May+28+Class+Notes

4th Class Notes: Scribe: Jeremy Ratcliffe  Showing the benefits of front row technology. Teachers use language and speech ALL the time!!  · Many things affect student hearing, whether it be age, language level or ear ailments. Messages are often lost or misinterpreted. · Average grade 1 student misses 17% of what the teacher says. Only 9.1% of grade 1 students hear 95%. Bad acoustics in classroom is a common problem, as well as classroom noise. · Significant degradation of sound can be when distance is added.  · With speaker system it improves speech volume, quality and clarity. · Provides recess for your voice, and allows you to speak at a regular soft voice. · Any type of amplification to assist speech in the classroom reduces vocal fatigue. 6 out of 10 people who have vocal fatigue are teachers. Teacher’s voices are at Risk. · Classroom flow: Soft-spoken students are able to project their voice with hand mics. This helps because less time is needed to repeat student responses or your own. · Classroom Management: Teachers seen as more happy by students since you don’t have to raise your voice. Students lose interest if they miss or do not comprehend what is being spoken. Can use the handheld mic as a **talking stick**. Because of the volume of the speaker, listening seems to increase. · Podcasting easy with Front Row, and transformative lessons coupled with the Internet using video chat.
 * May 28, 2009 **
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How to get it in your classroom: Return investment huge since you use it everyday. Avoids sick days, so cost of wages regained because of the system.

**In between Discussion **: Student media releases not usually an issue (published, images, sound bytes). Name & image release now much more accessible. To 482 students: Preview readings that are suggested for June 11 for next week.

<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> · <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Purposeful teaching. It’s all about the design. · <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Backwards design is a big part of the book, and looking at the design considerations. · <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Look at the results. What do you want the students to learn that they will remember 10 years from now? What they will know first, how will you measure the learning, and then the activities they’re going to do to get there? <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">- <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Activity oriented design. <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">- <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Coverage problems. To hit all the material should not be the goal. Automotive teacher wants his students to be able to diagnose car problems. **<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">First **<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">: Make a goal: “How do I diagnose?” “What steps do you take when diagnosing?” Separated from just talking about diagnosing cars. **<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Second **<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">: Give examples Evidence that they can fix certain car problems.
 * <span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> “Understanding by Design (UbD)” **
 * <span style="font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">2 ****<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Sins **<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> of Education:
 * <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Example **<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">:

**<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Lesson Planning w/ UbD ** <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Step 1: Desired Results <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">- <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Established Goals <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">- <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Enduring Understandings <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">- <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Essential Questions <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">- <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Students will know... Students will be able to…

Step 2: Assessment Evidence Step 3: Learning Plan & Activities

<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Enduring Understandings & Essential Questions: <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Nisgaa Treaty Wiki” http://nisgaatreaty.wikispaces.com/
 * Advice ** : Don’t be bogged down by UbD model. Remember that passion is more important than the curriculum. UbD is more of a Unit Planning guideline. Activities are a great way to create lesson plans.
 * <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Example: **

Steps taken to plan: <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">-Went through broad concepts: historical loss, reservations in BC, residential schools, self-governance -Provided an overview, enduring understanding, and then essential questions for each concept. Considered: goal, audience, situation, end result then activities.

= “Engage me or Enrage Me” Discussion Highlights = Interviews: <span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">- Interviewee is really feeling out the interviewer.

Is it self-entitlement? Are kids supposed to be entertained? - Kids have always been bored, but now have a way to ‘get out’ through other means of engagement. - Paradigm shift in education where engagement is a huge part of educating based on the students.

- However, entertaining and engaging are different things. Don’t need to cater to their entertainment needs, but really need to consider it and use it to our advantage.

- Really good education is engaging with problems with a purpose. Having goals in mind and achieving them are not necessarily entertaining.

- Videogames and computer games aren’t necessarily engaged. Superficially engaged perhaps.

- Students often feel pushed to learn something, pushed to sit in class. Very different from their digital world.

- There’s an understanding with mature students that technology has uses and etiquette (ex. Cell phones in a classroom).

=Smart Board – Cool stuff = Apps and interesting stuff: <span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">- Math: protractor graphic. Angle measurement. Great manipulative <span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">- Class Objects: spinners, dice <span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">- Science: Interactive lab equipment and design <span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">- Spelling: Moving letters around to spell different words. “Shakespeare” example <span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">- Magic Pen: art investigation, using zoom and focus.

There are many interactive features that bolster and enhance lessons. It seems the smart board is mostly adaptive in nature. =Google Docs: = <span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">- Great collaborative critical thinking of an article. <span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">- Editing the document as a class provided interesting opportunities and discussion. - Considered making the editing a group project as opposed to a classwide project.