This page contains resources from my sessions at the Minnesota Middle School Association 2013 Middle Level Promise and Practice Summer Institute. These materials are made available under a Creative Commons 3.0 attribution-share alike license, which means that you are both allowed and encouraged to use them! Please contact me if you have any other questions about these resources.
June 26, 2013
- Our backchannel
- If you’re on Twitter, use #mmsa13
0. Some things to take home with you today
- Info about UK’s School Technology Leadership programs
- Education in a Digital World [VIDEO]
- FREE book chapter:Â Supporting effective technology integration and implementation
- Rethinking AUPs
1. The media feeds juvenoia
- Teen cyberbully pleads guilty
- Nevada teen pummels helpless classmate
- Ten high school girls caught in texting scandal
- High school student accused of dealing pot between classes
- David Finkelhor, Crimes Against Children Research Center
2. Powerful technologies, powerful youth
- More than that [VIDEO]
- Minecraft history project [VIDEO]
- Richard’s Rwanda
- Never seconds
- We are hungry [VIDEO]
- Miriam’s magical moments
- The Do Not Enter Diaries
- FanFiction (e.g., kazoquel4, Lost In Your Eyes)
- Pontiac Fiero
- Minnesota nice (see also Ames High Compliments Page)
- Lueroi’s walkthroughs
- Teen app designer now a multimillionaire
- A kid’s guide to Northwest Florida
- Historical storytelling
3. Making and tinkering
- My son is 8. He’s a maker.
- Super Awesome Sylvia’s Super-Awesome Maker Show
- Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom
4. From extracurricular to curricular
- Hello Kitty in Space v. Curie School asteroid
- Oakridge Reads! v. Amazon book reviews
- Khan Academy v. Student Made Math Movies (e.g., Factors, Arrays, and a Sloth)
- Class wiki v. Wikipedia
- Create (see also Dream and Love)
- Students’ work must have wings
- The essential question
- Monkeys, flea jars, crab buckets, and educational risk-taking [flea jar video]
5. Bloom’s / Webb’s
- Webb’s Depth of Knowledge Chart
- Webb’s Depth of Knowledge Guide
- Bloom’s Taxonomy (Revised)
- Iowa State University Bloom’s new taxonomy handout
- Bloom’s quicksheets (see also Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy)
- Bloom’s taxonomy of  measurable verbs
- Thinkfinity Bloom’s verbs
6. Evaluating technology integration in our classrooms
- Some mental frameworks
- Replicative technologies
- Personalization and technology
- Some video scenarios
- FULL Arizona Technology Integration Matrix
7. Designing for cognitive complexity, tech infusion, and student agency
- Design Team 01
- Design Team 02
- Design Team 03
- Design Team 04
- Design Team 05
- Design Team 06
- Design Team 07
- Design Team 08
- Design Team 09
- Design Team 10
- Design Team 11
- Design Team 12
- Design Team 13
- Design Team 14
- Design Team 15
- Design Team 16
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- Design Team 04 [BLANK]
- Wrap-Up (see responses)
8. Wrap-up
- Summary and debrief
- Additional resources
- Our answers lie within
- Stay in touch!
- End-of-day evaluation (see results)
Additional resources
Technology integration resources
- Technology and learning spectrum
- TPACKÂ (see also handout)
- Technology integration matrix
- Learning activity types: wiki and mind map
- Web 2.0 that works
- Teacher needs in anticipation of the instructional use of technology
- Technology, coaching, and community
- Gagne’s 9 events of instruction
- Educational technology bill of rights for students
Problem- / Inquiry- / Challenge-based learning resources
- Science Leadership Academy (Philadelphia, PA) core values
- Center for Authentic Intellectual Work
- Buck Institute for Education (videos; student testimony and teacher restructuring; technology and PBL)
- College and Work Readiness Assessment (example report)
- Whitfield Career Academy (example projects)
- Discovery and Unlimited (Christchurch, New Zealand)
- New Tech Network (videos; solar oven)
- High Tech High (videos; projects)
- Big Picture Learning (podcasts and videos; student testimony and personalization)
- EdVisions (videos; traditional v. self-directed students)
- Envision Schools (PBL in action and success story)
- Expeditionary Learning (stories)
- New York Performance Assessment Consortium
- Independent Curriculum Group
- Band of Educators
- CASTLE’s list of exemplary 21st century schools
Standards, frameworks, and reports you should know about
- NCTE 21st century literacy standards
- ISTE essential conditions (see also rubric)
- National Educational Technology Standards (NETS): Administrators, Teachers, and Students
- NAIS Guide for Becoming a School of the Future: PDF or HTML interactive
- See also Kevin Kelly’s 6 Words for the Modern Internet
- See also Scott’s The Future of Learning
