DPS ILT Session 11-15-07 November 15, 2007
Posted by Matthew Woolums in Conference Sessions.trackback
This has been an interesting session discussing many of the implications of ILT work in DPS and how it relates to achievement.
What is one thing you heard from the morning session that you will take back to your school?
Collaboration with teachers.
I will encourage homeroom teachers to communicate more thoroughly with me concerning their curriculum ties to technology.
I’d like to get our students using blogs and this kind of hands on demo is very useful.
hi matthew,
where did you get the simpson-esqe self portrait?
I’d like to read Results Now!
The new Blooms makes alot more sense to me and the worksheet for developing objectives to assessment really focused me on the evaluation and create aspect of learning.
UbD was my most valuable discussion. I will take this idea back to Green Valley and try to implement in our building.
The importance of including higher order thinking to objectives.
I met a teacher who is going to send me a copy of “Results Now”, a book I’ve always wanted to read.
I’m honored to serve multiple schools and the most important concepts I have taken from today’s session comes from the wise thoughts of David Sternberg (”Campfires in Cyberspace”). We need different realms of thinking, sharing and collaberating to grow as professionals.
What I will take back from the morning session was the thought from
the Results book that says that we can increase the level of a project
by having students using a different learning outcome such as instead
of creating a brochure, have students engage in a debate about a
research project so that they will synthesize the information also.
Dale’s insight on collaboration: you need to grow what you have by working with the teachers who are willing to collaborate with you and building and improving on lessons each time you work together.
I really liked the handouts Steve gave us today. It amazes me how hard all of us work. But I can see that I need to work smarter to improve my collaboration techniques with my teachers.
We all struggle with integration issues because the technology is still tethered and access limited. If we really want seemless untethered integration of technology we will need to change not only basic philosophy but be brave enough fund our grand ideas and allow usage of personal technology devices that students and teachers already have.
I got the simpsonized picture from:
http://www.simpsonizeme.com/