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Volume 4 | Issue 12
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Highlight from the METC 2017 Conference Questioning Techniques That Bring About Change Kim Darche - Spotlight Educator @kimdarche Some teachers ask between 200-300 questions in a day. How many do you think students ask? Most students ask two per day. As educators we want students to be problem solvers, but what if they were problem finders. This thought could revolutionize the way we think about our makerspaces and learning. Having students lead with questions will change their mindset about learning. Students who keep asking questions find better answers and gain deeper insights. It’s not easy being a good questioner or getting students to ask questions but think about the power of pictures. Have students look at the pictures below and have them come up with five questions, put them in categories, and then rank them according to most interest. Want more interesting pictures to evoke questions? Checkout 101questions.
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At the conference, several suggestions were made to practice questioning. For example, instead of telling someone something, ask them to have a conversation with only questions - make the entire conversation out of questions. This allows students to engage, think and process what is being said. Dice Game - Select a particular topic and ask students to roll the dice if they: roll a 1 define it, 2 apply it, 3 flip it (opposite), what is your stake in the ground about it, 5 innovate it, 6- question it. Example questions to ask: How do you know what’s true or false (evidence), How might this look if we stepped into other shoes (viewpoint), Have we seen this before? (connections), What if it were different? (conjecture), and Why does this matter? (relevance).
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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” ~Albert Einstein
#FutureReady Build Instructional Partnerships Powerful Closure Activities What Is Closure? Edutopia explains closure as an activity that ends a lesson and creates a lasting impression, a phenomenon that Colorado State University professor Rod Lucero calls the recency effect. Teachers use closure to: Check for understanding and inform subsequent instruction, emphasize key information, and tie up loose ends. Some of the 22 powerful closure strategies include: Parent Hotline - Give students an interesting question about the lesson without further discussion. Email their guardians the answer so that the topic can be discussed over dinner. ●
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March Madness - Book Battle March 2nd Read Across America Day March 5 - 11 - Teen Tech Week March - Freedom of Information Day April - School Library Month April - Celebrate National Library Week with the Libraries Transform campaign D.E.A.R. Drop Everything and Read Month (April) April 30th Children’s Day/Book Day - Dia May 1- 7 -Children’s Book Week May 4 - Star Wars Day May is National Pet Month so celebrate being a participatory library by hosting a pet’s reading photo contest. Summer Reading Ideas
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Two-Dollar Summary - Kids write a two-dollar (or more) summary of the lesson. Each word is worth ten cents. For extra scaffolding, ask students to include specific words in their statement: Ann Lewis & Aleta Thompson Cover It - Have kids sketch a book cover. The title is the class topic. The author is the student. A short celebrity endorsement or blurb should summarize and articulate the lesson's benefits. Question Stems - Have students write questions about the lesson on cards, using question stems framed around Bloom's Taxonomy. Have students exchange cards and answer the question they have acquired. See them all at www.edutopia.org
#Parwkay Reads When Real Reading Isn’t Happening So what do we do when we give students a reading task, but we see that real reading is not happening? Reading takes focus and when students choose behaviors that prevent them from entering the text, it's crucial to take action and change conditions so that students will make the choice to read. In this article from Education Week there are four ways to respond based on the situation. Each of these questions come with suggestion on how to help students connect with reading whether it is a narrative or informational text. ● ● ● ●
Is it the environment? Invest in the routine of silent reading. Is it certain students? Plan differentiated supports for individual students. Is it the task? Simplify expectations to promote, not disrupt, the flow of reading. Is it the text? Build or repair students’ positive expectations toward reading with interesting texts.
Get suggestions at blogs.edweek.org
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#FutureReady - Curates Resources & Tools What More Can I Do with my Android Tablet ? Create Video Lesson with Know Recorder Know Recorder is a free app for creating whiteboard-style videos on iPads and Android tablets. The free app will let you record yourself speaking while drawing on your tablet. Your video can have multiple pages which is a nice feature when you want to give a multiple step demonstration without having to erase anything. Know Recorder will let you import PDFs and pictures to display and annotate on screen in your instructional video. Completed videos can be saved to your device’s camera roll or exported directly to YouTube. practicaledtech.com Doodle 4Google Voting is Open Here's to all the #Doodle4Google state and territory finalists! Vote for your favorite submission to help decide the national finalists, then they'll pick one grand prize winning submission to be featured on the Google homepage. Voting lasts until March 6 at 5 pm EST. https://goo.gl/9N9Dpj Recap Looking for an easy way to gather evidence of student thinking using video? Take a look at Recap! Create a class, invite your students, and ask a question or assign a prompt. Students do a quick video response using the webcam on a Chromebook or laptop. Great for formative assessments and reflections. Letsrecap.com 25 Ways to Use Technology in the Classroom + Downloadable List Many technology-based teaching methods and resources effectively engage students and build their skills. Keeping a condensed list of resources on your desk for quick reference can help you decide how to deliver content, utilize video, and run learning stations. See them all at www.prodigygame.com.
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Google Updates Insert and delete groups of cells in Google Sheets What’s new: data in spreadsheets isn’t always neatly distributed across entire rows and columns; oftentimes, for instance, sheets contain multiple tables and regions of data that can’t be separated. With this update it’s easier to insert cells into these sheets without disturbing that content. You can delete chunks of cells in the same way. You can insert cells from Insert menu and delete cells from the Edit menu. Both features are also accessible when you right-click on a cell. For more information, check out the Help Center.
Creating files from templates now easier in Google Drive What’s new: Google introduced templa for reports, certificates, and presentations, as well as templates designed by experts and developed specifically for your organization. From Drive > New > Google Docs/Sheets/Slides or Forms > From a template. From there, you’ll be directed to the applicable template gallery, where you can select the template of your choice. For more details on templates, visit the Help Center.
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Summer will be here before you know it and we are looking for people interested in teaching tech classes. If you are interested in teaching a class to your colleagues on a specific topic, please let Bill Bass know as soon as you're able. He hopes to have sessions set up in the next few weeks. Please email your topic, a description of the class, and dates that you'd like to offer it. Even if it's not solid, he’s trying to gauge interest at this point.
Here's what happens when a theme park company designs a library...
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Virtual reality simulations, talking robots and a magic school bus — this is what happens when a theme park company designs a library. Landmark Entertainment Group — the company responsible for the Spider-Man and Jurassic Park rides at Universal Orlando and Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas — has partnered with the city of Homestead to create the world’s first “Cybrary,” or cyber library.Read more here: www.miamiherald.com
This www.easybib.com blog post contains suggests a list of of nine educators and one education entity to follow based on digital literacy, social and emotional learning, and educational policy. The one entity is a fantastic resource for curriculum and lessons in literacy and the content areas.
Contact Information Bill Bass Innovation Coordinator: Instructional Technology & Library Media Twitter: billbass Kim Lindskog Library Support Specialist Twitter: klindskog ISSUU Newsletter Stacks: 2016-2017 2015-2016 2014-2015 2013-2014
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