The document discusses various topics related to education including reading, the Common Core standards, research projects, taking care of pets, and presenting information. It provides instructions and activities for groups to work through including brainstorming what they need to know, mapping a research plan, conducting research tasks, and providing peer feedback. The document encourages designing activities that support pillars of the Common Core like complexity of texts and conducting short research projects using multiple sources.
20 Ideas for your Website Homepage ContentBarry Feldman
Perplexed about what to put on your website home? Every company deals with this tough challenge. The 20 ideas in this presentation should give you a strong starting point.
Think Like A Detective, Produce Like An Investigative Reportersewilkie
Join us as we journey through a Common Core based activity drawing on critical thinking, information literacy and project development. Explore the process changes involved in building the capacity of students to ask deeper questions, think critically about content, deconstruct information and support or challenge claims, as they respond to increasingly complex tasks.
An intentional play on the popular quote from David Coleman, a contributing author of the ELA Standards, the title of this workshop invites participants to engage with the standards using the media and mediums of todays leaners.
Throughout this high engagement, hands-on workshop, participants will explore a process for:
- asking effective questions
- mapping a project plan
- collecting, analyzing and sifting through evidence
- identifying authentic audiences
Closing discussion and reflections will offer participants an opportunity to connect design elements of the workshop with learning experiences for their students.
The Art of APPlication: Using Apps to Engage Students as Collaborators, Creat...sewilkie
How often do you leave a workshop brimming with ideas and anxious to put them into action? Following our first session, Apps Task-onomy, we will dig even further as we investigate ways to implement recommended apps into YOUR practice. Join this "make session", where participants will create lessons and app-tivities for immediate use in their class(es).
Please provide a link back to our BalancEdTech wiki if you use part/all of our resources: http://balancedtech.wikispaces.com/BLC13+-+The+Art+of+APPlication
20 Ideas for your Website Homepage ContentBarry Feldman
Perplexed about what to put on your website home? Every company deals with this tough challenge. The 20 ideas in this presentation should give you a strong starting point.
Think Like A Detective, Produce Like An Investigative Reportersewilkie
Join us as we journey through a Common Core based activity drawing on critical thinking, information literacy and project development. Explore the process changes involved in building the capacity of students to ask deeper questions, think critically about content, deconstruct information and support or challenge claims, as they respond to increasingly complex tasks.
An intentional play on the popular quote from David Coleman, a contributing author of the ELA Standards, the title of this workshop invites participants to engage with the standards using the media and mediums of todays leaners.
Throughout this high engagement, hands-on workshop, participants will explore a process for:
- asking effective questions
- mapping a project plan
- collecting, analyzing and sifting through evidence
- identifying authentic audiences
Closing discussion and reflections will offer participants an opportunity to connect design elements of the workshop with learning experiences for their students.
The Art of APPlication: Using Apps to Engage Students as Collaborators, Creat...sewilkie
How often do you leave a workshop brimming with ideas and anxious to put them into action? Following our first session, Apps Task-onomy, we will dig even further as we investigate ways to implement recommended apps into YOUR practice. Join this "make session", where participants will create lessons and app-tivities for immediate use in their class(es).
Please provide a link back to our BalancEdTech wiki if you use part/all of our resources: http://balancedtech.wikispaces.com/BLC13+-+The+Art+of+APPlication
The latest statistics from WeChat place its monthly active users (MAU) at 700million, with audiences visiting the application upwards of 30 times per day.
While follower numbers for most brands continue to grow, the honeymoon appears to be over. Signs are starting to emerge that follower growth rates for brand accounts are slowing.
At the same time, the government has started to apply pressure to regulate H5 apps built onto WeChat. And Tencent itself is applying greater control over brand activities.
Brands will have to employ more effective content strategies on WeChat moving forward. In this presentation we share our tips to help brands continue to grow by attracting/retaining audiences on WeChat.
It’s not enough that you drink water every day. You have to make sure it’s the adequate amount and it’s absolutely safe and clean. To be guaranteed about your everyday drinking water, it would be a good idea buy water filter here in Singapore or anywhere you might be in the world.
10 Insightful Quotes On Designing A Better Customer ExperienceYuan Wang
In an ever-changing landscape of one digital disruption after another, companies and organisations are looking for new ways to understand their target markets and engage them better. Increasingly they invest in user experience (UX) and customer experience design (CX) capabilities by working with a specialist UX agency or developing their own UX lab. Some UX practitioners are touting leaner and faster ways of developing customer-centric products and services, via methodologies such as guerilla research, rapid prototyping and Agile UX. Others seek innovation and fulfilment by spending more time in research, being more inclusive, and designing for social goods.
Experience is more than just an interface. It is a relationship, as well as a series of touch points between your brand and your customer. Here are our top 10 highlights and takeaways from the recent UX Australia conference to help you transform your customer experience design.
For full article, continue reading at https://yump.com.au/10-ways-supercharge-customer-experience-design/
How to Build a Dynamic Social Media PlanPost Planner
Stop guessing and wasting your time on networks and strategies that don’t work!
Join Rebekah Radice and Katie Lance to learn how to optimize your social networks, the best kept secrets for hot content, top time management tools, and much more!
Watch the replay here: bit.ly/socialmedia-plan
http://inarocket.com
Learn BEM fundamentals as fast as possible. What is BEM (Block, element, modifier), BEM syntax, how it works with a real example, etc.
Content personalisation is becoming more prevalent. A site, it's content and/or it's products, change dynamically according to the specific needs of the user. SEO needs to ensure we do not fall behind of this trend.
Every teacher is a writing teacher. Common Core State Standards have brought a renewed focus on non-fiction writing across content areas. Participants will learn the difference between merely assigning writing and teaching solid writing skills.
Slides from a presentation during <a>my SMARTen Up! workshop</a> for the EdTech Teacher Workshop series in Brookline, MA, 20 July 2010: an exploration of the intersection of visual design, presentation design and instructional design.
Slides from a presentation at the Building Learning Communities Conference in Boston, MA, 14 July 2010: an exploration of the intersection of visual design, presentation design and instructional design.
Slides from a presentation at St. James School Division Summer Institute in Winnipeg, MB; 29 Aug 2011.
A further refinement including some new ideas of an earlier presentation exploring the intersection of visual design, presentation design and instructional design.
Slides from a presentation at the Riding the Wave Conference in Gimli, MB; 13 May 2011.
A update of an earlier presentation explorating the intersection of visual design, presentation design and instructional design.
Apps Taskonomy: Digging Deeper into the Application of Apps BLC13sewilkie
The iPad (or iPod touch or iPhone) with its apps opens many new opportunities for learning. At the same time, it offers a slightly different wrapper for older learning opportunities. Both can be worthwhile, but it would be a shame if teachers missed the former for the latter. And, if past experience and research is any indication, educators are much more likely to co-opt the new technology to accomplish the status quo.
This workshop is designed to help teachers think through both opportunities and to categorize those apps that lend themselves to either or both. Participants will start by exploring a variety of apps, some that lend themselves to learning content such as math facts or spelling words and others that can be used in open ended content creation such as storytelling or photography. Then, participants will examine a set of lessons that use these apps. Finally, we will use a "taxonomy" such as Bloom's Taxonomy, SAMR, LoTi, ETaP, Prensky, etc. and attempt to classify/categorize where the apps fall. Most likely, participants will need to contextualize the app to a particular use/activity. Ideally, teachers will realize that in most cases it is not the app itself, but the context and way in which it is used that determines where it falls and that the apps belong in multiple places.
Please provide a link back to our BalancEdTech wiki if you use part/all of our resources: http://balancedtech.wikispaces.com/BLC13+-+AppsTaskonomy
Small Shifts, Big Impact: Closing the Gap to Empowered Learning Pt 2 BLC13sewilkie
Small Shifts, Big Impact: Closing the Gap to Empowered Learning
How large is the gap that truly exists between the real and ideal for learners? Are there ways to “tweak” (small shift) instruction that will enlist students as deep questioners, critical thinkers and effective problem-solvers (big impact)? What if we created a “Destination Postcard” of the ideal learner, and designed learning experiences from there? Join this Switch-inspired think-tank on lesson design and implementation strategies that empower students to think and act their way to the acquisition and connection of content while developing enduring learning dispositions. (Common Core Compatible)
Attendees will engage in discussion and consider activities designed to help educators:
Consider content acquisition as a vehicle for learning (means not end).
Develop learner-driven ways to leverage digital tools, environments and processes.
Apply concepts from Switch (Chip & Dan Heath) to identify “small shift / big impact” possibilities in lesson (re)design.
We thought about titling this session, "Stop Giving Them The Answer: Let Them Figure It Out Themselves!", but thought that sounded a little too edgy. Join us for a strategy-building session on how to foster student-owned learning in the classroom (and live!). Don’t expect one size fits all answers – but questions, strategies, possibilities, examples, and maybe a few awkward silences…
Join us as we explore ways to:
Engage and empower students as critical thinkers, questioners, connectors and creators of content
Build student repertoire of problem-solving strategies
Promote and develop student capacity for finding the right information, right relationships and right resources, all at the right time
Challenge learners to mine mistakes, wrong turns and “failures” for the richer learning opportunities embedded within
As designers of learning experiences, what perspective can be gained through theof models like SAMR and TPaCK? How might the relationship between the two create a stronger yet practical potential for meaningful shifts in teaching and learning? How do these models compare to others? We'll embark on a critical exploration of these models, questions and more, as we consider design elements and process changes inherent in lessons at each level along the SAMR continuum. As opposed to a How-To… "training", this session has been intentionally created as an opportunity to explore, question and connect experiences and resources, think a little more deeply about our roles in the design process, and to possibly tweak our view of technology in instruction and learning.
Small Shifts, Big Impact: Closing the Gap to Empowered Learningsewilkie
How large is the gap that truly exists between the real and ideal for learners? Are there ways to “tweak” (small shift) content-driven instruction that will enlist students as deep questioners, critical thinkers and effective problem-solvers (big impact)? What if we created a “Destination Postcard” of the ideal learner, and designed learning experiences from there? Join this Switch-inspired think-tank on lesson design strategies that empower students to think and act their way to the acquisition and connection of content while developing learning dispositions.
Common Core & Lifelong Learning: Are We Pouring Concrete or Building Capacity?sewilkie
The learning objectives within the Common Core State Standards represent a rigorous application of research, media and higher-order thinking skills, as students develop their capacity to engage in complex text and tasks that have real-world implications.
Essential to this effort are the lifelong learning skills, habits and dispositions that serve as the foundational structure for all learners. Without thoughtful and purposeful attention to these and other requisites we risk our investments of time, money and energy yielding little return – like pouring concrete without proper supports in place.
A rich discussion focused on the core tools our leaners need to build capacity and develop competencies in discovering meaning, analyzing content, comparing information, synthesizing, applying and sharing their understandings.
The latest statistics from WeChat place its monthly active users (MAU) at 700million, with audiences visiting the application upwards of 30 times per day.
While follower numbers for most brands continue to grow, the honeymoon appears to be over. Signs are starting to emerge that follower growth rates for brand accounts are slowing.
At the same time, the government has started to apply pressure to regulate H5 apps built onto WeChat. And Tencent itself is applying greater control over brand activities.
Brands will have to employ more effective content strategies on WeChat moving forward. In this presentation we share our tips to help brands continue to grow by attracting/retaining audiences on WeChat.
It’s not enough that you drink water every day. You have to make sure it’s the adequate amount and it’s absolutely safe and clean. To be guaranteed about your everyday drinking water, it would be a good idea buy water filter here in Singapore or anywhere you might be in the world.
10 Insightful Quotes On Designing A Better Customer ExperienceYuan Wang
In an ever-changing landscape of one digital disruption after another, companies and organisations are looking for new ways to understand their target markets and engage them better. Increasingly they invest in user experience (UX) and customer experience design (CX) capabilities by working with a specialist UX agency or developing their own UX lab. Some UX practitioners are touting leaner and faster ways of developing customer-centric products and services, via methodologies such as guerilla research, rapid prototyping and Agile UX. Others seek innovation and fulfilment by spending more time in research, being more inclusive, and designing for social goods.
Experience is more than just an interface. It is a relationship, as well as a series of touch points between your brand and your customer. Here are our top 10 highlights and takeaways from the recent UX Australia conference to help you transform your customer experience design.
For full article, continue reading at https://yump.com.au/10-ways-supercharge-customer-experience-design/
How to Build a Dynamic Social Media PlanPost Planner
Stop guessing and wasting your time on networks and strategies that don’t work!
Join Rebekah Radice and Katie Lance to learn how to optimize your social networks, the best kept secrets for hot content, top time management tools, and much more!
Watch the replay here: bit.ly/socialmedia-plan
http://inarocket.com
Learn BEM fundamentals as fast as possible. What is BEM (Block, element, modifier), BEM syntax, how it works with a real example, etc.
Content personalisation is becoming more prevalent. A site, it's content and/or it's products, change dynamically according to the specific needs of the user. SEO needs to ensure we do not fall behind of this trend.
Every teacher is a writing teacher. Common Core State Standards have brought a renewed focus on non-fiction writing across content areas. Participants will learn the difference between merely assigning writing and teaching solid writing skills.
Slides from a presentation during <a>my SMARTen Up! workshop</a> for the EdTech Teacher Workshop series in Brookline, MA, 20 July 2010: an exploration of the intersection of visual design, presentation design and instructional design.
Slides from a presentation at the Building Learning Communities Conference in Boston, MA, 14 July 2010: an exploration of the intersection of visual design, presentation design and instructional design.
Slides from a presentation at St. James School Division Summer Institute in Winnipeg, MB; 29 Aug 2011.
A further refinement including some new ideas of an earlier presentation exploring the intersection of visual design, presentation design and instructional design.
Slides from a presentation at the Riding the Wave Conference in Gimli, MB; 13 May 2011.
A update of an earlier presentation explorating the intersection of visual design, presentation design and instructional design.
Apps Taskonomy: Digging Deeper into the Application of Apps BLC13sewilkie
The iPad (or iPod touch or iPhone) with its apps opens many new opportunities for learning. At the same time, it offers a slightly different wrapper for older learning opportunities. Both can be worthwhile, but it would be a shame if teachers missed the former for the latter. And, if past experience and research is any indication, educators are much more likely to co-opt the new technology to accomplish the status quo.
This workshop is designed to help teachers think through both opportunities and to categorize those apps that lend themselves to either or both. Participants will start by exploring a variety of apps, some that lend themselves to learning content such as math facts or spelling words and others that can be used in open ended content creation such as storytelling or photography. Then, participants will examine a set of lessons that use these apps. Finally, we will use a "taxonomy" such as Bloom's Taxonomy, SAMR, LoTi, ETaP, Prensky, etc. and attempt to classify/categorize where the apps fall. Most likely, participants will need to contextualize the app to a particular use/activity. Ideally, teachers will realize that in most cases it is not the app itself, but the context and way in which it is used that determines where it falls and that the apps belong in multiple places.
Please provide a link back to our BalancEdTech wiki if you use part/all of our resources: http://balancedtech.wikispaces.com/BLC13+-+AppsTaskonomy
Small Shifts, Big Impact: Closing the Gap to Empowered Learning Pt 2 BLC13sewilkie
Small Shifts, Big Impact: Closing the Gap to Empowered Learning
How large is the gap that truly exists between the real and ideal for learners? Are there ways to “tweak” (small shift) instruction that will enlist students as deep questioners, critical thinkers and effective problem-solvers (big impact)? What if we created a “Destination Postcard” of the ideal learner, and designed learning experiences from there? Join this Switch-inspired think-tank on lesson design and implementation strategies that empower students to think and act their way to the acquisition and connection of content while developing enduring learning dispositions. (Common Core Compatible)
Attendees will engage in discussion and consider activities designed to help educators:
Consider content acquisition as a vehicle for learning (means not end).
Develop learner-driven ways to leverage digital tools, environments and processes.
Apply concepts from Switch (Chip & Dan Heath) to identify “small shift / big impact” possibilities in lesson (re)design.
We thought about titling this session, "Stop Giving Them The Answer: Let Them Figure It Out Themselves!", but thought that sounded a little too edgy. Join us for a strategy-building session on how to foster student-owned learning in the classroom (and live!). Don’t expect one size fits all answers – but questions, strategies, possibilities, examples, and maybe a few awkward silences…
Join us as we explore ways to:
Engage and empower students as critical thinkers, questioners, connectors and creators of content
Build student repertoire of problem-solving strategies
Promote and develop student capacity for finding the right information, right relationships and right resources, all at the right time
Challenge learners to mine mistakes, wrong turns and “failures” for the richer learning opportunities embedded within
As designers of learning experiences, what perspective can be gained through theof models like SAMR and TPaCK? How might the relationship between the two create a stronger yet practical potential for meaningful shifts in teaching and learning? How do these models compare to others? We'll embark on a critical exploration of these models, questions and more, as we consider design elements and process changes inherent in lessons at each level along the SAMR continuum. As opposed to a How-To… "training", this session has been intentionally created as an opportunity to explore, question and connect experiences and resources, think a little more deeply about our roles in the design process, and to possibly tweak our view of technology in instruction and learning.
Small Shifts, Big Impact: Closing the Gap to Empowered Learningsewilkie
How large is the gap that truly exists between the real and ideal for learners? Are there ways to “tweak” (small shift) content-driven instruction that will enlist students as deep questioners, critical thinkers and effective problem-solvers (big impact)? What if we created a “Destination Postcard” of the ideal learner, and designed learning experiences from there? Join this Switch-inspired think-tank on lesson design strategies that empower students to think and act their way to the acquisition and connection of content while developing learning dispositions.
Common Core & Lifelong Learning: Are We Pouring Concrete or Building Capacity?sewilkie
The learning objectives within the Common Core State Standards represent a rigorous application of research, media and higher-order thinking skills, as students develop their capacity to engage in complex text and tasks that have real-world implications.
Essential to this effort are the lifelong learning skills, habits and dispositions that serve as the foundational structure for all learners. Without thoughtful and purposeful attention to these and other requisites we risk our investments of time, money and energy yielding little return – like pouring concrete without proper supports in place.
A rich discussion focused on the core tools our leaners need to build capacity and develop competencies in discovering meaning, analyzing content, comparing information, synthesizing, applying and sharing their understandings.
We thought about titling this session, "Stop Giving Them The Answer: Let Them Figure It Out Themselves!", but thought that sounded a little too edgy. Join us for a strategy-building session on how to foster student-owned learning in the classroom (and live!). Don't expect 1 size fits all answers - just questions, strategies, possibilities, examples, and maybe a few awkward silences...
3. Reading Is Everything!
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5. What
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6. What do they mean for
Building Capacity
our learners?
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7. Focusing on
Short Research
Conduct short research projects
to answer a question, drawing on
several sources and refocusing
the inquiry when appropriate.
W-6.7
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9. Partner Up! In groups of 3...bonus pts for
groups of complete strangers!
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10. Bonus Pts teams who can
Share & Blend blend elements of each Wonder
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shareconference/
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11. BrainYard Workshop
1 computer
per team
http://brainyardworkshop.wikispaces.com/
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12. First...
Team Name
Members & Wonders
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13. Adventure #1
Record your
blended Wonder
on your wiki page
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14. Why Are We Here?
Conduct short research projects
to answer a question, drawing on
several sources and refocusing
the inquiry when appropriate.
W-6.7
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16. How we might
We Know We Wonder What we learned
find out...
Pets should not be wild
Look in books animals
What animals
Pets live your
make good Ask a vet Pets shouldn’t be too
house or yard big, or you won’t be
pets?
able to feed them or
Ask a farmer keep them in the house
Ask person at Feed & change water
What else do every day
shelter or
You have to you have to
Humane Society
feed your pet & do to take Dogs & cats need shots
clean up after it care of your Check pet For birds, put clean
pet? websites paper in the cage
K-W-H-L Chart elementary
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17. Inviting
Questions
Problem Statement
Driving Questions
Need to Knows
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24. Reinforcing Pillars...
How might we design to support
these pillars?
Claim & Evidence
Complexity of Text
http://www.flickr.com/photos/constructing_the_capitol/
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25. Focusing on
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Conduct short research projects
to answer a question, drawing on
several sources and refocusing
the inquiry when appropriate.
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Opportunities to create additional research activities?
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26. Activity: Relevance
What is the message I want to
communicate?
What is the most effective way to
present that image?
Present claims and findings, sequencing ideas logically and using pertinent
descriptions, facts and details to accentuate main ideas or themes (SL 6.4)
emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner (SL 7.4)
with relevant evidence, sound valid reasoning, and well-chosen details... (SL 8.4)
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27. Activity: Create
Select and include multimedia
components into their
presentations for the purpose of
clarifying the information
presented.
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28. Literacy is Everything!
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