SMART Creation 2/8 @ Hilton

SMART Creation 2/8 @ Hilton
Playground all day - @convention center
Thursday @2:30 in SMART booth

TOUCH LEARN TOGETHER
Learn to walk before you run
SMART Wednesday (or any day) - 1 hour share

Special education - adapt curriculum to smart board
Handwriting practice (gallery)
Replace paper pencil activities
Write with tennis ball instead of pen for kids with limited mobility and coordination
Use as response system to prepare for task alt
When looking at lessons on smart exchange go beyond your content and look at format and then replace with your content
Any thing you do on a worksheet you can do on a board

High school content
Let kids use the notebook software to create
Math - vocabulary - at least 10 ways in smart to do - random picker to keep kids engaged (lesson activity tool kit)
Screen capture from TI calculators and then import images into SMART - these ideas on exchange under TCEA - math 7-12
Random number generator
Video TAKS tutorials
Video complex problems - students can watch, pause & play as needed
Makes sure bells & whistles don't distract from lesson content
learning activity toolkit 2 - templates that are editable flash files
LAT2 - activities
The kids like to play too - 8 am Thursday smart room
Math models -showroom floor - smart
Games that engage - smart room - wednesday 11:30
Bentz - search exchange site - teacher @Lewisville Bentzs@lids.net - geometry website the richest - new to teaching algebra this year
Kids use free download
trinity Christian in Addison - Karen Campere
Kcompare@trinitychristian.org

Lewisville did a content creation seminar
Organize by grade level at elementary and content at secondary
Smart facilitators assist and work to get people to the level of creation
Smart exemplary teachers support / help
User group one day conference (or half day)
Germanyj@lisd.net

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Mobile is a Must

Mobile is a Must

What makes these authentic, intimate learning opportunities possible? Mobile technologies. Mobile devices provide the platform and, as importantly, the incentive for students to take personal ownership of the learning experience. The lessons absorbed form deep connections for students and add to their cognitive framework in ways that no lecture ever could.

So what is all of this doing for K-12 education? Nothing short of disrupting and transforming the established teaching and learning paradigm. To start, mobile technology is helping to solve the two challenges facing education today: students' desire to learn differently, and students' need to learn differently.

Will Smart Phones Eliminate the Digital Divide?

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Zombie Teacher Project - TodaysMeet.com/zombie

Zombie Teacher Project - TodaysMeet.com/zombie

Ideas rise from the dead
Assembling the skeleton
Release the monster
And the award goes to

no more than 4 people for a team
Summer
24 hours, only begin at 9 am on day one and must turn in project by 9 am the next morning

Equipment - borrowed from each campus, labeled and checked out to teams

Pre-training before event to learn software, storyboards done before the 24 hours begins, props, costumes, etc

Each team receives an award for something
Teachers choice awards
Set the stage
Every video is shown on award night
Everyone who attends gets a ballot who attends award night

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Technology impact - David Pogue

Technology impact - David Pogue

App phone - a whole new category - components not in phone or computer

App - Ocarina - globe let's you listen in

Ge Wang - auto tune app

Augmented reality - new generation of apps - combines internet
Nearest tube - subway
Twit around
Facial recognition
Retina - for color blind
Google voice - option 2 let's you make a call

Things won't go away they just splinter and both thrive

Ebooks

Web 2.0 - audience is the creator of the content
Facebook example
Craigslist
Flickr
You tube
Domystuff.com
Prosper.com
Kiva
Goloco
E-petitions
Who is sick?

How does this effect the next generation?

Take back the beep -
Kids today don't do voicemail or email - they want realtime. The new normal is multitasking and on demand

Hulu.com - on demand tv

Privacy - kids don't care

Twitter - a different kind of population - average age 35 - average income 75,000

Book - the world according to twitter

Technology is changing faster than ever - it's like drinking from a fire hose

The pit is always smaller than the plum

Next convention
Feb 6-12
E5
Embark
Engage
Energize
Empower
Educate

ISTE - 2011 June 26-29

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iCheryl SmartJeff and iTraci present iDevices

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Notes from TEA Session

TEA SESSION
A - ASSESSMENT & ACCOUNTABILITY
21st ctry workforce dev will be a distinction designation

B - BUDGET permanent fund lookng more hopeful than predicted
C - COLLEGE READINESS Texas only state to meet all criteria

EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY MAY ACTUALLY BE THE ANSWER TO BUDGET, materials and instruction concerns

Powerontexas.com

Projectshare - our district account?
NEW YORK TIMES KNOWLEDGE NETWORK - goes back to 1851
ITunesU texas education

Sxswedu - focus on projectshare for this first year

Crysten
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Game shows

If you want to use games in your class room. Google "gameshow templates". If you want to do Jeopardy with a URL address so students are able to play at home with parents and review material. To do Jeopardy with URL go to www.jeopardylabs.com.

Melina Wouters
Dual Language Specialist
@TCEA-Austin

SmartJeff presents SmartBoards at TCEA

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Dr. Waddell presents Web 2.0 at TCEA

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iCheryl presenting an impromptu session on iDevices at Edubloggercon

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Given to Us Today by the Great Discovery Education Leaders - Greatness!

(Listen to our group today reading the poem)

...do not look outside yourself for the leader.
This could be a good time!
There is a river flowing now very fast.
It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid.
They will try to hold on to the shore.
They will feel like they are being torn apart, and they will suffer greatly.
Know the river has its destination.
The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off toward the middle of
the river,
keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water.
See who is there with you and celebrate.
At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally,   least of all
ourselves!
For the moment we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.
The time of the lonely wolf is over.
Gather yourselves!
We are the ones we have been waiting for.

Discovery Education Science - Check this Out!

Discovery Education Science
Amazing Digital Product for our 21st Century Scientists
Be sure to check out the "Experience It" and the "Product Information" links/areas on this page!

Beyond the Textbook - Discovery Learning and Texas ASCD @ Region 11 Education Service Center, Ft. Worth, TX Jan. 21, 2011 - Dr. Carol Wetzel

21st Century Skills - Promoting Creativity and Innovation in the Classroom - Dr. Carol Wetzel
with Carol Ann McGuire

Fierce Conversations: 
The Fierce Blog
Fierce Conversations - Book Notes
1.  What is the challenge?  Creating 21st Century Learning Ecosystems
What is 21st Century Learning (Partnership of 21st Century Learning videos)?  Observable, Measurable Indicators:
Upgraded curriculum and instructional best practices, P21, Global Cultures Learning/Collaborations
2.  What's at stake? Our students, our kids
3.  The ideal outcome? Carol Ann McGuire 
Shanghai TV University   -
China educates 23% of population, but planning for 100%.  They one education system, not individual systems like the US. 


It's not about money, it's about innovation of what we already have (technology, teaching practices, creativity, collaboration, problem solving). Incorporating more Fine Arts into our curriculum.   

4.  Relevant background information - What are we doing in the United States that is a model of 21st Century Learning Ecosystem?
ThinkQuest:   
SARS - An Open Scar thinkquest
Challenge-based/problem-based/project-based Learning:  Students collaborating with one another and students around the world, teams creating a website for their peers.  Using technology, inquiry-based learning, making the world a global village. 
How can we do this? Implementing Problem-based learning, using the Thinkquest model of collaborations of students in different campus classrooms and district schools, 

New Tech High -


5.  What have we done up to this point - 


6.  What can we do to meet the challenge - sharing the vision, modeling "the way," take a top-down approach to PL with all stakeholders, educate parents with 21st Century nights (stations manned by students demonstrating how they are learning 21st century skills), teacher PL, model lesson demonstrations for teachers (they are not pulled out of classrooms for PL), classroom management of digital teaching modeling, videotaping of teaching (teachers view one another as they teach digitally) and put these on the Cisco Video Portal.

Beyond the Textbook - Discovery Education &Texas ASCD - Jan. 21, 2011 - Hall Davidson @ Region 11 Education Service Center, Ft. Worth, TX

21st Century Learning in our district:  Must have a shared vision (teachers, parents, administrators).
Hall Davidson - Director of Global Learning, Discovery Education
http://www.discoveryedspeakersbureau.com/node/119


Article:  A Call Technology in the Classroom - from District Administration
What do we have to do to Transform?
1.  We have to model the use of technologies
Discovery Streaming Education - Not just a video library, that's not digital learning.  Editable, student-centered (they can use it 24/7),  can share on social-media sites...
We need to use this media in every meeting with teachers, principals.  Example:  Animal Behaviors clip with principals - "Which animal most reminds you of you in your daily job?"
Begin with this activity at ILT and follow up with Lunch and Learns, campus instruction, integrate into District Curriculum.
Google Translater
Google Alert
Wordle
2.  Web 2.0 applications for student learning - have to begin using digital tools in the classroom


3.  Professional Learning for Teachers
4. 


Kids in online learning situations out-perform kids in face to face instruction. If we don't do it, the private sector/Charter Schools will steal our kids.


Kaplan University Commercial


Online education - web-based video, instant messaging, and collaboration tools
Are we using iTunes U?
More digital books sold at Amazon than books 09/10.


Why go digital?

• Economy
• Technology effectiveness
• 21st Century Skills
• Engagement for learners

 But all of this means nothing if we cant measurably improve learning.  That is where you will get buy-in from teachers, principals, and parents.  Check out the Charlotte-Mechlenburg School District (this district is also a model Cont. Improvement district).  Ann Clark - chief academic officer in Charlotte - Science study scores after they adopted a digital instruction model.  The professional development was the key to the success of this initiative.  Also Osceola County Public Schools, FL. , Indianapolis Public Schools... Students' scores in Reading, Math, and SS also improved because they were more interested in the content, they wrote in traditional journals in addition to digital composition (important for kids to write in journals traditionally  - brain research)

John Couch, March 2, 2010

Change – personal computer as an intellectual bicycle – exploration & innovation

Apple = culture of empowerment

Digital natives – kids growing up in a world that we are immigrants into; technology is an environment rather than a tool

How will Apple change education?

Model for innovation – starts with vision which yields direction, uniqueness, creativity, forward thinking

right brain vs. left brain (creative vs. analytic) – now kids aren’t confined to those “boxes”

Example: Quantas airlines (Australian airlines) – is what we do to our kids – check you digital devices at the door & when I’m done with you, you get your life back

3 trends

1. Proliferation of digital content – leverage the content of iTunes
iTunes University– disruption to textbook companies – 1200 universities on iTunes U;
Beyond Campus – museums – nasal, etc;
K-12 – already 20 states with academic content
iTunes – rolling out a bookstore, that will include textbooks

2. Mobility – 2 choices – either turn it off or integrate
*look for video on literacy with iPod Touch
pedagogy – challenge based learning – kids research, do the analysis – it’s not just information – it engages kids

3. Integration of Social Communities, such as Twitter, Google Docs,
integration of typical curriculum with social world

Continuity of Learning

Digital repositories, mobile devices, social networks – everything is in place for a virtual high school

Kahn Academy – www.kahnacademy.org

2 types – sustaining innovation; disruptive innovation

Creativity is the key to keeping up with other countries and not getting left behind – not standards based tests such as TAKS

*Do things that you could never do before without the technology!

Technology is not intended to be a substitution

Technology will allow for personalized learning

Leverage the technology available to help kids

Apple Learning Interchange – moving to iTunes U environment

- AdViews Highlights

- Avis commercial – throwing Kleenex out the window – study the times, re-do ads to fit today’s world

Opportunity to prepare kids for tomorrow – a world that we have no idea what it will look like

Assessments using iTouch – advantage is when all students have a common device – immediate feedback;

Technology should not be a burden to the teacher – it should free them up; provide additional learning resources

Marco Torres – transformed his classroom where students were failing & dropping out to MIT grads

Provide a mission & direction – leadership – an incredible opportunity in BISD

The way we define schools today is the way we define society for tomorrow

Hybrid schools – all content delivered through digital lecture & classroom becomes internship environment

Prepare for a world that is flat & competitive – Creativity!

“Culture eats strategy every day of the week.”

Dr. Waddell –

We are poised to do something about what we’ve heard today. We can transform who we are. We are the change agents. Embrace & do what we’ve heard. We don’t have to know it all – the kids will help us. We already know enough to let this happen. We create the environment & let the kids do it.

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Qwizdom Response system

Qwizdom is a company that produces response pad systems. They allowed their system to be used during Cheryl's session. The response pads worked great and provided instant feedback on the screen during the presentation. The software seems extensive in its ability to create lessons, integrate into current presentations, and reporting. The price point is well in the range of competing systems such as the EInstruction response pads. Right now they have their Q7 presenter tablets on buy 4 and get one free. These tablets are currently $379.

K12 Digital Video

We visited the K12 Digital Video booth in the vendor hall. This company provides digial video content similar to Discovery Streaming Video. Rather than purchasing an enormous bundle, you can buy specific titles that your schools will use. www.k12digitalmovies.com

Custom Guide Learn on Demand

We stopped by the the Learn on Demand booth in the vendor hall. This company produces Microsoft Office training modules for professional development. It may be a product to look at for basic CCI training. www.customguide.com

SMARTboard Demos

I attended two sessions where teachers demonstrated thier SMARTboards. In both sessions the teachers spent a good amount of time showing the software and its features. There are a number of great features including built in templates, lessons, screen captures, clipart, etc. I wish they would have spent more time on the lessons they created around the board in the 4 core curriculum areas...that's really what I was looking for.

I visited the SMART booth and watched a demo of the newest model of SMART interactive table. It is quite a device, but very much made for primary students.

Smartboard Exchange

Since I have one campus with now four Smartboards, I was really wanting to attend as many Smartboard presentations as I could, the first one I attended, the laptop crashed half way through, but the two others I attended ended up being a show and tell of their projects. Most of them have posted their lessons to the Smart Exchange, Smart's database and Smart "approved" lessons. It is a great place to start for teachers not really knowing where to start with their Smartboards.

Click on Smartboard Exchange to go the Searchable database.