Activity

Handouts/resource

Activity: ISTE student standards

1. Do a quick read of ISTE student standards

2. Pick out two-one you are already doing and one you would like to be doing

3. Watch the video and highlight which skills the students demonstrate in the video

4. Tea Party Debrief

ISTE Student Standards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Beb45Q4dsig&feature=em-subs_digest

Soda Can Density Discrepancy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StAPPFb9zME

Activity: How the teachers currently promote each ISTE standard:

1. Teachers regroup to sit with department members.

2. Using the Google three-column document, record how you currently promote the ISTE standards in student learning activities.

3. In the third column, teachers record how they could augment or incorporate other 21st century skills in their subject area (concrete examples of the type of learning activity that they could use to promote the ISTE skills).

LDJ ISTE Standards Collaborative Google doc  

Activity: Blooms Digital Taxonomy

1. Teachers list the 10 most common activities that they generally use in the classroom;

2. They write the Bloom ‘s level associated with the activity.  

3. They think about a new activity that would require a higher Bloom’s level.

4. Teachers add a technology tool to support the new activity. (in the next activity)

Activity: Introduction to Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy

1. Examine websites referencing web 2.0 tools in support of Bloom’s Taxonomies.
   
   

2. Individual exploration of the websites and record the technology that could support the new activity (see previous activity).

Bloom’s Digital Tools Quicksheets

Resource is in the files section on this Google Web Site Page.

Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy

Kathy Schrock’s Web 2.0 support

iLearn Technology: ilearntechnology.com/?p=4817

Bloom Digital Taxonomy use rubric

Break

Activity: Lesson development-Finding Solutions to Impossible Situations

1. Teachers revise/create a lesson with the Blooms digital taxonomy and ISTE standards with an eye to the fact that some students will have devices at home and others won’t.

2. How do ISTE Standards relate to CCSS

3. Plans to use the COWS in class

Lesson plan template

Resource is in the files section on this Google Web Site Page.

Magic Moment

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Teachers and parents can also benefit from Skype in the classroom.

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