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**Day1 Twitter Feed** Here’s a roundup of some musing on April 26th AND if you are a more visual learner feel free to go to my Mindomo (Erica)

NEW LEARNING ECOLOGY was about “release of responsibility” or self-direction.

Questions. There were questions in our PhySci disciplinary neighborhood. Q _ Is there a shared vision of blended learning? A – Students get online with curriculum. We are the learning architect. How can we be engaged in individual learners?

Concept of Community of Practice (COP) (learning beyond common practice). Based on the model of typical apprenticeship where the learning happens not because of the master but because the master is a mentor, a resource. The apprentice learns by engaging in the practice · meaning drives learning not the technique · drawing on eachothers’ knowledge

COP learning partnerships who share People who are challenged and realize they can’t do this alone Let’s explore the chemistry of working together at the district, state, nation and world

Better stuff follows...........:-)

Lots of bullets.

Hash tag for twitter
 * 1) ICoPi

Hashtag for physical science
 * 1) iaphysci

There is credit recovery courses….very generic at this point in time. The goal is to rethink what this will look like. Make it better.

FLOW March –July Alpha testing April 26-27 Launch for the Communities of Practice and Innovation

TAKE THIS COURSE May 23- July –elearning in a blended classroom: ELA ,, math, and science

JUNE 22-24- IS SOCIAL STUDIES JUNE 27-JULY 2- ELEARNING IN A BLENDED CLASSROOM FOR SOCIAL STUDIES

JULY 28-29-PREP WORKSHOP: CURRICULUM AND TECHNOLOGY

JUNE 19, 2012 REFLECTION ON THE YEARS

The dream school-Clayton Christensen-Disrupting Class-Learning into Modules and Chunks-Teaching 2030….Learning architects, custom classes, modules, tutoring, The goal is to have a self-directed learners.

What is blended learning? (Some will fly-some will struggle)

This will be aligned to the Iowa Core….the intention to align all to Iowa Core.

E-curriculum review session: Concerns for students who struggle with text Explore resources that would match the reading needs of nonreaders, struggling readers, average readers, and advanced readers. Use the power of this crowd to indentify those resources

Try to match activities, resources, assessments to multiple learning modalities. Consider tabs for kinesthetic, visual, auditory, etc. learning tabs.

Learning 360 will be in place of Iowa United Streaming.

Research in Communities of Practice-This was started in business. Now it’s in education. This has been around 20 years; yet it’s an age old practice. This started as a theoretical concept. This was in 1983, Nation at Risk, What are the basic assumptions that we are making about learning? Learning relationships are basically taking place. Apprentice learn in the context of what is useful. Run errands first. Sew buttons-handle final product. Cut the fabric. Meaning will drive learning…..if they want to be a tailor. How much learning will be a transformation? No formal apprenticeships when there are different ways of learning.

Change learning theory into learning concept. Can we start a community of practice around that….two lives; part learning theory that views learning as a journey. Talk more about becoming a community practice. Communities must be self-governed….they must own it or not much will be accomplished.

Bev Trayner: Human resource research…..using the group to mediate at her own place of work….her reaction….an analytical concept of how she was learning. Social inclusion is really social exclusion. She was invited to encourage people to read the stuff on their dinky web site. She did the course in Moodle with people all over the world. Ongoing support is always needed. Teach people to be a learning partnership.

The community of practice should be a learning partnership between people who have similar passion, interests, etc. We can’t do it alone. We need to talk because it’s a difficult challenge.

This is our first date. We aren’t committed yet. Let’s explore what happens when we work together.

The goal is to avoid redundancy and have more meat and potatoes within my classroom curriculum.

The goal is to have a strong sense of community.

I used to think, but now I………

Afternoon session with Jason:


 * Notes summary in Wordle in morning session **



Leadership Group Reflection 5:15-5:30





Some random pics of Day 1...

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 * Day 2**


 * Learning Activities-A Great Variety**



Forms of Participation-Which one are you? "In a healthy community, there should be shift." What do you think when you hear the comment, "There are too many chiefs and not enough Indians."

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Notes for the question that was selected at 9:10 Create a booth or Show board to show the Findings/Results of Discussion/Back to “Kindergarten”

How do we help the learner become self-directed or help them unlearn what they’ve learned and had reinforced for years? = =



Notes for Self-Directed Learners: Build a relationship Build communication Fill out information cards that are variables that impact their learning, your strength, your weakness, your boredom factors, Make a phone call one time a week(ugghh)-Data driven actions One must be convinced that the things that take the most time are usually the most worthwhile. Use self- directed learning language online and in the classroom- “A self-directed learner would…… “A self-directed learner would set time lines…. “A self-directed learner would strive to…..

How do we reconnect with the elementary student who is now in high school? Give student choices in their passion area.

How do you change the mind-set? Can we shorten the time that is needed to build a relationship. Let students negotiate the time line.

Chunk student time, and teachers becomes the time manager.

Experiences in life cause students to become self-directed. So give students lots of experiences. The community of practice can be the street, the classroom, the principal’s office, the prison, etc.

The younger generation likes the anonymous approach.

My job is to make students think. The goal is for independent thinkers. The goal is to feel comfortable. Our goal is to model, think, and inspire accountability through self-assessment, reflection, relationships, etc.