Stop Motion Presentation

  • App called stop motion- free for Apple
  • Question button and shows you what every button means
  • Animated it on Photoshop
  • Added a drawing component onto the stop motion
  • Used twinning button-she did 4 layers
  • Take your time, leave room for error, and have fun with it!

Resources

  • Makerspaceforeducation.com
  • Iste.org
  • sites.google.com/site/waldportfolio

 

Maps Presentation

  • Google Geographic projects
  • Google Maps
  • How can get students to make own maps- Google My Maps
  • Can find out perimeter, routes, and area of shape
  • Attach media
  • Can colour the map based on numerical value (e.g. temperature and red for hotter and blue for cooler)
  • Share the map to collaborate

Lesson/project ideas

  • Points of interest map
  • Student commentary
  • Family heritage map
  • Where people are from
  • Where they’ve visited
  • Map languages
  • Map out fictional settings from novels
  • Trip planning- real or imaginary

Google Street View

  • Not just streets
  • cultural , political, physical geography
  • Google cultural Institute
  • Museums, natural wonders, architecture
  • Art, curricular content, historical documents, deep dives

Google Earth vs Google Maps

  • Google maps more for utility but don’t get a feel for what places are like
  • Google Earth gives high resolution 3D imagery-immersive experiences for children
  • On Google Earth can:
  • Find your house and get up close with Street View
  • Flight simulator
  • View the past-sliding scale from current to years ago to see how the land has changed
  • View layers- can add for different data-global awareness layer-can see endangered habitats and species
  • I’m Feeling Lucky button- go look at a place haven’t thought to look themselves
  • Google Moon, Mars, and Sky- moon had immersive interactions with apollo missions-narrated by people who were actually on the missions
  • Voyageur- curated tours of various places around the world-one of chimpanzees in Tanzania for example

For lesson plans

  • Could do 20 questions
  • Real world math
  • Explore different environments
  • Create your own KML tour
  • Scavenger Hunt- coordinates and ask children what is at the coordinates found
  • Another wants you to find the latitude and longitude

Using my Maps in the classroom: Grade 4 cross-curricular project

  • Could have students follow main characters during the Gold rush, can measure distances and give criteria for visiting specific sites along the way
  • Could keep road trip journal
  • Can add in custom icons, change the base maps

What Google Maps knows about you can be scary or awesome

  • Give up a lot of privacy
  • Google can track you if you don’t opt out
  • Go into Google maps and click on timeline
  • Settings-location services turn off-won’t track anymore but don’t have the same benefits of convenience
  • In class could talk about online presence and responsibility
  • Can speak about corporations and their power-take your information and use it to sell you stuff. Fair?

What is Digital Literacy and how can we bring it into the Modern Classroom Presentation

  • Information literacy- being aware of what is authentic and teaching kids how to recognize that-quality and credibility-who benefits from the information- biases
  • Ethical use of digital resources-what is plagiarism-how do you properly cite information-do you or do you not need to cite
  • Understanding your digital footprint-passwords, IP address, internet service provider, cookie-what are you leaving behind
  • Protecting yourself online- be careful how sharing your privacy-privacy settings- have a critical understanding- if needed to go deeper- can talk about data encryption and hacking
  • Handling digital communication- don’t be a jerk, don’t let the screen dehumanize conversations, cyber bullying-what to do when someone’s bullying you online-encouraging to walk away, not engage, and tell an adult (build trusting relationships)

Pros

  • Experiment more in classroom
  • Promote more student participation
  • Boosts engagement
  • Endless resources that could be used
  • Less paper

Cons

  • Can be distracting sometimes
  • Not everyone has equal access
  • Less opportunities for in person group discussion
  • Not all research is reliable
  • Potential exposure to inappropriate content online
  • Cyber bullying
  • Some students and children have little to no experience with digital tools

Strategies, tips, and best practices

  • YouTube- Crash Course Navigating Digital Media Series
  • Fact checking
  • Lateral reading-checking for biases-who’s writing this and why
  • Evaluating evidence
  • YouTube: Crash Course Media literacy series
  • History, influence and persuasion, advertising, media ownership (how impacts us/biases)
  • MediaSmarts.ca
  • Canadian specific content
  • Resources for teachers and parents
  • -including lesson plans

Best practices

  • Student choice and voice
  • More creation than consumption
  • Include multimodalities
  • Centre collaboration
  • Ensure accessibility of all learners
  • Crowd-accelerated learning (e.g. citizen science-need data processing but can’t teach computers how to do it so get human brains to engage with data-e.g. Categorizing pictures of galaxies with telescopes galaxy not galaxy galaxy not galaxy-mildly boring-but some really interesting citizen science projects can get students engaged in and working through that data
  • Social media and peer-to-peer social learning
  • Core competencies

How to talk to parents about digital literacy

  • Don’t assume parents understand and are aware
  • Different families have different rules
  • Not all know about their child’s online use and footprint
  • Digital literacy is a key component of the BC Curriculum-21st Century Citizens
  • Communication with parents is key- helping them understand what teaching their kids, how engaging them with digital literacy
  • -You could organize a Digital Family Night (classroom or school wide)

 

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Technology integration

No technology in class is starting point

Think about ways how to Substitute -tech acts as a direct tool substitute, with no functional change (enhancement)

Augmentation- Tech acts as a direct tool substitute, with functional improvement (enhancement)

Go deeper- Modification– tech allows for significant task redesign (transformation)

Redefinition-tech allows for the creation of new tasks, previously inconceivable (transformation)

 

SAMR

Image from Sylvia Duckworth

https://sylviaduckworth.com/

 

Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)

Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK)

Technological Content Knowledge (TCK)- google maps to teach Geography

Technological Pedagogical Knowledge (TPK) how to know how to use technology appropriately/effectively, and not just because new and shiny

http://www.tpack.org/