Continuation of Part 1 Digital Learning Day 2016 http://piedmontpd.weebly.com/celebrating-piedmont/digital-learning-day-2016 All these photos were shot this afternoon on a typical day of tech infusion at Piedmont.
12:00 noon: |
 Working on her Spanish presentation at lunchtime. Collaborating, editing, and sharing is easy with Google Slides. |  |
 "Someone posted something against feminism and I was using my phone to argue against their posiiton" Friends research arguments with BYOT as more camera shy tablemates use an iPad to solve Rubik's cube! |  This remarkable young woman is writing her own musical composition at recess with an online tool she discovered herself! |
1:00 Industrial Revolution Presentations
Students Recreate a Factory Town For outside Judges
Two factory towns compete for the most effective factory- machinery, product, accounting, and marketing all come into play.
 |  Steam Engines from 2 competing towns. |
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 |  Goofing around with their telephone. Students study and replicate historical technologies. |
Their lightbulb really works as does the mechanical elevator!
2:00 Tech Breaktime
Students use thier tech to play games listen to music between classes. This is not unimportant.
music helps the brain and gaming grows neurons.
 my advisee choosing a song |  He was really excited to see his brother inside this Biosphere game. |
3:00 Connected Science
Student CollaboratE with schools in Chile and Canada to plan a "Mission To Mars"
Mr. Clark's Intro is posted on his smart board. "Time to Watch some Mythbusters!" Video technology helps students blow their minds, but not their fingers as they learn dangerous rocket science!
Kidblog from Mr. Clark's science classes. Blogs are posted and shared with classes in Chile and Canada.
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POST 1 of 2: A Typical Digital Morning
Piedmont Celebrates a full Year of 1:1 Chromebooks, Personalized Learning, and BYOT with "DLD Around the CLock"
None of these events were designed for (or are unique to) Digital Learning Day! This is just a typical day in the life of a connected school full of happy student empowered by technology!
Question: How does school look when students and teachers are fortunate enough to take digital integration for granted ?
Answer: Come see Piedmont! It's Digital Learning 24/7/365 nowadays in CMS schools thanks to our cutting edge Instructional Technology support!
Piedmont Middle School celebrates organic edtech integration with this
"DLD Around the Clock"
hourly log of the amazing results of our 1:1, Personalized Learning and BYOT.
Answer: Come see Piedmont! It's Digital Learning 24/7/365 nowadays in CMS schools thanks to our cutting edge Instructional Technology support!
Piedmont Middle School celebrates organic edtech integration with this
"DLD Around the Clock"
hourly log of the amazing results of our 1:1, Personalized Learning and BYOT.
7:45 AM:
Teacher Professional Development Online Webinar
The world language department gathers as a PLC to complete their webinars for IB training. The webinars were given in California but through the magic of the internet, IB teachers around the globe can participate.
Being a connected educator is what it's all about in the 21st century, but so is having the benefit of discussing live with your coworkers.
In this photo Mrs. Coriale types the PLC's answers into the Google Doc while Mrs. Lugo runs the webinar and Mrs. Madan reads the live chat box comments from teachers around the globe.
(Sorry, Senor Kennedy, I only got your shoulder in the shot!)
Being a connected educator is what it's all about in the 21st century, but so is having the benefit of discussing live with your coworkers.
In this photo Mrs. Coriale types the PLC's answers into the Google Doc while Mrs. Lugo runs the webinar and Mrs. Madan reads the live chat box comments from teachers around the globe.
(Sorry, Senor Kennedy, I only got your shoulder in the shot!)
8:45 AM:
Students Arrive With their Handmade Inventions
The car rider lot at Piedmont is always an interesting place due to all of our Project-Based Learning assignments. Today these ladies stopped on the way into school to let me photograph their Industrial revolution inventions. The students in Ms. Thornburg's class replicate them from recycled materials with some help from online historical research and DIY instructional websites...and ingenuity! Their teams will compete for the best factory later today in Humanities class.
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9:15 AM:
WEbsites and Online Learning Management Systems Help Students Learn in teacher's Absence
 Mr. Egnot was out today, but his students kept learning thanks to tech. The sign on his door instructed these girls in the work they needed to complete, conveniently accesible on his wiki website! And it works both ways, students have facetimed their groupmates when they are absent to still work together from home! |  |
9:30 AM:
Old School Math Lesson Enhanced with Tech!
Mr. Kollar found the solution to not having enough math manipulatives for all his classes: BYOT technology
 Checking the calculations |  Close up of the group's photo they will use tomorrow to rebuild their tower. |
 I don't know about you, but this sure makes math look fun! |  proud of their work |
9:45 AM:
TRIAL Reenactment Relies on Tech
Court is in Session, and digital tools are essential to the case!
Student Lawyers use mobile tech as teleprompters for jury remarks.
Journalistic Photographers capture the trail using digital cameras.
Video evidence is shown to the jury via projector (hosted on YouTube)
EVERYTHING FROM LEGAL BRIEFS TO DIARY NOTES WERE PREPARED IN GAFE (Google Apps for Education) allowing English Language Arts teacher Mr. Milligan to correct errors and provide feedback to students at all times, not just at the end of the extensive simulation that brings the novel The Pigman to life.
Student Lawyers use mobile tech as teleprompters for jury remarks.
Journalistic Photographers capture the trail using digital cameras.
Video evidence is shown to the jury via projector (hosted on YouTube)
EVERYTHING FROM LEGAL BRIEFS TO DIARY NOTES WERE PREPARED IN GAFE (Google Apps for Education) allowing English Language Arts teacher Mr. Milligan to correct errors and provide feedback to students at all times, not just at the end of the extensive simulation that brings the novel The Pigman to life.
 Technology doesn't JUST mean computers: these court photographers use digital cameras to document the trial |  |
10:15 AM
Photography Class - Made Possible By Online Learning
Thanks to North Carolina Virtual Public School, Piedmont Students can take a photography course in Middle School.
 Student watches an instructional video hosted on his Photography teacher's Learning Management System portal. |  Student analyzes an image on her phone for photography class while opened to her online course page on her Chromebook. |
10:30 AM
New Staff Member Gets Connected
Mrs. Arroyo knows one of the first things she needs to do as our new testing coordinator is hook up the essential tools of her trade: her computer and printer.
Before long her desk will look like Mrs' Lyttle's Education Command Center. 1,2,3,4, count 'em 5 screens all going at once as she gives the media center students live feedback on their work, grades in google classroom, prepares the next day's Black History Month research warm-up, and projects the 6th grade project directions.
Before long her desk will look like Mrs' Lyttle's Education Command Center. 1,2,3,4, count 'em 5 screens all going at once as she gives the media center students live feedback on their work, grades in google classroom, prepares the next day's Black History Month research warm-up, and projects the 6th grade project directions.
 "Mr. O'Neill calls this my world domination station" Mrs. Lyttle is the muiti-tech-ing master. |  Mrs. Arroyo's 1st order of business on her first day at Piedmont: set up her computer! |
10:45 AM
MAkerspace supports Personalized Digital Learning
Our Media Center makerspace has become a learning commons, a hub for all kinds of Digitally Connected passion projects and PBLS like these:
 students who already knew the sixth grade mathematics lessons can compact out: they report to the MakerSpace every day to design and build a bridge instead. |  This scholar shows his teacher's instant comments to his group's project proposal. He shared the document with her and she can assist in real time. |
Bye for now! See you in Post 2 for our Digital Afternoon!
 Not only do they use tech to decide on bridge design, they also write a research paper about the engineering, |  Mrs. Barley conferrs with Mrs. Boulton in the MakerSpace as students in the background design with Lego. |
ALL DAY, EVERYDAY:
students learn in comfort of NEW Personalized Learning Environments
Sure, I took this picture in Mrs. Lyttle's room. Its her combined class with Mrs. Malone, but it could have been taken on any day since Mrs. Lyttle got that new sofa and comfy seating in her room. Now students choose where to work and work in comfort on the device of their choice. They get a little more ownership in their day and desks are available if they prefer that seating. But I'd be right her with them!
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