Professional Development Day Presentation.

2/16/2012

Good morning Chardon! Welcome to your waiver day. Below you will find all of the information that Garth and I will present this morning. In a perfect world you would all be on your mobile devices searching, exploring, browsing and learning as we speak. If you have a smartphone with 3g please feel free to peruse the internet throughout this presentation. If you have any comments/questions/suggestions feel free to click the "comments" button in the upper right corner of this blog post or tweet directly: @Garthholman or @Professormike1. This morning Garth and I help to inspire and re-affirm your philosophical feelings concerning our profession. Our hope is that as we present you will question not only us, but yourselves. Remember Garth and I are both seventh grade social studies teachers. We understand the trials and tribulations of being a teacher; in fact we live through the same problems every day. In the end, the agents of change must be teachers.

1. Comments on Slideshow
        -Students engaged, inspired, collaborating
        -Student responses to the use of technology
        -Teacher responses to technology in the classroom
2. Sir Ken Robinson's Film Clip (TEDTalks)

3. Industrial vs. Information Age
"...multimedia technologies, which use text, audio, video, graphics and animation to communicate information, offer today's teachers a mechanism to move from a 'linear' learning environment to a 'nonlinear' environment - one which offers users interactivity, control of progress, and choice in their construction of knowledge."
-Cuper and Lambert cited in Hanover Research Council Maintaining Competitiveness in the 21st Century, 2010
-Backchannel
-21st Century Skills
-Constructionist Approach to Learning

4. Change Teaching and Learning:
    A. "Prepare students for their future not our past!" Dan Pink
  Essential Questions
    B. Collaboration
            -Google docs, Flip teaching, Diigo and learning styles
    C. Mastery--Password protected
    D. Creativity--Password protected
    E. Innovation
    F. Communication
    G. Passion

5. Questions to Think About.
    DO YOUR STUDENTS SEE YOU....
        1. problem-solve on the fly?
        2. ask other teachers for help/support?
        3. ask students to fix things, design projects?
        4. encourage trial & error without regard for points and grades?
        5. allow students to create knowledge?
        6. discussing issues within education, your frustrations and
             accomplishments in a critical and productive way?

ARE YOU PREPARING STUDENTS FOR THEIR FUTURES, NOT OUR PAST?

6. How are you Instructing?

Student created NEOtech Conference Youtubes:
Keynote Mashup
Vision of k-12 Education: NEOtech Edition

3 Comments

April

2/17/2012 12:15:59 am

Personally I appreciate you taking the time to discuss our responsibility as educators to instruct students in all aspects of education, including the use of technology. Without the knowledge of what makes a good digital footprint how can we truly utilize the "stuff" to create products that reflect the information being presented. Kudos to you and your students! It's a pleasure to know and work with both of you.

LaTeisha Ollison

4/9/2012 12:21:07 am

What an thought provoking presentation!!! I see this presentation as a self check for instructors, educators and teacher alike. I also am inspired by the student centered attitude that your questions reflect.

Michelle Nolte

2/17/2014 03:17:32 am

This presentations reaffirms the fact that teachers are also students. Although we have attained a degree, we must always be learning. In order to keep students engaged, teachers must educate themselves on what interests and motivates their students.