Post on 12-Jan-2015
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Karen Janowski Assistive & Educational Technology Consultant
Focus on at least one tool or strategy that you will use with your students
What are your struggles?
What does it feel like to struggle with reading and writing?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kyteacher/3578653239/in/pool-858082@N25
Five minute discussion:
1. What tools and strategies are you currently using with your studentsthat are successful?
2. How do you know they are successful?
Flow(engagement?)
Defined by Mihály Csíkszentmihály
The mental state of operation in which the
person is fully immersed
in what he or she is
doing by a feeling of energized focus,
full involvement, and
success in the process
of the activity.
WIkipedia
Balance between
ability level and challenge
Wikipedia
Lack of awareness of time,
distorted sense of time
(clock watcher?)
A sense of personal control over the situation or activity.
The activity is intrinsically rewarding, effortless
http://www.flickr.com/photos/53539456@N00/437085000/
When are you in the flow?
http://www.thinktogether.org/images/newpages/forweb/programpic4.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/moonjazz/1793342687/
So how do we get there?
How do we help our students reach a state of flow?
How do we equip and empower them?
Guiding Principles
Student First
JoyfulLearning
One Size does not fit all
TTWWADIDoesn’t cut it anymore
http://shahuchhtrapatishikshan.com/smbmsm/classrooms.jpg
Model life-long learning
http://isc.blog.fairport.org/files/2009/07/teachers-300x227.jpg
Mistake Tolerant
vs.
Mistake Intolerant
Are your current methods Mistake Tolerant or Mistake Intolerant? (POLL)
Sound educational rationale For EVERY thing we do
Remediation
and
Compensation
Innovate
Not
TTWWADI
http://www.biojobblog.com/uploads/image/innovation%282%29.jpg
Stuck?
Paralyzed? Learned helplessness?
For teachers AND students
“A book that is shut is
"A book that is shut is but a block."
Thomas Fuller
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Florida Center For Reading Research
Toolbelt Theory
http://www.flickr.com/photos/colemama/3776316986/
http://www.afslegal.com/images/frustrated.jpg
There’s a
tool for that
http://www.lifeisunlimited.com/images/ADD.jpg
There’s a
tool for that
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tool for that
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tool for that
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tool for that
Richard Wanderman
There’s a
tool for that
http://www.ncgs.org/uploads/textWidget/wysiwyg/images/548/handraised.jpg
There’s a
tool for that
Powerless Empowered
http://mediconeasystreet.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/benefits_of_studying_by_savethemuzika1.jpg
There’s a
tool for that
Word IDEAS
UDL Tech Toolkit
UDLTechToolkit.wikispaces.com
‘We’re not reading and writing across and down the page anymore.We’re reading and writing in three dimensions – across, down and out, the out being hyperlinks.
It’s a whole different kind of literacy; it's a whole different kind of writing; it’s a whole different kind of reading.
It’s a type of literacy that can’t be done anywhere else but on the web.
James Yap Director of instructional technology
Ramapo Central School District, Hillburn, NYT.H.E Jounal, april 2009 p. 24
It’s a different world for our students
http://earth.google.com/images/index-earth_lg.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aegishjalmur/2288932018/
http://www.nobully.com/graphics/happy.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leefly/416980365/
Become an Architect for Change
Ideas?
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Thank you!
Karen.janowski@gmail.com
Photo Credits
• Arms reaching - http://www.flickr.com/photos/kelvin_luffs/3457687245/• http://www.rainbowreaders.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/boy-struggling-
reading.jpg• Distorted clock http://craziestgadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/dali-
clock-500x500.jpg
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/sizumaru/781601603/in/pool-toteach/ (sleeping)http://www.flickr.com/photos/21468527@N07/2085259490/ (engaged)http://www.flickr.com/photos/littlejeane/46988578/ (broken pencil)
• Tool - http://www.flickr.com/photos/58534808@N00/323527111/• http://earth911.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/single-brick.jpg brick• Lightbulb - http://www.dceb.ie/download/1/sLightbulb%20White.jpg