5. Session 1: Google Keep for the classroom
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• Location reminder
• Grab image text
• Link to docs
• Color coordinate
• Add labels
• Checkboxes
• Audio to text
• Image editor
6. Session 2: “Not Yet” Tenured Millennials
• Are born after 1979
• Remember 9/11
• Jump job to job
• Are in debt
• Are tech natives
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Millennials:
7. Millennials in education
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• Not getting involved
• Scared/threatened to
express creativity
• Disagree with
“seasoned” teachers
• Quitting before tenured
New teachers:
8. Insights
• Millennials haven’t created the jobs yet that they are training for
• “That’s the way we always do it” – DANGEROUS
• Student teaching a full year – highly recommended
• Administration too strict?
• Utilize the pineapple chart!
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10. Session 3: Make it your Best Year Ever,
Creating a Culture You Desire
• Trust is key
• Leaders bring out the best in people
• Star in a role
• The way its always been vs. the best way
• The 3 F words:
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frustration, fun and friendships
11. Create the culture you desire
• Work on your soft skills
• Choose your own weather
• Don’t puke and run
• 2 positives for 1 negative
• Identify what you are not
willing to sacrifice
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Soft skills include attitude, communication, creative thinking,
work ethic, teamwork, networking, decision making, positivity,
time management, motivation, flexibility, problem-solving,
critical thinking, and conflict resolution.
12. Session 4: Augmented & Virtual Reality
in the Classroom
• “Those who grew up with the internet used it to change the world”
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• AR and VR gives students the potential to change the world
13. Hardware and Software
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• Tour Creator
• Tour Builder
• Metaverse
• CoSpaces
• Oculus Go
• Oculus Rift
• STEAM
14. Applications
• Virtual field trips
• Anne Frank house virtual tour
(I experienced)
• 3-D Bohr Model
• Augmented free body diagram
• Experience book settings
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16. Underlying theme from all sessions
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Embrace change Get involved
Use technology Have fun
Editor's Notes
There was free coffee and breakfast pastries! A good start.
The session board was posted online and updated in real time. The highlighted boxes show the path I took.
Hosting a session was as easy as walking up to the board and throwing a sticky note in an empty slot.
This session provoked “oohs” and “ahhs”. I was even impressed at how much this free app could do and how easy it is to use. In class we focused more on Microsoft software so I am glad I got to see the ins and outs of more google software.
Picture linked to website.
This session was run by a graduate student conducting research on why millennials are leaving the education field in their first few years as a teacher. This session was more of a discussion and there was a huge range of audience. There were first year millennial teachers, tenured teachers, college students, a superintendent and more.
I learned that there are no “old” teachers, only “seasoned”.
The crux of the conversation was basically the tenured teachers telling the new and upcoming teachers not to be scared to deviate from the norm and that they want to embrace new teachers providing positive change, contrary to preconceived notion. Get involved and collaborate.
A second year teacher shared that he learned more in his full year of student teaching than he did in all of college when it came to being prepared for his debut.
A Pineapple Chart is a system that allows teachers to invite one another into their classrooms for informal observation. The chart is set up in some location where teachers go on a daily basis: the teacher’s lounge, the copy room, or wherever teacher mailboxes live in your school. On the chart, teachers “advertise” the interesting things they are doing in their classrooms, activities they think others might want to observe. The activities could be as complex as a science lab, a history simulation, or a Skype session with a school in another country. Or they could be as simple as a read-aloud or a lesson on badminton. [https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/pineapple-charts/]
This session was more of an inspirational lecture.
The image is cropped from a picture I took during the session.
The final message I got from this session was teaching can be fun if you just try and if you don’t like the environment your in, change it! Be the change you want to see.
The technology of today will create the technology of tomorrow.
There is free online software. The hardware is moderately priced but seems to be well worth it. Apparently there is a decent support in funding.
The presenter supported the notion of letting students create instead of always following. This was a significant breakthrough for me.
This session was the most interactive session as I got to try the oculus go headset. I was Virtually in Anne Frank’s house. Sitting down is highly recommended.
