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Books I finished reading (or rereading) in May 2021…
The Power of Place, Tom Vander Ark, Emily Liebtag, & Nate McClennen [education]
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Helping younger students understand the differences between prescription medication and over-the counter medication can be a daunting task, but it’s crucial to preparing them to make healthier decisions about medications. Dose of Knowledge, an expansion of the?Pharmacists Teach?program into classrooms, strives to empower educators and pharmacists to address substance misuse and educate students to make good decisions for the health and well-being of themselves and their community.
Medication Safety, a new standards-aligned digital lesson bundle for students in grades 3-5 gives educators the tools to teach students about the power of medicine and help them understand what to do in the case of a medicine-related emergency. The lesson bundle provides all of the materials needed to ignite these conversations and help young students Engage, Learn & Reflect!
Engage
The engagement activity provides students an opportunity to consider their own experiences with both over-the-counter and prescription medications. Students raise two fingers if they have experienced any of the prompts related to medication usage. Having students think through the times in their lives when they have had to take medicine makes the content more relatable and helps set up the objectives of the lesson. Making it into a game piques the students’ interest and gives them an opportunity to interact.
Learn
The primary goals of the lesson are to have students recognize what the already know about medicine and learn new facts that will help them make healthy decisions. Each section of the PowerPoint included in the bundle features a specific theme to guide the conversation:
What is medicine and how does it work?
How can we use medicine safely and treat it with care?
Prescription medication exploration
Over-the-counter medication exploration
Vitamin exploration
Review
Dosage discussion
Medicine storage and safety discussion
What to do in case of emergency
The educator guide provides key talking points to effectively address each of these topics with slide-by-slide recommendations for how to approach the content. This section also features an opportunity for students to collaborate and then share feedback, either outloud in a classroom setting or via a shared document for remote learners, in response to viewing the Medication Safety video. The embedded video features Kahra, a CVS pharmacist, talking directly to students about medication, its usesand the role of pharmacists.
Reflect
Lastly, students have the opportunity reflect on the lessons through a series of review prompts highlighted in the presentation. If more time is available, the educator guide also offers a number of recommendations for extending the learning.
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The 4 Shifts Protocol is taking off in schools around the world. We’ve got tens of thousands of educators already using it for instructional redesign. Schools who are trying to focus on deeper learning, greater student agency, more authentic work, and rich technology infusion are finding the protocol to be helpful in their efforts. Our book, Harnessing Technology for Deeper Learning, introduces the protocol, has some lesson redesign examples, and includes some tips and strategies. However, some schools and educators are looking for more interactive professional development.
As we attempt to innovate out of the pandemic and create some new opportunities for students, let’s see if this will be of help:
2 hours… up to 200 people… for $1,000 (USD).
Online synchronous only. U.S. schools only (for now). Between the hours of 8:00am and 5:00pm Mountain time (currently GMT-6). No pricing per person and no travel costs! I will provide a quick overview of the protocol, we will redesign two or three lessons together in small groups, I will field questions and concerns, and we will conclude with some suggestions and strategies for usage in your local setting.
Interested? var username = "dr.scott.mcleod"; var hostname = "gmail.com";document.write("" + "Drop me a note" + ""). We’ll find a date and time and I’ll send you the Zoom link. It’s that easy.
And of course we can customize this. For instance, we could do:
1 introductory session for teachers (got a group of innovators?)
1 introductory session for administrators
1 or 2 follow-up sessions to go deeper (e.g., with your own lessons and/or around instructional coaching)
Or we could do:
1 introductory session for elementary school(s)
1 introductory session for middle school(s)
1 introductory session for high school(s)
1 introductory session for instructional / technology coaches and principals
1 or 2 follow-up sessions to go deeper (e.g., with your own lessons and/or around instructional coaching)
Or we could do:
1 session on Section A, Deeper Thinking and Learning
1 session on Section B, Authentic Work
1 session on Section C, Student Agency and Personalization
1 session on Section D, Technology Infusion
1 session with examples of what this looks like in other schools
1 or 2 follow-up sessions to go deeper (e.g., with your own lessons and/or around instructional coaching)
Or whatever else makes sense for you…
var username = "dr.scott.mcleod"; var hostname = "gmail.com";document.write("" + "Get in touch" + ""). Satisfaction guaranteed. Hope this helps!
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Wikipedia is a surprisingly useful tool for even formal educational research. The 'References' section on each page can be a gold mine.
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This year's high school winner in the NPR Student Podcast Challenge tackles the complexities of her Indian-American identity.
(Image credit: Olivia Obineme for NPR)
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What are the ingredients for '21st Century Learning?' 1. The internet 2. Permission to interact 3. Absence of extrinsic motivation
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Secretary Duncan issued a technical assistance memo highlighting key components of strong state bullying laws and policies.
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Yesterday afternoon I read an interesting article titled Belgian Farmer Accidentally Moves French Border. The whole story is almost exactly what the title says. A farmer moved a stone that was in his way when plowing a field. It just happened that the stone he moved is a marker for the border between two small towns in Belgium and France. The border itself is not in dispute and the border is a
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It’s been a minute (or thousands) since I’ve blogged new technology finds. This year has us utilizing technology in new ways and in need of tools that support learning in new ways. I thought I’d drop back into the tech-tool blogging world with some of the technology that has kept us sane this year, but are also SO good that we’ll continue to use them even in non-COVID years.
What it is:Mindstamp is one of my favorite finds this year. This interactive video creation platform is a major upgrade to remote learning, but we’ve come up with about a hundred ways that it is equally valuable as a learning tool regardless of whether we are in-person or remote. Mindstamp makes it easy to quickly create interactive video experiences that include buttons, questions, hotspots, branching. You can ask questions directly in the video that are free-response, multiple-choice, audio response, video response, or drawn response. The editor is intuitive and easy to use…this is not one of those tools that you will have to spend a significant amount of time learning. When your videos are played, you get a full report showing exactly what the viewer did. You can see how long the video was viewed, how it was interacted with, and see responses to any questions.
How to integrate Mindstamp into the classroom: Mindstamp is an obvious choice for creating learning experiences that can be viewed and interacted with asynchronously. During our remote learning, we used Mindstamp for daily community messages that encouraged students to be part of the conversation. Our goal was to keep our community connected even though our school-wide morning meetings looked very different. We loved the ability for students to respond to question prompts in a variety of ways and for everyone else in the community to see their contribution. We also used Mindstamp to debut our recorded performance of our theater production. We set up the performance as if it were a live telethon and invited our viewers to interact with the video in a variety of ways (text-to-give, leave a message for our performers, etc.). Though we couldn’t be in an auditorium enjoying the performance live, the interactive video gave us the feel of something that our whole community to be involved in.
Mindstamp is a fantastic platform any time you want to “flip” your classroom. Give students the opportunity to ask questions about the content that you can address live during class, or just check for understanding throughout the video. You’ll be able to see exactly what pieces of new learning may be hindering your learners. Mindstamp lets you record your own video or import video from other platforms like YouTube or Vimeo. We have greatly appreciated the ability to import learning content from YouTube and then pausing the video and inserting additional links, photos, videos, or audio that supports the learning just like we would do if we were in a classroom watching it together.
At Anastasis, we individualize learning for each learner based on who they are and where they are in the standards. As a result, we set up our independent learning time as center rotations with one of those rotations being the teacher. Mindstamp could be used to make the teacher available at every rotation with a video message that explains the center and opportunities for students to record their process and leave it as a question response.
Mindstamp isn’t just for teacher-created content. Students can create their own interactive video content. Students could record themselves completing a science experiment and adding supporting research they used in the form of links throughout the video, drawings or photos that support their findings, and ask for feedback from other students or teachers in the form of questions throughout their video.
Mindstamp would be a FANTASTIC platform to create choose-your-own-adventure type videos. It could be interesting for students to explore a historical or current event through video and then explore different outcomes based on the response. It could also be a great way for students to explore different points of view on the same topic. The main video could introduce the topic, and they could use branching, links, photos, and videos to explore the topic through multiple perspectives.
Truly, once you get into Mindstamp, you are going to think of hundreds of ways it could be used to enhance remote and in-person learning. We keep coming up with new ways to support our students through videos. We’ve loved the data dashboard for accountability and support purposes.
Tips: One of the things we learned is that students cannot respond to a question as a video response from an iPad or iPhone. They will need to use a computer for video responses so keep that in mind as you are building interactive content.
Mindstamp is offering iLearn technology readers a 50% discount of any tier. Use the code ILEARN between now and March 15, 2021, for 50% off!
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Do your students understand the “reclamation process” or how land is restored for a sustainable future? Do your students recognize the role of transition metals, like copper, in the products they use everyday, from seat belts to smartphones? Give students an opportunity to take STEM learning to the next level with digital interactive explorations from Dig Into Mining – The Story of Copper, an interactive educational program for students grades 6-12 that uncovers the use of metals such as copper in our everyday life, and provides students a deeper understanding of today’s hard rock mining industry.
The program features seven explorations that offer students a self-paced, deeper dive into how STEM and analytical skills are used to solve real-world problems in today’s mining industry.
In Dig a Little Deeper, a virtual lab that has been designed as an authentic, problem-based learning simulation focused on the exploration phase of the mining process, students will be challenged to choose from three possible sites on which to mine for copper. To help them choose a site, students will assume the roles of a geologist, an environmental scientist, and a mining engineer. Students may go through each of the tests individually or as a part of a team. Within each career lens, students will develop an authentic research question, evaluate/test data, and analyze the results. All three sites will have benefits and trade-offs. Once all data is collected, students will make and justify a recommendation, based on the evidence they’ve uncovered throughout.
The Dig into Mining Careers Exploration gives high school students the opportunities to explore specific careers in the mining industry, providing a curated list of recommended careers based on their interests, preferences, hobbies and skills in twelve key areas. The list of in-demand mining careers matching their responses will help students discover new pathways for future success. The program’s career profiles, featuring a video highlighting a Freeport-McMoran professional in their work environment and an accompanying career guide, can also be used to give students a more in-depth perspective on careers in mining.
Virtual simulation Aim to Reclaim gives students the opportunity to explore the reclamation process and discover how land is restored to create a more sustainable future. Observations and learnings about the different types of careers involved are introduced throughout the virtual lab, and decision points are built in to allow students to better understand the complexity of the reclamation process.
And that’s just the beginning! Other digital explorations available through the program explore related topics, including the usage of copper in electric and hybrid vehicles, the stages of copper processing, and the operations of a real mining site, including examining the technology and equipment used during the copper extraction, processing and refinement phases of mining.
Inspire your students to consider today’s mining industry as a possible career pathway, and expand their understanding of the impact of metals such as copper on everyday life! Find these resources and more at DigIntoMining.com or on the Dig into Mining channel in Discovery Education’s K-12 learning platform.
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Books I finished reading (or rereading) in May 2021…
[Trying something new here…]
