Our PBS course concluded last night and, even after 12 years of course facilitation, I miss you all.
Here, I make my pitch for dedicated educators, parents (and especially parents who are educators!) to get very involved in your local school politics. The school board, the local teacher representation board, the local PTA are excellent ways to navigate your local education system and provide your expertise.
All: please consider yourself nominated by me, for your next level of educational service!!
Happy Digital Learning Day! Digital Learning Day was created in 2012. This year, 2018, is the 7th annual occurrence. There are over 1500 events occurring in celebration of digital learning and computer-mediated instruction. The focus and activities center around this essential question: How technology can enhance student learning?
There was an engaging and dynamic webinar today. I am so glad to have spent my lunchtime attending this webinar. You can see my tweets and the tweets of other attendees at the following hashtag: #DLDayWebinar
If you missed the#DLDaywebinar, Digital Learning Day 2018: Blending Teaching and Technology to Improve Student Outcomes, you can watch it here on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1FxcZX5DQr0
Digital Learning Day is a “safe place for educators to try something new with technology” ~ Tom Murray, webinar moderator
Great example from a teacher’s lesson plan is a QR-code to log miles
Transformational technology
What I love that I’m learning
Systemic process
Adapt on the fly
Challenges:
Stagnant feeling when you want to do something
What is Step 1?- start to break the (thought) paralysis
Performance-based learning is distinctly different from online learning
“It’s not about us-it’s about the kids-student autonomy emerges”- Joe Vagt
“Academic urgency is for students vs teacher-centered instruction” ~Nikolaus Namba, @NikNamba
“Be thoughtful about the norms and culture you create” ~Tom Murray
Stop Waiting!
Cyclical progress of program assessment-students working in blended modalities with their families
Not a digital worksheet storage hub by a high-quality culture of innovation ~Tom Murray
Lagging metric tools layer ~
1st start measuring steps focus on implementation metrics – implementation leading metrics
student voice metric and also lagging metric tools. ~ Beth Rabbitt
Regarding the use of devices- ask “what are the coalition of the willing” ~Tom Arnett
(Agree!) I am fully of the belief that our 5 & 6 year-old learners can do anything (with technology) that our high school learners can do. ~ Nikolaus Namba, @NikNamba
Under the mental processes that our learners are using as they encounter and as they come up with their solutions
Beyond a Digital Divide to a Digital Use Divide
Active use vs. consumption use
Tomorrow is Digital Learning Day across the country and Hardin-Simmons University, where I am interim instructional designer, received an online shout-out and website placement for our Canvas Cowboy Innovator Event. “Digital Learning Day is a day to celebrate the great things that digitally happen EVERY Day in classrooms around our country. It is NOT about using digital tools for one day.” -From a DLDay Twitter post. #Edtechchat#DLDay
Ben Orlin @benorlin (#mathwithbadhashtags) has one of the most delightful and humorous blogs. Orlin’s blog is called Math with Bad Drawings. For Valentine’s Day, Orlin has showcased his talents with his funny perspective on Valentine’s Day from a mathematicians’ point of view. Click on the link below to smile a little bit more this Valentine’s Day.
I could feel feel the energy and excitement rising in the room whenever participants could see a short road between a late afternoon workshop an a concrete and positive change that they could make in their classes the next morning
New federal data show continued growth in online course taking in 2016, even as overall college enrollments were flat or falling. Big gainers: Western Governors and Arizona State. Big losers: the big for-profits.
Our PBS course concluded last night and, even after 12 years of course facilitation, I miss you all.
