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Digital Connections/Montessori Principles for Learning

Week 3

Assignment due Tuesday, February 17 by 4 p.m.

Grow Your Mindset! Learn from Your Mistakes! A Poem

It’s time for fame

That’s my claim

Grow your brain

Mistakes ain’t pain

AHAs are gains

So get out of the slow lane

Take off like a rocket plane

Throw away mental chains

Your mind you will retrain

New skills to obtain

Classes are not mundane

School’s no migraine

You can learn like a hurricane!

Poem by bob; performed by Heather & bob

Opener What PROPELS YOUR learning?

Please bring your juggling balls to class Tuesday.

1a. What reward from our list below would motivate your learning to juggle and teaching someone else?

1b. Why are you making this choice instead of others?

$100,000?
One academic credit toward UMass graduation?
Show a new skill to your friends?
All expenses paid trip to a place you choose?
FREE college tuition and total expenses for 2 years?
Another choice? Name it in your answer.

2a. What do you want to learn with 20 hours of self-tutoring?

2b. What reward or outcome motivates you to achieve the learning?

2c. What resources (coaching, tools, goals, place to practice) will assist your learning?

Workshop 1 Montessori's Principles of Learning

Montessori's Principles of Learning

Point of Interest - something attracts a learner's interest and piques their curiosity

Self-Correcting Feedback - a feature provides self-correcting information

Constant Learning - repeatedly doing something builds knowledge and skills

support self-directed learning for all ages.

3a. What activity, sport, talent or skill using Montessori's Principles of learning have you done BEFORE college or are doing NOW in college?

Playing online games on phones or computer are skills.

3b. Explain how each Montessori Principles influences your effort and your achievement.

View A Peek Inside a Montessori Classroom

4. Choose 3 classroom activities or materials you see in the video. Briefly explain why each one interests you.

Workshop 2 Self-Organized Learning: What is it?

Dr. Sugata Mitra's research suggests kids' learning can be a self-organizing system.

View the video: Sugata Mitra: Kids Can Teach Themselves

Reading the video transcript WHILE YOU VIEW helps understanding the words and terms.

Seeing all these kids using one computer and helping each other learn, Dr. Mitra concludes under specific conditions kids' learning can be self-organizing.

5. Analyzing what the groups of multi-aged kids DO TO TEACH THEMSELVES and EACH OTHER to use one computer for learning, describe three actions you see kids in the video doing to help everyone learn.

6. Which of your belief(s) or ideas about learning changed, evolved or enlarged observing these particular kids achieving skill and competencies without adults teaching?

Explain why your beliefs or ideas were changed.

Workshop 3 LEARNING with Higher & Lower Order Thinking Skills

external image Bloomtaxonomy.jpg

Analyze how you and your partner(s) tried to solve the workshop of puzzles w/Bob.

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7. List which of the thinking skills from Bloom's Taxonomy you and your partner(s) used while solving the puzzles.

8. Did you and your partner(s) think the puzzles were surprising, engaging, or too complex as you helped each other solve them?

9. How do these puzzles inform your understanding about learning and how people learn?

Big Idea Closer: Multiple Ways of Understanding Invite Learning

Next week we'll use Multiple Methods of Learning to Walk Back in Time outdoors.

Dress for the weather next Tuesday. We hope it is not snow or rain or sleet or hurricane!

Read the Pie Chart/Graph in a 24-hour Clock and view Evolution of Life on Earth.

READ a Pie Chart/Graph

History of the Earth in a 24-hour Clock from Flowing Data.

Sharon reads the graph COUNTER clockwise to make ideas clear to her.

Try reading both directions, clockwise and counterclockwise.

View

Evolution of Life on Earth

10. Which resource piqued your curiosity and most memorably informed your understanding of these vast lengths of time and the appearance of life forms on Earth? Please explain why you chose one over the other.

Resources for Additional Learning -- NOT part of the assignment

Bob/ POETRY Workshop Tools

Create a poem with hands-on Magnetic Poetry Boards

Create a poem Online Magnetic Poetry Kit from Magnetic Poetry.com

Verse by Verse from Google AI, Poetry Writing with Artificial Intelligence

N 111 CARNIVAL OF ONLINE LEARNING TOOLS

Toy Theater - Lindsay

https://toytheater.com/category/math-games/

Google Doodles - Sophia

https://doodles.google/doodle/valentines-day-2024/ Valentine Doodle
https://doodles.google/doodle/celebrating-loteria/ Spanish Language Game

Focus Friend - Naimah

https://www.yourfocusfriend.com/

Interactive EBooks - Julia

Open Source Resources: https://opensftax.org/ & EdTech Books

NYT Interactive Storytelling - Sydney
FREE for students, sign in with UMASS email using the instructions here - https://guides.library.umass.edu/nytimes

Pique Your Interest Learning Tools: No Sign-In Needed - Heather

The Pudding - lots of interactives! Some are award winning!
Most Valuable Sports Franchises

Site table discussion questions might be:

Which of the six learning/thinking skills on Bloom's Taxonomy are you most often assigned in classes and which do you use the least?

Which of these six higher and lower order thinking skills do you wish you used more in college assignments?

Which of the resources - our Walk Back in Time, the Pie Graph or the short video is most memorable for your learning? Why?

How many time zones are in parts of the U.S.?

Come find out the winning answer is at VISUAL STORYTELLING!

Official U.S. Time Map

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teJbh-dxHTQ

Cup stacking in trios!

Multimodal learning teaches!

History wiki page: Dr. Maria Montessori: Educator and Educational Philosopher

Answer to Kong Kong Question

https://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_weird_or_just_different?language=en

blocks have names/streets do not OR streets have names/blocks do not

https://starrcards.com/no-yo-yo-ma-tomonari-ishiguro-aka-black-became-a-world-champion-yo-yo-master/

Bloom's Taxonomy

Bloom's Taxonomy updated with digital learning behaviors.

Digital Choice Boards

Black History MonthChoice Board (2021)

Black Lives Matter Historical Explorations Choice Board (2020)

History of the Black Press in the U.S. Choice Board (2022)

Ancient China Choice Board (2020)

Jerry Lawson

Jerry Lawson, a father of modern gaming systems used ALL TEAMS' BIG ideas to achieve knowledge, to try things, to create his radio station and gaming products.

https://www.google.com/doodles/gerald-jerry-lawsons-82nd-birthday

Dec. 1, 1940 is the birthday of one of the fathers of modern gaming and this interactive Google Doodle is both a tribute with behind the doodle information AND a way for students to play games AND program their OWN games!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLQO_RWCOoQ

Behind the doodle is what this video explains-- we see Jerry Lawson explaining what he expects new game developers to do.

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/01/1140063531/google-doodle-games-jerry-lawson

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/17/1037911107/jerry-lawson-video-game-fairchild-channel-f-black-engineer

Jerry Lawson's son and daughter describe growing up w/an inventive dad and how he helped them become engineers in these two NPR stories.

https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/december-01/

Dec. 1, 1955 is the anniversary of Rosa Parks' decision to defy the Montgomery, Alabama, bus driver's order to change her seat.

https://www.publicradioeast.org/2023-03-30/programming-in-english-class-beaufort-county-schools-teaches-coding-in-everyday-lessons

Inspiring Young Writers with Making, Coding, and Digital Tools, 2019 MASSCue presentation by Torrey Trust, Robert Maloy and Sharon Edwards

Teacher Beliefs and Their Influence on Technology Use, R. Shifflet & G. Weilbacher (2015)

Despite expressing positive views about technology, teachers at all levels struggle to use technology in ways that promote student-centered learning.

Online Tools for Teaching & Learning

Site developed by students in Torrey Trust’s classes

Dr. Torrey Trust, Robert Maloy and Sharon Edwards published Kids Have All the Write Stuff Revised and Updated for a Digital Age.

We made a free online tool chest of resources for learners including the live links for you to choose from here.

Digital Connections Toolbox: Tools, Apps and Software for Inspiring and Supporting Young Writers

Poetry

Verse by Verse, Poetry Writing with Artificial Intelligence

Blackout Poems with Google Docs

Springtime Magnetic Poetry with Google Drawings

Animation

Story Creation

Comics

Creative Word Play

Story Read Aloud in Radio Reading Style

StoryLine Online

View video

Watch: Digital Tools to Empower 21st Century Learners by Torrey Trust

View Interdisciplinary STEAM Activities To Do at Home by Torrey Trust

IntelFreePress

Music Video

Eric Idle of Monty Python's Flying Circus, takes us into theGalaxy Song

Galaxy Song lyrics

Science Interactive

Raindrops

Click anywhere on the map and the wait and see what happens: https://river-runner.samlearner.com/

“I don’t see technology as an add-on, a nice option to have. It’s what enables learning and creates an environment that sparks creativity.”

--Badat

Essa Academy Headmaster

Essa Academy, England: 40 languages, poverty, 100% success

Bullet list three ways students are learning that interest them.

Bullet list three ways teachers are creating interesting learning for students.

10. As a high school student, what experiences with technology were in classes for your learning?

Were these interesting to you? Please describe why they were or were not.

11. Relate Essa Academy's teaching and learning innovations to yourself as a learner.

Describe features of this teaching/learning with online resources that would have interested you and propelled your learning in high school classes that you liked to attend and classes you didn't like to attend.

Are You Smarter Than Your Smartphone? or How Much Smarter Are You with a Smartphone?

The first smartphone was invented in 1992 and was called the Simon Personal Communicator

It cost $899 ($1435 in today's dollars)

People began saying the term smartphone in 1995, although it took till January 2007 for Apple to release the first iPhone at a cost of $499

Ran slow on 2G wireless
AT&T was the only carrier
No App Store existed; no third party apps were supported
Only Black Background
Cut/Copy and Paste was 3 years away
Required a computer to activate
Could not send pictures
No Google Maps
No Video
No SIRI

Do Smartphones Make Us Smarter?

Yes	NO
Bill Nye the Science Guy says that smart phones can actually make you smarter, because they help free up memory you’d normally use for mundane information, so you can use it for something else.	Rather than making us smarter, mobile devices reduce our cognitive ability in measurable ways. You are quickly conditioned to attend to lots of attention-grabbing signals, beeps and buzzes, so you jump from one task to the other and you don’t concentrate.