Finally getting to collaborate on our new curriculum,
and brainstorming ways to use technology to further engage our students.
and brainstorming ways to use technology to further engage our students.
Showing posts with label Citizenship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Citizenship. Show all posts
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Successes and Challenges
There have been many. One of my favorite moments of the year so far was watching one hundred middle level students in two different rooms engage in a google hangout with students at a school an hour and a half away. Ideas were shared, students were inspired, and collaboration made it to the twenty-first century.
Challenges...
While our meetings have been frequent, necessary and productive, they are a struggle for me. I have a hard time sitting still and not being in high-power production mode. The second reason is that with the frequent meetings, I feel I have no time within the school day to get done what I need to get done. I am frequently bringing work home and staying up later to write emails and create materials for students. I plan to purchase stock in the under-eye makeup that I've been using to cover up these circles.
Hazen Middle School Rocks!
The 1 to 1 initiative is in full swing at Hazen. We have been using the iPads to help our learning in all subjects. We have been learning about Digital Citizenship A LOT. The students really enjoyed the APP from Common Sense where it was a choose your own adventure! They made choices and consequences happened based on their choices. The APP is called Digital Compass. Students for the most part made great choices but some chose to go back and see what happened if they made a poor choice. One student was very surprised when, in the story, the police showed up at his door for copyright violation!
We have talked a lot about how we represent ourselves digitally!!!
I also want to say a huge THANK YOU to both teams as I had a rough start to the year. It was super great to have everyone chip in to help when I was out!!
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Thinking about Digital Citizenship
As we think about the first few weeks of the school year, let's consider lessons to help our students learn about Digital Citizenship.
Divide into three groups, each group exploring the lessons within a unit. Decide which lessons and elements of the units are essential for our 1:1 rollout in the middle school.
Common Sense Media: Grades 6-8
The next step will be to plug these activities into our First 8-Weeks Calendar.
Divide into three groups, each group exploring the lessons within a unit. Decide which lessons and elements of the units are essential for our 1:1 rollout in the middle school.
Common Sense Media: Grades 6-8
The next step will be to plug these activities into our First 8-Weeks Calendar.
Monday, June 22, 2015
Day 1, Goal 1: PLP Website Template
Evidence Towards Goal Setting: (Moving forward, challenges, etc.)
The goal we were tackling today was the first one we posted on the padlet which was about the website template for the PLP's.
We unanimously agreed that this goal is the first one to tackle before we can move forward with our other goals. After about 5 minutes into our collaboration, I realized that the idea to tackle this whole topic was a bit too lofty. We ended up mainly focusing on the "identity" part of the PLP and ended with a preliminary discussion about the tabs and the general format of the PLP site. We have not finalized those tabs and more specifically the mode that students will be presenting evidence of growth and which topics students will be posting to their website.
Now that we have a general structure for the website, I feel we need to have a more general discussion about the philosophy of the PLP website and what evidence students will be collecting throughout the year.
The goal we were tackling today was the first one we posted on the padlet which was about the website template for the PLP's.
We unanimously agreed that this goal is the first one to tackle before we can move forward with our other goals. After about 5 minutes into our collaboration, I realized that the idea to tackle this whole topic was a bit too lofty. We ended up mainly focusing on the "identity" part of the PLP and ended with a preliminary discussion about the tabs and the general format of the PLP site. We have not finalized those tabs and more specifically the mode that students will be presenting evidence of growth and which topics students will be posting to their website.
Now that we have a general structure for the website, I feel we need to have a more general discussion about the philosophy of the PLP website and what evidence students will be collecting throughout the year.
Thursday, June 18, 2015
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