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PimaRSC Technology News for September
New focus for 2011-2012
Project-Based Learning and STEM with Technology
The Pima County Regional Support Center will offer a tiered approach to providing technology related professional development to Local Education Agencies. Priority support services through the SIT Project are free, while non-priority and more in-depth services may incur some nominal costs that cover travel, materials, facilities, or curriculum development. Training this year will focus mainly on Project-based Teaching and Learning and STEM initiatives that implement technology tools and resources. Most training will be delivered online in the form of webinars or courses. A few opportunities will combine face-to-face with online, and fewer yet will be strictly face-to-face. Arrangements may be made to deliver targeted technology related professional development outside of the SIT grant priorities.
SIT Grant Priorities for 2011-2012
Intel Teach professional development full courses - Essentials and Thinking with Technology; and short Elements courses - Project-based Approaches; Assessment in 21st Century Classrooms, Thinking Critically with Data, Collaboration in the Digital Classroom.
Peer Coaching - a peer-to-peer professional development model that assists teachers in offering engaging technology-rich learning activities.
Thinkfinity - a repository of 50,000 lesson plans developed by nationally recognized teaching organizations that integrate technology into highly effective lessons.
Internet Safety and Digital Citizenship
How Training will be Delivered
Webinars
Online Courses
Face-to-Face Workshops
Hybrid Courses
Levels of Service
Level 1: Webinars; Absolute Priority Trainings; Free
Level 2: Short Course, online, hybrid, F2F; Mostly Free
Level 3: In Depth Workshop; Nominal Fees Apply
Contact: Allen Swanson & Emily Mann
Office of the Superintendent of Pima County Schools, Pima County Regional Support Center, 6420 E. Broadway, Ste A100 745-4588
Project-based Learning Series:
Level 1 - Webinars
Arizona Technology Integration Matrix (AzTIM)
The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, collaborative, constructive, authentic, and goal directed and associates them with the five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) in meaningful learning environments. Come explore the matrix and learn how you can use the outstanding lessons and examples created just for Arizona educators to recognize and implement quality technology integration.
Primary Focus: Project-based Learning
When: TBD in May, 2012
Where: Online at your computer
Time commitment: 1 hour
Cost: Free
Digital Storytelling with PhotoStory3
PhotoStory is a free download for PCs that uses images, text, voice, and music to tell a story, document an event or concept, or anything you choose. This webinar will provide resources for bringing digital storytelling and media to your classroom and leading students to develop their voice as digital authors and creators.
Primary Focus: Project-based Learning
When: Monday, October 24, 2011; 4:30-6:30
Where: Online via Elluminate Live
Time commitment: 1 hour
Cost: Free
Digital Tools for Literacy
Imagine building a tool chest of virtual resources to enrich your capacity to plan professional learning opportunities that will support your staff members as they put new strategies into practice in the classroom. You will discover free tools and research-based strategies for application that may be used for direct instruction, differentiation, remediation, and independent learning.
Primary Focus: Project-based Learning
When: Monday, Sept. 19, 2011; 6:00-7:00
Where: Online at your computer
Time commitment: 1 hour
Cost: Free
Going Global with Technology
Connect and collaborate with classrooms and experts across the world in order to create opportunities for for students to know other cultures and cooperate to create projects and products in ways that could never be done before. Join to learn about international resources for teachers and students and play with new technologies that will bring the greater world into your classroom. "It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to pain it." (Steven Wright)
Primary Focus: Project-based Learning
When: TBD in April
Where: Online at your computer
Time commitment: 1 hour
Cost: Free
Lesson Makeover: Turning Activities into Projects
Every teacher has done rather involved activities with their students like Sell pencils every Friday, build a solar oven, build a sugar cube castle, make a board game, write a picture book, or make an alphabet book. While these activities may be significant learning experiences or represent the culmination of a unit, they are not project-based learning activities. How can they be made into projects? That is the topic of discussion for this webinar.
Primary Focus: Project-based Learning
When: Tuesday, March 6, 2012; 4:30-6:30
Where: Online at your computer
Time commitment: 1 hour
Cost: Free
What is PBL and How Can It Improve Teaching and Learning?
Project-based Learning (PBL) addresses many of the concerns teachers have about rigor and relevance in school by bringing authenticity, active exploration, and audience to student work. PBL has been shown to have positive effects on student achievement, but more importantly, it helps students to acquire the 21st century skills needed to succeed in today’s world. PBL also addresses the desire by many teachers to have a more integrated curriculum and still maintain laser-like focus on meeting standards.
Primary Focus: Project-based Learning
When: Tuesday, February 7, 2012; 4:30 - 6:30
Where: Online at your computer
Time commitment: 1 hour
Cost: Free
Level 2 - Basic Courses on PBL Topics
Digital Storytelling
Digital Storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell personal tales, interviews, the recounting of historical events, documenting an exploration into a community or even the search for life in other corners of the universe. This workshop will use lead you in the creation of your own story and how to help your students find voice as digital authors.
Primary Focus: Project-based Learning
When: Thursdays, October 20 and 27; 4:30-6:30
Where: Pima Regional Support Center
Time commitment: 4 hours
Cost: $20
Claymation and Stop Motion Animation for Student Projects
A well-developed story or short begins with writing and planning. Join this workshop to learn the process of developing and storyboarding and guiding students in creating their own project. Frames, a software from Tech4Learning will be used, lesson plans, support, and free resources will also be shared.
Primary Focus: Project-based Learning
When: September 8, 15, and 22, 2011; 4:30-6:30
Where: Pima Regional Support Center
Time commitment: 6 hours
Cost: $30
Intel Teach: Elements of Project-based Learning Approaches
This facilitated hybrid course is designed to give teachers new to project-based learning the opportunity to explore concepts behind the instructional method, while providing the veteran project using teacher a structured approach to developing and implementing a thorough project action plan.
Primary Focus: Project-based Learning
When: Register now! Course starts October 12 in IDEAL
Where: Online
Time commitment: 30 hours
Cost: Free
Intel Teach Elements: Assessment in 21st Century Classrooms
Take an in-depth look at assessment that meets the needs of 21st century learners. See how assessment strategies can benefit your teaching practices and students’ learning. Learn how to plan, develop, and manage student-centered assessment. Suggested pre-requisite: Intel TeachÒ Elements of Project-based Learning Approaches
Primary Focus: Project-based Learning
When: Register February 8 for the course that starts March 28 in IDEAL
Where: Online
Time commitment: 30 hours
Cost: Free
Intel Teach Elements: Collaboration in the Digital Classroom
See collaboration in action through classroom examples, use a Collaboration Framework for planning digital collaboration activities, explore many online collaborative tools, and understand how to support and manage ethical, safe, and legal online collaboration. Suggested pre-requisite: Intel TeachÒ Elements of Project-based Learning Approaches
Primary Focus: Project-based Learning
When: Register now! Course starts October 12 in IDEAL; or wait and register November 30 for the course that starts January 18.
Where: Online
Time commitment: 30 hours
Cost: Free
Wikis for Collaborative Student Projects
How do you create a digital collaborative space where students can work together cooperatively to create a project? How do you create an area where they can showcase their ideas and creations to a wide audience and maintain a private space for reflection and self-monitoring? Join us to create your own wiki and learn how students are using wikis to collaborate, create, communicate, and develop skills that transfer across many web and software applications.
Primary Focus: Project-based Learning
When: Option 1: Tuesday, Oct. 4 and Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011; 4:30-6:30. Option 2: November 10 and 17, 2011; 4:30-6:30
Where: Pima Regional Support Center
Time commitment: 4 hours
Cost: $20
Level 3 - In-Depth Courses and Support for PBL
Digital Citizenship and Internet Safety
Participants create a school action plan while they explore specific strategies for creating responsible Digital Citizens who use the Internet safely for educational purposes, and constructing a safe Internet environment for students. They will learn essential information about compliance, AUPs, and the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA); attend to safety and health issues that these technologies present, such as cyberbullying; and, become familiar with Web 2.0 technologies for collaboration and social networking, and how they are changing the way that students and teachers interact online.
Primary Focus: Project-based Learning
When: Register now! Course starts October 12 in IDEAL
Where: Online
Time commitment: 30 hours
Cost: Free
Intel Teach: Thinking with Technology Course
Through Thinking with Technology, teachers learn instructional strategies for addressing and assessing thinking skills, using technology to support deeper understanding of core content. The goal is for teachers to leave the course with a standards-based unit plan, support materials, and implementation strategies to improve and assess students’ higher-order thinking with the use of free online tools. Intel® Education The Intel® Teach Thinking with Technology Course builds on effective technology integration skills. Teachers use free online tools to support the development and assessment of their students’ higher-order thinking skills.
Primary Focus: Project-based Learning
When: Register November 30 for the course that starts January 18 in IDEAL
Where: Online
Time commitment: 30 hours
Cost: Free
Teaching with PBL and Technology
This five-day hands-on workshop blends information from the award winning Intel Teach "Elements of Project-based Learning Approaches" program and the Buck Institute for Education’s Project-based Learning Do-It-Yourself toolkit with technology tools and collaborative applications. Teachers will spend the week building strong foundations and applying new knowledge while planning implementation and developing student activities. “Project learning, also known as project-based learning, is a dynamic approach to teaching in which students explore real-world problems and challenges, simultaneously developing cross-curriculum skills while working in small collaborative groups.” – from Edutopia.org During the workshop Technology Integration Specialists from the Regional Support Center will integrate a variety of digital tools teachers can use to support student collaboration and learning with projects. Teachers will be introduced to tools for digital storytelling, group collaboration on electronic products, team planning, connecting to experts, publishing, and assessment of products and processes.
Primary Focus: Project-based Learning
When: Session 1, June 4-8, 2012; Session 2, June 18-22, 2012; Session 3, TBA July 2012
Where: TBA – Host districts receive a $100/person discount
Time commitment: 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. daily. Lunch provided. 30 hours recertification available
Cost: Individual: $450 (register by March 1, 2012 for the Early-Bird Special: $375); District groups of 10 or more on the same PO: $350
Facilitating Project-based Learning through Peer Coaching
Peer Coaching supports the “vision of professional learning, ensuring that teachers have time to work and learn with colleagues every day, that their learning is aligned with standards, and that their learning revolves around a continuous cycle of improvement” (NSDC, Advocacy Toolkit, 2008). When the coaches are on the local school campus, the teacher has someone they can turn to for support in implementing the strategies they learned in the professional development sessions. Peer coaching provides the support and follow-up for teachers to expand their abilities to create technology enhanced lessons and meet the needs of the students in their classrooms. Sessions 1-5 take place in quick succession to provide coaches with the basic coaching skills needed to collaborate with peers in their school building. At the end of five sessions, coaches have the planning tools and skills they need to begin coaching. Sessions 6-8 occur throughout the school year and cover topics related to support for school-based learning communities and extending support networks to the global community.
Primary Focus: Project-based Learning
When: By arrangement
Where: Your site
Who: Minimum 5 classroom teachers
Time commitment: 8 full day sessions with 4 follow-up visits at school sites.
Cost: Free
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Series
Level 1 - Webinars
Scratch – Imagine, Program, Share
Scratch is designed with learning and education in mind. As young people create and share projects in Scratch, they develop important design and problem-solving skills, learning how to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively. Scratch can be used in many different settings: schools, museums, community centers, and homes. It is intended especially for 8- to 16-year-olds, but younger children can work on Scratch projects as well.
Primary Focus: STEM
When: Tuesday, September 27, 2011; 4:30-5:30
Where: Online via Elluminate Live
Time commitment: 1 hour
Cost: Free
Discovery Education STEM Connection
Discovery Education resources are free to Arizona educators through the department of education’s IDEAL portal and provide rich materials like STEM career videos, technology enrich lesson plans, STEM teacher communities, interactives, contests, student centers for individual student access and more. Join us to explore the wealth of materials available free for you.
Primary Focus: STEM
When: January 23, 2012; 6:00-7:00
Where: Online via Elluminate Live
Time commitment: 1 hour
Cost: Free
Engineering Projects for the Elementary Classroom
From Build a Bear to Zeroing in on the Zoo Elephant Habitat, engineering projects on the Internet abound. We’ll give an overview of online engineering projects and activities specifically designed for grades K-5, where they can be found, and who you can trust to provide quality curriculum for your students.
Primary Focus: STEM
When: Tuesday, November 15, 2011; 4:30-5:30
Where: Online via Elluminate Live
Time commitment: 1 hour
Cost: Free
Engineering Projects for the Middle School Classroom
From Build a Better Beehive to Tsunami Surge, engineering projects abound on the Internet. We’ll give an overview of online engineering projects for middle school grades, where they can be found, and who you can trust to provide quality curriculum for your students.
Primary Focus: STEM
When: Tuesday, December 13, 2011; 4:30-5:30
Where: Online via Elluminate Live
Time commitment: 1 hour
Cost: Free
STEAM Resources for Arts Integration into Science Technology Engineering and Math
STEM is the hot initiative in education, but how do you widen your focus and incorporate the soft sciences as well? Join us to explore the best free resources, motivators, community connections, successful example lessons, creativity tools and more and learn how to bring them into your classroom.
Primary Focus: STEM
When: Tuesday, November 1, 2011; 6:00-7:00
Where: Online at your computer
Time commitment: 1 hour
Cost: Free
Level 2 - Hands-on with Scratch
Scratch: Imagine, Program, Share; Introduction to Beginning Projects
Hands-on introduction to Scratch programming tools and classroom projects. Scratch is designed with learning and education in mind. As young people create and share projects in Scratch, they develop important design and problem-solving skills, learning how to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively. Scratch is intended especially for 8- to 16-year-olds, but younger children can work on Scratch projects as well. Workshop participants will receive Scratch programming project cards and design manuals full of tested projects.
Primary Focus: STEM
When: Tuesdays, August 23 - September 20, 2011. 4:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Where: F2F - location TBD
Time commitment: 15 hours
Maximum of 20 participants
Cost: $25
Scratch: Imagine, Program, Share; Using PICO Boards to Connect the Real World to the Virtual World of the Computer
Hands-on experience with analog to digital computer interface boards for use with Scratch. Experience using Scratch programming tools is a pre-requisite for this workshop. Participants will use PICO boards to gather data from the real world in order to control the virtual world inside the computer. Participants will receive Scratch programming cards and design manuals specifically for the PICO interface.
Primary Focus: STEM
When: October 18 - November 15, 2011. 4:30 - 7:30 pm
Where: F2F
Time commitment: 15 hours
Maximum of 10 participants
Cost: $50 registration fee; $330 for a classroom kit or $1100 for a workshop kit with 5 units (optional)
PBS LearningMedia: Resources for STEM Education
STEM teaching and learning can cover a wide range of projects and activities. PBS has just launched an incredible resource for teachers that is packed with STEM. Every segment of PBS programming nationwide has been categorized into a searchable database.
Primary Focus: STEM
When: TBA - look for a special announcement later this semester.
Where: Online at your computer
Time commitment: 1 hour
Cost: Free
Level 3 – Making STEM Real
Project-based Learning Approaches with Scratch
This five-day hands-on workshop will cover the basics of turning Scratch programming activities into Project-based Learning units. Scratch is designed with learning and education in mind. As young people create and share projects in Scratch, they develop important design and problem-solving skills, learning how to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively. Combine these elements with math, science, and technology standards, authenticity, and products design to perform for an audience and students will take off with PBL.
Primary Focus: Project-based Learning and STEM
When: June 11-15, 2012
Where: TBA – Host districts receive a $100/person discount
Time commitment: 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. daily. Lunch provided. 30 hours recertification available
Cost: Individual: $450 (register by March 1, 2012 for the Early-Bird Special: $400); District groups of 10 or more on the same PO: $400
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