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Dana Thompson

Director, Education Technology

Ventura County Office of Education

DMThompson@vcoe.org

@techiethompson

https://bit.ly/GoogleCamp22-CanvasEduProtocols

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EduProtocol website; July 7, 2022

https://bit.ly/GoogleCamp22-CanvasEduProtocols

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Dynamic Learning:

“The more we can integrate student choice and asynchronous activities for our students, the more we can differentiate and personalize”

–Kasey Bell - Blended Learning with Google: Your Guide to Dynamic Teaching and Learning

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Why Use Canvas?

“Learning environments in which technologies are integrated to enhance multisensory interaction, knowledge expression and representation, discussion, feedback, and reflection improve student learning”

Dr. Sonny Magana, �“Disruptive Classroom Technologies: A Framework for Innovation in Education”

https://bit.ly/GoogleCamp22-CanvasEduProtocols

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Why Use Canvas?

“The strategic blend of active, engaged learning in class and online can allow teachers to let go of the lockstep approach that has characterized education for hundreds of years.”

Dr. Catlin Tucker, �The Complete Guide to Blended Learning

Using Canvas can take your lessons and activities out of the “lockstep” and into the control of your students!

Design learning experiences that free you from the front of the room!
Design learning that prioritizes student agency

Advice:

Design learning experiences that free you from the front of the room!

Design learning that prioritizes student agency

Teachers should embrace the role as “lead learner” in the classroom!

"Asynchronous activities require some student autonomy and ability to self - direct , as well as monitoring of progress ." Shaking Up the Game of School by Kasey Bell > Page 35

Addresses UDL principles
Rubrics to help communicate expectations and consistent grading. Attach outcomes to track learning mastery towards standards.
Personalized feedback for learning mastery (quote Catlin Tucker here)
Differentiation strategies
Can create accessible content
Provide opportunities for choice
Implement blended learning models
Provide content to absent students
Provide reinforcement to students when outside the classroom
Utilize the pre-requisites and requirement settings on modules
Embed content to keep students in Canvas and not distracted or lost when missing information/links
Peer editing
Group projects
Provide multiple means of delivering content: text, video, audio, interactive, etc.
Teach digital citizenship and literacy
Use as a teaching tool through personalized feedback
Computer graded assessments to free up teaching time as well as provide immediate feedback to guide learning
Pre and post assessments
Community and collaboration
Reflection opportunities
Exit tickets that don’t take up class time
Student video submission opportunities
Provide meaningful lessons and activities when you are out of the classroom
New analytics!

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Let’s dive in

How can Canvas help facilitate the activity? https://vcoe.instructure.com/courses/1860

Embed the link in your instructions, or in sequence in the Module. This allows the students to simply click to access rather than figure out how to type in the correct website address, or code
Iron Chef from LMNOP Lab: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10UhjsWBYxFRFXbCCLpxUFKDqo97ccNRYN5gHthL86BY/edit?usp=sharing

Why use polling activities?

You will receive a larger number of authentic responses, engaging more of your students
Provides you with better data on how your students are understanding
Students report that they are more engaged with these interactive activities
Increases student motivation to understand the material
Helps students clarify their thinking
Teaches students that their device can be used for learning!

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Let’s Reflect:

Thin Slide Protocol

What is one takeaway from today’s presentation that you have?

https://bit.ly/3pF0gpq

SLIDESMANIA.COM

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Technology is not a magic solution for education. It does, however, provide an opportunity to do things differently, to deepen the learning, to engage students in new ways.

–Kasey Bell - Blended Learning with Google: Your Guide to Dynamic Teaching and Learning

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Thank you!

Dana Thompson

Director, Education Technology

Ventura County �Office of Education

dmthompson@vcoe.org

@techiethompson

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