There will be no face to face class this week!!! Enjoy learning from these experts!!


Khan Academy
Sample Video

The Flipped Classroom
Why I Flip my Classroom
Sample lesson


The unit plan is due April 3rd. If you have not completed your unit plan, we will meet in class to work on it together.  If you have completed and emailed me your plan before this date, you do NOT need to come to class.

Enjoy your Spring Break!!!

We will be meeting on Tuesday, March 20th at 5pm.  This week we will be watching and discussing the links together. 


Ian Jukes - Understanding the Digital Generation


Daniel Pink

I would like to briefly share another theory of learning.
Daniel Pink has authored of a great book; A WHOLE NEW MIND Why Right Brainers Will Rule the World.  Daniel Pink writes business books and is a motivational speaker to encourage others to choose their career paths and their futures. We as educators are interested in his view of the future and what will be expected of our students in order to succeed.
Please watch the following video.  Our discussion board will have more specific questions this week in response to Dan Pink, Adundance, Asia and Automation . 

How does this relate to teaching elementary school? 
With so much attention focused on THE TEST, it is easy to lose site of our true focus.  We are preparing our young students for a successful future.  Our students need to learn to become brilliant adults who invent and create and move our culture into a new generation.  So what is that future we are preparing them for? Watch Did You Know

The first video is Daniel Pink sharing some of this thoughts on what our world is becoming and what we and our students need to be to be successful.
The second video is Daniel Pink discussing how this applies to education.  Daniel Pink: Texas senate hearing on education. (You can fast forward to 1:51)

I strongly recommend adding the book, A WHOLE NEW MIND to your summer reading list.

Capstone


Your capstone is MANY, MANY, MANY things but it is usually based around a curricular unit.  You have already brainstormed over 35 ideas (Bloom/Gardner Grid) and completed a lesson plan as well as an assessment rubric on one curricular area.  Let's use all of this information to create the Unit plan. Your plan should cover about three weeks. Hopefully, you have or will have additional projects to this unit plan from your other classes.  Feel free to include these other projects in your unit plan.  This unit plan will be an incredible jump start to your CAPSTONE. I would like to share my Capstone with you!!

I share my capstone, not because I believe it is a great example of what a capstone should be, but because I want you to be aware of all that goes into the final  product.

The capstone is really two pieces. 
The first part of the capstone is what I like to prepare my students for.  The first part of the capstone includes a growth study, vitea, list of classes and research action.  These are assignments that will be explained and completed in the last class of the program.

The second part of the capstone is the real "meat" of the project.  You unit plan needs to a complete plan that includes lesson plans, worksheets, powerpoints, vodcasts, etc.  EVERYTHING a teacher would  need to complete the unit from your plan.


The last assignment is to complete a unit plan.  Below is the template and a sample.  The unit plan is due next week on As Soon as Possible (April 3rd).

Next week (March 27th), please read the blog for assignments.  We will not be meeting in class. Enjoy your Spring Break!!

The last day of class is April 3rd.  Please read the blog the last week as well.  I will be on campus to assist anyone with their unit plan.  If you have already completed and turned in your unit plan, you will not be required to meet. We will have assignments on the blog the last week of class. 

We will be meeting in class this week (March 20th) at 5pm.  I will be updating this blog Monday night in preparation for Tuesday night.  There will be no videos to watch ahead of time.
Sorry for the delay.

Multiple Intelligence lesson plan is due today!!!
Please refer to last week's blog post for specifics as well as templates and samples.

We will be looking into research concerning our left and right brains.  We will begin by watching a video about a woman who had the opportunity to study the brain from the inside out.  Watch Jill Bolte Taylor's Stroke of Insight  


Reaching consensus
Tim Bedley is an incredible teacher in Lake Elsinore.  He has some great teaching strategies and incredible videos and information.  Once of his teaching strategies is called “Reaching Consensus”.  We will read an article and look at some videos from his classroom.

Read Article http://www.timbedley.com/articles/article01.htm

Please be sure to watch a few videos concerning consensus as well as read the link at the bottom of the article named See a framework for the teaching strategy "reaching consensus."   

 If you have not already seen this video (third video down on the page, please watch.
http://www.timbedley.com/video/vid_teach2.htm
Reaching Consensus on a Reading Assignment(5:08)
In this powerful video, you will see a small group of 5th graders reaching consensus on some comprehension questions. Notice how they dig through the text to support their answers. They were never instructed to do this, but because of the learning activity "reaching consensus," they automatically skimmed the passage on their own. Two of these students are English language learners. 
The last half of the video is an interview with the students on the benefits of this teaching method. You'll love hearing these 5th graders insights.


Due March 20 - Rubric
We will create a rubric for one of the assignments in your Bloom/Gardner Grid.  It may a rubric for the lesson plan you just completed.  It may be a rubric for any other assignment in your Grid.  You may use any rubric generator to create your rubric, although I suggest Rubistar
Your rubric will be posted on your website/blog as well as emailing it to me.  Please label it "RubricYourNameSpring1". 
Your rubric will be graded using Aunt Olive's Rubric on Rubric


The last assignment is to complete a unit plan.  Below is the template and a sample.  Your capstone is MANY, MANY, MANY things but it is usually based around a curricular unit.  You have already brainstormed over 35 ideas (Bloom/Gardner Grid) and completed a lesson plan as well as an assessment rubric on one curricular area.  Let's use all of this information to create the Unit plan.  Hopefully, you have or will have additional projects to this unit plan from your other classes.  Feel free to include these other projects in your unit plan.  This unit plan will be an incredible jump start to your CAPSTONE.

Week 5
 
You have completed your Multiple Intelligences Grid.  It should have been saved as "Grid Your Name TopicTitle". It should have been emailed to me ([email protected] ) with the title, "Grid Your Name TopicTitle" .  It also should have been posted on your website/blog.


We will be meeting in class this week on Tuesday, March 6th at 5pm.  When you arrive to class, you will have read or watched the following links in order to be prepared for discussion.

Bloom's Digital Taxonomy  site  This site explains Bloom's Taxonomy from the perspective of digital learning and resources.  Please read the website from top to bottom.  I would like you to know what is on the page although you are not responsible for any clickable links.


Ian Jukes - Understanding The Digital Generation  Great Video!

 
Back up Education   I look forward to your opinion on this article!!


Internet Resources    Elementary Education resources for you if you are interested.

Assignment Due(3/13):  Multiple Intelligences Lesson Plan

Our next assignment is to choose one of those ideas on our grid and create a lesson plan.  It is your choice, if you choose an idea that is most likely to be used and successful in your classroom today, OR you may choose the idea that you wished you could do!!  Imagine laptops for everyone and unlimited time restraints.  Sometimes these crazy (if I could do anything ideas) lead to practical possibilities once thought completely through.  If you have a classroom, you may be more likely to choose practical. If you do not have a classroom, you may wish to dream big.
Use the one idea from the grid that you choose and complete a lesson plan. You may use the template provided or use a format you prefer. At least 2 multiple intelligences should be covered from different domains as well as a technology component.
The template provided has a blank for "STANDARDS".  I would like both the California State Standards and the National Educational Technology Standards and Performance Indicators for Students. (NETS.S).  The NETS.S can be read online. Please read the NETS.S and add the appropriate ones to match your lesson plan.  (PLEASE NOTE: the sample included may not have NETS.S.  Your lesson plan needs NETS.S) It should be saved as "Lesson plan Your Name Topic Title" When complete, it gets email to me ([email protected] ).  It also should be posted on your website/blog.


See you Tuesday!!!