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Rigorous Learning with 21 st -Century Technology: Are Your Students Doing The Heavy Lifting?

Rigorous Learning with 21 st -Century Technology: Are Your Students Doing The Heavy Lifting?. Kristin Fontichiaro blog.schoollibrarymedia.com font@umich.edu @ activelearning. Share Your Ideas: Twitter Hashtag #aisd. My Lens: Where I’m Coming From An Unfocused Lens: The Dizzying Choices

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Rigorous Learning with 21 st -Century Technology: Are Your Students Doing The Heavy Lifting?

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  1. Rigorous Learning with 21st-Century Technology:Are Your Students Doing The Heavy Lifting? Kristin Fontichiaro blog.schoollibrarymedia.com font@umich.edu @activelearning

  2. Share Your Ideas:Twitter Hashtag #aisd

  3. My Lens:Where I’m Coming From • An Unfocused Lens:The Dizzying Choices • Refocusing Our Lens: What Do We Mean by Rigor? • Testing Our Lens: Student Work Samples • Sharpening Our Lens:Retooling for Rigor • Sharing Our Lens: Our To-Do List with Staff Today’s Road Map

  4. My Lens

  5. School Librarian /Staff Developer • From Lab to Laptops • Pressures on Classrm.Teachers • Anxiety About “Looking Good” • Limited time for Deep Work • Work Smarter, Not Harder • Author / Blogger • Inquiry • What Am I Willing to Disclose Online? • How much Process vs. Product Am I Comfortable Sharing Online? • What is My Future Art Form Going to Look Like? • Clinical Assistant Professor, UM School of Information • P-I-T • Who is the 21st-Century Schl. Librarian? • Meaningful Instructional Design • Guiding Principles for Tech Adoption • Meaningful Instructional Design • Summer Adjunct, UM School of Education • Guiding Principles for Tech Adoption • Technology Best Practices • Tchr & Student Metacognition

  6. An Unfocused Lens:Dizzying Choices

  7. The Web 2.0 Candy Store FREE! FREE! FREE!

  8. Refocusing Our Lens:What Do We Mean By Rigor?

  9. It’s so easy to make things look fancy… …that sometimes we credit students what programmers behind the scenes have actually facilitated. (Little input > Big output) Fancy Nancy (O’Connor)

  10. Twitter Parade http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iNyt1ywrbQ

  11. But let’s look behind the scenes…

  12. And sometimes, our students expend a disproportionate amount of e-effort over knowledge-building. (BIG INPUT > LITTLE OUTPUT>

  13. My Explorers Report My Explorers Report!!!!!!! By Kristin Fontichiaro By Kristin Fontichiaro

  14. Christopher Columbus was born in 1461.

  15. He was born in Italy. HOME OF PIZZA!!!!!!! YUM!!!!

  16. He had three boats: Nina Pinta Santa Maria

  17. He discoveredAMERICA!!!

  18. He died in 1506. It was sad.

  19. THE END

  20. Balance? TIME FOR TECHNOLOGY TIME FOR RESEARCH & THINKING

  21. So Many Visions! STATE STANDARDS http://www.flickr.com/photos/34926381@N08/3345848890

  22. Where’s the Beef? How Do We Know Rigor When We See It?

  23. You can’t just • push away • the uncertainties; • you have topush through • them.” • Jeff Stanzler

  24. So I started pushing ….

  25. Why is she showing us this? Got me. With apologies to Mo Willems: http://pigeonpresents.com/data/interiorspreadls/eleph_pig_fly_spread_lg.jpg

  26. Content / Curriculum Decontextualized Teacher-Directed Authentic Rigorous Learning with Technology Student-Centered Informated(Value-Added) Synthesis Automated Retelling (with thanks to Roberta Sibley, Laurie Olmsted, Jeff Stanzler, and Raya Samet for contributing their feedback!)

  27. Testing Our LensStudent Work Samples

  28. Sofia’s Animal Report (embedded video removed for Web archive of this presentation) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vp8w1zByAs

  29. Content / Curriculum Decontextualized Teacher-Directed Authentic Rigorous Learning with Technology Student-Centered Informated(Value-Added) Synthesis Automated Retelling (with thanks to Roberta Sibley, Laurie Olmsted, Jeff Stanzler, and Raya Samet for contributing their feedback!)

  30. Hamlet: The Search for Revenge (embedded video removed for Web archive of this presentation) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J31y1zztt5o

  31. Content / Curriculum Decontextualized Teacher-Directed Authentic Rigorous Learning with Technology Student-Centered Informated(Value-Added) Synthesis Automated Retelling (with thanks to Roberta Sibley, Laurie Olmsted, Jeff Stanzler, and Raya Samet for contributing their feedback!)

  32. Glogster Example – Grade 6http://stppx95.edu.glogster.com/the-watsons-go-to-birmingham-1963/

  33. Content / Curriculum Decontextualized Teacher-Directed Authentic Rigorous Learning with Technology Student-Centered Informated(Value-Added) Synthesis Automated Retelling (with thanks to Roberta Sibley, Laurie Olmsted, Jeff Stanzler, and Raya Samet for contributing their feedback!)

  34. Sharpening Our LensRetooling for Rigor

  35. RE-FOCUS yourself as an instructional design leader

  36. Procedures Stretch Our Role Products Process

  37. GO ZEN: Embrace the Realities of What Students Use and Need

  38. PRODUCTS.

  39. Sharing Our LensOur To-Do List with Staff

  40. Your Staff Meeting To-Do List • Database Review: • Be pragmatic: don’t talk“expert resources” vs.“amateur” • Differentiation • Efficiency

  41. I like me some I just wanna

  42. Your Staff Meeting To-Do List • Tour Google Tools • Search Strategies • Wonderwheel • Timeline • News • RSS Feeds • Reader • Scholar • Books

  43. Quick Google Strategies:A 5’ Staff Mtg. Demo • Better searches • More words. Then again, fewer words. • Synonyms/keywords: pull from expert resources • Quotation marks • Better scanning of results • Personal Web sites (~) • Domain extensions • Think before you click (remember dial-up?)

  44. Your Staff Meeting To-Do List • Stop Demonizing Wikipedia • Emphasizehistory,citations,reading level

  45. Wikipedia: A 5’ Overview • 8 of 10 college students say they use it (Project Information Literacy, 2010) • College kids look to TEACHERS to identify good sources and to LIBRARIANS for navigation strategies • Wikipedia’s editors are down 20,000 from its peak (USA Today) • Is crowd-sourcing still working?

  46. Wikipedia: Sticking My Neck Out • They use it … but should they? And for what? • Beware information overload • Average picture book: less than 800 words • Giraffe Wikipedia entry: 3150 words, 12 single-spaced pages

  47. Wikipedia: Sticking My Neck Out The giraffe (Giraffacamelopardalis) is an African even-toed ungulate mammal, the tallest of all land-living animal species, and the largest ruminant.

  48. Giraffe I have no idea what that means. Hope the teacher doesn’t notice. • African • even-toed • ungulate • mammal • tallest of all land-living animal species • largest ruminant. The giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) is an Africaneven-toed ungulatemammal, the tallest of all land-living animalspecies, and the largest ruminant.

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