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ISTE 2015

Published on Nov 18, 2015

ISTE2015 takeaways by Anne Weaver

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

ISTE 2015

MY TAKEAWAYS: ANNE WEAVER

CENTRE ON STUDENT INTERESTS

  • Student voice, autonomy and ownership
  • More listening by teachers, less talking
  • Students preferred learning style outside class often games and gamification

CHALLENGE & CREATIVITY

  • Engage, enhance, extend
  • Creation, not just consumption, Production, not just play
  • Mastery model - not yet, and growth mindset

CHALLENGE & CREATIVITY CONTD

  • Makerspace=problem solving, need to learn to look for problems, not just solve them
  • Students as content creators in library, not just content users

CHOICE

  • New directions?- hummingbird, 3d printing, minecraft, more littlebits, parrot drone, Google cardboard, green screen, device stand, go pro, rocket launcher, arduino laser tag, Qr codes-new app, iPads, app making, spheros paint, Hololens
  • Existing requests: writing club and minecraft

CHOICE CONTD

  • ? Wed writing, Monday minecraft, Tuesday tech- coding robotics circuits, music fashion Thursday -what's new? weekly video, 3d printing, ar, vr, Friday reading

CONNECT & COMMUNICATE

  • With community, parents, what kids want, curriculum, global, robogals, get people in, Skype etc
  • Responsibility to make world better place

CONNECT & COMMUNICATE CONTD

  • Promote, social media: library blog - news, staff , makerspace videos, virtual book club
  • Kids make teaching videos, teach other kids
  • Audio feedback very powerful

COMPUTATIONAL THINKING & DIGITAL LITERACY

  • Need digital literacy plan
  • Coding =4th literacy
  • Strategies for Teaching coding: ask 3 before me, shrug, answer questions with question

COMPUTATIONAL LITERACY & DIGITAL LITERACY

  • STEM jobs and girls, Jobs close gap stem, change the ratio
  • need to change what we teach in technology, and how teach it.