Interested in student-driven classrooms? Join Dr. Nancy Sulla @nsulla (author of Students Taking Charge, Its Not What You Teach But How, Building Executive Function: The Missing Link to Student Achievement, and more) and educators from all over in #LATICchat on Thursday nights at 8pm ET. We hope to bring together a community of educators to share insights, stories, examples, pictures from their classrooms, and more. We welcome all educators to join; no need to be running a #LATIC classroom.
Dr. Nancy Sulla here at both #LATICchat and with my friends in Michigan at #MEMSPAchat ... creator of the Learner-Active, Technology-Infused Classroom #LATIC; pres @IDECorp; author ...
A1) Well I wrote a blog post about a problem I saw and loved ... looking for rocket fuel (hydrogen and oxygen) among the asteroids for a refueling station on the Moon. #LATICchathttps://t.co/6NqRQRu63F
A2 #MEMSPAchat) How about students as problem-finders, innovators, and entrepreneurs? Did a TED-Ed talk on that. We're talking about that now on #LATICchat (read the posts later!) https://t.co/IPztLuIjZw
A3) @nsulla has engaged Team IDE in a very cool divergent thinking process: a bag full of various items and we had to ideate from them to make connections, spawn new ideas... tough and fun! #LATICchat
#LATICchat A3. I like to start small and think of things in our school, then community, then our world. For me finding an authentic audience is important because that’s what gives my alu legs and keeps it from becoming a project
I can’t wait until Nyack’s problems go live next fall! Ss are driving the problems they face personally, in their community/school and on a global scale. #LATICchat
A3) Give students some fun idea prompts ... "What if ..." "OK, this is crazy thinking but ..." "This just in ..." "I'm going to go out on a limb here but ..." #LATICchat
A4) elementary school kids don’t really watch a lot of news or social media but they do see people and animals in need at school, and in their neighborhoods. #LATICchat
A2: students formulated a problem as have been sifting through solutions. All sorts of supplies coming in for their prototypes. Ss wrote pitches and will present Shark tank style. #LATICchat
A4: learning that kids LOVE environmental ALUs that deal with their local area. They are identifying an endangered species and creating a extinction prevention plan. #LATICchat
A4) Ask Ss to generate problems that need to be solved around school -- as a group, make a list. Then community probs. Depending on the age level, go to state and world ... for younger Ss, have them interview parents and other adults about problems they should tackle. #LATICchat
Transformational technology can allow students the opportunity to connect and discover outside their own world. We need to make the problem real, help they see it to build empathy. #LATICchat
#laticchat A5) Provide resources and opportunities for them explore what is going on in the world around them. Encourage them to talk to their parents and foster #socialcaptial
A5: the BEST part of the year was making a connection with the autism class. The teacher took an hour of her time to teach and answer the million questions my kids had. Now they play at recess #empathy#LATICchat
A5) I have used a small assignment for year where the Ss write about “Which Superhero/ Super power would they live to be/have. So often it involves providing for the poor or healing the sick . Young kids are naturally sensitive to those in need .#LATICchat
A5 Ss at UN worked on learning about cultures to create tools that they can use to welcome new students from different cultures using the design process @teacherschair#LATICchat
A5 Ss in Washingtonville are working to convince local officials to address the opioid issues killing former graduates using their knowledge of environmental chemistry #sopowerful#LATICchat
A5 continued: two girls were inspired to build a prototype of a Sensory chair that some of their new friends could use throughout the day. I can’t look over at he chair without tearing up. #whyiteach#LATICchat
A5: the BEST part of the year was making a connection with the autism class. The teacher took an hour of her time to teach and answer the million questions my kids had. Now they play at recess #empathy#LATICchat
A5 Ss at FMG in Springfield are writing persuasive pieces about a topic they have passion for. One Ss is sending her piece about animal testing to make-up companies and wants to get Ss her age involved #LATICchat
A5 creating a culture that supports individuality and embraces the 4cs. When we learn about others and care about them, their problems become ours and then we want to work to help solve them #LATICchat
Time for Kids magazine review the Best Inventions of each year! New inventions ALWAYS solve real problems. We brainstorm inventions/ businesses they would like to create and why. Who can be helped and how.#LATICchat
I’ll go out there and suggest kids could dream and extend an expert column far beyond what we think “might work”. Create clear criteria and open the door to the open-ended. #LATICchat
A6 we do a lot around the design process and Ss could use the steps within the process to get started. I’ve written non latic rubrics with Ss before and once you give them the categories they have some great ideas to define the rest #LATICchat
A6) Have students brainstorm what a great end-product would look like and have them create the categories for the rows ... and build the rubric. #LATICchat
A7: helping them to understand that they can make a difference at such a young age. After the first time their voices are heard, they thrive off of the idea that they CAN have an effect on the world around them and ppl listen! #LATICchat
A7 the greatest challenge is making it exciting and relevant for S’s. Keeping it updated and real. The felt need is the engine driving the car. #LATICchat
A7: helping them to understand that they can make a difference at such a young age. After the first time their voices are heard, they thrive off of the idea that they CAN have an effect on the world around them and ppl listen! #LATICchat
A7: Ts sometimes tell me that their Ss feel challenged to see what is possible and that they can make an impact. Building their self-confidence is essential! #LATICchat
Q7. little Ss are sometimes overwhelmed when they think it needs to be a huge problem to solve. I had a few who “couldn’t think of anything.” Lots of great videos out there on innovative kids. That really did the trick and got the motivation high! #LATICchat
A7 how do these problems fit into my required curriculum and pacing guides. There are lots of problems to solve but sometimes finding an authentic fit that meets the requirements is hard #LATICchat
Q8 The challenge can be rooted in how you are defining the learning outcomes. Are you living in skills and knowledge or rising up to essential questions? If your problems focus on the bigger concepts the skills will come. #LATICchat
A8) I got this! Download and build a learning dashboard for your grade level: https://t.co/nO9rvNac42. When students design their problems, have THEM check off all the skills they can demonstrate while designing the solution. #LATICchat
A8 Ss brainstorm all of the personal, community, and global problems and as you bring up the new content, ask them if they knew what content which of their problems could they solve #LATICchat
A8 if your curriculum and standards are aligned to your Rubric and Task then frequent checks against the Rubric will ensure curriculum content is being learned as well as applied. #LATICchat
