Presented at MGH October 24, 2009

1. Karen Janowski Assistive & Educational Technology Consultant Reaching All Learners

5. Focus on at least one tool or strategy that you will use with your students

7. What are your struggles?

8. What does it feel like to struggle with reading and writing?

9. http:// www.flickr.com/photos/kyteacher/3578653239/in/pool-858082@N25

10. Five minute discussion: 1. What tools and strategies are you currently using with your students that are successful? 2. How do you know they are successful?

12. The mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus , full involvement, and success in the process of the activity. WIkipedia

13. Balance between ability level and challenge Wikipedia

14. Lack of awareness of time, distorted sense of time (clock watcher?)

15. A sense of personal control over the situation or activity.

16. The activity is intrinsically rewarding , effortless http://www.flickr.com/photos/53539456@N00/437085000/

17. When are you in the flow ?

18. http://www.thinktogether.org/images/newpages/forweb/programpic4.jpg

19. http://www.flickr.com/photos/moonjazz/1793342687/

23. So how do we get there? How do we help our students reach a state of flow? How do we equip and empower them?

24. Guiding Principles

25. Student First

26. Joyful Learning

27. One Size does not fit all

28. TTWWADI Doesn’t cut it anymore http://shahuchhtrapatishikshan.com/smbmsm/classrooms.jpg

29. Model life-long learning http://isc.blog.fairport.org/files/2009/07/teachers-300x227.jpg

30. Mistake Tolerant vs. Mistake Intolerant

31. Are your current methods Mistake Tolerant or Mistake Intolerant ? (POLL)

32. Sound educational rationale For EVERY thing we do

33. Remediation and Compensation

34. Innovate Not TTWWADI http://www.biojobblog.com/uploads/image /innovation%282%29.jpg

35. Stuck?

36. Paralyzed? Learned helplessness? For teachers AND students

37. “ A book that is shut is " A book that is shut is but a block." Thomas Fuller

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39. Florida Center For Reading Research

40. Toolbelt Theory

41. http://www.flickr.com/photos/colemama/3776316986/

42. http://www.afslegal.com/images/frustrated.jpg

43. There’s a tool for that

44. http://www.lifeisunlimited.com/images/ADD.jpg

45. There’s a tool for that

47. There’s a tool for that

49. There’s a tool for that

51. There’s a tool for that

52. Richard Wanderman

53. There’s a tool for that

54. http://www.ncgs.org/uploads/textWidget/wysiwyg/images/548/handraised.jpg

55. There’s a tool for that

57. There’s a tool for that

58. Word IDEAS

59. UDL Tech Toolkit UDLTechToolkit.wikispaces.com

60. ‘ We’re not reading and writing across and down the page anymore. We’re reading and writing in three dimensions – across, down and out, the out being hyperlinks.

61. It’s a whole different kind of literacy; it's a whole different kind of writing; it’s a whole different kind of reading. It’s a type of literacy that can’t be done anywhere else but on the web. James Yap Director of instructional technology Ramapo Central School District, Hillburn, NY T.H.E Jounal, april 2009 p. 24

62. It’s a different world for our students http://earth.google.com/images/index-earth_lg.jpg

63. http:// www.flickr.com/photos/aegishjalmur/2288932018 /

64. http://www.nobully.com/graphics/happy.jpg

65. http:// www.flickr.com/photos/leefly/416980365 /

66. Become an Architect for Change

67. Ideas?

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69. Thank you! [email_address]