Tuesday

Tuesday    ﻿Sharing time:  1. TPACK - Using the model to help drive instruction. We saw a demo of students using iPods in the Daily 5 for huge student gails in literacy. 2. Neenah's Technology Mentors - I talked about our mentor program. 3. iPod Touches - Helping students know that college is attainable by improving literacy skills with the use of the iPod Touch. **Challenge Based Learning - Don Henderson ** We had an hour long presentation on Challenge Based Learning from Don Henderson. He presented via iChat from Texas. CBL is a model for creativity and learning. It is based on research that began way back with Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow (ACOT). It answers the essential question, "What happens when you empower students with 24/7 learning?" There are six design principles:
 * 1) 21st Century Outcomes - Students should be able to use research skills, analyze, synthesize, thinking at a higher level.
 * 2) Curriculum - It must be relevant and applied. Students understand why they're learning what they're learning.
 * 3) Informative Assessments - It includes a look at the journey of learning - the process. (Don showed an example of a reflection booth that students designed. It was a Big Brother like little booth with a MacBook in it. Students would reflect on their tasks for the day in the booth and the teacher uses it as formative assessment.)
 * 4) Culture of creativity and Innovation - teachers allowed to take responsible risks with technology and instruction.
 * 5) Social and emotional connection - Students need to be connected to the project.
 * 6) 24/7 Access to Technology - Provides information, resources, and tools for creation at all times.

The Framework of CBL:
 * 1) The Big idea - The broad concept that can be explored in multiple ways. It is engaging and important to students. Example topic could be "resilience."
 * 2) Essential Questions - Create important questions in which students work to answer. Example: How can we better support each other in times of hardship?
 * 3) The Challenge - Each essential question is articulated so that it asks to create a specific solution that can result in concrete and meaningful action in their home, schools, and/or community. This is actionable,
 * 4) Guiding Questions - Generated by students. These questions represent the knowledge students need to discover.
 * 5) Guiding Activities and Resources - Students decide the activities that need to be done and organize themselves.
 * 6) Solutions - Collective solutions are found. They are thoughtful, concrete, actionable, clearly articulated, and documented in a short video.
 * 7) Implementation - Work on every part of the project and bring it all together.
 * 8) Reflections - Reflect on the work and process.

In schools where this has taken place, state exam score are higher because of it. Here is the web page that talks about this project. Challenge Based Learning - Helping a community recover from a disaster.

Things our students/teachers will need to do this: Access, content, creation tools and a place to share.

This was one of the most engaging sessions thus far because we moved into the "how" part of our student success model of //What do we want our students to learn? How do we want them to learn it?// and //How will we know what they know?//


 * Di's note: We will be exploring this process during our August workshop.**

We learned how to use Numbers on the iPad by formatting cells, adding formulas, doing things like filling down a formulas. We used the settings to plot rows as series and then sent it to iTunes so it could be opened in Numbers on a Mac. I liked how Numbers is less intimidating than a blank spreadsheet.
 * Numbers for the iPad:**

We added footers and page numbers, we messed with settings and added things to a pre-made documebt, then we transferred a document to iPad to computer.
 * Pages for iPad:**

We messed with WebDAV for document distribution and hand in (our hand in/hand out). I think it would be a good possibility for iPads.

We worked on a premade Keynote then added video and messed with the poster frame. We worked on Magic move and some advanced effect. We worked on recording the slideshow and playing it. We sent it to iTunes and moved it to the iPad.
 * Keynote for Mac:**

The spreadsheet feature allows us to use a blank canvas and only the spreadsheet tables we need. Not as threatening and overwhelming. We also worked on charts within numbers. Best feature of Numbers for Mac - creating sliders for some cells to view how data changes the charts.
 * Numbers for Mac:**

We worked on a pre-made document in Pages. We formatted the Table of Contents using the TOC feature and the paragraph formatting. We included multimedia and anchor links then published to ePub. What is ePub? It is a format that allows us to create dynamic digital content that can be published for the iPad. Teachers could create their own content with links, movies, and questions at the end of a chapter and the students could interact with it and answer those questions and email it to instructor. In my opinion, this will revolutionize education.
 * Pages and ePub:**

We went to Apple headquarters for lunch. I would have loved to post pix, but we were not allowed to take pictures. We also shopped at the the Apple Store. This is one of the very few stores that has apparel. Yep, you can bet I bought some!
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