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Roundtable Notes
What are the next steps? Engage more staff in understanding the importance of teaching the 21st Century Skills in the classroom. Teachers should be invited to observe how 21st Century Skills in the classroom enhance student engagement and learning. Continue to provide professional development to our staff that is practical, on going, collaborative, and teacher lead.

May 10: What is 21st Century Learning?
Fluid, Collaboration, Technology, Groups, Relevant, Skype, Student Centered, Creativity, Real-World Application, Choice, Messy, Self-Direction, Problem-Solving, Flipped, Resourceful, Blended, Fun, Mastery, Feedback, Standards-Based, Student-Centered, Individual, Information Literacy, Digital Natives, Cross-Curricular, Applicable, Movement, Chaos, Differentiated....

21st Century Learning is how are students should be learning...is it how you are teaching?




 * **Name** || **Grade/Subject** || **Conference** || **Notes/Resource Links** ||
 * Kym Gile || Rampart/Math || ASCD || Emphasis on technology tools spurred exploration into other tools; for example:

1. http://m.socrative.com/lecturer/#lecturerLogin can create quizzes, exit tickets, surveys--free response and multiple choice; students can sign in with their cell phones and log into quizzes; sends excel worksheet; exit ticket can have variety of responses, i.,e. answering question on board, summarizing www.socrative.com for info. 2. Free website: popplet.com: sticky notes with Prezi movement; can upload videos and type within the sticky note; between Prezi, Glogster and wallwisher; can write with mouses 3. Importance of instruction and structure to organize group work even at high school level. ||
 * Casey Walter || Rampart/Science || ASCD || The field trip to Woodland Park High school motivated group at RHS to start learning about the flipped classroom. ||
 * Sandra Vuletich || Summit Middle School || Learning in the Brain || We tend to teach students the way we were taught; textbooks become obsolete quickly.

Thomas West: Teachers have a habit of comparing students to typical students. Make comparisons with like kids (i.e. one ADD child to another). ADD kids may not take notes but they have good processing skills; grades may be poor if looking at notes vs. verbal responses. Very creative. Work within their skill sets.

Howard Gardner: Current skills needed in global world. Megatrends--cities, finance, global nature, exporting of jobs, must be able to work in multiple formats, find and share data; learning forever. Biological revolution--knowing about the brain and genes will make all the difference to education. || Dr. Jacobs: education should be a time travel back in time from the world in which children live.
 * Richard Moothard || Academy Online High School/Liberty || Learning in the Brain || 90% of speakers were professors with doctorates; lecture-style

Worthwhile websites: http://museumbox.e2bn.org @http://www.curriculum21.com--> click on clearinghouse (example: www.visualthesaurus.com ) Creative process has no generic guidelines

Hollowell: Support is the difference between the prison population and the Nobel prize-winners.Book--A Walk in the Rain with the Brain--how ADD kids have only two times: Now and Not Now.; steps to peak performance--number 1 is to connect with your kids; play is very important because it engages the imagination; praise on something that matters to you helps improve performance

Study with two types of praise for performance on a puzzle--kids praised as being smart did worse than kids who were praised for working hard. Hard working ones did not give up as quickly.

Sherry Turkle: Book: Alone Together--use of mobile technology; we're substituting connection for conversation through social networking--connecting but doing so alone. Current generation multi-taskers but need to be "unitaskers"; deep understanding needs the give and take of a physical conversation

Many speakers emphasized need for students to be by themselves and think for themselves. How can teachers tap into that creativity. Creativity demands a certain solitude and students shouldn't be afraid of it. || Summit MS Aspen Valley HS || Final Day Thoughts || See at the top: ||
 * Kristi Follett || Rampart HS ||  || polleverywhere.com : Can text answers, works like clickers; can text free response as well. Discussed student level of responsibility, how to ensure appropriate engagement. ||
 * Kristi, Casey, Carolyn, Sandy, Simone || Rampart HS