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PL Resources for You

10/14/2016

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Here are some CMS Personalized Learning Resources for you to peruse at your leisure and according to your interests.

Main CMS PL Website
  • What is PL?  (contains intro videos and infographics)
  • PL “Playbook” Jumping off Page
    • The 4 “Cornerstones”
      • Student Ownership
      • Mastery Learning
      • Whole Child (basically our IB Learner Profile)
      • Paces Playlists and Pathways ( how to structure a personalized unit so students can achieve mastery at their own pace using tools like Blendspace or Google Classroom, etc)
Social Media
  • Youtube Channel  (videos of PL in CMS) subscribe to get notification of new ones
  • Facebook page - “Like” it to see it show up in your feed
  • Instagram take a look and follow them if you want
  • Twitter
    • Twitter Hashtag (live Twitter chat every Thursday at 7:30 pm)
    • First Twitter Chat “Storify” (A “storify” makes a twitter chat easier to read after the fact)
Podcasts (8-10 minute stories about PL - like a radio show)
Articles
Books (includes free e-books)

CMS Professional Development 
  •  Virtual Personalized Learning course catalog! Register now in MyTalent (Fall Deadline is December 1 to register) and they'll send you a link to to join the Canvas course.
Google Drive Resources
  • Piedmont PL 2016-2017
  • Middle School PL Documents by subject area (mostly core, sorry)
    • Ms. Winegardner’s Music PL Project
  • Correlation of PL teaching with NC Teacher Evaluation

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News and Links of the Week

9/16/2014

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Thank you, Piedmont staff, because YOU are This to me! Click the image to see why.
Latest Piedmont PD News includes info on National Board Certification, Discovery Place's professional development offerings for teachers, new quick PD's on handy efficient tech tricks to save you time and storage space: like the quickest way to upload to Google Docs, how to convert and embed a powerpoint, How to make a QR CODE ,chromebook and computer troubleshooting info, etc

Other Ed News from Around the Web:
  • Brew Your Own Personalized PD
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https://www.edsurge.com/guide/how-teachers-are-learning-professional-development-remix
  • LITERACY and ART_ Why older kids and adults need picture books and graphic novels http://trevorcairney.blogspot.com/2014/09/why-older-kids-adults-need-picture.html
  • HOMEWORK-Why Marzano's Homework Research is Flawed: http://linkis.com/buff.ly/3BoHA
  • GOOGLE CLASSSROOM-Use Google Classroom to Differentiate Assignments  http://www.alicekeeler.com/teachertech/2014/09/14/using-google-classroom-to-differentiate-assignments/
  • MAKERSPACES - 30 Second Take: Digital Duel: Makerspaces  -    Piedmont has makerspace materials for you. Here are two teachers each speaking for 30 secs about how makerspaces are useful to you in class as a teacher and to your students.
  • Teachers' FAVORITE APPS 
  1. Twitter Chat - Storified Twitter Chat (conglomeration of Tweets) where teachers share their favorite apps and how they use them http://sfy.co/qg2W
  2. Article that includes apps remind, class dojo, and others http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/09/16/347377022/a-is-for-apps-teachers-share-top-digital-tools-of-the-trade
  • PERSONALIZED LEARNING IN CMS "What is Personalized Learning in CMS?" Video #cmsk12chat http://youtu.be/HhzGgPbcmeY 
  • BLOGGING: Student Blogger Challenge week one http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/2014/09/14/week-1-gday-from-downunder/
  • DESIGN CYCLE/ BACKWARD DESIGN HINT: http://lifehacker.com/assume-everything-you-know-is-wrong-to-come-up-with-bet-1633959227
  • MOTIVATING STUDENTS - 
  1. Start with Strengths! http://chriswejr.com/2014/09/10/start-with-strengths-change-the-lens-change-the-story/
  2. How The Power Of Interest Drives Learning  http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/11/how-the-power-of-interest-drives-learning/ "Research shows, for example, that an inscrutable poem is judged as more interesting when readers are given a hint that allows them to make sense of what it’s about. Abstract art, too, is considered to be more interesting when the paintings are given titles that help viewers understand what the artists may have had in mind as they painted. Viewers become even more interested in such paintings when they are given biographical information about the artist and background about the historical context in which it was created." 
  3. Stop Teaching Kids to Play the Game of School
  4. A new Game based site called Kahoot- it says access is free and the folks who use it seem to like it. I can look into it more for you if you let me know you are interested.  
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Big Philosophical idea of the week: 
  •  I'd love to know what you think about Dr. Zhao's position and what we teachers should do. http://zhaolearning.com/2014/09/13/fatal-attraction-americas-suicidal-quest-for-educational-excellence/ 
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Summer Learning- A Few Links and Resources

7/5/2014

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When you've finished our summer reading book, I've had a crazy amount of tabs open on my computer of things I've been meaning to share this summer. Here they are:

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Click the image to read a great "10 takeaways from ISTE" summary

Summer Roundup of Great Links to check out: (volume 1)


The 1st three headings below are  ISTE-found links from my fellow PD Facilitator, Nicole Cathey. She attended the international superstar of ed tech conferences, and shared these off the top of her head when I asked her about the most useful takeaways of ISTE:

ISTE 2014 Session Notes:
Attendees at ISTE shared their notes for you and placed links on this google doc. Scroll through it and click on the topics that interest you to read that attendee's session notes! Great way to share! 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1s_3d2sbkFbhD2P5D7Ap54YaywfI6qF26tt9QXiE7qH8/edit#gid=0


"21 Things" Sites:
If you go no farther this is a fun site to poke around 21Things for Teachers. They also have a "21 Things" site for administrators and for your students!

Adaptive Learning:
An algorythmically adapted personalized learning geared toward test prep site, called adaptive learning from Knewton. The site is connected to microsoft and Pearson. A lot of the info I found while researching is written from a business end (covered by Forbes and the economist) and higher ed stuff like their GMAT review course and there weren't a lot of teacher written reviews that my google was finding but this is an older review of the site as well as grockit-which sounds interesting http://www.hackeducation.com/2011/10/17/big-bucks-for-adaptive-learning-platforms/

Now here are a few links I've been holding that others have shared on Twitter:

Teaching Students to Ask the Right Questions:
I personally think nothing you can teach is more important than this for students' futures: http://rightquestion.org/education/

Another fantastic article about the importance of questioning as an oft-overlooked skill http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/03/why-its-imperative-to-teach-students-how-to-question-as-the-ultimate-survival-skill/

Making and Creating Resources:
Being a maker teacher is about interest in students creating, not just regurgitating. You do NOT need techy skills or enginnering skills yourself, just a mindset to let students create and build and design. 
4 Steps to Becoming a Maker Teacher http://gettingsmart.com/2014/05/4-steps-becoming-maker-teacher
7 Tenents of Creative Thinking http://www.edutopia.org/blog/7-tenets-of-creative-thinking-michael-michalko

PBL Clearinghouse 
 This weebly site is a great clearinghouse for all things PBL (project based learning) - it takes you from step 1 what is that? as far as you want to go.
http://learnpbl.weebly.com/

If want to learn about PBL for free, you can pick a project you'd like your students to try and a class here at PBL university- some classes are full already but you can still get ideas and learn more about the projects, PBLU


LAST BUT NOT LEAST>>>

Design Thinking!
 Along the lines of Making, Design Thinking is really taking off so here is some info on that in the classroom.


How to Apply Design Thinking in Your Class - Step By Step 
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/06/how-to-use-design-thinking-in-class-step-by-step/
I love KQED Mindshift, so here is everything tagged design thinking on that site 
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/design-thinking/

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Interesting Articles of the Week

6/8/2014

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Links worth checking out and/or Passing on:

Personalized Learning Myths-

Stop The False Generalizations About Personalized Learning http://onforb.es/1nREQiN

Digital Citizenship-
https://magic.piktochart.com/output/1328944-nycdoe_create-the-digital-image-

If you don't have time tomorrow to talk to your students about their digital footprints (in preparation for summer), you can post this to your summer reading site or just teach it next year. Links at the bottom go to other Digital Citizenship topics like cyberbulling

Deeper Thinking-

Every time we review for standardized testing we reinforce the one correct answer shallow thinking model. This is necessary for some tasks but not all and not worth the weight we give it in education. Not sure what that means as long as we judge students, teachers and schools based on standardized scores but I do know that once the child leaves academia, it will be of little use to him or her. pic.twitter.com/b8uYjwxLAj

Resources for inquiry lessons (PBL) -
  • PBL Projects and explorations https://docs.google.com/a/cms.k12.nc.us/document/d/1F64ITXnUPNLKCh0Y-gMvdWkCpijtt0wzmEQM19jSsYk/mobilebasic

  • Creating a board game in mathematics PBL-
http://mrkempreflects.blogspot.sg/2014/06/pbl-in-mathematics-creating-board-game.html?m=1&utm_content=buffer58661&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

 Using Urban Resources for Education (Museums, Libraries, etc)

"In 10 years, I’m hoping our cities are our classrooms."
- Amy Eshleman
http://t.co/PVAEFcHhfS - (I didn't listen to the podcast but reading the link alone is a good idea)
This experiential learning model and reminds me of Piedmont's walking field trips:
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On Letting the Learning Be Messy

5/19/2014

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These two links below speak to the importance of a movement in ed that I am a big fan of: maker movement /genius hour /classroom as laboratory or studo.

Both of these links talk about how important it is to let kids run with their hare-brained schemes.

I am all for teachers whose gift it is to provide security and structure. However, back in the day that was considered the ONLY way to teach. I am certain that what public school's greatest gift to children, especially poor children,  can be is NOT militaristic structure but a workshop and dream making space that they do not get at home but rich children (or bohemian artists' children, or the hyper-educated's children) do-or at least their parents ship them off to camp for once a year- if they are not like the moms in these stories who open their homes to chaos with a smile

Upshot for teachers - if you can be patient and let the learning be messy kids can achieve their dreams

http://makezine.com/2013/07/29/maker-supportive-parenting/

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo

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