This weekend I was really working on wrapping my mind around all of these models and sorting out how they impact my students, my planning, my learning, and my teaching. So here goes some of my Sense Making. First I have realized that my End User is directly connected to the SITE Model Analysis. The following questions are my End User Focus: 1. Who are the learners? 2. What values do the learners hold? 3. What will motivate the learner? 4. Which tools , systems, and techniques will assist learners to realize goals or values that are important to them ? 5. How do these tools, systems, and techniques form paths to goal achievement? 6. How will learners recognize opportunities offered by tools and techniques and how will learners perceive these tools and techniques might be linked to their goals and values? 7. What skills do learners need to access information and knowledge about how to achieve their goals to uphold their values? 8. What assistance would improve this access? For me we have been looking at so many different models , doing so much reading involving a variety of different ideas and thought that I am experiencing cognitive overload and this is my attempt.using visuals and grouping to make some sense of it all for me. As you all know this end user question has really been a struggle for me I ask questions every time we meet and I think finally today it is starting to make sense. I was getting very confused with Dervin and Clark but revisiting SITE Model Analysis really helped me make some sense ( maybe you all got it the first time but my light bulb just turned on). The question in this analysis will improve our ability to reach our students and create more meaningful lessons, experiences, even learning spaces for them to be successful. End User which seemed to be a marketing term to me now makes much more sense as I look at it with my educator lens. I value these questions and they are a part of my action research and will always be present as I do my planning in the future. Brenna shared this models with me at our 1 on 1 meeting and I have found it to be very helpful. During that meeting Lisa also helped me as I changed my driving question a bit as it is now more focused on observations happening in my math class. What I have been observing since last year is that students who have struggled with math for years excel at coding. They have more perseverance and problem solving skills than their higher math achieving counter parts for some reason. My new question " What is it about coding that allows struggling math students to succeed and how can we develop this as a way to support these learners ? " has developed from these observations. With my new question and this model I have now revisited Bloom's Taxonomy as well as the SAMR which is where I am deciding to channel energy for my Capstone. Substitution - tech acts as a substitute - form me using ECHO with tech is a substitute for a grade book or even binder reminders for kids ( Nothing new or fancy / no fancy pencil). Augmentation- Tech acts as a direct tool substitute with functional improvements ( pencil is getting fancier). Coding needs the laptops and students have their own flash drives, students are also learning a new language C++. Modification tech allows for significant task redesign. ( pencil is pretty fancy now ). The way we present and teach Math 1 has been redesigned by the use of coding and robotics. Redefinition tech allow for the creation of new tasks. The pencil is something different it is a code. Students write codes to solve equations, to calculate sales tax, area of shapes, and robotics will run the graphs previously drawn by a pencil MATH 1 has received a much needed upgrade. Learning this new way levels the playing field and creates more opportunities for meaningful collaboration. So this is the beginning of how I see SAMR fitting into my research and now I need to insure that with this I am addressing Bloom's higher- order cognitive skills. I am going to use this wheel to help me in being intentional about my lesson design and assessments of student learning. I still have a lot of work to do but this blog helped me to sort some of my confusion out giving me more clarity and focus. Maybe it will also support you in Sense Making.
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There are so many cool digital tool that really support students engagement but Google Forms does that and it supports teachers making our job a tiny bit easier which is AMAZING !! I tell everyone about them and how awesome they are all the time. I used Google Forms to gather data for "The Paper" and I was able to get all my charts and graphs from the results. I am planning on using surveys for my capstone and so will again use forms just in a Julie is evolving manner. I am really being more thoughtful about what I am measuring and what data I am trying to really collect. I now think about things like the Bloom's and SAMR models. There is just so much to learn about all the different things Google Forms can do and then there are the Add-ons. Truly amazing the few I have explored so far are Flubaroo, Doctopus, formMule, and EquatIO. FormMule is cool I have added it on to the spread sheet I am using for presenters who have signed up to participate in the Makers Faire and I think I am cool they all now get a kind response from me when they sign up. I am also using formMule to respond to my students grade reflection form I made.
I was pretty darn frustrated most of Sunday spent hours trying to figure out equatIO since g(Math) is gone. So one down side to all this technology is it moves fast and is tough to keep up for us as learners and our teachers. So eqautIo is not an add-on it is an extension so I did get it I am just not sure how to use it in a form. I sent a message to their help desk and have watched videos. I signed up for the free teacher version and am still not sure it will work with forms at this point I need a more user friendly math solution. I have realized there is a lot to learn so Rafa and I signed up to attend the Alice Keeler training that is coming up in Stockton that Scott mentioned. I am excited to learn from an expert. Then Rafa and I are also signing up to go to Sacramento to another Alice Keeler workshop on math I obviously really need that one. I am also very excited to be moving to Google Classroom I think it is going to be so much easier to use all Google. I have no doubt this is worth learning and even keeping up with all the updated because my students are really responding well to all things google. They loved the peardeck I created for them, the like to quick quizzes, and are even giving me really thoughtful paragraph responses. This is so important and needs to become a larger part of our PLC work as well. The Evolution of My Thoughts
Sometimes we search trying to find what it is we need to work on or understand deeper and then we realize that what you are looking for is right in front of your face. I care deeply about so many things I am learning specifically mindset since my students all struggle so with mindset. The thing is I have been working with so many different tools to improve my students ability to grow their mindset and access knowledge I hadn't really realized an important phenomena occurring right before my eyes. It wasn't until I had my one on one with Lisa and Brenna sharing this crazy thing occurring that I can't wrap my mind around that they helped me see this is what I need to be talking about , researching, and doing action research on. The phenomena occurring in my class is the surprising success of struggling learners to succeed at very high levels in coding. My most struggling learners seem to be having the most success with coding. It is crazy to me how well they do ! So I went on a mission yesterday searching for some answers , I spent the whole day finding new research since this is a shift in my focus. The results are exciting there are studies out their demonstrating how coding contributes to cognitive growth. There are studies discussing how coding is being taught to younger children to develop their cognitive growth. There are further studies showing that coding can support the cognitive health of older peoples minds < praise the lord I am helping my mind while I struggle to code! I have emailed a researcher to ask questions because I am not seeing anything about struggling learners and success in coding. So my new driving question " What is it about coding that allows struggling students to succeed? " As I read Baggio I think about : The Trilogy of the Brain
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This information from my Clark reading will support this new study I am on. Procedure :
I think I need to take a class just on Twitter myself ! There is so much information and I am overwhelmed with how to sort it and use it well. All of these new cool tech tools take time real time and I am feeling very rush to understand and frustrated I don't have enough time to spend developing my skills so I can navigate and use these tools correctly. I am a very visual learner , I like to take my time and process these things on my own terms and that just takes time. All of this learning about how to correctly use technology has really made me realize that we are not talking about this enough with our students, staff, and even our own children.
If I saw a post like the one mentioned I think my response would be something similar to what Patrick Larkin's said he did pulling in all his students and speak to them. I would organize a school wide lesson/ assembly /advisory lesson and speak to the seriousness of what we post, who sees it, and how it can be used in ways you never intended. I might try to talk with the student who made the post with my principal and have them help us to develop the information we present to the students. There comes so much responsibility with the use of social media but it is so easy to create accounts and start posting??? WE are in a time when I feel it is difficult to keep up with how rapidly technology and communication is changing. It does seem fitting that maybe even in English classes they start to teach more about these new ways of appropriately communicating. As I was reading the Innovators Mindset book for 791 I was very interested in him mentioning maybe instead of or along with teaching students how to write essays we teach about writing blogs. I think it is really tough to fully understand how many people can see what we post since it seems so personal with our own smart little phone right in our hands. I know we have had plenty of drama due to things students post on social media at school this year. This needs a topic that we as adults model and talk about with our students. The amazing power of social media comes with responsibility. We have to know our students and who they really are and what they really need. That is the whole mindset around Design thinking we can't design for someone if we don't know their needs. For me these reading all seemed to connect as I reviewed the Stanford Design Thinking model. It is all about making sense and all the steps and needs we all have to make sense and learn. I have a Maker Space at Valley Oak and when I went through the Makers Certificate Program at Sonoma State I was introduce to the design thinking model. I loved it I could see how this model could help our students solve any problem that they encountered in life. The idea of identifying a problem , creating a plan, prototyping, testing, and then possibly going back and trying again. This is a valuable model for everyone to use and keep in our tool box of life.
Now to talk about our readings before I talk about the different authors I just want to say that all 3 are talking about knowing our learners, the needs learners have, and the work that has been done to aid us as teachers to provide the best learning environment as we can for our students. Dervin
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Clarke Instructional System Design this is so similar to the Design Thinking Model
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Julie LovieJulie Lovie Is a Math and Science teacher at Valley Oak High School with 25 years experience in teaching at a continuation high school. Julie Also teaches at Napa valley Adult School in the High School Diploma Program. She is passionate about the environment, loves gardening, and learning. Archives
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