The experience of investigating, creating, and enhancing a Person Learning Network was a good amount of work. There seems to be a learning curve of at least a couple hours from most of the on-line PLN tools we covered in class. As with anything, the more time you spend with any of these tools of Technology the more time it will save you in the end. It seems to me though that the time spent learning a new use in technology is often the definitive obstacle to teachers trying something. I really think this in turn leads us to an effective way to get teachers trying new tools of Technology. We all have the occasional faculty meeting, at least one per quarter. This is a chance for all the teachers to be together, why not introduce and train teachers on an online tool when they can all be together with their friends. Faculty meetings generally are met with resistance and walked away from with resent for it not being effective or efficient. Spending time walking the staff through a tool, sharing all the shortcuts and steps to take to use it more fully, and offering opportunities to actually use the tool to create something for your class on, would be well worth the time for the faculty and administrator. I think so, but I am usually all about trying something new.
Another aspect of learning all these tools is that they all required constant looking back into and updating ,so it really gave you a window glance into the reality of what it takes to keep you online tools up to date and current and therefore relevant. By setting alerts and alarms in my phone and on my google calendar I was able to maintain a constant check and stay fairly current on articles, podcasts, wiki responses, shared resources as well as staying updated on videos and projects of what others are doing. Once our school adopts the "One to One" program and all our students have a device, I will be ready and aware of what it takes to run and maintain online PLNs as well as able to share what I have learned with my faculty.
Monday, April 25, 2016
Sunday, April 24, 2016
Adventure Quest's legacy
Experiencing and witnessing the affects of low self esteem and students who have very little resources or support at home.
--Geoffrey Canada, "Our Schools failing: Enough is Enough" TED Talks
Schools need to change
banks, technology have all grown and changed, why haven't schools. banks decided to open up after people get home from work, opened up on Saturdays.
State tests, give great data, but don't get scores back in time to do anything. Lets have the continual calendar for schools to decrease the amount of time students have off away from academic stimulus and gain more time to actually put the Testing data to use.
Schools have to innovate and take risks.
yes you will have failure, but keep on creating. charter schools are good risks.
--bill gates said simply 5 billion on education could make huge impact on leveling the playing field in education.
- help us be teachers and parents. Elizabeth warren study.
Knowing how much a few kind words and someone's encouragement actually helps-7th grade Mr. Scarborro encouraging me to teach a lesson on the Heart in 7th grade science class. Turned my whole life around to focus on Academic Success
This set me on a career path to make sure I'm involved with teaching at schools where there is a diverse population with a high ratio with Socio economic needs. I want to make sure that I can help and encourage teachers to not only work hard but Show students they Love hard too.
I spent 15 years working in LA and SS- I consistently had above average performances (Meets &/or Exceeds) from most of my students. Teachers from other schools would observe me and say that they are teaching in a very similar fashion, and all I could add is that I take time to learn about my students and I tell them that i love them and appreciate them. That is really all I do. I eventually got into PE and now I have my own class that I've been able to really create new units for team building, leadership training, trust activities and overall just encouraging everyone to be the best themselves that they can be and teach acceptance and awareness of each other.
I believe that my class is very important with all my students. Maslow's Hierarchy of needs states level one physiological air, food, level two safety, level 3 love and belonging, 4 self esteem,, 5 self actualization. Before students can truly see their potential in life and have that moment of self actualization, they have to be loved, feel that they belong, and develop some self esteem. Adventure Quest does that. They practice speaking in front of their peers, they catch each other in Trust activities, they post work and art in my room so they know they belong, only positive comments are allowed, and they are taught how to perform turn taking conversations. Listening to each other shows you care and accept.
I teach students who raise and ride horses and students who do not eat dinner regularly. I bring them together to find commonalities and form friendships that cross social and economic lines. My job is to reach all my students and have them grow stronger, more trusting, more accepting, tolerant, confident leaders, encouragers, and positive role models.
--Geoffrey Canada, "Our Schools failing: Enough is Enough" TED Talks
Schools need to change
banks, technology have all grown and changed, why haven't schools. banks decided to open up after people get home from work, opened up on Saturdays.
State tests, give great data, but don't get scores back in time to do anything. Lets have the continual calendar for schools to decrease the amount of time students have off away from academic stimulus and gain more time to actually put the Testing data to use.
Schools have to innovate and take risks.
yes you will have failure, but keep on creating. charter schools are good risks.
--bill gates said simply 5 billion on education could make huge impact on leveling the playing field in education.
- help us be teachers and parents. Elizabeth warren study.
Knowing how much a few kind words and someone's encouragement actually helps-7th grade Mr. Scarborro encouraging me to teach a lesson on the Heart in 7th grade science class. Turned my whole life around to focus on Academic Success
This set me on a career path to make sure I'm involved with teaching at schools where there is a diverse population with a high ratio with Socio economic needs. I want to make sure that I can help and encourage teachers to not only work hard but Show students they Love hard too.
I spent 15 years working in LA and SS- I consistently had above average performances (Meets &/or Exceeds) from most of my students. Teachers from other schools would observe me and say that they are teaching in a very similar fashion, and all I could add is that I take time to learn about my students and I tell them that i love them and appreciate them. That is really all I do. I eventually got into PE and now I have my own class that I've been able to really create new units for team building, leadership training, trust activities and overall just encouraging everyone to be the best themselves that they can be and teach acceptance and awareness of each other.
I believe that my class is very important with all my students. Maslow's Hierarchy of needs states level one physiological air, food, level two safety, level 3 love and belonging, 4 self esteem,, 5 self actualization. Before students can truly see their potential in life and have that moment of self actualization, they have to be loved, feel that they belong, and develop some self esteem. Adventure Quest does that. They practice speaking in front of their peers, they catch each other in Trust activities, they post work and art in my room so they know they belong, only positive comments are allowed, and they are taught how to perform turn taking conversations. Listening to each other shows you care and accept.
I teach students who raise and ride horses and students who do not eat dinner regularly. I bring them together to find commonalities and form friendships that cross social and economic lines. My job is to reach all my students and have them grow stronger, more trusting, more accepting, tolerant, confident leaders, encouragers, and positive role models.
Notes on Ted Talk and Podcast
Stephen Bezruchka Universithy of Washington
on "The Effects of Health and Poverty on Education"
individual behavior change can effect life span, compared to whether or not you spent the 1st life in poverty, mother wellfare when pregnant, experiences of grandparnets
health is intergenerationally
instit of medicine shorter lives and poorer health report
die younger than other rich countries cigarette smoking in japan ih higher but their death rate is lower Japan has the best life expectancy
educational outcome has a lot to do with chance, parent support for example,
elisabeth Warren Massachusetts senator researched-
1970 2 parent 2 child home had more disposible income wiht 1 parent working than today with 2 parents working
since both parents are working, we have no time to parent,
john bolks studied orphans after wwII
kids need the same 2 people in front of their eyes for the first 2 years, if theres more they are insecure
90 percent of moms breast feed in Sri Lanka, but in our country we are less than 10% a 15 year old girl has a higher chance of reaching age 60 here than in US
Jack SHarkoff of harvard said if you are exposed to poverty in 1st year in life it's like you have a neurotoxin in you brain that affects your whole life.
stess of feeling behind,
profiles of
biomarkers
cortasol
blood pressure
hemoglobiin a1c
stratisfy by socio ecoonomic stattus
poorer people have more of these stressors
this starts very early life
poorer recipients of heart transplants reject the new heart more often and richer recipients
our country has the most poor for any of the rich countries- being poor is bad for your health and all of our countries overall health
US spends a lot of money on Health care (1/2 of all world money)
so much inequality in US that is harms us all,- inequality hinders economic growth- world bank- inequality = poorer health
2009 harvard study
If we had less inequality = to the inequality in other rich countries we would reduce deaths by 1/3
Japah had a 20 year finicial recession and while we layed of 1000's their bosses, managers,and ceos took pay cuts to allow workers to keep jobs, take care of each other, decrease inequality,
how much do we care for others, teller gosher ucberkely
Rich have little empathy, sharing is decreasing,
income gap related to education gap=inequlity
the spirit level by richard wilkinson and kate pickett
inequality destroys societies
1 in 9 black men in prison
we house 1/4 of all prisoners in world
we have some of the worlds highest rates in life expectency, math, literacy, homicides, prisonment, trust,drugs, social mobiltiy AND The highest income inequality
I got mine, you get yours, is killing our country
we got to: tell the people that we are dying off faster than other countries: learn from other countries Swaziland, Liberia, NewGuinea, and US (all no paid maternity leave, lack of parenting time)
Sweden= Full year of maternity leave at full pay, father gets 30 months, 2nd year is optional at 80% pay, 3rd year child gets inroled in Swedish operated daycare, where workers must have an advanced degree in PLAY- experts in socialization, US=no sex abuse and minimum wage,
The measure of a Nation by Howard Friedman
US has the most schooling 12.5 years, We spend the most $12,000 per student annually and have very low outcomes,
we pay teachers .94 % of GDP, general teachers were bottom 3rd of graduating class,
Sweden =teacher and surgeon get paid similarly
classroom activities
-ask students to graph top 25 countries in HEALTH OLYMPICS with events = various life expectencies issues
US is not in top 25
go to institute of Health matrix and evalutation web site
see maps on county maps, life expectency of women going down in 1/3 of us counties, students could rank states or counties for men, women, people of color, immagrents - figure out reasons for discrepencies
-show on a map
international students succeed here because of their very nurturing environments growing up in their first 1000 days of life.
Geoffrey Canada
Our Schools failing: Enough is Enough
TED Talks
banks, technology have all grown and changed, why haven't schools. banks decided to open up after people get home from work, opened up on Saturdays.
Why can't schools do this, have summer time classes since science says poor kids fall behind in the summer
first 3 years of brain development in infants so critical.
all kids need preschool, but not all places offer it.
state tests, give great data, but don't get scores back in time to do anything. all great data is null and void since it's too late to use it.
year round schooling would help us be more reactive and helpful
it's high stakes, today, all these kids we are loosing.
have to innovate
yes you will have failure, but keep on creating. charter schools are good grounds to be creative, not all will work,
we cannot wait another 50 years to get this right,
we have to spend money now as if our lives and safety and liberty is at stake. We spend trillions on war, but merely millions on education.
bill gates said simply 5 billion on education could make huge impact on leveling the playing field in education. Help schools be teachers, parents, and mentors, coaches.
you have to let kids know you refuse to let them fail.
support systems in place, and encouragement from many different sources.
on "The Effects of Health and Poverty on Education"
individual behavior change can effect life span, compared to whether or not you spent the 1st life in poverty, mother wellfare when pregnant, experiences of grandparnets
health is intergenerationally
instit of medicine shorter lives and poorer health report
die younger than other rich countries cigarette smoking in japan ih higher but their death rate is lower Japan has the best life expectancy
educational outcome has a lot to do with chance, parent support for example,
elisabeth Warren Massachusetts senator researched-
1970 2 parent 2 child home had more disposible income wiht 1 parent working than today with 2 parents working
since both parents are working, we have no time to parent,
john bolks studied orphans after wwII
kids need the same 2 people in front of their eyes for the first 2 years, if theres more they are insecure
90 percent of moms breast feed in Sri Lanka, but in our country we are less than 10% a 15 year old girl has a higher chance of reaching age 60 here than in US
Jack SHarkoff of harvard said if you are exposed to poverty in 1st year in life it's like you have a neurotoxin in you brain that affects your whole life.
stess of feeling behind,
profiles of
biomarkers
cortasol
blood pressure
hemoglobiin a1c
stratisfy by socio ecoonomic stattus
poorer people have more of these stressors
this starts very early life
poorer recipients of heart transplants reject the new heart more often and richer recipients
our country has the most poor for any of the rich countries- being poor is bad for your health and all of our countries overall health
US spends a lot of money on Health care (1/2 of all world money)
so much inequality in US that is harms us all,- inequality hinders economic growth- world bank- inequality = poorer health
2009 harvard study
If we had less inequality = to the inequality in other rich countries we would reduce deaths by 1/3
Japah had a 20 year finicial recession and while we layed of 1000's their bosses, managers,and ceos took pay cuts to allow workers to keep jobs, take care of each other, decrease inequality,
how much do we care for others, teller gosher ucberkely
Rich have little empathy, sharing is decreasing,
income gap related to education gap=inequlity
the spirit level by richard wilkinson and kate pickett
inequality destroys societies
1 in 9 black men in prison
we house 1/4 of all prisoners in world
we have some of the worlds highest rates in life expectency, math, literacy, homicides, prisonment, trust,drugs, social mobiltiy AND The highest income inequality
I got mine, you get yours, is killing our country
we got to: tell the people that we are dying off faster than other countries: learn from other countries Swaziland, Liberia, NewGuinea, and US (all no paid maternity leave, lack of parenting time)
Sweden= Full year of maternity leave at full pay, father gets 30 months, 2nd year is optional at 80% pay, 3rd year child gets inroled in Swedish operated daycare, where workers must have an advanced degree in PLAY- experts in socialization, US=no sex abuse and minimum wage,
The measure of a Nation by Howard Friedman
US has the most schooling 12.5 years, We spend the most $12,000 per student annually and have very low outcomes,
we pay teachers .94 % of GDP, general teachers were bottom 3rd of graduating class,
Sweden =teacher and surgeon get paid similarly
classroom activities
-ask students to graph top 25 countries in HEALTH OLYMPICS with events = various life expectencies issues
US is not in top 25
go to institute of Health matrix and evalutation web site
see maps on county maps, life expectency of women going down in 1/3 of us counties, students could rank states or counties for men, women, people of color, immagrents - figure out reasons for discrepencies
-show on a map
international students succeed here because of their very nurturing environments growing up in their first 1000 days of life.
Geoffrey Canada
Our Schools failing: Enough is Enough
TED Talks
banks, technology have all grown and changed, why haven't schools. banks decided to open up after people get home from work, opened up on Saturdays.
Why can't schools do this, have summer time classes since science says poor kids fall behind in the summer
first 3 years of brain development in infants so critical.
all kids need preschool, but not all places offer it.
state tests, give great data, but don't get scores back in time to do anything. all great data is null and void since it's too late to use it.
year round schooling would help us be more reactive and helpful
it's high stakes, today, all these kids we are loosing.
have to innovate
yes you will have failure, but keep on creating. charter schools are good grounds to be creative, not all will work,
we cannot wait another 50 years to get this right,
we have to spend money now as if our lives and safety and liberty is at stake. We spend trillions on war, but merely millions on education.
bill gates said simply 5 billion on education could make huge impact on leveling the playing field in education. Help schools be teachers, parents, and mentors, coaches.
you have to let kids know you refuse to let them fail.
support systems in place, and encouragement from many different sources.
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