PD Session Way Elementary

Way Elementary Tuesday, March 1st 9am-12pm Leigh Graves Wolf (& Punya Mishra, in spirit) Michigan State University Master of Arts in Educational Technology (MAET) Program

National Educational Technology Plan, 2010

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National Educational Technology Plan, 2010

sticky notes

Technology & Education

Technology & Education

What do teachers need to know?

Creativity

Creativity

in teaching

Creativity

in teaching with technology

What do teachers need to know?

Technology

Pedagogy

Content

Context

d n a , e c n ie c s a is y g lo o h c y Ps teaching is an art...

~ William James

d n a , e c n ie c s a is y g lo o h c y Ps teaching is an art... arts te a er en g er ev n s ce n ie sc d n a ... n directly out of themselves. A kes the a m d in m e v ti en v in ry ia ed interm . ty li a in g ri o g n si u y b n o ti ca li app ~ William James

Creativity

Challenges

Challenges

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Creativity workshops & seminars

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Little Miss Sunshine

9 step plan

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In small groups Share examples of artful or creative teaching from your own student experience (doesn’t have to be big) 2 minutes & share

What is common to these examples?

Attributes: (keeping track of examples)

What do teachers need to know about

Educational Technology?

What is an Educational Technology?

What is an Educational Technology?

There is no such thing

The problem

Most technologies are NOT designed for education!

But

Users redefine technologies

Why is this important?

Only repurposing makes a technology an educational technology..

Repurposing is a creative & innovative act

Some examples!

Audacity, in a math classroom?

Echoes from the moon http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.3367

Distance to moon

Girlanda, L. (2009). Echoes from the moon. arXiv:0903.3367v1 [physics.ed-ph]. Retrieved April 1, 2008, from http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.3367v1

Explore | Create | Share Creative play with ed tech

Sparks of Creativity, wiki

Technology

Pedagogy

Content

Context

What is

creativIT y?

I know it when I see it!

(Justice Potter Steward 1964)

Creativity

Creativity

Novel

Fresh, unusual, unique, surprising, startling, astonishing, astounding, germinal, trendsetting, radical, revolutionary, influential, pioneering‌

Effective

Valuable, important, significant, essential, necessary, logical, sensible, relevant, appropriate, adequate, effective, functional, operable, useful, user-friendly

ts! o p a e t s ’ n a Don Norm

Whole

Organic, ordered, arranged, organized, formed, complete, elegant, graceful, charming, attractive, refined, complex, intricate, ornate, interesting, understandable, meaningful, clear, self-explanatory, well crafted, skillful, well made, meticulous, careful

Thus a creative product is

Thus a creative product is

N E W

Thus a creative product is

Novel Effective Whole

Creativity is a goal orientated process of developing solutions that are

Novel Effective Whole

Think back to original examples... are they NEW! (Novel Effective Whole)

Synthesize!

5 mins Reduce what we have covered so far into a short poem/limerick

Why do we need

creativIT y?

A new ecology

Generations 10,000 750 500 400 40 24 16 5 4 3 2 1 0

speech agriculture writing libraries universities printing cks accurate clo telephone radio television computers ail internet/em etc. .0 2 b e w , e b utu gps, mp3, yo etc.

It is not that things are changing faster, but rather that the rate of change itself is increasing! — ray kurzweil

Can’t really keep up!

Enough to make one lose hope!!!

The answer:

We have to

Relax Repose Re-teach!

What is half of

8 ?

How do we develop

creativIT y?

Creativity The research

5 steps Preparation interest & immersion in problems Incubation churning below threshold of consciousness Insight: Aha, pieces falling into place Evaluation Is this worth pursuing?

Elaboration Translation into final product

Sure!*

* it does help us identify some myths!

Myth 1

Creativity is NOT about having a good idea!

...the best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas — Linus Pauling

Creativity is the

Myth 2

creativity is a big sudden insight available only to people with special talents!

creativity is a big sudden insight available only to people with special talents!

Wrong!

Creativity as variations on a theme

Creativity as variations on a theme That let us see the world differently

Consider the Rubik cube

Consider the Rubik cube Can you come up with some variations?

Superficial variations

Why 3 x 3 x 3?

Why n x n x n?

Why platonic solids?

Why 3-d?

Objection!

(I hear you say)

This is not real creativity!

Simultaneous motion?

Double Maze Scottkim.com

Creativity is nothing but...

Tweaking knobs

the right

Tweaking knobs ^

Not the wrong ones!

This is Spinal Tap

Creativity is about discovering the right knobs

Can you spot the hidden tiger?

Learning to see (to wonder why?)

Developing a childlike sense of wonder

Creativity &

creativIT y?

Why?

Only repurposing makes a technology an educational technology..

Repurposing for what purpose?

On going beyond the technology‌

‌ to the core impulses of learning

Dewey’s Core Impulses • • • • •

These fourfold areas of interest-the interest in conversation, or communication; in inquiry, or finding out things; in making things, or construction; and in artistic expression--we may say they are the natural resources, the un-invested capital, upon the exercise of which depends the active growth of the child. . .

• What are we to do with this interest--are we to ignore it, or just excite and draw it out? Or shall we get hold of it and direct it to something ahead, something better? (p. 48)

Communication Inquiry Construction Expression

Technology for‌ Communication Inquiry Construction Expression

Communication

There is the social instinct of the children as shown in conversation, personal intercourse, and communication . . . The language instinct is the simplest form of the social expression of the child. Hence, it is a great, perhaps the greatest of all, educational resources. (p. 43)

Construction

The child’s impulse to do finds expression first in play, in movement, gesture, and make-believe, becomes more definite, and seeks outlet in shaping materials into tangible forms and permanent embodiment. (p. 44)

Inquiry

Interested in “finding things out� (p. 47) There is no distinction between experimental science for little children and the work done in the carpenter shop. . . Children simply like to do things and watch to see what will happen. (p. 44)

Expression

Combines construction and communication Make the construction adequate, make it full, free, and flexible, give it a social motive, something to tell, and you have a work of art. (p. 44)

Technologies need to be… … seen in new ways.

A particular software program can be used in multiple ways for multiple purposes…

Email?

Inquiry • Writing to participants or experts Collaborative papers •

Communication

Construction

Writing letters

Creating documents

Expression • Signature files • Character pictures

Repurposing is a creative & innovative act

Technology

Educational Technology

Any technology can be a learning technology

Book Video Website Video game Television Facebook Airplane

Technology

Educational Technology

Any technology can be a learning technology

Book Video Website Video game Television Facebook Airplane

Educational Technology

Technology

How?

Creativity Technologies need to be creatively re-purposed to become learning technologies

Design Purposeful, iterative, reflective practice that seeks to bring together Technology, Pedagogy & Content in specific contexts

Technology

Pedagogy

Content

Context

Teachers need to...

Create! and....

Share!

Goal: Professional educators will be supported individually and in teams by technology that connects them to data, content, resources, expertise, and learning experiences that can empower and inspire them to provide more effective teaching for all learners.

National Educational Technology Plan, 2010

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Start small & keep playing

(re)Learn to see!

(re)Learn to see! developing a childlike sense of wonder

How can you make the familiar strange? ‌ or the strange familiar?

Sticky Ideas

You have to learn to C-SUCCESS

C create S simple yet, U unexpected C concrete and C credible E emotional S stories that S stick

We have done a lot of exploring over the past few hours....

How are you going to C-SUCCESS in your class?

What story will you create?

C create S simple yet, U unexpected C concrete and C credible E emotional S stories that S stick

We will catch up with you and check in periodically via the

PERSONAL LEARNING NETWORKS we created today!

Technology

Pedagogy

Content

Context