PD

Refinement Challenge Week 2

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Click here to see the post about how it works and week one aims of inquiry. This weeks series of questions is aimed at inquiry related to authenticity/relevancy:

Authenticity / Relevancy

    • Real or Fake. Is student work authentic and reflective of that done by real people outside of school?
      • Yes / No / Somewhat
    • Contribution. Does student work make a contribution to an audience beyond the classroom walls to the outside world?
      • Yes / No / Somewhat

 

Discipline-Specific Inquiry – April

Authenticity/Relevancy- April

Deeper Thinking-May

Personalization-May

Agency-May

Collaboration-June

Assessment-June

Optional Activities Tomorrow Morning

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From 8:45-9:45 the following is on, in case you have time when you are not meeting with families:

  • Coffee and gipfeli with Suzie in the faculty room
    aim- have energizing conversations about learning and fuel up for the day
  • Faculty road check experience with Alison and Mike in the IT Office
    aim- understand how you can proactively prevent your own tech issues and help your students do the same

In case you need the list of assigned times for faculty workshops w/ Suzie here it is again (originally posted in the Friday Focus)

PBL Resources

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SIX resources to help you continue along the PBL continuum:

#1 Your colleagues!  Here are some PBL bright spots/resources shared at yesterday’s lunch:

#2 Suzie’s ZISPBL site

#3 Buck Institute 

#4 Quest framework for research

#5 Past PBL related posts in Tech Tuesday

#6 &…… add your favorites in the comment section below

 

Modern Learning PD Opportunities

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The opportunities listed below are worth checking out as they are inline with our Upper School goals and stage of technology adoption at ZIS:

  1. Connected Educator experiences including book clubs. You’ll find 4 featured book clubs in the community with opportunities to chat with authors and colleagues. That’s pretty special, to be able to sit down with your beverage of choice, at the time of your choosing and engage in conversations with authors who are colleagues and walk the walk of connected learning.Chris Lehmann, Zac Chase, Kathy Cassidy, Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, and Lani Ritter Hall invite you join them in thinking deeply on important ideas.Joining is easy; select the book you’d like to read; click on the book’s link below; request to join and you’re in!
  2. Learning2 Milan 
    Learning2 is an innovative, engaging and constantly evolving face-to-face conference with a focus on leveraging technology to support learning globally. It is considered to be one of the leading annual technology conferences in the Asia region. From 2016, Learning2 conferences will be held in over four continents.
  3. ASB Unplugged
  4. Become an Innovative Educator Expert 

 

End of Year Wrap Up

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Moodle and Classwork Changes

Last week’s Moodle upgrade and Classwork changes mark the end of the changes in our Upper School digital ecosystem for this school year.  Next year sessions will be run to support the changes in Moodle, however just like your Yoga, it’s a good idea to “play” before you have to use it.

*If you wish to access the old Moodle you may do so until the end of September here.

 

Reminder x220 Tablet Return
Friday (this week!) is the deadline for x220 return.

 

Review of Innovative Learning Forum

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Sign into the Faculty/Staff MY ZIS Portal to access the latest info shared on the forum.

Tips Shared:

-How to add your schedule as your desktop background (thanks Michelle H).
-Creating an eraser on the end of the stylus (thanks Ali C).
-Outlook weather forecast in Celsius (thanks Esther d).
-Do we need a Microsoft account? Answered:) (thanks Diya and Mark D.)
-Accents (thanks Esther d and Elizabeth K)
-Password request on wake up (thanks Will S and Alison W)

Outstanding questions…please reply if you have found a solution:
-Pen pressure sensitivity

 

Fail Festival Details

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On Monday February 17th we will host a Failure Festival ask a kick off to “what’s next” for both personal and group growth.

 

How to participate 

  • Presenting a failure is optional, being an open minded respectful listener is not:)
  • If you do want to take advantage of this opportunity. Be ready to present the following in a storytelling fashion:

What was the project?
What were you trying to do?
What was the fail/where did it go wrong?
What would you do differently next time (or never again!)?
What lessons can be learned?

 

FAIL_slam format
Presentations should be no longer than 10 minutes to maximize learning and promote actionable lessons that can be embedded into future work.  Each group will have a moderator and group size will depend on the number of individuals that would like to present.  Each presentation will be “captured” on a large post it note written either before the event by the presenter or during the presentation by a scribe.

 

Ground rules

  • When presenting: 
    Maximize learning, stay away from blaming other people or factors you cannot control. No third party bashing, you must have been personally involved in the project that you present in some way.

Keep true to the storytelling style of the formate, however props or presentation slides (to be displayed on your tablet) are allowed.

  • When listening:
    Be open minded when people share what they believe to be true. Respect the process for ultimate access to collective reflection.

    Active reflection in the form or blogging and tweeting is allowed unless someone say that a presentation or parts of the presentation are off the record

 

Please strongly consider presenting a failure!  The more failures are expressed the more we can learn! Here are some great examples of failures to spark your thinking.

Failure Festival Preview

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Nice to know

On Monday, February 17th we will kick off our PD days with a Failure Festival.  Below are a few pieces of information to help shape your thinking before the event.  More details will be provided in the Friday Focus.

 

 

 

 

What is a Failure Festival?

An event where individuals share a problem that failed in a  safe, supportive and learning focused environment.

 

How to participate: 

  • Presenting a failure is optional, being an open minded respectful listener is not:)
  • If you do want to take advantage of this opportunity. Be ready to present the following in a storytelling fashion:

What was the project?
What were you trying to do?
What was the fail/where did it go wrong?
What would you do differently next time (or never again!)?
What lessons can be learned?

 

FAIL_slam format:
Presentations should be no longer than 10 minutes to maximize learning and promote actionable lessons that can be embedded into future work.  Each group will have a moderator.

 

Learn more about celebrating failure:

 

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Professional Development Ideas

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Take part in a MOOC (Starts NOW)

Free Course of Digital Citizenship for Educators  — Join the free, quasi-MOOC on digital citizenship, starting January 12, 2014 and running through the end of April. It is geared toward educators who want to understand digital citizenship’s big picture issues, as well as implementation strategies and student activities. Joining the MOOC will be Mike Ribble (Digital Citizenship in Schools), folks from CommonSense Media, Nancy Willard from Cyber Savvy and others. Students are a mix of graduate students from the Univ. of Alaska’s MEd Tech program, and members of the public, who “take the course” on their own terms. Course conversation happens in a public Google+ Community. Feel free to use the course materials for your own purposes.

Go to the course site: jasonohler.com/dcm2014 — Unless you are enrolled and pay tuition you would be part of the Circle 3 group taking the course for free.
And/or join the Google+ Community conversation: Digital Citizenship MOOC 2014

 

 

 

 

 

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