T & L Conference October 28, 2009

Cindy Johnson’s notes

Breakfast Curriki Curriculum + Wiki

Keynote Speaker:

Engineering and design ( booth 8)

Create an assistive item to help someone in the workforce

engineering competition (JETS)

-find a person in your community who needs help ex: Regina Walls stroke victim/artist

Need: She needed a cart that she could move using 1 hand

Created: a lightweight cart that can be moved using one hand and can hold a variety of objects

Award winning school: Jeffco Public Schools in Golden Colorado

Smartboard-use a tennis ball as their pointer

Clickers- immediate feedback

Elmo or Doc Camera

Teacher librarians-leaders for effective, ethical use of technology

ISTE digital citizenship

Digitally rich society, it’s about the kids and the skills they need, not about the technology

K- class of 2022 What technology will they face in their education??

They use BLACKBOARD in their district to participate in PLC’s

Keynote Speaker: Frans Johansson The Medici Effect

Promote and drive Innovation and Creativity

Integrating ideas from widely different disciplines, fields and industries leads to innovation.

Knowledge is becoming a commodity

15 days to take an idea on paper and put clothing on the shelves worldwide this used to take 6 months.

Facts are not as important because we can access knowledge instantly without remembering it.

Accessing knowledge and networking and innovation is the key.

How do you innovate

1) diversity drive innovation (Find connections between ideas that don’t seem related ideas closely

related are thought about, ideas thatt are far apart are not obvious until they are connected)

-turmite mounds cool and heat evenly use this idea to build office buildings that don’t require air

conditioning = EASTGATE 72 degrees farenheit

Creativity- all new ideas come from existing ideas

2) Innovative teams generate and execute more ideas and diverse teams generate far more ideas-

keep trying many ideas

Find inspiration from fields or cultures other than your own and dare to explore the connections

We assume that innovation means to be on the cutting edge and #1

Take your knowledge, wisdom and experience and colleagues and apply it to areas that you

don’t know and combine those ideas (Diversity)

Allow yourself to fail

Chef Marcus Samuelson throw out ideas of things people would never think to combine and

narrow it down from them Free and out there thought process leads to interesting

food his partner is more technical, he is creative they work together to create things that work

Kindergarten Technology Boot camp

Christ McBee from Wyoming several districts working together

Beebot robots

Wii

iChat

iPaq handhelds

Gather ideas on creating a simple technology program connecting

schools and districts that motivate students and raise student

achievement

Gain ideas on funding options

Learn how to use 5+ technologies

Have Fun

(Promethean board- putting numbers in order in 9 boxes

Measuring with a ruler on the promethean board

Lunch Count

Kid Pix on a smartboard (illustrating a story he read

with the teacher)

Work in small groups with 5 or 6

HANDHELDS:

Grants through Wyoming/Qwest $5000, $2500, $1000

She got a $1000 grant, her district supported her and provided the

rest of the $

Matching grant with Green River

$10,000 bought 48 handhelds (powerpoint to make flashcards letters,

numbers etc.)

Later put on books on tape.

Checking weather at Yahoo weather then graph it for math

Sight words and sentences- they wrote on their hand helds in note

Apple Mod Book- kids can write on this screen, but they

seemed to write on their handhelds.

Kids have taken great care of equipment

*iChat and Distance learning

(Mac) They have a pen pal they talk to about 1 time a

week for a few minutes. Teachers set up questions based on

the academics for their classroom

Went on iChat and talked to other classrooms (skype)

Once a month one teacher would teach an everyday counts

lesson to all groups via iChat (last Friday of the month)

They had to learn to talk clearly and loudly so other kids can

hear them on the other end

EducationCity.com

Starfall.com

Everyday Math online

*Podcasting

iPods & Garage band (record student voices retelling a story)

(Pair and share with older kids to show their podcasts)

BOOK No More Letter of the Week

Digital Cameras

Kids brought in teddy bears, they were to decide what

part of the day you wanted to take a picture of your teddy

bear doing something you do each day.

Class used the pictures to put in order to show their daily

schedule.

VIDEO GAME TECHNOLOGY

PS2 Dance Dance Revolution (fitness)

Wii Outdoor challenge game (coordination, brain base etc)

Wii Bowling (movement, subtraction 10 pins – hold up 10

fingers, put down # of fingers, # of pins and figure out how

many were left. This was the only way she taught subtraction

and they all could do it.)

Wii now has early childhood books they can read and turn

pages with the controller, then part way through they will

stop and have an activity to go with the story.

Also Smarty Pants software good for learning on Wii

Fitness Grant for Dance Dance Revolution

Foundation Grant for the Wii (music, movement etc. and got a

grant, all about academic benefit)

RESEARCH AND PILOTING

BEE BOTS

Bee Bots are small robots shaped like a bumblebee that

caqn be programmed very simply to move on a mat. BENEFIT:

high level of interest and engagement and problem solving

skills all paired with your Kindergarten Curriculum goals

Bee Bot lessons Careers Game Mat slip cards in pockets on the

mat, kids have to program the bee bot to get to the answer.

(problem solving paired with basic curriculum)

EX: Letter b for bear, have to get bee bot to get to the

picture of the bear.

You can make your own cards to use with bee bot, and there is

a curriculum book available to use with Bee Bot.

Roll Dice grid 1, 2, 3, 4 and a, b, c, d.

Roll a # dice and a letter dice and figure out which one you

need to answer.

Sight word cards, teacher says the word, kids have to

program him to get to the word.

(can create or purchase the mats, can be very inexpensive)

** presenter can get discounts on Bee Bot stuff up to 20%

Pro Bots car Type in degrees to turn at an angle

You can drop a marker in him and draw angles etc.

RESEARCH & PILOTING

Spring 2010

Curriculum guide ad lesson plan for pro-bot

National I Teach K Conference

Contact Information-Cristy McBee

mcbeec@sw1.k12.wy.us

http://www.sweetwater1.org

BOOK Purchased at http://www.terrapinlogo.com

Freshi films

Making videos and video games

Process of film making (don’t need a broadcast quality video camera)

(LA 70 percent drop out rate in lowest performing schools)

Set up an after school program in film making

Gang activity dropped, drop out rates decreased and test scores went up.

*in 27 states and many other countries

Developed a process for teachers to use to make film, digital music and digital game

design & development (not computer programming) the logical thinking that goes into

a game

SOFTWARE

1) Pre-programmed game formats on software, you fill in the blanks

2) Blank slate- you have to program every ounce of that game (multi-media

fusion our of France) logic based statements, program takes the statements

and puts them into a game

Started at 8-12, then tried middle school, then piloted in an elementary and results

were great.

BENEFITS

Films can be inserted into background of games

Worked on line with children from other countries

Could not be political

Did a film on stealing the recipe on humus

80% of the kids involved in video game design and film making are boys *

this reaches many at risk kids

VIDEO GAMES

Educational value-

Series of graphs using logic statements if, then

Uses pictures on the graph to check for the logic statements

MULTIMEDIA FUSION 2

Chosen because it has a blank palette

Not a drag and drop or click program

For Freshi

1) Kids develop characters

2) Can draw/create their own ideas

3) Make the characters move around

4) Define how he moves

5) 14 week program when they are done they can re-program in less than 30

minutes

6) Teaches kids the actual progression that occurs when you play a game

7) They had to have a story to go along with this also

8) Credit screen when you win

9) Disguised learning, they don’t know how much they are actually learning

10) Can set up quizzes that they have to complete in order to complete the game

11) Incorporate curriculum

12) Kids own the copy right when they are done

File these copyrights and Library of Congress will send you a letter saying

that it is in the archives

http://garrisonsites.blogspot.com/

Making Education Stick: Veni, Vidi, Velcro!

Lynell Burmark, Ph.D.

Instruction that sticks uses:

1) Connection

2) Humor

3) Images

4) Music

5) Emotion

6) Story

7) Senses

Connections: Connect to prior knowledge (build

schema)

Connect two ideas together

(we learn things better in pairs!)

Humor: Children laugh 400 times a day, adults 15

Funny photos (www.pixcetera.com)

Comics Peanuts- www.snoopy.com

Comic maker HypeStudio 5.0

Videos School tube: bad dates to teach

math ratios

Images: Stories and photos

Images are stored in long-term memory

Music: www.schoolvideos.com

Anything you put to a song you remember

better!

BB King sings the Letter Y on Between the

Lions

Emotion: Emotional moments brought to you by

YouTube

Mean Joe Green coca-cola commercial

Create a photo wall (or web-based gallery)

of kindness

Love, joy and other Words Worth 1000

pictures

Story: We remember the teachers who told us

stories and the

stories they told us

Progressive story (koosh ball, groups of

3, look at images and tell what you think is

happening, pass the koosh ball for the next image

and another group member tells what they think is

happening

From Image to Story What’s the event?

Who are these people? What is their

relationship?

“we don’t see things as they are, we see things

as we are.” Anais Nin

Senses: multi-sensory experiences

Visuals Multi colored classrooms

Voiceovers/music

Touch bring in a piece of sandpaper to

talk about how a

Sting ray’s back feels

Tangerines to teach fractions for math

Smell- Citrus to remember

Chocolate (anti-oxidants)

Free Web site: www.educatebetter.org