This document provides an agenda and information for a digital learning day event. It includes: - Acknowledgements and thanks to those involved in planning and hosting the event. - Objectives of the day which are for teachers to lead their own learning through collaboration, exploring tools to support new standards, and improving connections between home and school. - A discussion of the "new digital divide" between those who know how to effectively search, validate information, find resources, and create digital media versus those who don't. - Information on structures, resources and where to find answers during the event, including an agenda, workshop locations and forms, backchannel for questions, and reflection expectations.

1. Digital Learning
Day Make Space for Learning
11/5/13

2. Backwards Design…
Acknowledgements First
• Many thanks are in order…
• Western Network for planning
• Glenville School for hosting
• Presenters/Facilitators
• Custodial Staff
• Media Staff (at all the schools)
• All that helped put together materials (Angela, Marty,
etc.)
• Tech Support
• Visitors
• All the participants for engaging in a new type of
Professional Learning experience

3. Today’s Objectives
Why new technology isn’t enough...
• Provide a day in which teachers “own their own learning”
through collaboration, authentic and relevant exploration
of instructional practices.
• Provide time, resources and structure to “explore closely” online tools, resources and strategies to support CCSS and
SBAC and model student-centered learning.
• Encourage teachers to develop a PLN (Personal Learning
Network).
• Improve home-school connections and parent engagement.
• Determine barriers and challenges as well as rewards of the
experience through reflections in each activity.
• Maximize the power of local and global sharing of ideas.

4. The New Digital Divide :
Information Fluency
• Those who know how "think" about search vs. those
who don't
• Those who know how to validate information vs. those
who don't
• Those who know where to find information – use PLNs
and be in control of their own learning – and those who
don’t
• Those who know how to get information to travel to
them vs. those who still chase it.
• Those who have the knowledge to create and re-mix
digital media and those who don't .

5. Most Frequent Words in CCSS

6. SBAC Readiness Reflections
ELA

7. SBAC Readiness Reflections
Mathematics
• Prove incorrect scenario
• Fractions, decimals
• Reading comprehension for directions
• Online tools: graphing, calculators (very
different – need practice)

8. SBAC Readiness Reflections
Technology Skills

9. SAMR Model of Technology
Integration

10. Focus…Learn one Tool, Use it throughout your
curriculum …Remember, it’s just a tool…
http://vimeo.com/77902115

11. Structure, Resources & Answers or…
Where do I go?
• Structure of the Day
• Review Agenda
• Locations
• Descriptions/Grid
• Wikispaces address:
http://DLday.greenwich.wikispaces.net
• Be sure to sign-in on Full Workshop registration plus
individual session attendance forms in rooms.
• Backchannel - Questions/Observations
• Todays Meet:
https://todaysmeet.com/DLDay
• If any of the pages load too slowly – let us know
immediately and we’ll try to correct it.
• Reflection & Final Group Presentation in google
presentation – take a look at a previous presentation
so your group knows the expectation.

12. Another acronym
This is called FLN
Flipped Learning Network
Not another acronym….
Have Fun!!