Connecting Kids and Collaborating Teachers

On Tuesday, I'll spend the afternoon working with colleagues as part of an initiative spearheaded by +Michael Leonard and +Katrina Gouett called "Connecting Kids and Collaborating Teachers." The goal of CKCT is to create opportunities to explore how students and teachers can collaborate and learn beyond the classroom walls.

Below is a sneak peak at my presentation, which is really the culmination of ideas that have been rattling around in my head over the past few months as I've been reading blogs and books on inquiry and project based learning as well as global competencies and approaches to teaching and learning that are student-focused.

Looking forward to learning with my colleagues on Tuesday!

Inspiration___________________________________________________________________

Documentary - “Most Likely to Succeed” Trailer

Global Competencies__________________________________________________________

“21st Century Competencies”

The 6 C’s…

1. Character
2. Citizenship
3. Communication
4. Critical Thinking
5. Collaboration
6. Creativity

Curriculum Expectations_______________________________________________________

Gr. 8 Geography

Gr. 8 Visual Arts

Gr. 8 Language

Provocation__________________________________________________________________

What do you see?

“America Today - Instruments of Power” - Mural by Thomas Hart Benton

Focus for Learning____________________________________________________________

Industrial Revolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhL5DCizj5c

• Edpuzzle: https://edpuzzle.com/

Art Deco, also called style moderne , movement in the decorative arts and architecture that originated in the 1920s and developed into a major style in western Europe and the United States during the 1930s. https://www.britannica.com/art/Art-Deco

• Thomas Hart Benton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1YLogEztHM

Digital Revolution

• “Digital transformation: are you ready for exponential change?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ystdF6jN7hc&t=1s
• “Did you know?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQFTUJK9TkI
• “We’re over the digital revolution. This is the age of experience.”
• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/02/digital-revolution-age-of-experience-books-vinyl

Other ideas???

The Project__________________________________________________________________

Curriculum, projects/assessments are vehicles to help students develop competencies:

1. Character
2. Citizenship
3. Communication
4. Critical Thinking
5. Collaboration
6. Creativity

Project Ideas:

• Research how the Industrial Revolution affected global settlement patterns, shaped Western society, culture, ???
• Re-create Benton’s mural to illustrate equivalent advances that are occurring today -- do this as a class! Small groups work together to create a section of the mural.

How technology might be used to help learning / develop competencies:

• Google Hangouts with colleagues, classes, experts (i.e. Jeannie McCarroll, visual arts teacher at SMH)
• How to use Photoshop - Handouts created by Jeannie:
• The Basics: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0QYh-HfLlPPSGF0MFJVWmR3eDdzbzBOdkIzR3IzODc2MDRz/view?usp=sharing
• Cutting and Pasting: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0QYh-HfLlPPSGlYeXdzdUlMM0pnTS1sald6cXJEbDFTT0I0/view?usp=sharing
• Students maintain a blog to document learning and publish work: www.blogger.com
• Edpuzzle allows teachers to pause and add questions to YouTube videos -- a great tool to promote conversation and the teacher can collect student responses: https://edpuzzle.com/
• Virtual field trips: Google Arts and Culture website
• Thomas Hart Benton
• Industrialization of the South
• Other ideas???