Deb Pickering at Oakland Schools March 2012 Am I Interested? Is this important?

1. Deb Pickering at Oakland Schools March 2012 Am I Interested? Is this important?

2. Model of Attention and Engagement

3. Model of Attention and Engagement Emotions: How do I feel? Interest: Am I interested? Importance: Is this important? Efficacy: Can I do this?

4. Strategies • Use effective pacing. • Incorporate physical movement. • Demonstrate intensity and enthusiasm. • Use humor. • Build positive teacher-student and peer relationships. • Use games and inconsequential competition. • Initiate friendly controversy. • Present unusual information. • Question to increase response rates. Strategies • Connect to students’ lives. • Connect to students’ life ambitions. • Encourage application of knowledge. • Provide choice. • Track and study progress. • Use effective verbal feedback. • Provide examples of self-efficacy. • Teach self-efficacy.

5. Efficacy: Strategies Emotion: Strategies • Use effective pacing. • Incorporate physical movement. • Demonstrate intensity and enthusiasm. • Use humor. • Build positive teacher-student and peer relationships. • Track and study progress. • Use effective verbal feedback. • Provide examples of self-efficacy. • Teach self-efficacy.

6. Model of Attention and Engagement Interest: Am I interested? Importance: Is this important?

7. Interest: Am I interested?

8. Interest: Am I interested? • Use games and inconsequential competition. • Initiate friendly controversy. • Present unusual information. • Question to increase response rates.

9. Interest: Am I interested? • Use games and inconsequential competition. • Vocabulary games • Turning questions into games

10. Effects of Games and Game-like Activities on Student Achievement

11. Vocabulary Games Talk a Mile a Minute--Nonlinguistic

12. Famous people Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Marie Curie 1 3 2 Napoleon Bonaparte Vincent Van Gogh 5 Muhammad Ali Condoleezza Rice 6 4 7

13. Famous people Mahatma Gandhi George Clooney 1 Nelson Mandela 2 3 Osama bin Laden 7 Mother Teresa Martin Luther King Princess Diana 4 5 6

14. 3 2 India 1 Australia United Kingdom 5 4 Spain Sweden Afghanistan 6 Countries of the World 7 Turkey

15. Math Terms 6/12 1/3 3/4 14/16 Diameter or Radius Fractions Percent 3 1 2 6 Hypotenuse Pentagon 5 Octagon 4 Pie Chart 7

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17. Turning questions into games

18. Other sources of games: • Games made up by teachers and students • Software and on-line adaptations of traditional games • Video games—general or developed for specific content

19. Video Games in the Classroom? What the Research is Telling Us by John Rice A teacher’s experience in the classroom with the video game Civilization: The teacher explained that “students were intrigued with ‘what if’ questions they were able to pose through the simulation.” For example, they asked, “What if historically weak civilizations were to become global superpowers? What would it take to get them there?”

20. Video Games in the Classroom? What the Research is Telling Us by John Rice Article downloaded December, 2010 from http://www.eduquery.com/papers/Rice/techedge/Video_Games_in_the_Classroom.pdf Note: Article was originally published in the Winter, 2005 TechEdge, the quarterly journal of the Texas Computer Education Association. The teacher ... observed that “students engaging in the game often referenced traditional materials for help.” “Rather than replace textbooks and other paper-based learning materials, the game encouraged students to consult them, and use them to gain knowledge for the sake of the game.”

21. Video Games in the Classroom? What the Research is Telling Us by John Rice • Other findings: • In math classes, students with the games completed three times as many practice problems as the control groups. • Students in experimental groups using video games showed higher motivation and post-test scores. • Researchers “surveyed close to 2000 people in business and discovered positive links toward • work attitudes, • willingness to take risks, and • problem solving • among professionals who grew up playing video games versus those who did not.”

22. Interest: Am I interested? • Initiate friendly controversy. • Class vote • Debate model • Town hall meeting • Legal model • Perspective analysis • Use games and inconsequential competition. • Initiate friendly controversy. • Present unusual information. • Question to increase response rates.

23. Initiate friendly controversy.

24. Open-ended Controversy Study: Grades 5/6, Discussions of controversial topic Interest in topic? Study time? Likely to visit library to get additional information? Attendance at film on the topic shown at recess? 18% 45% Note: This was reported in Chip and Dan Heath’s book, Made to Stick. Citation for original article: Lowry, N., & Johnson, D. W. (1981). Effects of controversy on epistemic curiosity, achievement, and attitudes; Journal of Social Psychology, Vol 115(1) Oct 1981, 31-43.

25. If a Viking and a Samurai had a battle, who would win? A. Viking B. Samurai Be ready to defend answer in terms of the culture, technology, mission, and the role in society of the warriors.

26. The 1960s Decade • If you worked for Time Magazine and had to choose a “Person of the Decade” for the 1960’s, who would you select? • Martin Luther King, Jr. B. John F. Kennedy • C. The Beatles D. Lyndon Johnson

27. Which character would you most like to have as a friend from Charlotte’s Web? Be ready to discuss the character • traits that influenced your decision. • Wilbur • Charlotte • Templeton

28. National Geographic • Could an asteroid crashing into Earth wipe out the human race? • Yes • I think so • I don’t think so • No way

29. and a Samurai If a Viking had a battle, who would win? A. Viking B. Samurai Robert MacDougall Blog (robmacdougall.org) /

30. Sam made the following scores on unit tests for the term: 92, 92, 15, 65, 77, 92 Sam's teacher said that his grade would be based on the mean of his grades. Sam argued that his grade should be based on the median score of his grades. Sam’ parents argued for the mode. Which do you think best reflects Sam's work for the term? Be ready to explain your answer. A. Mean B. Median C. Mode D. Other(be ready to explain)

31. Perspective analysis Teaching the process of perspective analysis • Identify your position on a controversial topic. • Determine the reasoning behind your position. • Identify an opposing position. • Describe the reasoning behind the opposing position. • When you have finished, summarize what you have learned.

33. Troops to Afghanistan I believe it was wrong to send in more troops. It was, and still is, the right thing to do. The decision was fine; setting a pull-out date made it wrong.

34. Interest: Am I interested? • Present unusual information. • Introducing a lesson • Allowing students to research and collect interesting facts • Inviting guest speakers • Use games and inconsequential competition. • Initiate friendly controversy. • Present unusual information. • Question to increase response rates.

35. Dr. Seuss Dr. Seuss’ real name was Theodor Geisel. He was not a doctor, but his father had always wanted him to be one. His first book was rejected by 27 publishers before it was finally published. A man named Bennett Cerf bet Dr. Seuss $50 that he could not write a book that had only 50 words. That is how we got the book, Green Eggs and Ham.

36. Math In a group of 23 people, at least two have the same birthday with the probability greater than ½. 12+3-4+5+67+8+9=100 There exists at least one other representation of 100 with 9 digits in the right order and math operations in between.

37. What a Slice of Pi! As of 2005, the greatest calculation of pi has been done by Professor YasumasaKanada and a team of researchers who set a new world record by calculating the value of pi to 1.24 trillion places (that's 1,240,000,000,000). A Strange Prime Number! The prime number 73,939,133 has a very strange property. If you keep removing a digit from the right hand end of the number, each of the remaining numbers is also prime. It's the largest number known with this property.

38. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 • Pick any 3 digit number. (682) • Write this number backwards and subtract the smaller number from the other. (682 - 286 = 396) • Take this answer and again invert it. (693) • Add your answer in 1. to the answer in 2. (396 + 693 = 1089) • You will always get either 0 or 1089.

39. Unit: National Economics (GNP, national debt, deficit, etc.) LearningGoal: Students developing and understanding of: The national debit is measured in trillions of dollars. What's the difference between a million, a billion, and a trillion? A million seconds is 12 days. A billion seconds is 31 years. A trillion seconds is 31,688 years

40. How to Tax the Rich Try giving them perks and privileges in return, says Dilbert creator Scott Adams The rich– Top 2% Three Bad ideas: Give them Time, Power, Gratitude Bad idea #2-Gratitude: The rich pay more taxes but anyone who applies for social services only receives the service after writing a thank you note to a nearby rich person—the government will keep track of who has not received one lately. Bad idea #1- Time: The rich pay more in taxes but they get to drive in carpool lanes, and they are served first at all government offices, like the Department of Motor Vehicles. Bad idea #3-Power: The rich pay more taxes but they get two votes per election.

41. Present unusual information.

42. 2 3 1 “Let’s Make a Deal” problem There is a car behind one of three doors; there is a goat behind each of the other two. The game show host invites you to pick a door. Once you've picked a door, he opens one of the OTHER two doors to show you there is a goat behind that one.

43. 1 3 • So far, so good. Now he gives you a choice. Before he opens the next door, you can keep your original guess or change your guess. • Which is the wisest course of action? • Keep your original guess–odds are better • Change your guess–odds are better • It does not matter; your odds are the same either way

44. 1 3 • So far, so good. Now he gives you a choice. Before he opens the next door, you can keep your original guess or change your guess. • Which is the wisest course of action? • Keep your original guess–odds are better • Change your guess–odds are better • It does not matter; your odds are the same either way B. Change your guess—odds are better

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46. Interest: Am I interested? • Question to increase response rates. • Calling on students randomly • Paired response • Wait time • Response chaining • Choral response • Simultaneous individual responses • Use games and inconsequential competition. • Initiate friendly controversy. • Present unusual information. • Question to increase response rates.

47. Question to increase response rates. • Simultaneous individual responses Analog

48. Question to increase response rates. • Simultaneous individual responses • Hand signals • Response cards/boards

49. Question to increase response rates. • Simultaneous individual responses Digital

50. Question to increase response rates. • Simultaneous individual responses Clickers