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Marzano Research: Enhancing the Art & Science of Teaching With Technology

In reference to students reading content online:

“Research shows that when students cannot perceive the organizational structure of a text, they remember less of its content (van Dijk & Kintsch, 1983). Therefore, students must be taught to read texts that lack a clear organizational structure, as well as how to formulate keyword searches, use Boolean operators, identify characteristics of reputable journal articles, and distinguish library catalogs from bibliographic databases (Mittermeyer & Quirion, 2003).” 

Excerpt From: Sonny Magana & Robert J. Marzano. “Enhancing the Art & Science of Teaching With Technology.” iBooks. https://itun.es/us/SuDCU.l

Marzano Research: Enhancing the Art & Science of Teaching With Technology

I have been reading Robert Marzano's book, Enhancing the Art & Science of Teaching With Technology.  He talks about the Flippped Classroom.  Here's an excerpt:

“One classroom-level example of the power of technology to restructure the old paradigm is the flipped classroom. A flipped classroom is one in which students listen to online lectures at home at night and then use that content at school the next day. Table 1.1 compares a traditional classroom to a flipped classroom.

In the flipped model, students listen to a short lecture (ten to fifteen minutes) and take notes as homework the evening before they cover the information in class. As shown in table 1.1, this frees up class time that would traditionally be spent introducing new content and resolving student confusion about the previous day’s homework. Therefore, students in the flipped model still complete the same amount of independent practice work as students in a traditional model, but they do it during class instead of as homework. Rather than complete assignments without teacher guidance at home, students complete them in school, where teachers are there to offer help or answer questions.” 

Excerpt From: Sonny Magana & Robert J. Marzano. “Enhancing the Art & Science of Teaching With Technology.” iBooks. https://itun.es/us/SuDCU.l

Cancellation! November 7th CSM Training

I just received this cancellation notice from Juanita at MLTI regarding the two workshop sessions being held here at PIHS tomorrow, Nov 7th, due to the forecasted weather:

Good afternoon 

Sorry for the late cancellation right on the heels of a confirmation.
We were not aware of the winter storm warning in the region. Due to the impending storm we are canceling tomorrow's session and are working to reschedule it in the beginning of December. 

I'll be in touch directly with a reschedule date when determined.
Please contact me with any questions. 

Juanita

This is a reminder/confirmation of your registration for the following event: 

Name: MLTI Common Sense Media Trainings
Location: Presque Isle High School
Date: November 7, 2014 

8:00am - 11:00am: Skills To Help You Discover, Use, and Share Great Digital Tools for Learning Through Graphite by Common Sense Media
12:00pm - 3:00pm: Making a Better World: Teaching Digital Citizenship and 21st Century Skills 

Please ensure you arrive in a timely fashion.  Remember to bring your MLTI device and charger. 

Presque Isle High School is located at:
16 Griffin Street, Presque Isle, ME 04769 

Please check in at the Main Office upon arrival.

Start Your Google Classroom

Just in case I haven't mentioned this enough, Google Classroom is a product that came out this past fall.  It is not so much a "new product" as it is a nicely put together LMS (learning management system) that combines what Gmail, Drive and Calendar do into one easy to use communication device.  I am hearing teachers starting to use this in their own classroom environments more and more now.  Many teachers are choosing to try it on a smaller, easy to run class until they become more comfortable with it.  Though Google Classroom may not necessarily be "loaded" full of digital tools, it's simplicity and practicality make it a very valuable tool for communicating with your classroom digitally.  If you are flipping your classroom, this will come in very handy.

I couldn't give it a better description or do a better demo of Google Classroom than Google themselves, so preview the video below.  No need to worry whether there is enough help online in using Google Classroom; just search for it in YouTube.  There have already been hundreds of teachers sharing their view and experience of Google Classroom

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Student Academic Notebooks

While reading Robert Marzano's book, The Art and Science of Teaching, he refers to a student tool he calls an academic notebook, where students can record their ideas.  Taking from that, one of my favorite products for recording ideas and pretty much doing "almost" anything when it comes to digital procuring, is Evernote.  Evernote has grown to become a hugely used in app world, business world as well as the edu world.  There are dozens, upon dozens of creative ideas and solutions for how Evernote can become a powerful and amazing productivity tool for note/thought taking, image collecting, web bookmarking, document saving and more.  Student can benefit from this powerful tool as well as their academic notebook for collecting just about anything digitally.

Evernote, also, has a very handy flashcard maker from their app Peek (FREE), which allows users to create simple flashcards for studying by using the notes from their Evernote notebooks.

Below is a video demo of what Evernote can do.

Evernote Peek