InnovatED was an amazing teacher led conference for teachers in the NVUSD and surrounding areas. Sessions highlighted the innovation that is taking place in our district and encouraged all attendees to aim for innovation in their own practice.
Keynote - Teach better and work less with CUE craft Keynote speaker Jon Corippo opened the conference by speaking about the CUE craft protocol. The focus of his work is the reduction of time that teachers spend working while simultaneously increasing the creativity that we inspire in our students as they explore our content. Jon highlighted that we are currently experiencing a revolution in education, moving away from pedagogy that valued the ability to remember facts in favor of the ability to create, apply and innovate. Jon used socrative.com which is a tool, like padlet, that collects student work and allows classes to interact with the answers collected. I could use that in my daily practice during warm ups and bell ringer activities where students answer a question in a group forum I can quickly determine if we need enrichment or reteaching based on quickly scanning the answers that I receive. Screencasting made simple - Scott Marsden Screencasting is something that we explored in the first semester of the TU program but by no means have we mastered it. In this session we explored both screencast-o-matic and screencastify, two of the more popular freemium products available. I found screencast-o-matic easier to use and much more customisable. In my own practice I will need to post my lectures but I will also want to have a drawing or paint app open so that I can do math examples as I go through my slide deck. Posting this combination of materials online, students will have a much more comprehensive experience in comparison to simply having access to my lecture notes. This could be a game changer for any students who are habitually absent and need to catch up on lots of missed materials or for students who sit down to do their homework and realize they need a refresher on the material. Another innovative use suggested by the presenter was allowing ELL students to create screencasts so they could rehearse their material and re-record if necessary, instead of having them present in front of the class. Slides into Digital Notebooks - Ethan Pham Ethan Pham presented all of the very impressive work that he has been doing with his 6th grade science curriculum over the course of 3 years. Ethan has developed a system of digital interactive notebooks, hosted through google slides, that have allowed him to go completely paperless in his classes. Ethan’s work was very inspiring and although the front loading to create the materials is daunting, once it is created and students are taught how to use the digital tools, daily activities are completely streamlined. I think that doing math by hand is an important activity that all students must engage with in order to develop deeper understanding of procedure. I am not sure that I will ever want to go completely paperless but it would make perfect sense to convert all of my note taking elements into digital notes that students could access through their google drives. I currently have students take paper notes and then require them to organize notebooks. Students often lose notes and note checks are time sinks. Making a digital alternative to my note taking system would help students to stay organized and provide a resource to them that lasts beyond my class. Google classroom for beginners (Jen Ellison) and advanced (Nicole Langton) The last 2 sessions that I attended were on google classroom. NVUSD will be converting over to google classroom next year and with no experience using this service it was refreshing to see how easy it is to use. I was able to create classrooms and assignments, agendas and announcements in those courses. Google classroom will be able to unite the innovative techniques that I learned throughout the day.
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