Presentation to kick off a student-centered, constructivist cohort with a focus of using technology to enhance learning.

1. Breaking Barriers
Bode
Middle
School

2. terri.l.johnson@sjsd.k12.mo.us
terri.science@gmail.com
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Terri Johnson

3. By the time we leave
today, you should have a
clear idea of why we
need to design for
learning and how we plan
to get there.

4. Agenda
Welcome and Introduction
Did You Know
Constructivist Theory
Designing For Learning
T-Pack
Bode LIVE
Next Steps

5. Why Breaking
Barriers?
Did You Know...

6. Thoughts?

7. TRANSFORMING LEARNING
Engaging the Bode Community in global
communications – developing educators, transforming
classrooms, preparing global workers.

8. “What if school wasn’t like
real life? What if it was real
life?”
~Chris Lehmann, SLA Principal

9. Teachers seek and
value their
students’ point of
view.

10. Classroom
activities challenge
students’
suppositions.

11. Teachers pose
problems of
emerging
relevance.

12. Teachers build
lessons around
primary concepts and
“Big Ideas”.

13. Teachers assess
student learning in
the context of daily
teaching.
(Brooks and Brooks 1999)

14. Classroom
the teacher searches for students’
understandings of concepts, and then
structures opportunities for students to
refine or revise by posing contradictions,
presenting new information, asking
questions, encouraging research, and/or
engaging students in inquiries designed to
challenge current concepts.
(brooks and brooks 1999)

15. Take Away from Top 20
Success = IQ x EQ
EQ = Think, Learn, Communicate

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18. Designing for learning
rather than planning for
teaching demands a
different way of thinking.

19. Book Study
• Constructivist Learning Design (1-6)
• Elements of Design (7-10)
• Precedents for Constructivist Learning
Design (11-14)
• Teacher Learning Circles (14-17)

20. Protocol
What is still circling around in your head?
What is square with your thinking?
What are 3 points we need to remember.

21. PCK by Shulman

23. T-Pack

24. A Squirrelly Example
Try To Do

25. T-PaCK
Technology
Pedagogy
Content Knowledge

26. Diigo
Flickr Pandora
animoto
Twitter
Google Earth
Social Networks
Pandora
eVite You Tube
Blogging
Delicious

27. The Networked

28. Get your tool belt ready.

30. First Tool: Blogging!
• Blogs in Plain English

32. Examples of School
Networks
• http://virtualsouthside.ning.com/
• http://www.classroom20.com/
• http://sjsdliteracynetwork.ning.com
• http://lhsirishnet.ning.com
What do you see? What kinds of
conversations do you notice?

33. BodeLIVE.ning.com

34. A Web Site Story

35. Next Steps
• Become a member of BodeLIVE.ning.com
• Read Chapter 1 in Design for Learning
• Respond to Discussion Question at
BodeLIVE.

36. Artwork Thanks
• Image: 'Union II' by Orcoo at www.flickr.com/photos/
47815255@N00/3598076216
• Image: 'The Burden of Thought' www.flickr.com/photos/
13152844@N00/102953776
• Image: 'Atlas, it's time for your bath' www.flickr.com/photos/
73645804@N00/440672445
• Image: 'Tools' www.flickr.com/photos/
10488545@N05/1596898776
• Image: 'Hammer' www.flickr.com/photos/
36045027@N00/2054989998
• Image: 'Raleigh Sprite 1976' www.flickr.com/photos/
87555792@N00/254286233

37. Artwork con’t
• Image: 'O sol no destino' by Eduardo Amorim at
www.flickr.com/photos/75133058@N00/514244830
• Image: 'Its Future is in our Hands -+Live+Earth' by aussiegall
at www.flickr.com/photos/14516334@N00/759309122
• Image: 'Jonny Wilkinson Squirrel - Rugby World Cup+Final
+Practice..:O)' by law_keven at www.flickr.com/photos/
66164549@N00/1575325110
• Imagae: ‘Up Close with Botany’ by Sean Nash