Summary of attendance

Superintendent opening speaker at Norman north opening Get FIT professional development

Marc Prenksy coined “digital native” global future ed foundation, author
Civilization level change of ed, help kids go into future as things change and advance
To help kids today think about kids tomorrow, how much will world have changed in 5-10 years Different context!! Accelerating pace of change. Students not little us’s, extended brains networked together
Eyewire game to map brain
Success in ‘current system’ academics alone not enough, two traditions: thinking and learning, master and apprentice through accomplishment. School vs work
Devices represent opportunity to empower kids to do new things

Go beyond using devices as they’re used today. “Am I taking advantage of extended brains” Trivial with traditional tasks, need new and powerful, creating apps, etc
Use technology in powerful ways Go beyond why it’s used, simple things not enough
Need real world accomplishments
Nothing builds self confidence and esteem as accomplishment
Ed moving less on academics more on accomplishment to get things done in the world
TRICK trust respect independence collaboration kindness
Make students more powerful, need new education to empower them and give broader range of skills
Learning to becoming. Bettering yourself to bettering world. Passion to applied passion.
We don’t know what’s coming to we’re prepared for anything
Recommendation: use new tech to create real project in every class

Brought a variety of students on stage, asks questions to understand student thought

Workshop 1: The right question: developing student driven inquiry questions for secondary students through guided inquiry

Students asking own questions, tricky but beneficial when led properly
Setup for success when guiding students to guided inquiry (can be similar to 5 E learning cycle)

build background knowledge, provide recourses to inform questions, purposefully expose them to related topic, question as they go (how what why) to help toward choosing question to pursue, encourage overall questions (write it down), pursue students own avenue of interest, Recap online resource. Structure for questioning; gathering, processing, applying — aim for leval 3, rightquestion.org questions formulation technique question: how does energy production compare between lightning and waterfall? - open ended

Scaffolding questions and reluctant questioners. Hold on of outlining project until question has been created so no complacency from the start, build on level 1 questions, frustraton is ovetwhelming so be sure expectation of level 3 question is present, will take revision, accommodate with software such as flip grid to access student question, make sure not to give question to student t hey must come up with it

Workshop 2: motivation type speaker of how to better life. getting things done, getting clear; ‘psychic ram’ Important to mind sweet, dump stuff for clarity
Writing down what on my mind of stuff to get done to clear it; study study, clean, workout, test, homework, sleep, sleep, Dallas.
Reduce likely causes of anxiety such as built up messages
Organizational electronic help through websites and apps
Mono-tasking vs multitasking- not really true actually task-switching; decreases productivity by as much as 40% 

I attended one of the last professional developments called iPad Moviemaking Magic, hosted by Eman Beck. I learned so much from this session that I believe will help me as a teacher and even as a continuing student myself. At first, I thought we would just be going over how to use iMovie, but that is not all we did. Eman gave us many different examples of moviemaking apps that are really awesome, including: iMovie, Clips, Adobe Sparks, Action Movie, Toontastic, VideoScribe, and more. She also showed us how to use these with app-smashing to create awesome videos. I found this session to be extremely helpful!

Teacher Tech Tips Workshop Online 

This series explored innovative tools, tips, and concepts available to educators. The workshop goes over different practices for using various websites, and technologies in relation to education.  

Different websites: 

CK-12 = provides equal access to education content to everyone which is customizable and available online. It allows you to create online textbooks for free. This could be beneficial in the classroom because of the amount of information that the website has on different subjects. 

TED-Ed = provides lessons that have already been created about all kinds of subjects. Each lesson has a video that goes with it, TED-Ed pairs with educators and animators, voice actors and others that make the video professional and engaging. On the side of each video there are options to engage by taking quizzes, look at additional resources, and create a discussion. You can also make your own lessons based on different videos. This tool was an interesting one to learn about because of the engaging videos. This could be used in any classroom and the students would be engaged.  

PledgeCents = dedicated towards raising money for k-12 schools. You first create a video, then your share your story, and explain why you need the material and money. This is similar to donors choose and either are beneficial for any educator. 

Illuminations = website from the national counsel of teachers of mathematics. There is an option to filter out the options. There are different standards to choose from. There are a lot of resources to choose from such as interactive (activities), and brain teasers. These are a way to start off the class with the students. It shows examples of critical thinking. This was a great website for math. I would use this as an activity before class if it was age appropriate. 

Changing your browser = clear browsing data is a good idea to do when your browser is being slow. it allows you to learn passwords, autofill form data, hosted app data, and content licenses as well as history, cookies, and so on. You can change the appearance and the website that it opens on, as well as the search engine. I just experienced a slow browser issue and learning about this was very convenient because I was able to follow the instruction and clear my browser, making my computer so much faster. This will help me now and in the future.  

WhiteSmoke = a website that analyzes text and corrects it if there are mistakes in it. It could get pricy but it is very beneficial. There are also different templates you can use. There are tutorials and translators options. It definitely is a website I wish I would have known about during the week of a 26 page paper being due. However, I will use this to proof read my future newsletters and emails as a teacher.  

Amazon.com = critical thinking skill tool, shopping challenge, assign a toaster or whatever other thing, tell students to review different toaster and come up with a conclusion as to why they chose their toaster. This is a unique way to teach critical thinking skills. I believe it would be very engaging for students because they would want to choose the best option with the best explanation. 

Keynote/Powerpoint = adding actions to image or shapes, making the presentation more engaging. Teaches you how to make a jeopardy game on powerpoint. This is great I have always wondered how those were made. I would use this in the classroom for sure. 

AmazonKindle = great reading app that allows you to customize the book you are reading. You could get many different books at a low price and free. This is a great app that is similar to iBooks but these books are cheaper and I could use it to store books when I am a teacher. 

Audible = an app that allows you to purchase audio books at a low price. It gives you a free trail, and a free book. I would use this in the classroom to help ELL. 

Office Mix = is an add on for powerpoint. It allows you to turn a powerpoint into an engaging flipped classroom video for students. You can record your voice, add quizzes that students interact with, and different apps. This is a great tool to use if students missed a class and need the material. It is as if the students were in class. 

Digital footprint = googling themselves to find out what kind of footprint they are leaving on the internet. This was an activity we did during class that I thought was great because it makes you aware and knowledgeable about how you are looking like online. 

Google Classroom = allows you to go paperless. It lets you create a classroom where you upload assignments where your student turn in those assignments. We also learned about this app in class, it is easy to use for both sides. 

Closed Captions to Videos = is a feature that makes learning accessible to all students. YouTube has a feature for CC for every video. On your YouTube account, you can upload a video and add CC by editing it and adding subtitles, if there are mistakes, you can edit them and over right the subtitles. This would be a great tool to use in a classroom because as I mentioned it makes learning accessible to every student. 

Vocabulary.com = helps improve vocabulary by providing features such as games, quizzes, and dictionary about any word. You can create your own list or use the lists that have been shared. This would be fun to use in the classroom when you have a vocabulary list you want to your students to learn at home, because they can practice them easier at home if they have a device. 

I learned that there are many ways to take my student's projects global, which is great, because I want my students to work collaboratively. I also learned that it takes some work to actually translate this global awareness into physical action. 

This webinar went into detail about the apps Scratch Jr. and PBS Scratch Jr. - these are both apps used to help introduce and teach children how to code.  PBS Scratch Jr. uses the characters from PBS that children are already familiar with and it is only available for iPad and android tablets.  Scratch Jr. on the other hand, is available for amazon fire and chrome books as well.  Shelly Fryer, the leader of the webinar, said that you should teach coding because it is engaging for students while they learn and have fun.  This app allows them to create their own games and characters rather than just following coding steps and working through different levels; the students become the creators and are allowed to use their imaginations to create complex games and characters.  This webinar was cool because we got to see examples of Sherry's own students in her coding club, and we got to see how they each navigated through the app differently.

The main focus of this workshop was monitoring your own progress as a teacher. It talked about several different assessment and teaching techniques, gave lots of self-assessment tips, and provided a space for participants to interact with each other. 

The Topic of the webinar was: Digital Age Teaching and Learning. It was host by Oklahoma State Department of Ed and it took place on Tuesday, November 28, 2017 3:00 pm. The webinar was all about  teaching of coding in classroom. The purpose of the webinar was to prepare teachers to teach coding using code.org. We had a tour aver the website and also we were showed the steps to create an account and begin our coding experience. So the speaker was all the time enfasazing that everyone can learn computer science and learn to code. She was focused in on six steps for effectively teaching using code.org: Plan, Promote, Prepare, Inspire, Code, and Celebrate. After I saw how to join this coding community, I am now using it as a student and absolutely thinking about it for my future teaching, I think that this technology is very useful and the creative thinking/problem solving will inspire students to learn. 

During this webinar Wesley Fryer showed us how to use the app, Scratch. Yesterday I watched a webinar that was about Scratch Jr. so this was extremely interesting to watch. Although Scratch is for older children I think that it was great to see an extended version of Scratch Jr. I learned how to create games and to code more complexly versus yesterday. Wesley even showed us how to use it for younger students. As a future teacher I could use this for students who are more advanced and need something more challenging than Scratch Jr. I could also use this if I end up teaching older elementary grades. I really liked how Wesley also explained how Scratch relates to the future of the world that we live in. Using Scratch helps prepare kids for learning how to use algorithms to create things. The coolest thing about Scratch is that it is browser based so that means you can use it on any kind of computer with any kind of browser.

This webinar focused around the teaching of coding in the classroom. Specifically, the webinar focused in on preparing teachers to teach coding utilizing code.org. The speaker focused in on six steps for effectively teaching using code.org: Plan, Promote, Prepare, Inspire, Code, and Celebrate. It's important that you make a plan for creating a seminar in which you're going to teach coding. Without a proper plan, it's easy to get overwhelmed and bogged down in the sheer volume of programs and activities code.org presents. It's also important that you promote your workshop so that you actually have attendees. The webinar spent some time going over promotional strategies. Then, you need to prepare, which is the most important step. You need to appear confident and capable to your audience, and properly preparing accomplishes this. Then, during the lesson, you need to inspire students with the value of coding, and then code. Lastly, you should celebrate that you've achieved this task. One of the perks of coding is that you can differentiate the curriculum through coding grades. Additionally, you do not need to be a practicing teacher to attend most of the workshops code.org and its affiliates host. 

This webinar was similar to the coding.org webinar that I attended. In this webinar by Shelly Fryer, we learned about Scratch Jr., a coding app. Shelly talked about how the app is meant for kids from 6-8, but she said that she has also used it for older and younger kids. You get to do the same things as you do in coding.org (moving, jumping, etc.) but you can also have characters send messages to one another and create your own characters. Shelly showed us a lot of awesome videos of her students using Scratch Jr. to create stories of their choice. I asked how a teacher could implement this in a special education classroom and she talked about engagement and how all students can use it, and it doesn't require any background knowledge. You could use it for several topics surrounding language arts. She mentioned coding spelling tests, which I thought was super interesting. 

This webinar talked about ways that teachers can incorporate anti-bias activities in the classroom. I learned about how team-building activities are very important when creating a positive classroom climate. I got to observe videos of example activities to do in the classroom to promote anti-bias learning and activities. Also, I got more information on where to find activities and help when dealing with these issues in the classroom. Venn-diagrams were one of the examples that they showed during this webinar. They are good for helping students find similarities and differences between each other. The hosts of the webinar used themselves and their lives as an example venn-diagram. Using activities to get the students talking and finding out the differences between each other is a great way for them to learn respect and feel comfortable with one another. By having your students participate in these activities, you are allowing them to make their own connections with other students. They also get the students to understand other cultures and learn more about the differences that they may have with their classmates. There are four goals of anti-bias education and those are identity, diversity, justice, and action. Identity is when each student shows pride in their own family and customs. Diversity is when the students begin to learn about correct ways to talk about the differences they notice and learn about other cultures and lifestyles. Justice is when the students learn about the unfairness that happens when it comes to diversity and learn how to discuss that unfairness. Action is when the students learn about how to take action against those unfair actions that are placed on people of diverse backgrounds. The activities and ideas discussed in this webinar are very helpful because it shows you how you can better allow your students to discuss their differences and be comfortable with those differences. I will use this as an educator by applying some of the activities that I learned in morning meeting or whole group times when necessary. I like learning about ways to get my students to learn about their classmates and respect the differences that they all have. 

This workshop was an interactive workshop that walked us through a aerospace classroom activity. The activity had us use telescopes of various kinds (not real ones, but a make shift kind as a simulation) to determine if a planet is possible to sustain life. Our group had a planet that may sustain life or had some good mineral deposits. It was a fast paced lab, but it would definitely work well with some adapted items for different types of classrooms.