Summer Session: Capturing Students Thinking

August 20th Summer Session

I am very excited to be facilitating the summer session with Julie on Capturing students thinking. We will be sharing our experiences from our classrooms about capturing the learning process and continuing to learn more with you as team as we will be exploring students thinking during this academic year.

We all bring strength to learning as a community by sharing the learning and reflecting on our experiences. It doesn't matter where you are on your learning journey, as a team, learning together will also be valued at any level of entry as long as we will continue to pursue risks and sharing. I am hoping that we would all be able to connect and develop a rich learning network online through this blog. You are invited to contribute on this blog either by attaching a link from any doc, site or blog with a short and brief explanation about the experience of students' learning and your learning. Let's all take this learning risk as a team and share the positive and negative experiences from our students.

I spent the summer learning online and sharing with #ocsb on twitter from Boston, Austin, Chicago and Newfoundland.  Also joined #cyberpd by reflecting on the book "Who Owns The Learning?" by Alan November.  My learning online continues to globalize and connect to my students and the school, the board and the community.  I would like to share some tweets that resonated with me on technology:

• RT @c_durley: Networks are key to personalized learning. @courosa #blc13

• RT @amyburvall: @courosa nothing's real unless we document and post it, right? #blc13 #ocsb

• RT @c_durley: “We shape our tools and our tools shape us.” McLuhan via @courosa #blc13 #ocsb

• RT @NLearning: The greatest challenge facing teachers is shifting the control of learning to the student @globalearner #BLC13 #edtech

• RT @ictregister: RT @NLearning: What are the contributions students can make to the learning community? #BLC13 @globalearner #edtech < #ukedchat #dlchat
  
  
• RT @1stgradethinks: "Learning is social. It’s a group event. The power of the group beats the power of the individual." via @globalearner #BLC13  AMEN to that!!

• RT @CathDoesMath: Technology is a tool, NOT a learning outcome. #blcbyob #blc13 #ocsb #plocsb

Articles on the importance of establishing a collaborative learning community and the learning process:  

It is very important that the learning intentions or goals and criteria are clear for students while using technology as a tool to amplify their thinking and document their learning, share new learning and determine next steps. It is really about designing tasks for students than learning 100 apps.

"One simple way of understanding our pedagogical theory of iPads is that we don’t want them to just become replacements for notebooks and textbooks, we want them to be objects to think with. We want students using them to mess around with the world around them and their courses of study." From Mindshift The iPad as a Tool

Learning Learning Learning Not Apps Apps Apps

A Practical Guide For Teachers Who Just Got iPads

The iPad as a Tool for Creation to Strengthen Learning

Technology Is a Tool, Not A Learning Outcome

5 Questions For Every Leader #leadershipDay13

iPad Apps Resources:

iPad Paperless Workflow infographic

44 Education Apps For K-6 Open Ended Learning On The iPad

Teaching Literacy with the iPad form Kathy Cassidy

A Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy For Evaluating Digital Tasks


The link to our summer session slides:   Summer Session Slides