"The real 21st cenutry around us isn't so obvious to us, so instead we spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize but which no longer exists". Edie Obeng.
This quote reminds me of an activity our staff did about ten years ago, where we as elementary school teachers had to think of what a high school graduate would look like in the year 2020. My groups design of the future 2020 graduate was a young girl whom did not know what she wanted to learn in college because she had no idea what the jobs of the future were going to be. The final response to this professional development day was, we the teachers had no idea what the future graduate was going to look like, but we as a staff needed to be on the cutting edge of education and "anticipitate" the future learner and what she may need. To be honest, after that actitivty, I don't remember us going back and reassessing the future learner. Just like Mr. Obeng stated, ; we spent out time responding to the world in which we understood." Often times as educators, we don't was to take a risk, we don't want to have a "smart failure". However, after our first set of classes; I think it is extremely important for us as educators to always be thinking about the future and the new world after midnight.
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The tools I put in my lesson designs were: Sreencastify, Edpuzzle, Pear Deck, Flipgrid and Seesaw. All of these tools worked really well for my class and my instruction. I think that the students enjoyed Screencastify because it changed up my teaching. My students were not engaging as much as they had intially in the beginning of the school year. Edpuzzle was also enjoyable for my students, but I now realize I need to have multiple choice options in the future for my students and aslo some visual components for the struggling readers. Pear Deck I have been trying to master all school year and during synchronous time; IT DID NOT WORK! My students did not like the Pear Deck format. However, when I put the Pear Deck slides in my Seesaw account and assigned it to my students; it went amazing. It finally clicked for me and my students. Using the article from Edutopia (2020) www.edutopia.org/technology-intergration;" adding annotations like arrow, text labels, or circles can provide 'visual caffolding' clarifies your teaching priorities" I realzied it does help my students to engaged and focus their attention to the goals of the lessons. As for flipgrids; I am using them as follow up to lessons, checking for understanding and as an assessment tool. Flipgrid allows the student to orally explain his/her thinking in a fun format and allows the students to create something. As a class, we review the flipgrids during synchronous time; all of these video and audio tools. As Jennifer Gonzalez (2020). "9 ways Online Teaching Should be Different from face-to face." Cult of Pedagogy.com outlines with her interview with Melanie Kitchen, I would like to do an screencastify lesson for parents on the learning pit as how long it will take for the children to master these different platforms. Over the fall break, I will design a lesson for the parents to allow the parents to see there is going to be a period of struggle for the students with these new online learning platforms. I also really liked the inforgraphics for the hybrid model from both of Shenniger, Eric (2020) "Moving to a hybrid learning model" and "The pedagogy of blended learning". As a grade level lead, I will be sharing these visuals to my peer teachers during our Professional Learning Community Meetings.
This week for our assignment of creating google forms, I created a check-in form for my students to fill out to let me know how he/she is feeling. I am excited to share this survey on Monday and make it a daily part of our morning routine. I look forward to seeing his/her responses in upcoming weeks. Additionally, I created a Number Corner check up for my students. Designing a Number Corner check up for my students in google forms was very successful for me. I am still exploring the Add-ons, but I am not finding one that looks like it is user friendly for 7/8 year olds I did find an add-ons for making word clouds. I created one for kindness day, the students will watch a sesame street clip about kindness and then type in words that represent kindnes, then I will generate a word cloud; I am very excited. Overall, I am going to continue using Google forms and I am very excited about designing more for students and their families.
My learners? This is a very hard thing to reflect on as this week, our second week into phase two; the dynamics have changed in my virtual classroom. Two weeks everyone was engaged and ready to learn. All other students were enjoying the activities and new technology I was introducing. I thought of the SITE Model and redesigned my lessons. However, There is still a lack of excitement to my students. So, that being played out I will again redefine my end goals of my lessons for my users. I know they are wanting to learn. As using the Site model as a guideline; I really want to thinkg about the values and the motivation for my learners. Also, the concept of what skills do learners need to access information and knowledge. Alot of the new concepts I need to teach during synchronous time rather than parents assisting during asynchronous time. I slowing come to realize that will improve the access to new information and knowledge my students need.
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