Seeking, finding and using technology to improve student learning

@autismpodcast | MichaelBoll.Me/Medan
Seeking, Finding and Using Technology to
Improve Student Learning

My Story

Monday Rolls Around…
What do you hope to tell
your colleges about today
come Monday?
Think Pair Share

Michael Boll | Michael Lambert | www.MichaelBoll.me@autismpodcast | MichaelBoll.Me/Medan
Housekeeping

Michael’s Digital Trail
• 21clradio.com
• MichaelBoll.me/medan
• @autismpodcast on the Twitter

goo.gl/geUenT

Helpful Evaluation Models

Seth Godin | What is school for? (17mins)

Interactive Discussion
Protocol
What is School For?

Was it fair to pick on the hammer
teacher?

Is school about teaching obedience
and respect? Should it be?

Is the factory model narrative
accurate? Is it still true today?

Two Myths
1. Great performance in school leads
to happiness and success

2. Great parents have kids who help
great performance in school

Are we asking kids to connect dots
or collect dots?
8 Things
1. Homework during the day, lectures at
night

2. Access to any course anywhere in the
world at anytime

3. Precise focused education instead of
mass batched stuﬀ

4. No more multiple choice exams

1. 2. Open book, open note all the
time

2. measure experience instead of
test scores

3. The end of compliance as an
outcome

4. Cooperation instead of isolation

5. Teachers become coaches

6. Life long learning with life happening
early

7. Death of the famous college

8. Why would we not want to teach our
kids to learn, ﬁgure out something
interesting?

Session Two: Culture of Creativity and
Innovation

• In an individual
• In a classroom
• In a school or organization
Chart: goo.gl/1P6mTj
What does creativity and
innovation look like?

Lone Nut
Is this it?
https://youtu.be/fW8amMCVAJQ
Does Creativity and Innovation Require a Lone Nut?

http://21clradio.com/john-burns-brings-power-scale-creativity-innovation-education-vanguard-17/

http://www.j0hn.org/blog/creating-a-culture-in-which-
innovation-can-spark

Reﬂective Listening: The listener encourages the person to
speak freely, by being non judgmental and empathetic.
Summarizing what the speaker said, using the listener’s own
words.

Session Three
Game Based Learning

https://youtu.be/QWSoR-0DH8Q

Why Game Based Learning
• Scaffolded learning
• Instant feedback
• Repeat objectives to mastery
• Differentiation and customized
learning
• Extremely motivating
• Releases dopamine

Session Four
Using Technology Tools to
Enhance Student Learning:
An MVP Approach

Minimum Viable Product
Classroom

Iterative model
• Deﬁne the problem
• Brainstorm solutions
• Build MVP (Tech tools help)
• Test it
• Evaluate it
• Improve it

Design Thinking Model

@AutismPodcast | MichaelBoll.me@misterdubyah | About.me/Robb.Willett
Need to Adopt an Idea?
• Create a collaborative writing program with peer editing
• Create a team based flash card system
• Improve how students access and share resources
• Upgrade resources students use
• Create a maker space
• Hold a genius hour
• Provide a more efficient feedback system for student work
• Share information more efficiently with parents
• Bring coding to your classroom
• Add a media literacy component to your classroom
• Teach students the power of visual and audio
communication
• Allow for a individualized learning system
• Enable adaptive learning in your classroom

MS and HS Group

Fake News

MyWot.com

http://factitious.augamestudio.com/

Choices for Further
Exploration
• Google Drive
• Portfolios
• Media Literacy
• Differentiation
• Audio Recording
• VR and AR
• Language Learning Tools
• Coding

Choices

Uses by Domain
• Writing
• Communication
• Calendar
• Collaboration at Scale
• Documents
• Video
• Photos
• Data Collection
• Chrome Plugins

How Are You Using It Now?
• Individual
• Classroom
• Organization

Favorite Chrome Extensions
• See michaelboll.me/medan

Differentiation Tools

how?
• text-to-speech
• dictation
• prediction
• writing
• dictionaries
• editing
• study skills
• organization

8+

readin
g
http://www.mona.net.au/
Wilfredo Prieto's Untitled (WhiteLibrary)

read upto 200 wpm
speak 150-170 wpm
comprehension problems
below 100 wpm

cognitive load
&
working
memory

quality of thinking
drops away quickly
once working memory
increases beyond four items

text to speech
relieves the burden of
decoding
focus on comprehension
reduce cognitive load
improve endurance and
completion

writing and research

Text-to-Speech
(proofreading)

Draft one

Speech-to-Text
(Voice Typing)

Grammarly

Media Literacy

goo.gl/NqY25a

Virtual Reality
Augmented Reality

Portfolios

Audio
Recording

Coding

Language
Learning Tools

Share Time

The Mastery Transcript Consortium (MTC) is a collective of high
schools organized around the development and dissemination of an
alternative model of assessment, crediting and transcript generation.
This model calls for students to demonstrate a mastery of skills,
knowledge and habits of mind by presenting evidence that is then
assessed against an institutionally speciﬁc standard of mastery.
mastery.org

Elementary Students

Uses by Domain
• Writing
• Communication
• Calendar
• Collaboration at Scale
• Documents
• Video
• Photos
• Data Collection
• Conferring
• Chrome Plugins

DIGITAL PORTFOLIOS ARE
A NIGHTMARE FOR
ELEMENTARY STUDENTS
PROBLEM

TEXT
PROBLEMS
▸ Too hard to login
▸ Too hard to publish
▸ Too hard to share with parents
▸ Too hard for students to use

SEESAW SOLVES THAT
PROBLEM (SEESAW.ME)

DONE!
SEESAW.ME
seesaw.me

21clRadio.com

Link to Course
Link to all the content (free)

Coding In 2017-2018
Find experts
Send out announcement
Reminder to pople they are on the panel

Why Code?

Super duper powerful
form of human expression
Students of all ages take their ideas, stories and thoughts
and transform them into a rich, interactive environment

A
nd
Scratch
Jr.

Share on SeeSaw

Lego WeDo Robotics

Two Parts
What Does a Good
Commercial
Look Like?
How Do I Make
a Commercial?

What Makes a Strong
Commercial
• Strong Images and Pictures
• Strong Music
• Strong Audio
• Strong Story

What Makes a Weak
Commercial?
• Shaky Camera
• Strange Images/Pictures
• No Story
• Weak Music
• Weak Audio

music | video quality | pictures
quality | story

Sample Grade Three
Commercials

Types of Shots

Practice In Pairs
• Camera Angles
• Music and Emotion
• Speaking and Recording
(VoiceOver)

Camera Angles

Music for Emotion
• Happy
• Sad
• Excited
• Something Else?

Presentation Available at
inside.isb.ac.th/estech

Panther Productions
Panther Nation

Some Ideas for Using Video
• Film student celebrations
• Film individual student
reﬂections
• Film student news programs
• Film student speeches
• Film student plays in class

Adaptive
Learning

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