20-Time in Education

Kate Petty

LINK: thetechclassroom.com (Posts)

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Twitter: @techclassroom

About Me:

• Teacher and ELD Site Coordinator at Trabuco Hills High School- Mission Viejo.
• Orange County Department of Ed Trainer
• CUE’s Blog Editor
• CUE Lead Learner
• Google Certified Teacher
• Google Apps for Ed Trainer
• PBL Certified Teacher
• Online and Blended Learning

Leading Edge Trainer

What is 20-Time?

Giving students an opportunity to spend one hour a week, or 20% of the course/class, to explore a topic of their choice.

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Genius Hour

Presentation Ninja

20% Project

Why 20-Time?

• Presentation
• Basic Internet Skills
• Research
• Efficient Search Skills
• Focus Attention
• Speech
• Public Speaking Skills
• Nurture Curiosity

Options!! Scaffold?

1st: Genius Hour

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2nd: Presentation Ninjas

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3rd: 20% Project

Start With Blogs:

Online Class: Means of reporting findings and communicating.

• Use GForms as an assignment dropbox.

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Genius Hour

I wonder...

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Traditional Classroom: Ask students to brainstorm topics they have always wanted to know more about. Each week, students will explore that topic for their 20-Time and report their findings to the class.

Online Class: Report findings- Google Form, Blog Post Using Email, Blog Post using Assignment Dropbox, a document

Genius Hour

Public Speaking Skills

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• Teach open-ended questions using “Bad Idea Factory”- Edit a GDoc with ideas
• Teach presentation skills using TED
• Teach good content using TED
• Emphasize public speaking is one of the most important life skills they can cultivate.

Genius Hour Add-Ons

What do your students to achieve?

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Possible Goals:

• Require completion of Google’s Search MOOC to expand Search skills
• Research topic with attempt to integrate new Search skill- Possible Reflection in blog for each.
• 1 presentation turned into a screencast or video of student disseminating learned information

Genius Hour Livebinder: Joy Kirr

Presentation Ninjas-Online/Class

Week 1: Develop question and research

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Week 2: Create dynamic presentation

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Week 3: Online: Screencast presentation

Class: Live or Screencast

Take Presentation Ninjas Even Further- Online

3 Speeches Total- Screencast

1. 6-8 Slides With Only a Title and a Picture, Speech Connects to Personal Experience.
2. 4-5 Slides With Only a Title and a Picture, Speech Wrapped in an Extended Metaphor
3. PechaKucha: 20 Slides- 20 Seconds Per Slide, Persuasive Speech

Presentation Ninjas- Classroom

K-2/3: Pair up with your buddy class. Ask buddies to help research and create a presentation.

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4-12: Ask students to do the research on their topic but create a formal presentation to present with it. Live or screencast.

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This project will usually take 3-4 weeks total.

6th/1st Grade Buddy Project

I wonder... 3rd Grade

20% Project: Long Term

Students choose ONE learning-goal to work on for the semester/year.

Really?

Sean's Project

Good Goals vs. Bad Goals

Performance Goals = Bad

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Learning Goals = Good

Give students dates of future 20 Time periods and important mile-markers and teach them how to backwards plan.

Graded Components: Below

Forum for students to announce their goal to the public = accountability.

TED-style speech where students reflect on the process.

Vital: Ask students to write or post a summary of what they did for the day.

Student Ideas:

One More Time:

Choose What Works For You or Scaffold Using All:

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Genius Hour: 1st Quarter

Short-Term Projects: 2nd Quarter

20% Project: 2nd Semester

Showcase Using a Class Website

Put student work in a place that can be easily accessed by other teachers, parents, etc.

Present: Use TED

Mini-Lesson:

1. Give students evaluation rubric.
2. Show 3-4 minutes of Bill Gates video with the volume off and ask students to evaluate him. (too little)
3. Show Jamie Oliver video, volume off, and ask them to evaluate again. (too much)
4. Show Bjorn Lomberg video. (just right)
5. Ask student to find two more videos to evaluate on their own. Discuss in a thread.

Present: Use TED

Use this same rubric for the entire year. Low credit at beginning of year, worth higher credit by the end of the year.

Present: Fun Practice

• Create a list of possible easy topics: “How to Make a PB&J Sandwich”
• Online: Students create a video of themselves doing the speech 3 times: too much, too little, and just right.
• Class: Live- it is comical.

Great! What do I tell my admin?

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• Common Core Anchor Standards

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• ISTE Student NETS

Screencasting and Software

Screencasting: Recording what is on your computer screen in real time.

TechSmith:

• Camtasia: $$$ But has great features
• Jing: Free but 5 min. limit

Free:

• Mac: Quicktime
• PC: Quicktime

Others: Screenr.com Screencast-O-Matic Smart Phone Camera Apps

20 Time Resources

• Overall

20TimeInEducation.com

• Genius Hour http://www.livebinders.com/play/play/829279
• TED Lesson Plan and CC Lesson Plan
• TheTechClassroom.com
• Kevin Brookhouser’s TEDx Speech
• G+ Communities:
• 20% Time
• 20% Time in Education
• Twitter:
• #20Time and #GeniusHour

Evaluation

goo.gl/Cwfl5z

Even More: Digital Citizenship

Presentations and blogs give teachers a perfect opportunity to teach students about Creative Commons.

Even More: Digital Citizenship

Steps:

1. Draw a self-portrait.
2. Ask students to write a 6-Word Memoir and add it to the self-portrait.
3. Teach copyright, fair use, and Creative Commons.
4. Ask students to determine how they want to license their work and draw the symbols on it.
5. Hang it on the wall for B2S Night!

Even More: Digital Citizenship

Even More: Digital Citizenship

Research and SEARCH

Utilize the opportunity to teach search engine skills each week as students research.

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Power Search

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Advanced Power Searching

Publish Using Blogger

• Post weekly reflections
• Customize the site with colors and images
• Insert images, video, hyperlinks
• Create "Static" pages for: informational pages, webliography, PLN
• WRITE, WRITE, WRITE, WRITE, WRITE

Bad Idea Factory