Keynote presentation for Lake County Office of Education, 2014

1. LEARNING IS CHANGING
TEACHING MUST FOLLOW
edhas
!

2. RAE FEARING
• 10 years in the zoo and
aquarium field
• B. A. in Life Science from
University of the Pacific
• 12 years as high school
science teacher
• M. S. in Science Education
from Oregon State University
• Google Certified Teacher
• Leading Edge Certified
Edtechyness @raefearing
+RaeFearing

5. Please stop saying ‘21st Century Education’

6. TEACH
LIKE IT’S
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7. WHAT WILL STUDENTS BE ASKED
TO DO AFTER HIGH SCHOOL?
College
• Access eBooks, store work
in the cloud and use
student response tools
• Study abroad requirement
• Use collaboration tools in
group work
• Effectively communicate
ideas
Career
• Use mobile devices to process
payments and access industry
materials, access time cards
• Companies have global
connections, employees must
interact effectively
• Use video and photos to
convey ideas and examples
• Effectively communicate ideas

8. WHAT DO YOU
WANT KIDS TO
DO WITH
TECHNOLOGY?
Image via Bill Ferriter

9. WHAT ARE BEST PRACTICES FOR
TODAY’S CLASSROOMS?
• Less whole class
instruction
• Less solitude and
working alone
• Less prizing of silence
in the classroom
• Less time devoted to
worksheets,
workbooks and seat
work
• More active learning (noisy,
messy)
• More diverse roles for teachers,
including coaching, modeling
• More responsibility transferred to
students for their work (goal
setting, sharing, exhibiting,
evaluating)
• More classrooms where individual
needs are met through
personalized activities
Zemelman, Steven, Harvey Daniels, and Arthur A Hyde. Best practice: Bringing standards to life in
America's classrooms. Heinemann, 2012.

10. BRAINSTORM
WHAT ARE OLD WAYS OF TEACHING??

11. WHAT ARE OLD WAYS OF TEACHING?
That’s soooo 20th century!
!
Share your ideas on a group word cloud
One word answers (even if two words, smash into one)
Submit as many times as you want
!
!
Enter the poll
!

12. WHAT SIT-N-GIT SOUNDS LIKE
TO STUDENTS

13. 13

14. BRAINSTORM
WHAT ARE NEW WAYS OF TEACHING?
Whitiora School, NZ

15. WHAT ARE NEW WAYS OF TEACHING?
You fancy, huh?
!
Share your ideas on a group word cloud
One word answers (even if two words, smash into one)
Submit as many times as you want
!
!
Enter the poll
!

16. WHAT SHOULD BE HAPPENING
IN AN AVERAGE CLASSROOM
• Create products to demonstrate learning
• Making and innovating with new ideas
• Share and communicate learning
• Visual evidence of learning goals and objectives
• Connect across the globe
• Give every student a voice
• Feedback, feedback, feedback

17. MAKERS AND INNOVATORS
“My principal said those were the best presentations she ever saw,
not because of the content, but because of the conviction the
students had for their work”
Juliani, A. J. "Why "20% Time" Is Good for Schools." Edutopia. The George Lucas Foundation, 25 June 2013. Web. 02 Aug. 2014.
20% Time

18. WE PROBABLY ONLY TAP INTO 25%
OF WHAT OUR STUDENTS CAN DO
Expand an idea
Follow a passion
Solve a problem

19. STUDENTS SOLVE OLD PROBLEM
WITH NEW KETCHUP CAP

20. KINDERGARTEN
SKYPE CALL TO
AFGHANISTAN
• SKYPED WITH SOLDIER
!
• READ A BOOK ABOUT
A SOLDIER
!
• BAKED COOKIES
FROM THE BOOK
!
• DREW PICTURES,
WROTE & SHARED
ABOUT THE
EXPERIENCE
Via Maria Knee and The Kinder Kids

21. CONNECTED CLASSROOMS
BRING THE WORLD INTO YOUR CLASSROOM
WITH GOOGLE+
http://connectedclassrooms.withgoogle.com/

22. MYSTERY LOCATION CALLS
• Connect your classroom
with another classroom
around the world
• Students use all of the
4C’s
• Students take on roles
and jobs
• Each class works
collaboratively to
determine the location of
the other class
Mystery Location Call Website
Mystery Location Calls in an After School Program

23. VOICETHREAD
FOCUSED DISCUSSIONS, PEER FEEDBACK
Secure, collaborative network for K-12 classrooms

24. “IF A CLASSROOM
DOES NOT HAVE
ENOUGH WEB
ENABLED DEVICES
FOR SMALL GROUPS,
OR BETTER YET, FOR
EACH STUDENT, TO
GET ONLINE EACH
DAY, THIS SHOULD
BE VIEWED AS AN
EDUCATIONAL
EMERGENCY AND
PROMPTLY
CORRECTED”
Zemelman, Steven, Harvey Daniels, and Arthur A Hyde. Best practice: Bringing standards to life in
America's classrooms. Heinemann, 2012.

25. THE IMPERATIVE TO SHARE
#bettertogether

27. HOW CAN WE SHARE
WHAT WE DO?
• Brainstorm as many ideas as you can
(1 minute, individually)
• Share and discuss with your table (1 min per person)
• Create list of top 3-5 ideas for group spokesperson
to share out (2 min as a group)
• Add your group ideas to this padlet wall or go to
http://goo.gl/24mSAv

28. TOP 3 REASONS TO SHARE
YOUR TEACHING
1. Sharing is reflecting
2. Others can learn from you
3. The connections you make to other
educators are invaluable

29. Microblogging

30. I LOVE MY PLN
BUILD YOUR PERSONAL LEARNING NETWORK

31. WHAT DOES
YOUR PLN
LOOK LIKE?
HOW DO YOU
WANT TO GROW IT?
!
!
TAKE THIS SURVEY
!
http://goo.gl/GuJioH

32. EMBRACE THE HASHTAG
Follow topics, classrooms, events on social media.
Complete guide to Twitter hashtags in education by
@teachthought
#

33. Use hashtags to share learning
and increase discussion
#HullAPCalc
#tkam

34. NO TECH?
NO PROBLEM
#busted
#bodyfound

35. SCHOOL HASHTAGS
• #delnorteusd - Del Norte Unified School District
• #PrideSSD - Santee School District
• #tcdsbinquiry - Toronto Catholic District School
Board
• #manorisd - Manor, Texas, Independent School
District

36. CREATE A COUNTY WIDE HASHTAG
ADD YOUR IDEAS TO THIS PADLET WALL
#bettertogether
http://goo.gl/PtLEvg

37. DESIGN AN AVATAR FOR
TODAY’S TEACHER
• What tools do they need?
• How do they view their role in the classroom?
• What indicators of best practice are evident?
• What features or characteristics are essential?
• Groups of 2-3, 20 minutes to create.
• Gallery walk, please comment on at least 3 other avatars.
• High quality comments: add to the conversation, compliment
in a specific way, make a connection, ask a relevant question

38. MY CHALLENGE TO YOU
SHARE YOUR LEARNING
AND THE LEARNING OF
YOUR STUDENTS.
!
MAKE THOSE
CONNECTIONS AND GIVE
EVERY STUDENT A VOICE.
!
DON’T BE AFRAID TO RISK.
MODEL BEING ACTIVE
LEARNERS FOR YOUR
STUDENTS.
!
LEARN, SHARE, REPEAT.
Edtechyness@raefearing +RaeFearing

39. LUNCH ‘HOMEWORK’
Post to Connect and
Inspire G+ Community
on reflections from
first session