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May 10: What is 21st Century Learning?

 * **Name** || **Grade/Subject** || **Conference** || **Notes/Resource Links** ||
 * Shannon Morris

Holly Clark

Marci Eccles || 4th grade/all

3rd grade Frontier Elementay || ASCD || My link came from the homework policy session I attended. Dr. Cathy Vatterott has a website with research and lots of amazing articles about homework. Her website is: www.homeworklady.com.

Homework: Kathy Vaterat, Homeworklady.com effectiveness of homework; grading out of the homework; purpose for homework; scheduling of homework; time limit- differentiation (10 minute per grade level); reading logs, away from minutes, response or sharing about what was read for accountability; recommendation of how much to be reading; homework packets good idea for freedom to choose when to do them

Marzano: Vocabulary: strategies; vocabulary words are over; 20 minutes a day on one word; starting from kindergarten, 30 words in one year to focus on kids would be more successful in high school; 6 steps to develop understanding of a word, form

Grant Wiggins- session on feedback; "too much teaching can hurt kids" making specific and relate back had to figure out what feedback meant; reflect back to this when formulating feedback; examples and non-examples; make purposeful and useful; difference between advice, praise and feedback give praise with a comment followed elementary classroom with large index cards for feedback/what I can do better/ what I can work on- 1 side and the other- what I do well with: students can use throughout the year Quick and detailed feedback, then having the opportunity to use it CDE rubric samples/appendix C in the common core has writing examples

Jim Winter: Engagement and motivation strategies to support learning: kids needing to use the front lobe of the brain; humor brings thinking to the front part of the brain; recognizing ways to use humor to get kids thinking; Brain Value states how humor is valuable; have fun with them "We don't laugh because we are happy, we are happy because we laugh." by William James

www.wavelengthinc.com || Pat Withee || 3rd Grade
 * Kathy Hill

3rd Grade || Boston || http://www.curriculum21.com/clearinghouse/ Fantastic 21st century websites Dr. Gardner: 5 Mindsets: Discipline, Synthesis, Creativity, Respectful and Ethical Turkle: speaker regarding mobile technology creates more isolation even though it helps promote speed and efficiency in communication, kids lose some ability in conversation.

Willy Wood- 5 elements of reading; socioeconomics important (lap reading) 21st century skills encompass many ways of thinking- technology as a tool Charles Fadel- the first follower creates the movement even more than the leader Shelly Carson:Tips for enhancing success in the classroom- permit failure Creativity skills can be learned/push for creativity- exposure to creative work and atmosphere where creativity is valued Think more broadly and all the different ways to use the tools of technology ||
 * Hanna

Rhoda

Sherry

Gina || Foothills

Edith Wolford

Frontier || Las Vegas || Karen Boyes- session on habits of mind; opened eyes as to how valuable the 16 Habits of mind; these are the characteristics or attributes that successful people possess; such as persistence; taking responsible risks; "Even if you have kids do something in the margin, write RR and circle it, the student is taking a ''responsible risk' with my answer." "Responding to the world with wonderment and awe" shift from not knowing the right answers to knowing what to do when they don't have the right answers- kids not knowing how to solve the problems helping kids with strategies classroom management, how to process work, thinking, creativity, etc. instituteforhabitsofmind.com

Elizabeth Ross Hubble: Using Technology with Classroom Instruction That Works apps used on an ipad; connect to a similar tool if do not have an ipad; more out there to use Teaching strategies: setting objectives( keep flexible, but specific), using feedback (give often); re-enforcing effort (have kids track effort and achievement), cooperative learning (learning is social); providing recognition (celebrate the little things) advance organizer (organizers help plan learning experiences) give opportunity for talk, share ideas and thoughts with one another

Habits of Mind Across the Curriculum by Arthur L. Cossta and Bena Kallick Developing Habits of Mind in Elementary Schools by Karen Boyes and Graham Watts quotes, diagrams that relate to the habits of mind

Not as much technology, more relationship oriented Poverty- relational information Marzano

Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey: www.fisherandfrey.com Group work: ideas about specific of roles in groups; common vocabulary for working in groups; common skill sets; rotated skill sets so everyone knows what is expected; mini lessons of three collaborative skills: personal responsibility, respectful discourse and collaborative problem solving; The productive group work rubric accountability for kids is important
 * purpose, modeling, guided instruction, more critical to put in collaborative before independent practice

Be ready to tell what your partner said; kids have to ask 5-6 other students to write down answers; kids answer last questions on their own Kagan statagies ||