tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-352722162024-03-12T22:47:00.084-07:00Learning With LucieUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger88125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35272216.post-64784166884904219432022-02-28T00:27:00.002-08:002022-02-28T00:37:41.777-08:00Status Update <p style="text-align: center;">Lucie is no longer updating this blog. </p><p style="text-align: center;">She currently updates the following blogs. </p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://CreateMakeLearn.blogspot.com">CreateMakeLearn.blogspot.com</a></h2><p></p><div style="text-align: center;">(where you'll find her posts related to Learning Through Creating and Making) </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhv9SWkQ2f4VGvanq2Dfls8obgfiru76qn5IB2CIOlAvQm8GpFn_DeMqyJr340mFvSZXEXEoBmkH07NOFsFAVoCm4JpJvctvBLDD9MPFfsKk_SvyrGNpT9ZG4aIB1b9cKW9luP6ec1pGL88BVI5die3CwjZ-woSjBIaDmOG-Xre5S4YA_Xi8w=s900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="900" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhv9SWkQ2f4VGvanq2Dfls8obgfiru76qn5IB2CIOlAvQm8GpFn_DeMqyJr340mFvSZXEXEoBmkH07NOFsFAVoCm4JpJvctvBLDD9MPFfsKk_SvyrGNpT9ZG4aIB1b9cKW9luP6ec1pGL88BVI5die3CwjZ-woSjBIaDmOG-Xre5S4YA_Xi8w=s320" width="320" /></a></div><h2 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.CreateMakeLearn.org">www.CreateMakeLearn.org</a></h2><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Lucie also occasionally updates her travel blog </p><p></p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><a href="blog.livinglearningmobile.com " target="_blank">blog.livinglearningmobile.com </a></h2><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">where you'll find sharing her experiences living in a 1983 Bluebird bus with her husband, Craig Lyndes </div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9RXJE4auGZjy-HR-JhfxQT_1QXqYo_uw0sAdH6o_1jfoFBNMTW1NAYhYW6PbpL9MbXwzQN7Ua70JpN8j0UyO2qeX3Ybvpn71TFFWi3H8JwLgSmYSV25oOkNcpO-Qv7CtbV9mUVkbflIQXf-tg7mxUcXOSkk-vi_qgd2GMZaM-p-ibcPknGQ=s2020" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1030" data-original-width="2020" height="163" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9RXJE4auGZjy-HR-JhfxQT_1QXqYo_uw0sAdH6o_1jfoFBNMTW1NAYhYW6PbpL9MbXwzQN7Ua70JpN8j0UyO2qeX3Ybvpn71TFFWi3H8JwLgSmYSV25oOkNcpO-Qv7CtbV9mUVkbflIQXf-tg7mxUcXOSkk-vi_qgd2GMZaM-p-ibcPknGQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">You'll find updates on her continued work with Girls and Tech at </p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.TechsavvyGirls.com">www.TechsavvyGirls.com</a></h2><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">and archived posts of the original Learning with Lucie blog at </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://lucie.typepad.com">lucie.typepad.com</a></h3><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35272216.post-54356553922744170602019-12-16T20:28:00.002-08:002019-12-16T20:28:07.792-08:00Leadership and Technology (Online) Course at UVM - Register by Friday<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35272216.post-59245864272833361782019-03-01T18:20:00.001-08:002019-03-01T18:21:48.340-08:00Day 1: Framing the Conversation Around MakerspacesThis March we're going to kick off our third annual 30 posts in 30 days series around Creating, Making, and Learning. This 2019 March Madness Maker Series will be focused on some of the questions that I've been using to <b>frame the conversation around making </b>over the past few years.<br />
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The earlier conversations are usually focused around the <b>WHAT </b>questions. Just exactly WHAT is a maker space? I was once sitting across the desk from a principal who shared that she had just googled "makerspaces' during our conversation so she would know what we are talking about. The term <b>Makerspaces </b>conjures up different images in almost everybody who uses it. Personally I like to use <b>Space for Creating and Making </b> as a way to shake preconceptions that come with the term<b> Makerspace.</b> A makerspace can be many different things to each of us. It can have all types of tools, supplies, and equipment. We've traveled to many makerspaces across the country and have yet to find any two alike. </div>
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We have visited many different Makerspaces in our bus, and each of them have different tools and take on different formats. This month I hope to introduce you to a few different configurations of makerspaces, each with their own unique sets of tools and supplies. </div>
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Probably one of the most important questions is the WHY question. Simon Sinek encourages us to KNOW OUR WHY! And while I agree that knowing your why is one of the most important things you can talk about in the conversation about makerspaces, it is NOT necessarily the first question you need to find the answers to. Sometimes you just need to start Making! And the more you make the more you will be able to articulate your why. Too many people think that you have to know your why BEFORE you move forward. I think knowing your why is a process and sometimes you just have to LAUNCH and the clarity about WHY will happen as you reflect on your process. </div>
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The WHO questions are not always obvious. But they are important ones. Without explicit attention to the WHO questions, you might accidentally end up creating a space that is not inclusive. Unfortunately that is a challenging condition to remedy. There are several ways to talk about WHO is making in your makerspace, and making sure that you have someone on your team who wears an equity lens in your conversations about making is helpful.<br />
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ALL teachers need to see models of instructional practice that are supported or augmented by powerful use of technology.<br />
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Sometimes teachers need to see a project that inspires them to freshen up a tired unit or lesson or completely redesign it.<br />
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Sometimes educators need a HOW to use a tool that they have seen others use in powerful ways, but need to build their own confidence or fluency before they try it.<br />
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Perhaps a tweak to the way we approach these could help us refocus on the WHY and the pedagogy.<br />
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What if we changed a How to session to something like this: "How to use Voicethread to support Multiple modes of Representation (UBD).<br />
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or perhaps change the 20 apps in 60 minutes to 20 Apps to increase Student Voice.<br />
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I also believe there is value in just playing with technology in the Playground area to help us stay curious and ask questions like "How might I use this feature of this robot platform" with my students. Sessions like this lead by teachers and students can generate some amazing conversations and ideation.<br />
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Walking through the vendor areas with a pedagogy lens, curious teachers will quickly discern which tools might connect with their instructional strategies and which ones are just flashy tech.<br />
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Partnership with vendors who value the input of educators to shape their products to meet the needs of our schools are essential. There are vendors out there who truly listen and make changes to their product based on educator feedback on what works for kids and what we need to do a better job with designing learning. I still remember the day when I met a CEO from WeVideo at a conference and shared with him a barrier to using WeVideo in my classroom. He had no idea this was a barrier. The next day I bumped into him again, and he said " I contacted headquarters last night and we fixed that!" Wow! We need vendors who are responsive to our needs. They are out there. It's a win win!<br />
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I think a great conference has lots of different opportunities to meet the needs of different learners.<br />
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You might even play hooky from work, rent a kayak or paddleboard and come back even more productive than ever from having refueled</div>
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I still remember that Twitter/River metaphor from <a href="https://twitter.com/snbeach">Sheryl NussbaumBeach</a> . <a href="https://twitter.com/snbeach">@snbeach</a> many moons ago. I might have added the playing hooky part. ;-) </div>
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I must confess that lately I've been the person who dips their toe in every once in a while.<br />
Every time I do, I feel refreshed and yearn for more time to dive in. </div>
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However this month, I'm experiencing a deep dive into my Twitter stream</div>
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Part of that is because I'm trying to create an experience for my #EDCI325 Technology and Leadership grad students that leaves them more fluent with using technology to help them grow as emerging leaders in their school. And of course I want that experience to be authentic and I certainly want to model how to make the most our of Twitter and other social media tools in your leadership role. I was an early adopter of Twitter, and also an evangelist in my edtech circles. The conversations felt both authentic and manageable. Twitter certainly grew my PLN in rich and helpful ways. </div>
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I think that those of us who find value in Twitter need to do more than evangelize it and tell educators to be patient and they too will eventually curate just the right blend of followers and people to follow resulting in helpful resources or answers to our questions. We need to mentor our newbies and guide them through helpful ways to leverage Twitter and other social media tools. </div>
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The topic in our class this week is <b>digital citizenship</b>. As I was planning the prompts that might guide our discussion on this topic, I noticed that we had just missed a #digchat Twitter chat. Since the chat was just last night, it was easy to read through. It was like listening to a conversation of educators talk about the very things we would be discussing this week.<br />
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Welcome! It’s <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DigCit?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DigCit</a> time! Tonight’s topic is ‘News & Media Literacy’ w/special guests <a href="https://twitter.com/InsightersEd?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@InsightersEd</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/roskocfart?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@roskocfart</a>. Follow the hashtag to join the conversation. Ready? Introduce yourself! 👋 <a href="https://t.co/pA9FiocgAF">pic.twitter.com/pA9FiocgAF</a></div>
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At that moment I was nostalgic for Storify and all the valuable Twitter chats I had curated.<br />
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The first thing I did was to curate <a href="http://wke.lt/w/s/miQY4" target="_blank">last night's #digcit Twitter Chat using Wakelet</a> As I read the tweets and added them to my <a href="https://wakelet.com/" target="_blank">Wakelet</a>, I noticed that the conversation hit many of the same questions we would be talking about.</div>
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<i>Who's accountable for Digital Citizenship at your School?<br />How do you find the time to add this important topic to the curriculum?<br />How can they as emerging leaders play a role in making the changes necessary to prepare students for today's digital world? and more. </i></blockquote>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcpDlmUoaiiHu6GyuJIFXrVGHoK7ggj7wjCXGmJ27t136itUhs7F90sDpcjQTJT_OOlINih003_IoCXLjcTZLM0I59QKqqyq194kOJB58Ot3gRPGkdghS0Eon7qdpeOisaCQe_/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-02-02+at+11.12.16+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: black; clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1030" data-original-width="1480" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcpDlmUoaiiHu6GyuJIFXrVGHoK7ggj7wjCXGmJ27t136itUhs7F90sDpcjQTJT_OOlINih003_IoCXLjcTZLM0I59QKqqyq194kOJB58Ot3gRPGkdghS0Eon7qdpeOisaCQe_/s320/Screen+Shot+2019-02-02+at+11.12.16+PM.png" title="" width="320" /></a>If only I could have assigned participation in that Twitter chat to my grad students. But due to a tool like <a href="https://wakelet.com/" target="_blank">Wakelet</a>, they would now be able to eavesdrop on the conversation and listen to real educators like themselves sharing ideas about the challenges they are experiencing in their school. The conversation itself was helpful, and every resources that was shared during that twitter chat was new to me except for one.<br />
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It was then that I decided to go back through the chat one more time and pull out all the resources and curate them using the same <a href="http://wke.lt/w/s/miQY4" target="_blank">Wakelet</a>. The <a href="http://wke.lt/w/s/miQY4" target="_blank">Wakelet</a> now starts with twenty fresh resources that were actually suggested from educators currently using them in the field. How great is that? If that doesn't persaude some that the hour was well spent, I'm not sure what will. Some of the resources from our textbook are already dated, and some no longer exist at all.<br />
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Yes, it took me a little extra time to organize the chat and resources using Waklet, but now it's available for each of my grad students, and hopefully some of them will be just the right tool for them to use as they navigate the world of leading change and influencing others in their school</div>
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One of the ironic things about choosing to add this story to this blog, instead of in Blackboard is that it brought me back to read my last post on this blog - which j<b>ust so happened to be on the same topic! </b> It was great to reflect on what I was thinking a year ago. And yes, it's been a year, since I added to this blog - but most of my blogging fits better in the Create Make Learn blog these days, except for reflections on topics like these which don't fit in on that blog. </div>
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It's a bit long, and he's a bit harsh, especially on the teacher who does not understand proxy servers, but it's definitely worth a read. You can just skim through the long list of examples of people who don't know how to use computers, or you can go down memory lane with your own examples of people who you have helped/saved when their computer became a barrier to the tasks they were trying to accomplish.<br />
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What this article got me thinking about today was the concepts of 'computer literacy, digital literacy, or technology literacy'. The indicators of what it means to be computer literate or digital literate are a moving target. With the exponential changes in technology, I'm wondering about the pace by which we as educators update what our kids should KNOW about technology.<br />
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Do we (as the author of this post suggests) assume kids already know this stuff, or that they know more than us?<br />
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Do we update our own technology skills or stay current? Or do we give up because the pace of change is too fast for us to stay current?<br />
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Schools all around the country are charged with preparing students for the future.<br />
This is an overwhelming responsibility! We frequently ask ourselves 'what do kids need to know' and we answer it the best we can using concepts and skills that we are comfortable with. But whose job is it to advocate for the technology literacy skills of our students in a landscape where we are preparing our students to be future ready.<br />
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I think we all agree that computer literacy or technology literacy or digital literacy is important!<br />
Yet many years ago many schools started to eliminate mandatory computer literacy classes.<br />
We made assumptions that kids were coming into school with those skills already or that they could learn those skills embedded in their current curriculum.<br />
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Instead of updating the content of 'computer literacy' from "How to create a folder and organize files within folders and 'how to perform basic word processing tasks' to more current materials that every student or teacher needs to know to be considered digitally literate, we got rid of the class. We even got rid of opportunities for kids (and teachers) to learn some of these skills on their own by creating filters that blocked access to Internet resources or blocked access to features of computers where they can be in charge of their own devices. Teacher preparation programs also got rid of classes like Emerging Technologies in their teacher preparation programs, assuming that the new generation of pre-service teachers were all digital natives.<br />
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We assumed that every content area teacher was going to embed CURRENT computer/digital literacy skills in their content area. But often, there is no requirement that a teacher demonstrates that they are computer/digital literate to get certified or re-certified. And there is seldom any time for this type of learning in a very crowded curriculum where teachers are asked to focus on the power standards amongst a long list of content related standards in their discipline they might not be able to 'cover'.<br />
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And I'm wondering whether we have not come to a time where we need to revisit what we mean by computer literacy, technology literacy, or digital literacy in our schools for students and teachers!<br />
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I'm fortunate enough to be surrounded by a PLN filled with educational technology specialists/coaches who are often the lens through which a school tackles this issue - but I also am VERY AWARE that most of our schools do not have such a position on their staff. I'm also seeing this position being eliminated in some schools, or filled by uncertified staff with no evidence that they have the skills or are staying current on the skills needed to fill this role. I've seen some schools where teachers are being denied professional development request to upgrade their technology skills, and diminishing course offerings as colleges are seeing reduced enrollments.<br />
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As we reflect on the New Year, I think we need to ask ourselves "What role did technology play in the events of 2017?"<br />
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Is it time to make sure our students, educators, and schools are technology literate as part of becoming #futureready in 2018!<br />
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IMHO...the most important part of the article by <a href="https://twitter.com/intent/follow?original_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fcoding2learn.org%2Fblog%2F2013%2F07%2F29%2Fkids-cant-use-computers%2F&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&screen_name=coding2learn&tw_p=followbutton" target="_blank">Marc Scott</a> about <a href="http://coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-computers/" target="_blank">Why Kids Can't use Computers. </a><br />
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Technology affects our lives more than ever before. Our computers give us access to the food we eat and the clothes we wear. Our computers enable us to work, socialise and entertain ourselves. Our computers give us access to our utilities, our banks and our politics. Our computers allow criminals to interact with us, stealing our data, our money, our identities. Our computers are now used by our governments, monitoring our communications, our behaviours, our secrets. <a href="http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html" style="border: 0px; color: #751590; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.4px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: 0.3s; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">Cory Doctorow</a> put it much better than I can when he said:</div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.4px;">After </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%29" style="border: 0px; color: #751590; font-size: 18.4px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: 0.3s; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">Snowden's</a><span style="font-size: 18.4px;"> revelations first came out, I went into school on Monday to find that most of my colleagues and students had either not heard about the scandal, or if they had just didn't care. While I was busy </span><a href="http://coding2learn.org/blog/2013/06/08/its-our-own-fault-dot-dot-dot-deal-with-it/" style="border: 0px; color: #751590; font-size: 18.4px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: 0.3s; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">deleting my on-line accounts</a><span style="font-size: 18.4px;"> and locking down my machines, my friends called me paranoid and made jokes about tinfoil hats. My family shrugged their shoulders in that </span><em style="border: 0px; font-size: 18.4px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">'Meh'</em><span style="font-size: 18.4px;"> way, and mumbled the often quoted 'Nothing to hide, nothing to fear.' Then, out of the blue, Cameron announces that ISPs are going to start filtering The Internet. It's described as a 'porn filter', but the </span><a href="https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2013/sleepwalking-into-censorship" style="border: 0px; color: #751590; font-size: 18.4px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: 0.3s; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">Open Rights Group's</a><span style="font-size: 18.4px;"> investigations implies that far more than porn will be filtered by default. Then to top it all, Cameron's chief advisor on this issue has her </span><a href="http://order-order.com/2013/07/23/claire-perrys-website-hacked-by-porn-prankers/" style="border: 0px; color: #751590; font-size: 18.4px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: 0.3s; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">website hacked</a><span style="font-size: 18.4px;"> and displays just how </span><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23437473" style="border: 0px; color: #751590; font-size: 18.4px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: 0.3s; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">technically illiterate</a><span style="font-size: 18.4px;"> she really is.</span></div>
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Tomorrow's politicians, civil servants, police officers, teachers, journalists and CEOs are being created today. These people don't know how to use computers, yet they are going to be creating laws regarding computers, enforcing laws regarding computers, educating the youth about computers, reporting in the media about computers and lobbying politicians about computers. Do you thinks this is an acceptable state of affairs? I have David Cameron telling me that internet filtering is a good thing. I have William Hague telling me that I have nothing to fear from GCHQ. I have one question for these policy makers:</div>
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<i><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(2). I’m responsible for moving the work of a TON of other people forward, too: </strong>One of the hardest things about being a classroom teacher is that I almost always feel buried under a never-ending list of tasks that I need to complete for people working in positions beyond the classroom.</i></blockquote>
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Bill, So much of your post resonated with me. I remember the 30 years I spent in K12 (more than 22 with my own students enjoying the benefit of those AHA moments you described. I remember going to a workshop at a conference lead by a time management specialist and thinking that this guy really has no clue that classroom teachers cannot 'block off chunks of time in their calendar with the door closed, to check things off their list organized by like tasks." During the 8 years that I spent as an out of the classroom educator / tech integrationist, I tried to do everything I could to relieve your day to day duties whenever I asked you to do 'something for me) Sometimes it was 'take a group of your kids to lead a learning tasks or take something else off your plate like collate or organize materials. Sometimes my husband would state "you seem willing to spend an hour to save someone 5 minutes" -- I would then explain Like you did in this post - why teachers have such great bladder control! I think your post is a great reminder to those of us no longer 'in the classroom' of things we can do to get your support with some of the systems work. Even something as simple as long hallway conversations or photo copier meetings while waiting for copies can help. Advocating for teacher time to be built in for some of these out of the classroom responsibilities or always asking - 'how does this directly impact students' and prioritizing our own request this way.<br />
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You mentioned one of the benefits of out of the classroom roles as having the time to thing deeply about things - this is such a benefit for me now. How I wish every teacher could have both - those direct contact moments that fuel us AND also the benefit of time to think, process, create in long blocks of time required often required for deeper thinking. I had a superintendent who told me his goal would be for every classroom teacher to have a sabbatical where they would have to take a year out of the classroom to regenerate, think deeply, learn out of the classroom. Obviously that never happened for him, but I have seen schools where classroom teachers get to spend a couple of year in an out of classroom experience, thus engaging in needed periods of deep thought, systems work, state of flow as they create as oppose to 15 minute chunks of prep time. I also believe that every out of classroom educator/school leader should have to spend a year back in the classroom every so many years to keep their license.<br />
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Thank you Bill, for the thoughtful posts. Sorry this got a bit long, maybe I should go add it to my blog! Your post definitely resonated.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35272216.post-59508573841518915302017-11-23T11:23:00.000-08:002017-11-23T11:23:13.019-08:00Thankful for Technology Bridging Distance and Timezones<br />
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Hope that you are all in a place where you can be thankful today with family and friends. This Thanksgiving we are close to some family and friends, and miles away for others. </div>
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This semester I took on a new challenge, teaching a course called <span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> </span><a href="https://www.marlboro.edu/academics/graduate/mat" style="font-size: medium;" target="_blank">Innovations in Education: Maker- Centered Learning class </a> that is part of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/marlborogradschool/" target="_blank">Marlboro College Graduate and Professional Studies</a></div>
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But honestly, I think that the most important element to the sense of community that I have seen form in this class was the the willingness of these educators/grad students to SHARE their PROCESS! Sharing our successes and fails is not always easy. It takes time to stop and document. Sometimes metacognition interrupts flow. But since we are not in the same room, and can't look over each others shoulders as we create, make, and learn; using online tools to watch each others struggles, or celebrating each others WINS is so important. </div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">Earlier this week, I did a </span><a href="http://blog.livinglearningmobile.com/2017/11/go-west-bella.html" style="font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">blog post on our travel blog</a><span style="font-size: 14px;"> that had me reflecting on the ability of technology to bridge the distance and time zone gap -- but in reality it's not the technology, its how PEOPLE use the technology that works to bridge that gap. During this post, I reflected on how </span><b>thankful</b><span style="font-size: 14px;"> I am for .... </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-- my </span><a href="https://www.marlboro.edu/academics/graduate/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Marlboro College</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> students this semester piloting learning about Maker Centered Learning in an online class</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">--working with </span><a href="http://vita-learn.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vita-Learn </span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">on <a href="http://vita-learn.org/regions/" target="_blank">Vermont Regional Work </a>and <a href="http://vita-learn.org/ignite/" target="_blank">IGNITE projects</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-- working with <a href="https://www.uvm.edu/tiie/" target="_blank">Tarrant Institute </a>on </span><a href="http://www.minimakerbus.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the EMMA project </span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(moving conversations about #makered forward in rural Vermont schools)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-- educators who have become part of the </span><a href="http://www.createmakelearn.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Create Make Learn</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> tribe - both during the Summer Institute and during the school year by sharing in our Google Community</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">-- the opportunity to collaborate on projects as a freelance educator with other organizations like <a href="http://www.cvedcvt.org/" target="_blank">CVEDC,</a> <a href="https://www.retn.org/" target="_blank">RETN</a>, <a href="http://www.echovermont.org/" target="_blank">ECHO</a>, and the <a href="http://generatorvermont.com/" target="_blank">Generator </a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">--companies like <a href="https://www.sparkfun.com/" target="_blank">Sparkfun</a>, <a href="http://theimaginationtoolbox.com/" target="_blank">The Imagination Toolbox.</a> <a href="https://www.birdbraintechnologies.com/" target="_blank">Birdbrain Technologies</a>, <a href="http://wevideo.com/" target="_blank">WeVideo</a>, and <a href="https://ed.voicethread.com/" target="_blank">Voicethread </a> and so many others who have offered educators so much more than technology tools with their online tutorials, free PD, and other support to help us use innovative technology in our practice
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">One of the highlights of my week was getting text messages from the new maker space at Burke School as they were building wind tubes as part of a student leadership day that I helped design with Tarrant Institute as part of my EMMA project. </span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">It was not quite the same as being there, but today's technology does allow me to stay engaged with the #vted community as I travel around the country looking for new ideas and inspirations to support students and teachers. Between Google Apps, email, chat, text, and video conferencing, I hardly feel the difference in time zones (except when meetings are scheduled at 8:00 EST)<br /><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unfortunately, the summer was jammed packed and I was unable to get back to The Other Mill until last night! Encouraged by a friend who has 30 years of experience in electrical engineering, I pulled out the Other Mill and the new set of bits and </span><a href="https://support.bantamtools.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001656133-Welcome-to-the-Bantam-Tools-Desktop-PCB-Milling-Machine" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">we started to tackle the starter directions.</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The first step was to reacquaint ourselves with the new website, since the Other Mill had been purchased by a new company - Bantam Tools. I couldn’t find the Hello World Project I was so eager to make, but settled for the </span><a href="https://support.bantamtools.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003204926-Bantam-Tools-PCB-Badge?_ga=2.12577527.2104589676.1508616796-1293886674.1508616796" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">similar Rooster PCB starter project. </span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unfortunately when it came to the last step - START MILLING -- that option was greyed out. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We kept checking and double checking our settings and realized that we had confused where to put the z axis information (I’m thinking that the software would be less confusing had they not used the word PLACEMENT twice in the interface.) Perhaps they could call one Material Placement and the other Plan Placement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scratching our head for several minutes, we finally noticed that only 3 of the plastic safety guides were installed and there was a 4th one buried on the work bench. Sure enough -- adding the 4th guide did the trick! My engineer friend immediately started to examine the OtherMill more closely looking for the sensors! ;-) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And this! YUK! We could see the toolpath which clued us in that the Z axis was not calibrated! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: #737579; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Next to "Tool" on our software, click the Change button, select “1/32” Flat End Mill,” click Continue, verify tool position (it should be above an empty area of the spoilboard), and click Locate Tool. The end mill will lower until it touches the spoilboard, pause, then retract upwards. Now the software knows where the 1/32” flat end mill is located in space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is a HUGELY important part! I would certainly suggest that the instructions HIGHLIGHT this section! The step makes a LOT of sense! I’m not sure why we missed it! Perhaps our aging eyes! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fortunately I had ONE more extra bit. NOTE TO SELF (order more bits!) </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We secured another piece of PCB and followed the Locate Tool directions. </span></div>
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What I thought was going to be a stroll through <a href="http://seaba.com/art-hop/" target="_blank">Burlington's Art Hop</a> yesterday, ended up to be a HANG at the <a href="https://generatorvt.com/" target="_blank">Generator (Burlington's maker space)</a> reconnecting with SEWING as Making!<br />
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Watching some fellow Generator members gathered around sewing machines and fabric in the Learning Lab, I decided to join the fun.<br />
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I picked up a red T-Shirt, laid down the Pillow Body People pattern pieces that <a href="http://adrianalentrichia.squarespace.com/blog-1/2017/2/10/pillow-body-people-pattern" target="_blank">Adriana</a> had for us, and started to trace and cut! It has been 40 years since I had used a sewing machine. Since the sewing machine was 'ready to go', I didn't have to futz around with the dreaded threading of the needle! <br />
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The directions were minimalist, so I spent some time with 'close observing' of the Pillow People in various stages of creation around me. <br />
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As I was going through my 'making' I got to watch a magical process happen. A young girl approached the sewing machine, but stayed at a distance. Karen (one of the Generators sewing experts) invited her to join us and make with us. The young girl kept her distant mumbling that she didn't know how to use a sewing machine. <br />
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Within minutes, Karen had engaged her with the colorful upholstery samples and piles of available T-Shirts as they looked at some of the T-Shirt Hack bags on display! She started to imagine and talk about the type of bag she would like to make.<br />
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It didn't take long for her reluctance to transform to fully engaged and then to confident maker! By the time her bag was finished, she was begging her grandma to stay longer so she could make a a pillow person, too!<br />
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Again the magical maker formula of <b>Inspiration,</b> available <b>Tools </b>and <b>Materials,</b> and inviting <b>Mentors </b>were at play in turning an observer into a maker. <br />
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Nice job Generator for setting up an <b>inviting place </b>to Make with just the right<b> tools</b>!<br />
Nice job Adraiana for setting up accessible maker <b>materials </b>in a way that <b>inspired!</b><br />
Nice job, Karen for being the perfect welcoming <b>mentor!</b><br />
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The whole process reminded me of a tweet I saw recently with a 3 questions to help you assess the accessibility of your maker space. I forget where I saw this, but the questions were spot on and are firmly ingrained in the way I look at maker space and access!<br />
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I've been invited to join the Generator members during some of the maker sessions around sewing. Yesterday I felt very welcomed (no matter what my skills were). And suddenly I'm eager to find out when the next event is so that I can show up!<br />
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As for my Pillow Person? Well.... I got it all cut and mostly sewed up. I <a href="http://adrianalentrichia.squarespace.com/blog-1/2017/2/10/pillow-body-people-pattern" target="_blank">picked up a copy of the pattern and directions from Adriana</a> to took the partially complete project home so that I could add some e-textile components to it.<br />
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And as soon as I got home I took a recently purchased portable sewing machine, out of the box and made room for it on my home maker bench!<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I had just finished my annual five day </span><a href="http://www.createmakelearn.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Create Make Learn Summer Institute </span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and I was filled with ideas of what I might want to include in this two day event. The biggest problem was that I wanted to include TOO much! Stepping back I reached into my teacher toolbox and used a backward design approach to think about WHAT I wanted them to leave with at the end of the two days! I decided that what I really wanted them to be able to do is to “articulate </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WHY a Makerspace in MY School?” </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">or at least be ready to lead that conversation with their colleagues.</span><br />
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I try to resist answering that question until they can tell me their WHY. But the problem is that this is a chicken and egg situation. It’s hard to know your WHY if you have not experienced maker centered learning. You don’t know what’s possible. Of if you do, your understanding of what’s possible is limited to the areas you have experienced or what you have read. And since there is NO shortage of amazing materials about maker spaces (including shopping lists of resources) available online, educators are often feeling overwhelmed and confused. It was my goal that my two day workshop would provide teachers with a clearer understanding of some of the tools, technologies and materials often found in a maker space as well as WHAT type of impact having these available for students might have on learning.<br />
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This type of understanding does not simply come from looking at lists of maker space supplies. This type of understanding does not just come from sitting around talking about pedagogy. This type of understanding does not come from creating a large collection of STEAM based lesson plans. This type of understanding comes from from all of the above combined with experiencing the learning process that happens as you Create and Make.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It all started with picking two great locations for the workshop. We kicked off the workshop at the </span><a href="http://generatorvermont.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Generator</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - a community maker space in Burlington Vermont, followed up with Day 2 in a school maker space -</span><a href="http://btc.bsdvt.org/index.php/studio-b/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Studio B</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (the BTC maker space in Burlington Schools) The locations of the workshops were instrumental to helping our group (mostly PreK - 8 teachers) start to understand the possible WHY of a makerspace. The locations for our workshop also highlighted how important that we examine our WHY as part of an interconnected system - a community of makers, educators, artists, inventors, problem solvers, and innovators shaping the future. Our Why should be shaped by a greater understanding of how each of us contributes to the system and how we can help each other towards a greater collective impact.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As we toured the Generator, I asked teachers to take as many pictures as they could of INSPIRATION that they could use to better understand what their students might be able to create someday. I also suggested that they take pictures of tools and materials that might be useful in a makerspace. This would be the beginning of the LIST of tools and materials they asked for in our earlier conversation. THEY would build this list together from their experience over the next two days! Trying to model that a teacher’s job is not to provide a ready made solution, but to help students ask the right questions and design a solution to questions like (How do I create a makerspace in my school), I was determined not to provide a recipe but to help them create their own individual design that matched their WHY! </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We were welcomed to Burlington Technical Center by Courtney Asaro who had helped design and set up the </span><a href="http://btc.bsdvt.org/index.php/studio-b/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Studio B makerspace </span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">just last year. We had the added bonus of having Courtney talk to us about her work with younger learners at </span><a href="https://goo.gl/photos/ejmBQwtFJvvAvVjv7" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Flynn Elementary.</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Courtney described how SHE and her young students would be collaborating with the Burlington Technical Center in the upcoming school year. She also shared examples of how Flynn Elementary students had collaborated with Generator members, driving home the importance of understanding the power of leveraging the community as you develop your maker education journey. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our morning conversation was rich and had a natural flow to it as teachers debriefed the previous day and prepared for our second day of making. Listening to what surprised them, what was challenging, and what inspired them revealed that they were really starting to understand their “WHY” and how a makerspace might fit into their school. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Seeing similar technologies in a school maker space as they had seen earlier at the Generator, (laser cutter, 3D printer, vinyl cutter, CNC machine, power tools, hand tools, and more) our group of educators were less interested in the ‘tools’ and more interested in the process of making. The shift in the conversations was a perfect set up to the experiences I had designed for the day. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our Day 2 workshop design revolved around the multi-disciplinary </span><a href="http://education.vermont.gov/student-learning/proficiency-based-learning/transferable-skills" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Transferrable Skills</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> that Vermont teachers are being asked to design their own learning around. </span></div>
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I just realized that I haven't posted anything in this blog since April - can that be? Thinking about the past few months, I realize why. I've been immersed in planning what turned out to be one of the most rockin' Innovation Lounge experience yet for <a href="http://dynamiclandscapes.vita-learn.org/" target="_blank">Dynamic Landscape Conference </a>sponsored by <a href="http://vita-learn.org/" target="_blank">Vita-Learn </a>and <a href="https://vsla.wildapricot.org/" target="_blank">VSLA</a>.<br />
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and OMG did it rock! Vermont is filled with the most amazing innovative educators! <br />
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If you weren't there.. here is a glimpse into the two days in the Innovation Lounge.<br />
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Our students are so lucky to have such wonderful folks guiding them. One of the best parts of this year's innovation lounge was that it was filled with student presenters. We had over 100 teachers and students exhibiting innovative practices for teaching and learning over the two days in the Innovation Lounge alone. Add that to all who presented in regular workshop sessions and you will soon realize why the 2017 Dynamic Landscape conference was an amazing event focused on authentic student voice.<br />
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I'm also so thankful that Vermont has developed a relationship with amazing ed-tech partners who were so eager to support our Innovation Lounge Challenges this year, including <a href="https://www.wevideo.com/" target="_blank">WeVideo</a>, <a href="http://www.birdbraintechnologies.com/" target="_blank">BirdBrain Technologies with Finch</a>, <a href="https://www.terrapinlogo.com/robots/bluebot.html" target="_blank">Therapin Logo w Blue-bot,</a> <a href="https://pinbox3000.com/" target="_blank"> Cardboard Tech Instantute with Pinbox 3000</a>.<br />
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-- a two day Intro to Making option in Rutland on July 13 - 14<br />
-- a two day Media Making option in Burlington on July 31 - Aug 1<br />
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along with our signature 5 day hands on Institute in Burlington July 31 - Aug 4.<br />
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Here is a list of the Innovation Lounge exhibitors I've been working with over the past few months! LUCKY ME! and Lucky YOU if you got to interact with them at Dynamic Landscape and even more Lucky students if you were inspired by this year's Innovation Lounge to try something new in your school.<br />
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<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-numberformat="[null,5,"ddd mmmm d",1]" data-sheets-value="{"1":3,"3":42877}" style="padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Mon May 22</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Design Challenge with Pinbox 3000"}" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Design Challenge with Pinbox 3000</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Create Make Learn & Cardboard Tech"}" style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Create Make Learn & Cardboard Tech</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Pete and Ben from Cardboard Instantute"}" style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Pete and Ben from Cardboard Instantute</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-numberformat="[null,5,"ddd mmmm d",1]" data-sheets-value="{"1":3,"3":42877}" style="padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Mon May 22</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Create Animations"}" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Create Animations</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Rice Memorial"}" style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Rice Memorial</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Tony Galle"}" style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Tony Galle</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-numberformat="[null,5,"ddd mmmm d",1]" data-sheets-value="{"1":3,"3":42877}" style="padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Mon May 22</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Making Media Challenge & Showcase "}" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Making Media Challenge & Showcase </td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Create Make Learn Community "}" style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Create Make Learn Community </td><td style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-numberformat="[null,5,"ddd mmmm d",1]" data-sheets-value="{"1":3,"3":42877}" style="padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Mon May 22</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Hero's Journey with Pinball"}" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Hero's Journey with Pinball</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Hunt Middle School"}" style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Hunt Middle School</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Lee Slocum-Orlando"}" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 110%; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Lee Slocum-Orlando</td></tr>
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<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-numberformat="[null,5,"ddd mmmm d",1]" data-sheets-value="{"1":3,"3":42877}" style="padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Mon May 22</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Lego Design Challenges"}" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Lego Design Challenges</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Shoreham Elementary Schoo"}" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Shoreham Elementary Schoo</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Abby Adams"}" style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Abby Adams</td></tr>
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<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-numberformat="[null,5,"ddd mmmm d",1]" data-sheets-value="{"1":3,"3":42877}" style="padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Mon May 22</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Design Challenge with Pinbox 3000 "}" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Design Challenge with Pinbox 3000 </td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Cardboard Tech Instatute & Create Make Learn Community "}" style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Cardboard Tech Instatute & Create Make Learn Community </td><td style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
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<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-numberformat="[null,5,"ddd mmmm d",1]" data-sheets-value="{"1":3,"3":42878}" style="padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Tue May 23</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Experience 360 Video"}" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Experience 360 Video</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Rutland Central"}" style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Rutland Central</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Erica Zimmer"}" style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Erica Zimmer</td></tr>
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<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-numberformat="[null,5,"ddd mmmm d",1]" data-sheets-value="{"1":3,"3":42878}" style="padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Tue May 23</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Tangible Learning With Osmo"}" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Tangible Learning With Osmo</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Fletcher School"}" style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Fletcher School</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"MC Baker + student"}" style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">MC Baker + student</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-numberformat="[null,5,"ddd mmmm d",1]" data-sheets-value="{"1":3,"3":42878}" style="padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Tue May 23</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Bristol Elementary Library Makerspace"}" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Bristol Elementary Library Makerspace</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Bristol Elementary"}" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 110%; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Bristol Elementary</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Kyra Ginalski"}" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 110%; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Kyra Ginalski</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-numberformat="[null,5,"ddd mmmm d",1]" data-sheets-value="{"1":3,"3":42878}" style="padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Tue May 23</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"3D Vermont "}" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">3D Vermont </td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Williston Central School"}" style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Williston Central School</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Ellen and Aaron & students"}" style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Ellen and Aaron & students</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-numberformat="[null,5,"ddd mmmm d",1]" data-sheets-value="{"1":3,"3":42878}" style="padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Tue May 23</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Wifi Connected Book Demo (IoT)"}" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Wifi Connected Book Demo (IoT)</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Jill Dawson"}" style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Jill Dawson</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Jill Dawson"}" style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Jill Dawson</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-numberformat="[null,5,"ddd mmmm d",1]" data-sheets-value="{"1":3,"3":42878}" style="padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Tue May 23</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Making Community/ Burlington Schools/ Generator"}" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Making Community/ Burlington Schools/ Generator</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Flynn Elementary / Generator"}" style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Flynn Elementary / Generator</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Nick Mack and students"}" style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Nick Mack and students</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-numberformat="[null,5,"ddd mmmm d",1]" data-sheets-value="{"1":3,"3":42878}" style="padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Tue May 23</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Burlington Tech Center Makerspace"}" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Burlington Tech Center Makerspace</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Burlington Technical Center"}" style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Burlington Technical Center</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Courtney Asaro and students"}" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 110%; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Courtney Asaro and students</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-numberformat="[null,5,"ddd mmmm d",1]" data-sheets-value="{"1":3,"3":42878}" style="padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Tue May 23</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Lego Design Challenges"}" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Lego Design Challenges</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Shoreham Elementary Schoo"}" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Shoreham Elementary Schoo</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Abby Adams"}" style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Abby Adams</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-numberformat="[null,5,"ddd mmmm d",1]" data-sheets-value="{"1":3,"3":42878}" style="padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Tue May 23</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Learning to Code with Robots Rodeo / Blu Bot Games"}" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Learning to Code with Robots Rodeo / Blu Bot Games</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Orchard School"}" style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Orchard School</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Donna MacDonald Steven Schmidt & Students"}" style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Donna MacDonald Steven Schmidt & Students</td></tr>
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<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Tuesday Afternoon"}" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-weight: bold; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Tuesday Afternoon</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Come and Experience..."}" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-weight: bold; padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Experience...</td><td style="background-color: black; padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td><td style="background-color: black; padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-numberformat="[null,5,"ddd mmmm d",1]" data-sheets-value="{"1":3,"3":42878}" style="padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Tue May 23</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Make Green Screen Movies with WeVideo"}" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Make Green Screen Movies with WeVideo</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"South Burlington"}" style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">South Burlington</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Lauren Parren"}" style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Lauren Parren</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-numberformat="[null,5,"ddd mmmm d",1]" data-sheets-value="{"1":3,"3":42878}" style="padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Tue May 23</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Making Media Challenge & Showcase "}" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Making Media Challenge & Showcase </td><td style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td><td style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-numberformat="[null,5,"ddd mmmm d",1]" data-sheets-value="{"1":3,"3":42878}" style="padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Tue May 23</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Creating Games in Math Class"}" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Creating Games in Math Class</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"South Burlington High School"}" style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">South Burlington High School</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Kristine Harootunian + students"}" style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Kristine Harootunian + students</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-numberformat="[null,5,"ddd mmmm d",1]" data-sheets-value="{"1":3,"3":42878}" style="padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Tue May 23</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"3D Design for Animals"}" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">3D Design for Animals</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Milton HS / Generator"}" style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Milton HS / Generator</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Courtney Reckord & students"}" style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Courtney Reckord & students</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-numberformat="[null,5,"ddd mmmm d",1]" data-sheets-value="{"1":3,"3":42878}" style="padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Tue May 23</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Pinball Design Challenge - Enchance with Circuits"}" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Pinball Design Challenge - Enchance with Circuits</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Create Make Learn / Cardboard Instantute/ Center for Tech Essex"}" style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Create Make Learn / Cardboard Instantute/ Center for Tech Essex</td><td style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-numberformat="[null,5,"ddd mmmm d",1]" data-sheets-value="{"1":3,"3":42878}" style="padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Tue May 23</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Lego Design Challenges"}" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Lego Design Challenges</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Shoreham Elementary Schoo"}" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Shoreham Elementary Schoo</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Abby Adams"}" style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Abby Adams</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-numberformat="[null,5,"ddd mmmm d",1]" data-sheets-value="{"1":3,"3":42878}" style="padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Tue May 23</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Learning to Code with Robots Rodeo "}" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Learning to Code with Robots Rodeo </td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Richmond School"}" style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Richmond School</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Darcie Rankins & Students"}" style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Darcie Rankins & Students</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-numberformat="[null,5,"ddd mmmm d",1]" data-sheets-value="{"1":3,"3":42878}" style="padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Tue May 23</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Essex High School Library Makerspace"}" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Essex High School Library Makerspace</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Essex High School"}" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 110%; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Essex High School</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Martine Gulick"}" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 110%; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Martine Gulick</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Recently I asked my graduate students to share their experience with digital portfolios. I would have to say that my experience started in the late 90's when we first learned how to publish on the web using HTML and FTP, but in 2006 when I discovered blogging tools I quickly knew that a new digital portfolio platform had been born. </span></div>
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My love for blogging tools as a digital platform started back in 1999 when my students started exploring digital tools to keep track of their learning using tools like</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveJournal" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Live Journal</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanga" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Xanga.</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> We (my students and I) loved exploring new tools. We had been using web design tools to document our learning and create web sites about our community for a few years. I remember one student claiming that she could FTP in her sleep! </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35272216.post-85793066629234978062017-03-02T21:56:00.001-08:002017-03-04T12:54:23.929-08:00Embracing Change<span style="color: #373b41; font-family: "lusitana" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">This week I am leading a dozen members of my Educational Technology Leadership class into a new venture for most -- participating in a Global Conversation about Innovation through <a href="http://immooc.org/2017/02/27/immooc-live-episode-1-and-blog-prompts/" target="_blank">the second #IMMOOC</a> around <a href="http://georgecouros.ca/blog/the-innovators-mindset-book" target="_blank">George Couros' book Innovator Mindset. </a></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #373b41; font-family: "lusitana" , serif;">This week we were given several prompts to consider in our weekly blog post; I immediately gravitated towards this one -- </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Four years ago I gave up my apartment and moved into a 1983 Blue Bird Bus. </span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="color: #073763;">You say you have a fiber connection so I assume you are capable of getting a Gig. I would highly recommend doing that - remember that is what e-rate was meant for. </span></i><i><span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="color: #073763;">If you had a room in your school with poor air circulation you would not spend huge sums of money designing and implementing a machine that would identify each student, drop a mask down and meter out the oxygen. Teachers get as much air as they want, kids have to breath like deep sea divers and guests are on their own.</span></i><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> </span></blockquote>
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<i><span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="color: #073763;">You would fix the problem by putting in an air system sufficient to allow everyone to breath as much as they wanted and have some extra for special occasions.</span></i><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> </span></blockquote>
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<i><span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="color: #073763;">Ask your people what they want. I'll bet they want their technology to be simple, dependable and fast. Use your technical expertise to provide them with what they want. Spend your money and energy on education. If you want to tinker and do amazing technology create with a raspberry pi.</span></i><i><span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="color: #073763;">I know I'm preaching to the choir here but my inability to convince people who have a vested interest in control and obfuscation makes me appreciate an opportunity to discuss with like minds.</span></i></blockquote>
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For those who don't know Craig..... Let me repost a blog post I did the year he won the the Frank Watson Award for his commitment to ACCESS!<br />
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Each year the Vermont educational technology community selects an award recipient to received the Frank Watson educational technology award. (Learn more about Frank Watson, the father of information technology in Vermont at <a href="http://www.uvm.edu/pt3/vt3/fwatson/fwatson.htm" style="color: #3f5d72;">http://www.uvm.edu/pt3/vt3/fwatson/fwatson.htm</a>) This year, Frank not only participated in the 25<sup>th </sup>anniversary of Vermont’s primary educational technology conference, he also presented the Frank Watson award to Craig Lyndes, network administrator at St. Albans City School, Fairfield Community School, and Franklin Central Supervisory Union. </div>
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Frank’s message to the group of over 500 Vermont educators was that “we’ve got a lot of stuff. And what we need to do is learn to use that stuff to make sure that our students are thinking, that they are creative, and that they are enabled by this stuff. How do we do that. These are the same question we were asking 25 years ago.” Frank urged educators to go back and reread the works of Seymour Papert and Jerome Brunner and revisit their important advice about getting students to think and develop creative problem solving skills.</div>
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He then proceeded to introduce the winner of this year’s Frank Watson award as a man who has committed to giving students and teachers access to the technology tools in Vermont schools in ways that supports this all important goal.</div>
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“I’ve had a ton of experience with this person.Early on when I was at UVM, and I got bit by the bug (or the byte) I went to this person’s school to see what was going on and I ended up with him and some other people in a very interesting situation..</div>
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A sort of an open ACCESS lab of computers filled with kids filled with kids using the machines and learning how to do it..</div>
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ACCESS not only to students but also to teachers that makes a very easy entrance to what they are doing...</div>
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Its very important that this happens because if it looks like its too difficult then people are going to say “NO” I’m not going to do it; I’m not going to use that equipment...</div>
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This person understands that ACCESS point and how to manipulate it to get it to people in the school’s he’s working with..</div>
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This person has experience in 4 major school districts in this state and has impact on all four. Fortunately I have had an opportunity to see him at work in 3 of those districts and was always welcomed and always learned something before I left..</div>
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I am so pleased that the Vita-Learn has focused on the importance of access in the equation of successful implementation of a vision for the use of technology in schools. Craig has been such a strong advocate of access and working so diligently over the past 25 years to bringing<br />
it to Vermont schools. Whether it be his earlier efforts with<br />
"Wintermute" and with the CVU bulletin board (note the long list of<br />
"STUDENTS" who ran this BBS from 1985 - 1995 at<br />
<a href="http://bbslist.textfiles.com/802/" style="color: #3f5d72;" target="_blank">http://bbslist.textfiles.com/802/</a> ) or his most recent initiatives<br />
to increase access and connect the FCSU to each other and the internet via fiber. Craig<br />
thank you for using your energy and resources to improve access in<br />
ways that move Vermont school's forward to fulfilling the vision that<br />
Frank Watson and so many others have for our students.</div>
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This week I got a chance to attend a meeting lead by Lars Hasselblad Torres, Director of the Generator as he kicked off a collaboration project between Burlington's makerspace <a href="https://generatorvt.com/">the Generator,</a> area schools, and Champlain College to help educators vision how MAKING can support Project Based Learning in their classrooms. The day was filled with conversation and activities that kept us engaged in a process that started with sharing our own personal goals and ended with our being ready to submit project proposal that might exemplify a collaboration between K12 educators, college, and a community maker-space.<br />
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One April morning in 1996 --the good ole days when perhaps one or two emails per day found their way to my inbox—I noticed a peculiar subject line on an email from a man whose name I did not recognize. </div>
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<strong>Message:</strong> <em>Dear students at NCUHS, I think you might be able to help me with something that has been on my TO DO list for more than 15 years. In 1980 I was scuba diving in the Phillipines and when something shiny caught my eye. It turned out that I had found a gold ring. The ring had a bird of prey on top; the letters NCUHS on one side; the words “Class of ‘78” on the other; and the initials TKD carved inside. Today I was trying out this new Internet thing and typed the letters NCUHS in Alta-Vista. I found this Cyberfair Project from students from NCUHS. Could this ring belong to someone from your school.</em><em> </em></div>
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I read the email to my students. They immediately ran down to the guidance office and located the 1978 Falcon Yearbook. Todd K Durkee was the only student with those initials. After a few phone calls they were able to locate a phone number for Mr. Durkee. “Did you ever lose a class ring?” they inquired over the phone. He hesitantly answered “yes… in 1979 while I was cliff diving in Hawaii”. Mr. Durkee got his ring back; Mr. Williams crossed an item off his To Do list; and 15 students experienced accidentally discovered an Authentic Audience for what started as a project based learning activity using technology.</div>
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Probably one of the most motivating factors about Project Based Learning is the fact that you are solving an Authentic Problem for an Authentic Audience. Today’s technology has made authentic audiences even more reachable than ever before. Years ago video production, publishing or music production would have been cost prohibitive. Today’s students can become web publishers, music composers, and video producers for real audiences at a very nominal cost. Projects like Cyberfair, The Vermont Midi Project, The Green Mountain Mooooooooovie Festival, provide forums for student projects with Authentic Audience. When my fifth grade students realized that their podcast was going to be on I-Tunes, the quality of their work went up 200%. </div>
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Project Based Learning using effective Technology integration increases engagement by making learning meaningful. A well constructed project provides several opportunities for students to create different PRODUCTS as a result of an indepth study of different CONTENT. A skilled teacher will create a LEARNING ENVIRONMENT for students with varied learning styles to experience the PROCESS of project based learning in a way where each of them can be a successful. Starting with an Essential Question where the project provides the structure for a group or individual inquiry makes the Project even more powerful. In my earlier blog entry I discussed how our Cyberfair project – Life On The Border --provided the opportunity for Differentiated Instruction.</div>
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But without the Essential Question and the Alignment to Standards the project becomes simply a “neat activity”. Each year I search for a theme that ties into the standards of one or more content disciplines. I look for partners who are ready and ripe to take on this type of learning. I look for content standards from that discipline that would lend themselves to a project type learning experience. Adding the technology standards is a natural next step. Finally I meet with the teachers of that discipline to brainstorm Essential Questions that would provide the project with enough depth and momentum to drive the energy we are about to expend on this project.</div>
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Project based learning is hard work. But the feeling of pride from the accomplishments of our projects is not just felt by the students—it spreads across the community. The standards that we meet (especially those in the Vital Results) area cannot be adequately measured by standardized tests. The challenge we face as educators is to continue to advocate for authentic assessments (such as those found in project based learning) to be considered as part of the ASSESSMENT formula that we use to measure the success of our schools. If you have a chance to hear the student voices on the <a href="https://youtu.be/kwFGjllMcxg" style="color: #3f5d72;">Cyberfair 2001 video</a>, I think you would have a hard time spotting the ‘student’ whose learning disability would bring down your NECAP scores; this is also the student whose performance on this project earned my highest praises in their letter of recommendation for employment. While National Test stores tell part of the story, Project based learning tells the rest of the story!</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> use the NOTES section of Google slides to plan narration or storyboard </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.38;">Yes there are lots of screen recording tools that can be used, but the multitrack timeline mode of WeVideo allowed me to add some fun transitions, some text based graphics, and some suspenseful music from the WeVideo library. Here’s a screencast of my process that might be helpful for those of you who are new to WeVideo.</span></div>
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Like the <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Unit Overview Sheets</em> that I’ve written extensively about on the Radical (see <a href="http://blog.williamferriter.com/2013/02/16/my-middle-schoolers-actually-love-our-unit-overview-sheets/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background: transparent; color: #2e6eb0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://blog.williamferriter.com/2015/06/06/when-was-the-last-time-you-asked-students-for-feedback/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background: transparent; color: #2e6eb0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://blog.williamferriter.com/2015/12/15/developing-learning-cards-for-primary-students/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background: transparent; color: #2e6eb0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">here</a>), <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Not Yet/You Bet Lists</em>are designed to give students opportunities to track the essential content and skills that they are working to master. But because they are simple tools, students – whether they are baseball players, gymnasts, pianists or martial artists – can use <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Not Yet/You Bet Lists</em> to detail the progress that they are making in areas of personal interest and passion <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">outside</em> of school.</blockquote>
My mind immediately started to modify one of Google Sheets templates into a new version which could be used in student's personal learning plan using Bill's <a href="http://blog.williamferriter.com/2016/04/10/new-feedback-activity-not-yetyou-bet-lists/" target="_blank"> Not Yet/YouBet Lists</a> concept.<br />
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I added a date field and a Notes field. The Notes could be used to describe how you learned the process, or include a short reflection, or even a link to longer reflection and an artifact of learning. Column E is just a spacer. Column F and G use an If then statement to automatically move the Skill into either the NOT YET Column or the You Bet Column based on the current status. </div>
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Now my thoughts are on how a teacher might easily assign this spreadsheet to all his/her students using Google Classroom and the students could easily embed the whole sheet or only parts of it in a portfolio that uses Google Sites. Inspired by the many ways that <a href="http://alicekeeler.com/" target="_blank">Alice Keeler has shared to help teachers make the most of Google Classroom</a> and by the <a href="http://education.vermont.gov/plp-working-group/main" target="_blank">focus in Vermont schools on Personalized Learning Plans (PLP)</a> where many students are using Google Sites as their PLP portfolio, I'm on a quest to discover how to leverage the management features of Google Classroom in ways that sets students up for success in creating eportfolios of their Personalized Learning journey. </div>
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This is <a href="http://learningwithlucie.blogspot.com/2016/03/picademy-usa-part-3-day-2.html" target="_blank">Part 3 </a>of a blog post series from the first #Picademy USA in MountainView this past weekend - including this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmGUOgvS5CM&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">Video Summary.</a></div>
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Several of us managed to get a drive by glimpse of GooglePlex before we started Day 2 of #Picademy USA. Upon arriving at the Computer History Museum, we were once again greeted with warm smiles, coffee, fruit, pastries, and a packed agenda. First on the agenda — INSPIRATION from PI Innovators and brainstorming about how to use the resources provided by the Computer History Museum. </div>
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I’m not sure how to describe the intense emotions I felt listening to high school senior, Sonia, describe the impact she has already had on the world using a Raspberry Pi in <a href="https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/the-pi-a-la-code-project-taking-the-raspberry-pi-to-rural-india/" target="_blank">her global reach project -- Pia La Code.</a> Her face to face and virtual approach to teach coding to children in India won my heart. I was so so proud of her as a young student, as a young woman, as a young innovator. It touched the part of me that is so hopeful about our future because it is in good hands if we fill it with with people like Sonia at the helm. I wanted every high school student to listen to her share her story and to be challenged the way she was to change the world! </div>
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Sonia’s story reinforces the formula I have learned during the past 15 years through <a href="http://www.techsavvygirls.com/" target="_blank">TechSavvyGirls</a> for getting girls involved with tech (Combine high tech (like coding) with design and social justice (and mentoring) and you have a winning formulas for increasing the number of girls who engage with technology. </div>
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I would have loved to talk to Mark about a few issues with my Piper, but we were whizzed off to the Computer History Museum to take part in brainstormingconversation about using the Computer History Museum resources in our teaching. At first I thought it would be another tour, but this time we were invited to consider how specific exhibits might lead to curriculum opportunities and conversations in many different curricular areas. This prompt along with the stories that were shared had me looking at the exhibits from a different vantage point. This time I was walking around with my teacher hat on and two different themes jumped out for me. </div>
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1) The opportunity to engage women in tech.<br />
I pride myself in knowing quite a bit about women and technology, but I had no idea that the Apollo Space Mission might have been derailed had it not been for <a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/10/margaret-hamilton-nasa-apollo/" target="_blank">Margaret Hamilton's </a>contribution and the foresight to keep playing the code in her mind… playing out the landing and spotting an error that would have otherwise gone unnoticed. Every student needs to hear this story— male or female! Not only does the storyline have the power to draw in young women, but it also drives home the point of “No… you’re not done— yet”!. Yes, some innovation evolves from solving a problem that arouses suddenly— but equally important is for us to keep looking forward and to implement systems thinking in our approaches. </div>
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2) The other theme that emerged for me from listening to the stories with my teacher hat on was the power of the technology to be the storyline for Next Generation Science Standards implementation. I recently did a workshop that helped teachers understand the potential of using technology to support Next Generation Science Standards around these 4 approaches:<br />
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Our host had done a brilliant job grouping our previous day’s brainstorming session ideas into some possible project themes and assigning themes and mentors to each room. Then they did something remarkable… they provided a few instructions and LET GO --trusting that we would self-organize into project teams that worked for us. It felt so organic and the results were magnificent — leaving us with a powerful pedagogical message — <i>Create a purposeful instructional design and trust it to play out! </i></div>
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I imagine this played out differently for each of us.. but here is how it played out for me. </div>
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We found ourselves starting to follow the principles of design thinking… First with a general sharing of interest and ideas. Julie and Amy had become intrigued with the concept of a friendship bracelet. I had latched on with one of the sticky notes on wearables suggesting their use with autistic children. Being the grandma of an autistic toddler who came up missing from daycare because of the predisposition of autistic children to quietly wander away to explore, I could see the bracelet having multiple purposes.<br />
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We then went into brainstorming modes for many different uses and features of a wearable bracelet.<br />
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One of the resources that influenced the project design was the skill level of one of our members (David) with creating web servers in Linux. As much as I would have loved to learn how to install Apache and PHP on a Raspberry Pi, I realized that 4 of us watching David was not going to be very efficient, nor would it meet my need to contribute ‘something’ to this project. So I suggested that some of us might want to figure out how to get the Sense Hat to display text and how to read data sent from the joystick to send message responses. <br />
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In the true spirit of a maker-educator, Sam not only freely offered us a tour and enthusiastically answered lots of questions about his space AND his process with K-8 students, but he also invited us to MAKE! Before we knew it, Polar 3D printers were buzzing away as educators watched and shared their own experiences with 3D printing. Spheros and iPads were being paired as we exchanged tips for managing multiple Spheros in one classroom. Colorful puppets invited us be playful and imaginative. The whiteboards, the green screen, the magnets, the iPads, the cardboard, the sewing machine, the 3D printers, the puppets, the legos, all sparked conversations and created a flood of sharing amongst educators.<br />
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I had planned to do some reading that might inform my project for the next day, but I crashed as soon as I made it back to my room just shy of midnight -- but not before bookmarking some resources about coding with younger learners by Dr. Sam Patterson! <a href="http://learningwithlucie.blogspot.com/2016/03/picademy-usa-part-3-day-2.html" target="_blank">Part 3 of this series</a> will feature Day 2 of Picademy USA. </div>
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