Learning is Change

This is what the Cherry Creek Rollout of Chromebooks looks like. Click through to see the comments from the Chromebook community that this post was originally sent to. Wow!

Originally shared by Jay Vean-CCSD

The deployment of over 18,000 Chromebooks to Cherry Creek Schools has begun. A TON of work that has us very excited.

While I will admit that my original video trying to dig into the difference between Professional Development and Professional Learning was ill advised, as I recorded it while driving. 

If I promise not to do that again, would you watch the responses I got from the collaborative community I was asking in the first place (none of them made unsafe videos)?

I particularly like Sheri’s response where she outlines a model that I find engaging: Open spokes SRE Authentic PD

Let me know what you think.

I was just looking at the iPD Metadata project, and I am finding it more interesting than I had originally. Here are the categories that they are considering tagging all PD with, including the original language for the sub-categories. How do we think these align with our frameworks?

Instructional Strategies

   – Facilitating Small Groups

   – Whole Group Instruction

   – Using Discussion Protocols

   – Questioning Strategies

   – Differentiation-Scaffolding

   – Engaging All Learners

   – Gradual Release of Responsibility

   – Domain Specific Thinking Skills

   – Delivering Instruction

   – Facilitating Learning

Learning Environment

   – Classroom Management

   – Discipline

   – Rules

   – Rewards and Punishments

   – Intrinsic Motivators

   – Family Engagement

   – Establishing a Productive Classroom

   – Managing a Productive Classroom

Assessment

   – Feedback Loops

   – Portfolio

   – 7 Cs of Learning Design (conceptualize, capture, collaborate, consider, combine, consolidate)

   – Formative

   – Summative

   – Exit Slips

   – Informal

   – Formal

   – Looking at Student Work

   – Data-Driven Decision Making

   – Data Analysis

   – Monitoring Student Learning

   – Responding to Student Learning

Instructional Planning

   – Lesson Design

   – Inquiry

   – Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC)

   – Mathematics Design Collaborative (MDC)

   – Duration

   – Standards

   – Understanding by Design (UBD)

   – Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

   – Reflection

   – Unit Design

   – Identifying Resources 

Professional Commitments

   – Coaching

   – Observing and Providing Feedback

   – Presenting

   – Publishing

   – Facilitating

   – Advocacy

   – Collaboration

   – Case Management

   – Communicating Effectively

   – Continuous Improvement of Teaching

   – Instructional Leadership

Here is the link to the overall project.

Theress Pidick, Danielle Ongart, and Justin Darnell, what do you think?

http://www.ipdmetadata.org///cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js

Is anyone currently using Kahoot in their classrooms?

Looks really interesting.

Paul Iwancio, I thought you might enjoy this crazy Venn diagram.

Paul Iwancio, I thought you might enjoy this crazy Venn diagram.