Agenda

• Check IN
• Revisit Norms
• Cindy Navarro Share of PicLab: an iPad App (Omar is next)
  • Piclab for creating images
  • Keynote Parallel for older students
• Review our last meeting
• Revisit the "What we Learned/What we would like to learn" chart (Add/Subtract)
• NearPod DEMO
• "Are we innovating, or just digitizing Traditional teaching?" a short reading to frame evaluation of tech integration.

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Welcome BACK! And welcome again to our new members Megan and Sarah!

Norms Review:

• Be Prepared to Engage
• Start and End on-time
• Respect each others input and Assume the Best
• Be comfortable with silent and out-loud think time
• Trust each other
• Be mindful of different gradespans
• Be open to new/old ideas
• Listen, be attentive to the main conversation
• Pause to clarify/explain (i.e. Acronyms)

We all agreed to be responsible for presenting something to the group once throughout our study group meetings.  Either a reading or the presentation of a classroom tool you've tried. The following dates are what we agreed to on our Studygroup Schedule.

We reviewed our "KWL" chart from year one as well as our meeting agendas and shareout from the end of the year.  We created a new chart of what we learned about and what we still would like to seek deeper meaning of.

We will continue to update this chart.

We used the Argumentative Talk Protocol from Teacher's College :   readingandwritingproject.com/public/themes/rwproject/resources/Content%20Support/writing/Arugment_Talk_Protocol.pdf

The following readings were used to support this debate and compile evidence:

Pro: Bill Nye Text: www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-nye/capella-bill-nye-teachers-challenge_b_1914291.html, and 

Con: Anna Murphy Paul Text: www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/08/technology_in_the_classroom_patricia_greenfield_says_kids_don_t_need_it.html, and Patricia Greenfield Article 

1. Check-in. Share anything we have done with TECH lately?

2. REFLECT. What happened at out last meeting?  What did we learn? What applications did we make (or consider making) in our classrooms? Did we follow our NORMS? Review KWL.

3. Using Classlabs in the smart notebook let's list: All the ways we have seen or used technology to improve learning.  

4. What do we notice about the majority of these things?  Can they be sorted?

•  After Discussion: Most of the ways that technology has improved student learning has ben IN the hands of students.  Whereas much of the tech that we have been focusing on, like smart boards, may not be "improving" student learning in the same way putting the tech in the hands of the students, and designing meaningful projects seems to.  The tech can be sorted into tech that students use, tech that teachers use to teach, and "backend" tech that helps teachers run a class. 

5. Reflection: We are all here because we said we want to use technology to improve instruction.   Hyperfocus on the smartboard has been somewhat useful as we have improved some skills around it’s use.  However, it’s also revealed the limitations of it as student-centered tech.  It’s ultimately very teacher centered. Have we been trying to force the use of a tool that might not be our best choice for authentic learning at Kayne Siart?

6. Step back and introduce the ISTE standards. How can we use these as we resolve to focus more on putting technology in the hands of students?

7. What should we focus on as we move into our last few meetings? 

1. Check In!
2. Review exit slips from last time.
3. Everyone share what they have done since the last meeting and this meeting with smartboard and other technology. 
4. Watch videos of people teaching with the Smart Notebook. Debrief.
5. set a personal goal (chart). 
6. work time with some accountability :-) chart on board what you are going to do. at the end, we will do share out of work you did 

1. Check-in
2. Exit Tickets from StudyGroup Meeting #2

 3. Introduce the New Year's lesson plan/project. Before the next meeting we will all use the SmartBoard Notebook App to teach a 10 minute lesson themed around New Years in some way. The purpose of this is to improve our ability and comfort level designing interactive lessons using SmartBoard software. 
Need some IDEAS?

• Your lesson could be about time, the calendar, the idea that on Midnight the day changes...
• math of times square new years ball (dimensions, number of lights, etc.)
• best/worst weight loss exercises (health themed) for new years resolution weight loss).
• Different ways people celebrate and the different times people celebrate news years around the world.
• ELA breakdown of the word "Resolution"
• Study and breakdown a sentence about news years. 

4. Since many of us, including myself, are extremely uncomfortable using the Notebook app, we will all watch 4 tool kit videos together. Each of the videos below give tool strategies that can be utilized to make ANY lesson interactive.  For our purposes, please be thinking about how you could use one or more of these strategies to teach your New Year's themed lesson. 

​5. For the remainder of the period we all work on a New Years themed lesson that we promise to teach before our next meeting.  You can work in pairs or separately. Please be prepared to share what you created towards the end of the period. Even if it isn't done yet.
6. Since many of you like the idea of creating a repository of lessons and strategies that can be viewed by the rest of the school (a.k.a. tracking our work in some way). I will provide a video camera and tripod on-demand to anyone who wants to record their 10 minute New Years lesson (or any other smartboard lesson).  I will take care of posting the video to this site so that we can start making that repository.  Each video we post of our lessons can included a link to the notebook file you made.  Might be a really cool way to showcase our co-created knowledge :-)