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Learning Landscapes Seminar

Learning Landscapes Seminar. The Knowledge Building Center: A Foundational Element of the Virtual Learning Commons David V. Loertscher Professor, San Jose State University Reader.david@gmail.com. School Libraries and Computer Labs: Transform into a Learning Commons. The Major Switch.

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Learning Landscapes Seminar

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  1. Learning Landscapes Seminar The Knowledge Building Center: A Foundational Element of the Virtual Learning Commons David V. Loertscher Professor, San Jose State University Reader.david@gmail.com

  2. School Libraries and Computer Labs: Transform into a Learning Commons

  3. The Major Switch

  4. Virtual Learning Commons • A giant conversation • A collaborative workspace • A place of experimentation • Knowledge Building Centers as its foundational elements

  5. KBC Characteristic: Easy to Build and Use • Google Sites; Moodle; Wiki; Blog; Google Aps Education

  6. KBC Characteristic: Collaborative Inquiry • Everyone working, building, contributing, developing, solving… • Classroom teachers, students, teacher librarians, teacher technologists, other specialists, experts, parents

  7. KBC Characteristic: Personal Expertise and Collaborative Intelligence

  8. KBC Characteristic: 21st Century Skills Drive Content Understanding

  9. KBC Characteristic: Specialists at the Center of Teaching and Learning

  10. KBC Uses • Single-class explorations • Cross-class inquiry • Cross-district, community, state, world inquiry • School projects/initiatives • Professional development • Professional learning communities

  11. Kamiliah Jackson’s VLCDocumented Evidence Loertscher and Koechlin 2009

  12. The Parade of KBCs Loertscher and Koechlin 2009

  13. Marzano’siObservation Model Marzano, Robert, Peggy Schooling, Michael Toth/ Creating an Aligned System to Develop Great Teachers Within the Federal Race to The Top Initiative Solution Tree, 2010 (Based on Marzano’sThe Art and Science of Teaching)

  14. Sound Instructional Design • UBD (Wiggins and McTighe) • Think Models (Loertscher/Koechlin/Zwaan) • The best technologies that boost learning • Co-Teaching by classroom teachers, teacher technologists, teacher librarians, and other specialists.

  15. End with:The Big Think • Why? • What it is. • Activity 1: What I know; What we know about content • Activity 2: How I learned this; How we learned this • Conclusion: So what? What’s Next? • Activity 3 (with adults) What they learned; How they learned it. So what? What’s next? • Help: Nin strategies for Big Think Activities from: Loertscher/Koechlin/Zwaan. The Big Think (LMCsource.com) • Important: Have administrators participate!

  16. Who is Assessing?

  17. What’s Ahead?Make Connections • State / Provincial / National Documents and Initiatives: • Ontario and Alberta documents • Common Core Standards: U.S. National Governor’s Conference • State initiatives such as Ohio’s Learning Commons

  18. More Connections: • Tune to great ideas through great professional books: • Will Richardson’s 3rd ed. of Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms. Corwin Press, 2010 • Bernie Trilling and Charles Fadel’s21st century Skills: Learning for Life in our Times. Josey Bass, 2009 • Robert Marzano, ed. On Excellence in Teaching. Solution Tree, 2009. • Alan November’s Empowering Students with Technology. Corwin, 2009

  19. Even More Connections • Create your own personal learning network • Joyce Valenza’s blog and ning • David Warlick’s blog • The Blue Skunk blog by Doug Johnson • ISTE Sig Webinars • Free Technology for Teachers – Richard Byrne • Schoollearningcommons.pbworks.com

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