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Digital

Learning

in 7th

Through

12th Grade

tinyurl.com/OpenMLC2020

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Open Learning @ MLC Conference

6.18.20

Prof. Dan Fenske

Dr. James Carlovsky

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Hello!

Prof Dan Fenske

fenskedj@mlc-wels.edu

My Story...

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General Thoughts

Where do I start?

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Planning the Course

  • Course Objectives
  • Aim for “Proficient”
  • Use of Standards may be a useful guide
  • Trim content – You will cover less material. Letting go can hurt!
  • Less material allows for more deliberate feedback and assessment
  • My Take-Away

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Hello!

Dr. James Carlovsky

carlovjd@mlc-wels.edu

My story...

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What about my students?

What’s fair?

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Student Workload

  • Be Sensitive to Students’ Course Load
    • Yours is one (or more) of 5-8 classes
    • The student may not share your passion for the course material
    • Use synchronous methods sparingly- asynchronous methods are more sensitive to families’ time schedules, devices, and bandwidth
  • Anecdotal evidence- speaking with MLC students, #1 complaint was the workload; in many cases the workload increased

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Student Workload Increase

  • Result of the desire to offer the best quality
  • “Less is more”
  • Estimate completion time: teacher time x 4 = student time
  • Estimate workload: your expected time investment x 6 = student time investment – reasonable?
  • Your takeaways from the past 3 months

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Videos

  • Screencasting
  • Using pre-made videos
  • Time Limits (½ minute per grade)
    • Pausing Videos
    • Trimming your lesson down to the bare essentials
  • Accountability
    • EdPuzzle
    • Reflection Assignment, Discussion Board
  • Reflect

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Presentations

  • Interactivity within Google Slides
    • Peardeck
    • Poll Everywhere
  • What should students be doing before, during, or after?
  • Visuals
    • Slides Carnival
  • Whitespace
  • Design Principles
    • PARC-Proximity, Alignment, Repetition, Contrast

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Transparent Assignments

  • Would your students do your work if it was not graded?
  • A Renewed Case for Student Success: Using Transparency in Assignment Design When Teaching Remotely*
  • Students recognize busy work
  • Students will likely seek path of least resistance (may or may not be cheating)
  • Related to Student Workload
  • Reflect

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Bose, Devshikha. Higher Ed Teaching Strategies, May 2020

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Transparent Assignments

  • 3 Considerations for Each Assignment
    • PURPOSE: Communicate to students what knowledge or skills they will gain from completing the assignment and how that knowledge or skill will be valuable to students.
    • TASK: Communicate the steps that students should take to complete the assignment
    • CRITERIA: Well before the assignment is due, share with students the rubrics or checklists that you will use to evaluate their work

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Assessment

  • Another topic from this Conference
  • Course objectives drive assessment
  • Allow for formative and summative assessments
  • Allow for feedback
  • Allow for reflection
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Clarity

  • Publish directions, rubrics, scoring guides, guidelines along with any assignment
  • Policy for due dates, missing work – ideally the entire faculty adopts the same policy
  • Give a reasonable (if online, substitute “generous”) lead time for due dates or deadlines
  • Publish a checklist or calendar of responsibilities with due dates

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Clarity

  • Avoid last-minute “Oh, by the way” assignments
    • They are incredibly frustrating to students
    • They reflect poorly on the teacher
  • My Take-Away

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Good Teaching on Steroids

Resources curated for your

use after this presentation:

tinyurl.com/OpenMLC2020Resources

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Resources by Subject Area

Resources curated for your use after this presentation: tinyurl.com/OpenMLC2020Resources

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Science

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Science

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Social

Studies

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Math

  • How do you use your laptop as a whiteboard? Pros and cons?
    • Have writing done ahead of time before screencasting
  • Activities for Deeper Investigation
  • Calculator Emulator and Activities
    • Desmos (Desmos Teacher)
    • Geogebra

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Religion/ Catechism

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PhyEd

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Language

Arts

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Language

Arts

  • “As we return to more traditional classrooms and seek to make the most of accompanying opportunities, a tool I'd suggest teachers consider is Alex Wiggins's Spider Web approach to assembling and assessing class discussion. Wiggins has written an entire textbook on the topic (2017's The Best Class You Never Taught: How Spider Web Discussion Can Turn Students into Learning Leaders), but her recent article, "A Better Way to Assess Discussions," in the April 2020 issue of Educational Leadership is available on-line and offers a practical overview to the strategy. Wiggins' techniques give students the central role in both guiding and evaluating class discussion to help them measure their progress in related real-life skills.

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Language

Arts

  • WebQuests, initially developed by Bernie Dodge over twenty years ago, remain an under-utilized approach to maximizing students' stewardship of internet resources. Using Google Sites or another favorite building tool, teachers construct an authentic, real-world content area task and provide students with a set of online resources the teacher has carefully curated to help students complete that task.
  • "Should Teachers Pull The Plug? Developing Best Practices for Educational Technology: A Technology/Health Web Quest" by Paul Grubbs

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Music

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Art

  • What are your goals and objectives?
  • Virtual Field Trips: Google Arts and Culture
  • Museums/ Collections: 75 Best Virtual Museum Tours
  • Art History, Genres, Artists: Smart History
  • Digital Drawing/ Painting
  • Digital Photography
  • Image Editing: GIMP

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Final Thoughts

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General Resources

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Thoughts on Digital Resources

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  • You can waste tons of time searching for the perfect resource (that may or may not exist)
  • If you can’t find a resource in a reasonable amount of time, consider an alternative method or resource
  • I have found some of my best resources while looking for something else…..so
  • Set up a way to save and organize bookmarks (OneNote, Diigo, Raindrop.io) or a document….whatever works

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My Favorite Science Resources

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My Favorite Social Studies Resources

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My Favorite Math Resources

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Other Favorite Resources

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Digital

Learning

in 7th

Through

12th Grade

tinyurl.com/OpenMLC2020

tinyurl.com/OpenMLC2020Resources

Open Learning @ MLC Conference

Prof. Dan Fenske

Dr. James Carlovsky

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Credits

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