Hammond

="It's Not About the Bling: Effective Technology Integration Through An Instructional Lens", Session 1141 =

This session is about San Juan Unified School District. They have a high poverty rate (I think she might have said 59%) but a poll of their kids indicated 93.8 had the Internet at home. She says most of the students have that Internet "in their pocket".

 They have whiteboards, student response systems, iPads. First words I heard as I entered: We thought iPads would take the place of computers, but they don't.

 They had 3 Saturday sessions to work with teachers. They based their instruction on Marzano's Instructional Labs.

 They wanted to concentrate on students using the technology, not the teachers. They observed in 66 classrooms, K-12, to see where the student use of technology was. They surveyed teachers and surveyed students. They decided they weren't using technology in the right way.

 We just looked at a priceless YouTube video called iPads Everywhere. It's in German. It's about a girl who has just gotten her iPad at school and brought it home, and she's telling her father all about it. I'll have to look it up and put the URL on here.

 Re: interactive whiteboards -- students want to touch the board, they don't want to watch one or two other students touch the board. (I'd just had that discussion in our CASHS PLC a couple weeks ago. We were lamenting that whiteboards don't get all students interacting, so we don't find them to be as good a choice as having all the students on their own computers doing some kind of input.) They are going to do a summer training with teachers on how to get students interacting with each other, engaged in reflecting and/or generating ideas, not just responding to the teacher using the whiteboard.

 Students indicated they want to find their own visuals. They learn better if they have interest in the topic and if they think their teacher has an interest in what they find.

With their teacher PD, after the keynote speaker they give the teachers time to go back to work with others at their grade level and work on lessons that will let them use the new ideas. Then they share out to others in the district. A lot of teachers will come primarily to get the sharing and collaborating experience. That way they get the lessons to fit second grade or twelfth grade, even though they all heard the same keynote speech.

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=1:00, session 1206 - Mining Gems: Finding Apps that Meet Common Core Standards" = This session had a K-5 emphasis.

"Rover" will let you see Flash on an iPad.

Tools 4 Students, $.99, has 25 graphic organizers. "Has what Common Core is after." When the student touches a quadrant in the graphic organizer, it expands to fill the whole screen.

Puppet Pals HD, free version or $2.99 version. The $2.99 version lets you take a screenshot, use your finger to draw a circle around a character, and then import that character into a story. The free puppel pals version has a library of characters to use.

<span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.296875); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-collapse: collapse;">Songify. Free. Anything you speak is turned into a song, which plays over and over and over. "It will drive you crazy but the kids love it." It's one of the speaker's top 10 favorites.

<span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.296875); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-collapse: collapse;">This Weeks Words. Can get a classroom set, where you buy one app but the teacher can download it onto 30 devices.

<span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.296875); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-collapse: collapse;">Facejack. $1.99. Can import a picture and add a moustache to a kid or any such nonsense. Similar to Jib-Jab. Good for the shy student to show point of view.

<span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.296875); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-collapse: collapse;">All of this is on the PowerPoint available as a download, so I don't have to type all this.

<span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.296875); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-collapse: collapse;">"InAWorld...Drama" or "InAWorld...Comedy". She's showing things in it that she characterized as inappropriate for elementary. Half the room is howling with laughter. The rest of us aren't.

<span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.296875); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-collapse: collapse;">I'm beginning to think the room is filled with ringers or a canned laugh track.

<span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.296875); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-collapse: collapse;">"Motion Math" looks like educational fun.

<span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.296875); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-collapse: collapse;">Someone asked about apps for middle school. The speaker says there's very little for middle school, that it's heavily elementary oriented. Then she turned around and said there are some for algebra, some for science, but not much for middle school literacy.

<span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.296875); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-collapse: collapse;">Showed free "Side by Side" app that lets you see two or three Web pages side by side.

<span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.296875); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-collapse: collapse;">EduTecher

<span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.296875); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-collapse: collapse;">appitic.com (volunteered by audience member) has 1800+ edu apps

<span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.296875); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-collapse: collapse;">Another audience member suggested we look at apps for education in the Apple store.

=<span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.296875); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-collapse: collapse;">3:30, Session 1348. Project-Based Learning Meets the Common Core State Standards =

<span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.296875); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-collapse: collapse;">Speaker emphasized not trying to hit every Common Core Standard in project-based learning. Hit some, skip others. <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.296875); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-collapse: collapse;">Involves a lot of open collaboration, with each teacher not insisting on teaching only their own core subject. Let go of the control issue. Don't let the science teacher claim the "science parts" and the math teacher claim the "math parts". Each teacher needs to work on the parts that the students need. The speaker prefers to hire "generalists" who do nottry to control their specialty subject.

=<span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-collapse: collapse;">5:30, S ession 1432, "Engaging 21st Century Learners through Active Collaboration"=

What do Labrador Retrievers and rats have in common? Students discuss, then are given text to read. (Both can detect mines and therefore are useful in warfare.) Having them discuss the question first gets them engaged, more so than simply handing them a piece of paper and saying, "Read it."

Thirteen Reasons Why, by Jay Asher. Main character makes 13 cassette tapes, to send to 13 people, explaining why she's going to commit suicide. 21st Century Questioning: Does it seem reasonable that Hannah would commit suicide based on her thirteen reasons? Clay said Hannah exhibited all the signs of impending suicide. Was he right? Was Hannah fair in including Clay in her "reasons"? Write 5 questions you want to ask Hannah.

Show picture of a bug. Ask what kind it is. Our group answers were beetle, roach, bedbug, tick, louse. It was a bedbug. Then she hands out the NY Times article, "This Really Sucks". Now students will want to read as much as they can about bedbugs. Showed news article of a beegle sniffing out bedbugs. Than have students do something with their info. Make a PowerPoint, write a blog, write a letter to the editor.

Drive, by Daniel Pink. Allow students more autonomy, purpose, mastery.

Engaging Adolescents in Reading, by John T. Guthrie. Reading engagement connects to achievement more strongly than to home environoment or family background.

Have students read for understanding rather than for passing a test.

Background knowledge is critical for future understanding.

Give students choice and control over as much of their learning as possible.

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=8:30, Session 2171. Empowering Students with Web 2.0 and Social Media to Foster Student-Directed Learning=

Julie Ramsay, presenter, is doing an excellent job modeling Web 2.0. In the first 10 minutes, she's had us use her QR code on the edge of her PowerPoint homepage to get to her Web site, had us note her hashtags for our tweets about her sessions, then she's going to put those tweets into Storify. That was followed with polleverywhere. All of her 5th graders have cell phones that can text.

Julie teaches 5th graders. She uses social media to give kids a reason to learn by having them connect with other kids. They write "The Coasat to Coast Chronicles" that is written collaboratively with students on the West Coast. She uses Wikispaces because her school blocks Google. She connected with other teachers through SecondLife and through Twitter, so that's how she get her students connected with their students.

Uses VoiceThread. There's now an app for VoiceThread. Her students use Build Your Wild Self (zoo sponsored) to build avatars for themselves.

Uses Moodle. Uses Skype to get experts to volunteer to come into her classroom via Skype. (Baker, geologist, etc. Use for career studies.)

===Uses Twitter with an account made for the class. Kids tweet via their cell phones all day long about things going on in class, and questions they tweet about class subjects are usually answered within 30 minutes. When the kid gets into the parent's car after school, there's no longer silence or the answer, "Nothing", when the parent asks, "What did you do in school today?"===

Uses KidBlog. Get started in 20 seconds or less. Try "Quad Blogging", where 4 classes around the world agree to collaborate and blog about a certain topic from different designated viewpoints.

Used Comicbook! app ($1.99) for student to compose directions for how to follow the scientific method.

MuseumBox (takes about 5 days to get an application approved for a free teacher account).

Students used Weebly to make something to stop bullying at their school.

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<span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130,98,83,0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191,107,82,0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">**Session 2213, Integrating 21st Century Technology into the Differentiated Instruction Classroom**

<span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.296875);">1:00 session - presentation is saved by the trivia the presenter throws in. I like his quotes:

<span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.296875);">"There are those who play Angry Birds, and those who use Angry Birds to teach physics."

<span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.296875);">"In some places, more children have a mobile phone than have a book."

<span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.296875);">"So all these kids have cell phones. Why do we make them put it away when they get into class, only to go to the old laptops cart and spend 20 minutes trying to get on the Web?"

<span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.296875);">We need to get technology into the hands of special ed students.

<span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.296875);">Tell your students they can't use PowerPoint for their presentation, and see where they go. They'll teach themselves to use Prezi, Animoto, Nota....

<span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.296875);">99% of teachers are connected to the Internet during the day, but onlly 29% use it to teach.