This document provides an overview of a conference for teachers on 21st century teaching and learning with digital media. The goals are to review classroom setup, collect digital content, and plan student projects emphasizing 21st century skills. Teachers will complete four lesson plans and have students create four multimedia projects demonstrating their understanding of essential questions. The agenda includes choosing a technology tool for student projects, exploring its features, and creating a rubric for assessment.

1. 21 st Century Teaching and Learning with Digital Media Discovery Education

2. Welcome! We are starting off in the conference room by the front door.

3. Tasks Join our Edmodo Teacher group: Go to http://edmodo.com Create an account Join the DE Indianapolis group: emeqmk Respond to the top post. Describe one (or more) ways that you can use digital media to engage students in content/curriculum. Think strategies and activities and tools. Bonus: Update your profile go Account to Settings

4. Goals Review classroom setup in Discovery Collect content to use in standards-based lessons infused with digital media to engage students in curriculum Plan for student projects that emphasize 21st Century Skills and require higher levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy Share project plans including essential question(s), key vocabulary, technology tools, guiding rubric.

5. IPS 21 st Century Cadre “Great Expectations” By the end of this school year you are being asked to: Complete and upload four units (or lesson plans) of study to MediaShare Upload four student created projects in MediaShare Multimedia Presentation, Digital Story, or Web 2.0 Activities Projects should demonstate students tackling essential questions

6. Agenda Begin Project Planning Standard/Objectives The Essential Question(s) and Guiding Questions List of Key Vocabulary Collect Materials to Support Standards & Project Build out Content Folders with Discovery resources Review Instructional Strategies to use with media Build Class and assign to students Choose Effective Technology Tool for Student Project Explore tool and create demo Create Rubric for assessment

7. Aim Higher with Blooms

8. Tap into 21st Century Skills http://www.21stcenturyskills.org / skills, knowledge and expertise students should master to succeed in work and life in the 21st century.

9. Think Pair Share

10. Essential Questions Drive Learning ? ?

11. What are essential questions? provoke deep thought, lively discussion, sustained inquiry, and new understanding as well as more questions sparks meaningful connections with prior learning and personal experiences naturally recur, creating opportunities for transfer to other situations and subjects

12. How can one person make a difference? (potential of the individual) How do conflicts change how we see others and ourselves? (conflict and consequences) How does where you live affect how you live? (environmental influences) Sample Essential Questions

13. Cause and Effect Change and Continuity Turning Points Using the Past Through Their Eyes Guiding Questions Thinking Like a Historian

14. Task Partner Up Write an essential question(s) Should support the identified standards Write guiding questions Use the 5 areas on Thinking Like a Historian

15. Collect digital media to help students understand concepts, make meaning of vocabulary, explore the big ideas, and discover answers to the guiding questions. Let’s Dive in… coqtlite.wikispaces.com

16. Got media? Log in to DE Create My Content Folder for your project Search BOTH by Keyword and Subject Drill Down Preview and Add resources to my content folder Develop a list of academic vocabulary and plan for direct instruction and application

17. Instructional Strategies Play & Pause Observation Chart I Am Poem Graphic Organizers Three Truths and a Lie Vocabulary Journal Exit Tickets - Google Form Multiple Perspectives Wordle Note Taking & Summarize Hear the Sound Half the Story Avid Strategies More: _____________

18. Create a Classroom in DE streaming 1 2 3

19. Options for Sharing Resources with your students Assign folder of materials in My Content Build an Assignment and assign to class Find a resource and assign it directly to your class

20. How can students demonstrate their learning and share their answer to the essential question? Let’s Dive in… coqtlite.wikispaces.com

21. Student Project Samples Glogster Explanation Animoto Presentation Historical Documentary How can students demonstrate their learning and share their understanding of the essential question? Google Earth/Maps Tour Your Ideas: _______________

22. 4 Corners Activity Yellow Brick Road Super Highway Paved Road Dirt Road

23. Gradual Release of Responsibility I do, We do, You do Model, Partner Work, Independence Develop Student “Techsperts”

24. Tasks Choose Technology Tool for Student Project Web 2.0 Tool: Glogster, Animoto, VoiceThread Video (Movie Maker/PhotoStory) Google Earth/Maps Explore Features of Tool Do not need to be an expert Determine key components for project Create Teacher Project Gradual Release of Responsibility, I do, Model Vocabulary Introduction

25. Creating Quality Rubrics & Surveys for Project Based Learning Activities http://rubistar.4teachers.org/

26. Thank You! IPS Online, Groups:Discovery, Take Survey tinyurl.com/DEPDsurvey tinyurl.com/DE-IPS-Oct Contact Us: 800.323.9084 [email_address]