FR Know & Go Volume 4 | Issue 2

Volume 4 | Issue 2

Parkway School District Library Services

Know & Go Updates @your library

September is Library Card Signup Month Students who are new and enroll for the first time in Parkway will automatically be sent a SLCL library card. Those cards will not be issued until the census verification forms have been completed and the information sent to SLCL for processing (late October).

Those students who have already been issued a card and are not new to Parkway will need to go to SLCL to receive a replacement card if it has been lost.

What does #FutureReady Schools mean?

Parkway signed on to be a Future Ready District meaning that district leaders are committed to planning and implementing personalized, research-based digital learning strategies so all students can achieve their full potential. The belief is every student deserves a rigorous, personalized learning environment filled with caring adults and student agency. District leaders recognize the potential of digital tools and align necessary technologies with instructional goals to support teaching and learning. From this national directive also came the Future Ready Librarians framework where school librarians were tapped to lead, teach, and support the Future Ready goals of their school and district in a variety of ways through professional practice, programs and spaces. The thought is the school librarian is well-positioned to be at the leading edge of the digital transformation of learning. The newsletters presented to Fern and district librarians are based on those frameworks.

This G+ community provides the opportunity to engage and connect with others inside the Parkway district. We have a lot of innovative things going on in the district and want to provide a space to share experience, thinking, and innovative ideas with each other.

We will also post a variety of professional learning opportunities, resources, tools and other events that you might find interesting.

We encourage you to share and post your thinking and ideas here and contribute to the collective knowledge of innovation in Parkway.

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Around the Web 7 Reasons You Should be Excited About the Future of Learning In the year 1820, a person could expect to live less than 35 years, 94% of the global population lived in extreme poverty, and less that 20% of the population was literate. Today, human life expectancy is over 70 years, less that 10% of the global population lives in extreme poverty, and over 80% of people are literate.

These improvements are due mainly to advances in technology, beginning in the industrial age and continuing today in the information age (Chris Dixon). In the article 7 Reasons You Should be Excited About the Future of Learning read about artificial intelligence, virtual reality, augmented reality, and more!

Well said:

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” ~ Winston Churchill

For Fun @your Library Tis the season...for football that is...

Did you know.....? *It takes about 600 cows to make one full season's worth of NFL footballs. *A cow has only a 1 in 17,420,000 chance of becoming an NFL football that is used in the Super Bowl. *NFL cheerleaders typically make only $50-$75 a game. By the time they spend money on makeup, hair accessories, dance classes and etc, they end up losing money (and all for the chance to be on TV for about 3 seconds per game). *On Super Bowl Sunday, Americans eat approximately 8 million pounds of guacamole (though wings and pizza are still the most popular Super Bowl snacks). *The Dallas Cowboys are the wealthiest NFL team. They have an estimated value of $2.1 billion. *Just two years after finishing their careers, approximately 78% of NFL players go bankrupt. Sure makes you wonder how they would survive on a teacher's salary, right? *Football games last approximately 3 hours, but the ball is only in play approximately 11 minutes of that time. (56% of the TV game time is dedicated to replays.)

#FutureReady - Empower Students as Creators ISTE Standards at Work What Student Standard Are Addressed in Presentations?

Presentations can be dreadful for students and teachers because students are allowed to do two main things wrong. First, students are allowed to speak as long as they want (sometimes with a general time limit), which leads to them to either rambling on or else saying practically nothing at all. Second, students are allowed to read off their slides. These two things put together can make for presentations that are painful to endure.

There is help out there, try Pecha Kucha system created by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham. It is a guide for students that include a few basic rules for the presentation set up: The slide-show presentation will be set up to auto-advance every 20 seconds, with a maximum time of 6 minutes. This means that the slides move on, whether or not the student is ready—there is no remote to move the slides forward. This reduces student rambling and reading off slides. This method can be adjusted to suit your needs. For example, only allow them 15 seconds per slide with 12 slides total, making student presentations only 3 minutes each.

Presentations also help students to meet several ISTE Student Standards: ● Communication and Collaboration - Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.

Research and Information Fluency - Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information ● Digital Citizenship - Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior. ● Technology Operations and Concepts - Students demonstrate a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems, and operations.

Adapted: Techout your class eBook - Amy Prosser

Source: 58 Fun Facts About Football

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Chrome Web Store App Availability

#FutureReady Curate Digital Resources & Tools ●

Bouncyballs.org Essentially, Bouncy Balls is a website that activates your microphone and detects noise level. The more noise in the room, the more the balls bounce. The quieter the room is, the more still the balls remain. Ask students to try to keep the balls as still as possible during class, and maybe reward them by allowing them to sing and be noisy on their way out of class ● Gamification Guide Gamification is the use of game-mechanics and elements in non-game contexts. Using gamification to turn your classroom into a video game motivates, engages, and empowers students. Chris Avile created an in-depth guide, The Gamification Guide, walks you through a three stage system. ○ Stage 1 motivate students ○ Stage 2 level up instructional design ○ Stage 3 explore the classroom as an experience. ○ There’s one catch, though only Stage 1 is written so far. Stages 2 and 3 will be out in the next few months, but don’t let that stop you from downloading The Gamification Guide now. ● 5 Visual Tools for Student Learning Research is difficult, so helps students express understanding through various tools regardless of their learning style. Here are some ideas to support students during their research journeys. Ideas include: video confessionals, storyboardthat.com, research scavenger hunts, infographics, and visual note taking. Read how at www.k12blueprint.com ● Educational Grants List Tech&Learning has posted the Educational Grants 2016 Deadlines. http://goo.gl/O12k7P. This PDF includes grant writing questions to ask yourself in order to write a winning grant proposal, things to consider will writing the proposal, ongoing grants, and informal grants. If you are considering a grant be sure to include Dennis Farinella, Coordinator of MOSAICS Gifted Education Grants & Funding, at Access the library catalog fromand anywhere! www.gofollett.com dfarinella@parkwayschools.net

The Chrome Web Store is no longer fully accessible to students through their Parkway account. Students will only be able to install apps and extensions that have been placed on the Parkway approved list. If you find that students can’t install an app or extension that you want them to use in your classroom you can contact the Technology Help Desk and ask that it get added. A list of already approved apps and extensions has been created. The link to see the approved apps can be found at https://goo.gl/fvpTFE

Thesaurus Pro Add-on Most thesauruses get stumped when you enter in phrasal verbs (like “look down on”), plural nouns (like “runners”) or conjugated verbs. The synonyms you typically get are never quite accurate. But there’s a new AI-powered thesaurus for Google Docs called Thesaurus Pro that gives synonyms for all of those–and more.

How to Include Video Feedback in Google Forms Use the "Go to section based on answer" feature in Google Forms to provide video feedback based on how a student answers a question.

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#Future Ready - Empower Students as Creators Little Readers Festival Library Headquarters is hosting a Little Readers Festival on Saturday, September 24 from 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. This free event will feature a variety of activities for families including the PNC Mobile Learning Adventure, games, a fire truck, story time with Llama Llama, performances by Juggling Jeff, and a visit from the Bubble Bus. Each child in attendance will receive a punch card for a free book from Ready Readers, a free treat from Murray's Shaved Ice Truck, and another free book from SLCL. Learn more.

#ParkwayReads Increase Reading Volume

by Reading Digital Text Increasing the reading of informational text is especially important for learning in the content areas, and informational content reigns supreme on the Internet. To use current events as one example, the currency of information and use of media to communicate the news is unparalleled. To begin, it is recommend bookmarking quality sites that students read on a regular basis. Many educational publishers and organizations provide free online content, including articles and media about current events, some of which are generated by students themselves. A few favorites include the following: ● ● ● ●

Time for Kids Weekly Reader National Geographic Kids National Geographic Kids' blogs

See more vobaulary building strategies at: www.readingrockets.org

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#Future Ready - Instructional Partnerships Building Self-Directedness: Self-Monitoring What: A reflection strategy for building the capacity of students/participants to self-assess one's own understanding and/or readiness to move on Why: The goal is to build self-directedness. However, this doesn't happen automatically; we must begin to intentionally incorporate reflective processes to assist persons to grow in this capacity.

How: 1. Inform students/participants that at the end of a teaching piece, they will be using Fist of Five to indicate their understanding of the content or process that you will be teaching.

2. Teach the content or process. For students, part way through the teaching you may want to remind them that they will be self-assessing.

3. At the end of the teaching piece, ask students/participants to self-assess their understanding (or readiness to move on) by raising the appropriate number of fingers based on the following scale: 5. I understand this well enough to teach it to another person.

4. I understand this well enough to do it on my own, and with a little more practice could probably teach it to another person.

3. I am starting to understand, but need more practice to be able to do it alone.

2. I understand parts of this, but not all of it 1. I don't understand any of this.

Note: if you feel the need to have students or participants share anonymously, some alternatives might be to have them write their responses on a whiteboard, write their responses on sticky notes which you can collect, or use a clicker system to see their self- assessments.

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#Future Ready - Personalized Professional Learning

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More Info

Save-the-Date #MizzouEdCamp October 15

Contact Information Bill Bass Innovation Coordinator: Instructional Technology & Library Media Twitter: billbass

Amy Johnson Digital Learning Specialist Twitter: ajohnson106

Kim Lindskog Library Support Specialist Twitter: klindskog

Nancy Ikemeyer Administrative Assistant Skype: nancy,ikemeyer.pearl Twitter: NancyIkemeyer

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