Justin

**Cohort Name- Science and Math in the Middle School Classroom**
__**Science** __ **with Toni Erni** **Not much direction in this cohort. The Mr. Erni tried to get us up on chatzy and a file sharing program, but it didn't work out.** chem idea: create periodic table format, give clues for elements, they insert elements into the table, could do this as a historical

ecology idea: M&M fishing Materials: M&ms, straws, paper towels Each kid is a harvester and tries to harvest the fish by sucking the M&Ms in the straw out of the central pool Factors: fish only reproduce at 30 years

__**Mathematics **__** with Darren Kuropatwa ** **Themes:**
 * **Mathematics is around us, and we can use photos/video to capture this real-world examples to describe.**
 * Fibonacci series: 1,1,2,3,5,8... is way trees grow, leaves on branches, bees reproducequadratics: walk around your world, find quadratic functions --> send to flikr, use notes feature to make a digital map, tags important feature so kids can find it
 * **Digital platforms are useful for real-time monitoring of students understanding. Obviously, this is good for information movement between teachers and students. In addition, students are able to look back and reflect. However, the most valuable part o digital sharing is that students can see each others work. They can see each others "digital galleries of thought"**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Watch it, do it, teach it <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Need to create digital galleries of thought; need to publish learning that shows how you've grown

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Un-Conferences Notes**

 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">1)Online tools: **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">2)Lenses of Learning **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">3)Using Geogebra **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">4)Design still Matters with Darren **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Curation is a collection of excellent digital resources grouped under a theme/topic
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">5) Curation of the Digital **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Check out some cool sites:

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">www.edge.org http://www.aldaily.com/ http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/: for teachers of EAL, EFL scout report: http://www.openculture.com/: great source for free videos, books and other sources http://www.brainpickings.org http://boingboing.net/

diigo: can highlight, good modeling for notetaking, slower than others

delicious can tag, bookmark, can create a report in annotated online bibliography

http://www.math.harvard.edu/~knill/mathmovies/

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Ideas Standing Alone
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">-school can purchase "clickview" which is a media center for video <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">-use camvideo or screen-o-matic for screen recordings <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">-use cellphones! cameras,as kids learning tools <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">-Flikr: allows you to create badges which you can copy and paste into badges -Delicious is a site that you can use to bookmark and tag websites -Instapaper --> strips adds and can download article and load onto ipod, ipad

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**BLOGGING:** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">can insert a google translator into a blog

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**WEBROWSING: using "command + f" keys to find stuff on browser page**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Notes from Darren in Bricoleurs:** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**-uses four lenses for evaluating/using tech tools. The four lenses overlap:** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**1) learner centered: encourage attention to preconceptions and begin instruction from eliminating preconceptions and bringing solid foundation** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**2) knowledge centered: focus on what is to be taught, why it is taught, and what mastery looks like** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**3) assessment centered: provide frequent oppotunities to make student's thinking and learning visible as a guide for both the teacher & the student learning and instruction; make students transparent; use technology in ways that we can get behind students' eyes. Also, want kids to see how you are thinking. In addition, make students' thinking visible to each other.** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**4) community centered: encourage a culture of questioning, respect and risk taking**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Start with community, uncover kids preconceptions, create knowledge networks and allow metacognition**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Every class, a kid is assigned to be a scribe; "what did you learn today?" summarize that in a blog post and choose someone at random; want kids opinion not the "classified section" use alias names,**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Using wikis: kids make solution manuals** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Example** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Week 1: post sample example problems; annotate solutions; have to do 1 each; have 1 week to do your best work <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Week 2: go back to wiki and look at questions that are not their own; <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Wikis are websites that do two things: 1) make content or 2) modifiy content**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**PROBLEM SET:** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**create a wiki with problems and kids have to make solution set.**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**FOCUS on: how kids learn and how we can structure learning for kids**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">CREATIVITY IN CLASSROOM with DARREN <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">1st copy you think something is clever <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">2nd modify/augment the 1st thing <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">3rd transform it to something completely different

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">SCIENCE

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Great Edugoodness is happening with <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Flikr, with Twitter, googledocs, blog and wiki <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">How to use Twitter: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">tag photos, can upload 10MB pics free

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Notes from Design with Darren Kuropatwa** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Design: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The universe has multiple layers of beautiful symmetry. We need to mimic that symmetry in our design of teaching.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Colours: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Different colours have different psychological means

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Principles for designing instruction <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">1)Students' Errors and Misconceptions based on previous learning. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">2) Learning is a network <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">3)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Tips: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Use Helvetica and sans serif fonts for screens. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Read "Brain Rules" by Dr. Medina, "How People Learn", "How Students Learn", "Made to stick" --> how to make ideas sticky

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Use color.org: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">1) Upload image to site by using URL (from Flikr or something) or file itself

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">http://kuler.adobe.com/

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">check out symphonyofscience.com: collection of science music vids <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">check out death by powerpoint vid <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">check out bonnie bassler on tedtalks

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Contacts**


 * ~ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Name** ||~ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**School** ||~ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Email** ||~ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Twitter** ||

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Resources
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Sharing Bookmarks: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">delicious.com ringodin@gmail.com
 * ~ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Name ||~ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Subject ||~ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Contact ||
 * Evan || Math/Physics || weinbergmath@gmail.com ||
 * Ringo || Science/Physics || http://hs-physics-ib.ism-online.org/ ||