Bling! or Bang?
Filtering Out the Noise
Lenses for Learning Design
Digging In
- Unearthing Blooms
- Activities
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- Collaborative Notebooks
- Digital Literacy
- Data Detectives
- Literature Circles
- Virtual Science
- Lesson – Human Systems
- Virtuali-tee Demo Video
- Visible Thinking Routines
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Questions to Consider (and re-consider)…
- Where are these lenses present when identifying needs re: technology?
- Where are they present when making academic and instructional decisions?
- Where are they present in student learning?
- Where are they present in professional learning?
- How are we bringing the larger learning community into the fold?
- Why bother?
- What connections do you draw to the responses on our opening questions? (below)
From Our Session:
- Slide-deck
- Thinkering Studio, Edutopia video
- Question Formulation Technique, Right Question Institute
Additional Resources
- Dear Future Me
- ISTE Standards
- Webb’s Depth of Knowledge
- The Questions Concerning Technology & podcast discussion
- Process Guides for Digital Resource and Learning Technology Selection
- Digital Promise Ed Tech Pilot Framework – https://edtech.digitalpromise.org/
- Resources for Educators, NCEE – https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/Resources/ResourcesForEducators
- Florida Center for Instructional Technology – evaluation tools
- MA Dept of Education – Ed Tech Systems Guide
- Additional Lenses
Product Research
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- The Student Data Privacy Consortium hosts a national registry of tools that meet an agreed-upon student data privacy agreement.
- Digital Promise – -product certification for tools that can demonstrate they have consulted empirical research, developed a logic model, and publicly published their product’s research basis.
- ISTE issues a seal of alignment for products that are aligned to their standards.
- iKeepSafe offers certifications for tools that meet FERPA, COPPA, and California Student Privacy requirements.
- EdSurge curates an edtech product index.
- EdReports produces free reviews of K-12 instructional materials. Their reports offer evidence-rich, comprehensive information about programs’ alignment to standards and other indicators of quality.
- Common Sense – ratings and reviews of educational tech tools based on engagement, pedagogy, and support offered to users.
- What Works Clearinghouse, Institute for Education Statistics – research on the efficacy of practices and interventions
Additional Examples in Practice
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High Tech High (K-12)
- With Virtual Reality, Students Get a Glimpse of Different Careers – Hechinger Report
- Charting A Course In the World of Work – Cajon Valley Union School District
- Podcasting in the Classroom
- Lit Circles
- Student Podcasting