the World in 100 Objects
-3D printing of objects: Access sample schematics at Smithsonian X 3D
-Art apps
-Blog
-123D Sculpt app
Guiding Question:
What is it like offering instructional technology support at a liberal arts college?
Guest: Jeff Nugent- Director of Academic Technologies at Colgate University
Tips of the Week:Jeff- Fusion Courses at Colgate | Team-Based Approach to Course Development Resource 1 and 2
David- Google on Air two day virtual conference on education May 8 and 9. Registration site.
Just as blogger and technology leader Doug Johnson does from time to time, we are going to review some highlights of past shows. We have been fortunate to have terrific guests who helped us unpack a variety of topics. Our goal has been to keep our discussions focused, practical and actionable to make differences in our classrooms and to shift our schools. Our new listeners and maybe even our veteran followers might feel the need to go back to listen to some shows.
This very short show reviews episodes 1-5.
Guiding Question:
What is happening with online learning in higher edu and edX?
Guest: Jeff Nugent - Director of Academic Technologies at Colgate University
Tips of the Week:
Mark- First, at William & Mary, John Drummond discusses initial efforts in online learning in an insightful blog post. Luminaris is a new blog I’ve started to explore various issues in teaching at the college level. I explore issues related to ed tech, teaching strategies, 21st century skills, reflective practice and more.
Jeff- Advent of the Atomic Bomb Colgate MOOC course. Fusion course on grounds and open online to Colgate alumni.
Making Thinking Visible book
RAT model for technology integration
Project Zero Website on Compass Points
Padlet
Mindmeister
Guiding Question drawn from the article:
“What determines whether a change effort will eventually fizzle out or whether it will survive and thrive?”
Article Link- "When Change has Legs: Four key factors help determine whether change efforts will be sustained over time"
Tips of the Week:
Jim- Future Wise: Educating Our Children for a Changing World by Dr. David Perkins and Creating Cultures of Thinking by Dr. Ron Ritchhart.
David- Washington Post article on Jeb Bush’s educational foundation. Not looking at the politics or motivations of Mr. Bush or the companies that support his foundation, I am hoping for at least a couple very important outcomes from his potential running for president. One is that his support of the Common Core would bring out real discussion and debate. So much of what is in the news media are surface responses. This could be real opportunity for a national learning opportunity about how and what we want to see happening in our schools. A second hopeful outcome to be included in the discussion is to bring to light the nature of digital learning especially in the form of blended to virtual learning. The greater population would benefit from learning more about the benefits of digital information, tools and the shift to more student empowered learning.
This is a short show following up on Episode 68 where Jeff and Mark shared of their experiences at Google and Microsoft. The discussion prompted the question "How can we design teacher and admin workspaces to enhance creativity, expand collaboration and ratchet up risk taking?
Guiding Question: How do Google and Microsoft design their workspaces to promote creativity and collaboration?
Tips of the Week:
Mark: I recently came across a nice resource from the University of Wisconsin’s Teaching and Learning Excellence group on blended learning. The guide helps a designer think the the implications of different approaches to learning (e.g., behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism) for blended and online learning. The guide also provides key considerations for different elements of blended learning from the students’ perspective. While not comprehensive, it does offer some great points to consider in designing blended learning experiences.
Jeff: OMG Chrome Google+ to find communities as in Google Education Groups by state and region, news, extensions, etc.
David: For the higher education portion of what we cover on the podcast, a college professor recently wrote a piece for the WP explaining how this coming semester he would not allow laptops into his lectures. There was a huge response via comments including a letter to the editor that I found in today’s Washington Post.
COETAILcast #20 and EdTech Co-Op podcast Show 65: Personalizing PD to provide insights and tips on setting up one’s PLN and how to help schools guide teachers to take steps to further personalize their learning.
In reviewing the past year and in preparing an article for 2015, I realized that I had not shared an article that Mark, my wife Margaret and I had written. As we speak so often on the podcast about TPACK and our Information and Communication Literacies (ICL) approach to TPACK, I hope that the article might further paint the picture of taking the theory of TPACK to what it can look like in a K-12 setting. The article is entitled Using TPACK to Guide a 1:1 iPad Pilot and it is published online at THE Journal.Guiding Question: What do TPACK developed lessons look like in an elementary school?
Tips of the Week:
Mark: Mindshift Guide to Gaming
David: My Lessons Learned blog for ICL integration examples | The Good Work Toolkit from Harvard and Project Zero
Resources:
RAT model for technology integration
eBooks: Student-created electronic books using various apps
See previous descriptions for more details in using the following technologies:
-Blogging
-Mind Maps
-Screencasts
-Whiteboard apps
-Art apps
-Podcasts/Audio recording apps
Digital Media:
Britannica ImageQuest (need password), Creative Commons Search, Flickr, British Museum History of the World in 100 Objects,
YouTube, Flickr, Web search for media representation of lesson topics
Guiding Question: What steps can be taken to help teachers personalize their learning and how to help schools build a culture of learning for their teachers and students that connects to people outside of the school?
Tips of the Week:
David-
Jeff recently shared via Flipboard a Forbes article on rethinking how we use technology in schools. The author points out that technology of often used not to support innovative instructional strategies but to reinforce traditional direct instruction content delivery. It says a great deal when so much of what we have been hearing in the blogosphere for so many years makes it to the mainstream press. Hopefully this is a good sign as educators, administrators and parents think about how they spend funds on technology without first shifting the way teachers teach and students learn.
Jeff-
https://www.youtube.com/user/learning2asia www.learning2.org http://www.coetail.com/online2/news-ways-of-engaging/
http://www.coetail.com/online4/
http://www.cybraryman.com/edhashtags.html
http://www.coetail.com/blog/2014/09/04/flipped-about-flipboard/
Technologies mentioned in this episode:
-Note Sharing with Digital “Sticky Notes": Padlet, Lino app
-Shareable Online Mindmaps: Mindmeister
-Blogging for individual reflection
Guiding Question: How to bring UDL into your teaching practice?
Previous shows referenced in this show:
Show 21 with Kerri Mahoney on Multimedia Essays
Show 22 on UDL
Tips of the Week:
Mark- Digital UDL inspired book… UDL Theory to Practice (free version is online). How to operationalize these principles. Einstein’s Big Idea-- documentary on NOVA. The Sketchbook Handbook.
David- Wes Fryer’s work with visual notetaking. Check out his Mapping Media to the Curriculum site with a specific section on visual notetaking.]]>
Guiding Question:
How to make the shift with a well-planned 1:1 program?
Guest:
Vinnie Vrotny blogs at Multi-Faceted Reflections
Tips of the Week:
Vinnie- Grant Wiggins: A Veteran Teacher Turned Coach...
David- David Perkins and Jim Reese of Project Zero wrote an excellent article on leadership in schools where they provide guidelines for how to make change sustainable. The article is When Change Has Legs.
Resources Mentioned in this Show:
RAT model for technology integration
Google Docs
Screencasting: Explain Everything or Educreations
Digital Note Sharing with Digtial “Sticky Notes”: Padlet, Lino app
Shareable Online Mind Maps: Mindmeister
Blogging & LMS
Not easily shareable Mind Maps: Inspiration on computer, multiple apps on tablets.