DEEP Learning Day 2

Keynote by Sean Thompson:
*Book- The End of Education
*"We can take ourselves out of the role of consumers and become producers ourselves."
*Obsoledge- obsolete knowledge
*"Yea, but" vs. "Yes, and"
*"Innovation happens when it's time for it to happen."
*"Never stop learning, creating and sharing." Sean Thompson
(Photo on left taken by Sean Thompson in his DEEP Dive session.)

"Link everything to everything." Sean Thompson

Making Videos with Wes Przybylski:
*Keep videos ~2 minutes
*Enable collaboration
*Use social media
*Students can make iMovie Trailers ending with questions for class discussion
*Screencastify
*Make or Take? Doceri for making math videos
(Multiply grade level by 1.5 for recommended length of instructional video time)
*EDpuzzle- like Zaption but seems way better because it records the response data and organizes it for you

Subjective-Type Assessment with Davis Apas:
*Subjective-Type Assessments refer to assessments that do not have objective right/wrong answers
*Proposed effective method for assignment work flow
1. Prepare Starter Template
2. Distribute with Doctopus
3. Check/Mark/Comment with Goobric

Question for thought- In light of the fact that I believe in leveraging the social, collaborative nature of learners, what benefit does Google Classroom add that student blogs or websites don't? Is it not just as easy to require students to post their learning/assignments on their blogs? Don't blogs allow students to choose the format that they believe is best?

Deepen Your Digital Footprint with Sean Thompson:
*Sean's website with great resources
*PDF Book: Deepen Your Digital Footprint
*My underused platforms for professional sharing: Slideshare (PPT for Mac or PPT), Vimeo
*Sharing is caring
*Storify, paper.li, list.ly can send out regular updates from your Twitter feed
*Find people who are using Twitter well and follow people who they follow
*YouTube Channel: seansensei8 for IB or Tech categories
*Slideshare is easy to embed into your blog
*Scribd presents documents cleanly
*Twitter- learn how to use hashtags and follow people with similar focus (chekc out pleggio)
*Google+ is great for posting work: Circloscope can let you add people in batches, BIG for easy hits
*Pinterest- use for sharing creations and curating
*Rebel Mouse helps attract traffic to your sites
*Track your traffic on TweetsMap
*Mention Map shows who you are engaging with on Twitter

What is Making? with Glenn Davies:
*Copying is innovating
*Making helps with the motor skills kids are losing
*Heidi Hayes Jacobs- 21st Century Skills talk on TEDx
*Invent to Learn by Gary Stager- talks about why, what and how of making in schools
*Make Space by group from Stanford
Thought- The line of thinking that says we need to give students real problems supports the suggestion that PYP Central Ideas give students a statement instead of a real problem or essential question-driven unit of inquiry.
*Genius hour- guiding questions, research, share
*Design thinking- powerful for making and planning
*Ideo website has many resources
*Imagination Foundation has another design plan
*Glenn's design plan: Play, Question, Research, Share
*What will happen if. . . ? -this is real hypothesis
*A Whole New Mind by Daniel H. Pink

A Google Integrated Classroom with Vaughan Pope:
*Google Education resources
*One great example: Google Search Lessons- this might be helpful to library teachers as well as homeroom teachers when teaching effective search skills
Question for thought- What is the benefit of going through the work to set up a Google Classroom vs. a Wordpress blog like we currently have?
Google Ninja makes Google Apps training available for free

Applied Learning from DEEP Dives:
Powtoons- Animated videos for teaching or learning
Flixel- Living Photos