Ben having fun in his #EastHaddam 3rd Grade online #STEM class, they had a list of experiments or things to build at home and then had to make a video sharing what they did. Ben used @screencasto https://jgregorymcverry.com/notes/2020-03-31-1 #edu506 #edu307
Hey @scsu students published another video in Online Survival Guide Series: How to start yourself off for success each week: https://jgregorymcverry.com/myvideos#OnlineSurvivalGuide (sorry for the buzz, had laundry going forgot to lower my gain) #highered #k12online
Today's #dailythought prompt, "In what ways do you serve or help others?" #literacies #edchat #k12online #elachat join us in our #dailyprompt. Reply, journal, just think on it. The day belongs to you as a gift from us.
hey @scsu faculty at 11:00 I am running a session on Using Your LMS for the Teaching and Assessing of College Writing join gme, check the online trainign schedule. Other #highered or #k12 faculty DM for the link.
So proud of Ben as he filmed his STEM experimment and edited the video using screencast-o-matic. He made a catapualt out of house hold items and then reflected on his iterative design.
Every educator who cares about #socialjustice needs to shout, "Rural broadband , NOW!" Inequities in schools that serve People of Color worse with online, but proximity makes connectivity easier. Time is now. #Online4All
Way to go Mike Gilroy and #EastHaddam public library the online D&D sessions already totally full, these became such an inter-generational hangout for people: http://easthaddamlibrarysystem.org/blog-post/dungeons-dragons-online/
One of the best paths to student learning is to give students a website and a url and watch what happens. Let students write themselves on to the world. Teach differences between holistic and prescriptive tech #satchat
Hey #satchat just want to give a shout out to the 6th grade middle school teachers of #EastHaddam who drove around yesterday after school in a parade to say hello to students and hand out "virtual prizes" earned during the week
Give the kids a website, let them document their journey, they need to own and craft their story and identity, not hand over all the identity work to facebook, TikTok, and Instagram #satchat
Mainly that personalized learning spent some time devolving into a definition of "computer adaptive testing" with assigned modules on a tablet/laptop...Too many #edtech firms sell it as a lie. #satchat
key to success in personalizedlearning also have those shared outcomes that can be taught across different pathways students choose, then build many, many (and two more) cognitive stops on the way to check progress and reflect #satchat
I provide a sampler of every dish before I invite students up to the buffet line. As I scaffold learning they try each skillset but then specialize on a project of their choice. #satchat
Hey #satchat gentle reminder that sometimes the best thing we can do with student choice is provide constraints: https://quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/2020/03/24/you-teach-creativity-through-constrainst-cut-paths-through-the-rhizomes #personalizedlearning