Chart a New Course – #ISTEsla20 Wk 1 Day 2

The following post has been completed as part of my personal reflection as I work through the ISTE Summer Learning Academy #ISTEsla20 Any images, tables, or direct quotes (as indicated with the appropriate formatting) are provided from the specific course or webinar and can be credited to: ISTE Summer Learning Academy. (2020). https://summerlearningacademy.iste.org/

Rachelle Dene Poth, David Lockett, ISTE, #ISTEsla20, Kirsten Thompson, Coordinator of ICT, MVSD, Mountain View School Division

Week 1 – Day 2 includes a webinar entitled “Chart A New Course: Teaching Essential Skills for Tomorrow’s World”. It is facilitated by Rachelle Dene Poth and David Lockett and is described as follows:

“How do we create the right spaces for our students to learn? Whether in our classrooms or learning at a distance, there are many ways to expand where and how our students learn. Explore versatile ideas and digital tools for helping students to navigate in the digital world while building the vital social-emotional learning (SEL) and communication skills they need. “

Main Takeaways

Team Up: social emotional learning skills and why they are essential
- relationships, self-awareness, self-management, responsible decision making, social awareness
- “Maslow before Blooms”
Connect: ways to embed these skills into our practice
Create: explore tools and strategies to build communication skills
Extend: foster collaborative skills and global connections
Room logistics and the effect on engagement
Shifting students from consumers to creators
- provide authentic, real world learning experiences
- promote student choice, increase motivation and engagement
- empower students to take the lead, build confidence and creativity
PBL allows for local/global connections, student voice, access considerations, etc
Use GBL is reinforce collaboration
Calls to Action
- Identify a challenge
- Decide on one tool or method
- Involve students more
- Reflect on benefits/challenges
- Keep going!

Questions

Rachelle Dene Poth is a language instructor, I’m curious as to what strategies she would advocate for use with our learners who do not have tech access when located at home.
What would the learning stations look like in a socially-distanced face-to-face environment?

General PD Thoughts

I can appreciate the need for positivity and can see how it can be a model of how teacher’s may present themselves (especially at the elementary levels) but the overly dramatic introductory messages sometimes appear insincere to me. I feel like I’m not being respected as an adult learner… is this just me? (I’m positive this is not their intention, just my interpretation).
This webinar, and yesterdays, started with a review of the features of the program as well as some general housekeeping notices. These clear instructions of the platform and expectations is a great model to do the same with our students.
Today’s webinar shared the following ed tech tools:
Thank you to Rachelle and David for sharing!

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