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Good Thursday evening, #ditchbook!! Evan Mosier, Technology Integrationist Lead Teacher and Language Arts from Davenport, IA. Tweeting to you from a high school football game on a terrific Iowa evening!
A1 A connected classroom is a classroom that reaches outside the 4 walls of the school to provide students with a more diverse learning experience #DitchBook
A1: I think the connected classroom uses formative assessment to drive student led learning in the classroom. Students understand the "why" to everything that happens in the classroom. #DitchBook chat @DitchThatTxtbk
A1: Connected classroom is one where Ts facilitate opportunities for Ss to connect with the community and world around them: community projects, makerspace challenges with social solutions, #gridpals#DitchBook
A1 – A connected classroom is a learning environment that is open and connected to the world outside of the classroom walls. Ss are engaged in authentic, real-life learning that starts in their class and extends beyond to the globe. #ditchbook
A1: For me, this means using tech tools appropriately and effectively but also being connected F2F. Ss work collaboratively and I get to know them as well as I possibly can. #DitchBook
A1: A connected classroom leverages other people and places for learning.
It brings them in virtually, in person or through a variety of means.
And those connections create POWERFUL, memorable learning. #DitchBook
A2 – Benefits of connected classrooms provide ample opportunity for a S’s voice beyond their community, for cultural enrichment and observations, real world problems, and engagement with the world. Google hangouts/Skype with Experts offer real experiences #ditchbook
A1 – A connected classroom is a learning environment that is open and connected to the world outside of the classroom walls. Ss are engaged in authentic, real-life learning that starts in their class and extends beyond to the globe. #ditchbook
A1: A connected classroom has no walls when it comes to learning, solving problems, and serving others. Setup ways Ss can: be peer helpers to Ss everywhere, be kindness mentors, and have fun together. Create experiences w/connections. #DitchBook
A2: Being in a cash-strapped district, it saves a ton of money on field trips! But, it has SO MANY benefits to the students. Powerful, engaging learning without ever leaving the classroom. #ditchbook
When you pair students up with other students -- or mentors -- or in small groups across the globe -- the results of a connected classroom can be anything but teacher-centered! #DitchBook
A2 Gives students a more authentic experience. Virtual field trips are a great resource— Google Expeditions/Maps for exploring unfamiliar places. #DitchBook
A2: Our Ss need to be connected to the world they live in & see that there are other communities and lives that are learning just like they are. Removes the small world that can be their lives. #DitchBook
A2: Why connect your classroom outside your four walls?
👉 Expertise from experts
👉 Benefit from others' experiences
👉 Broader worldview for students
👉 Immediate answers to curiosity ?s
... and it goes on and on! #DitchBook
A2: Besides giving Ss an authentic audience, connecting them with Ss from all over broadens their experience base, which helps make them more globally aware-better global citizens. #DitchBook
This is a good point! #DitchBook When they hear from others -- and others support the learning they're doing -- being connected gives students a boost!
A2 Real world connections benefit our students by giving meaning to the lessons we teach. It shows them how they can apply their learning to their own lives. It gives them ownership of their educational experiences. #DitchBook
A1: We are an IB World School so it's really important to not only connect with parents but also different cultures and nations. There's a big wide world out there outside of school, and it's important Ss are exposed to it. #ditchbook
#Ditchbook A2 Last year we did 2 cultural conversations. One with a class in Argentina 🇦🇷 over gender inequality and one with a class in Monterrey Mexico 🇲🇽 over current events. We put together questions and responded. Learned to agree to disagree.
#ditchbook A2: Connected classrooms are more "real world" and helps Ss model how to properly connect and network with others (making meaingful connections is much more than random Snapchat followers!)
Wondering if you have the #edtech chops to do video calls?
I'll bet you do. Here's an infographic with the steps!
(If you can FaceTime your grandma, you can do this!) #DitchBook
#ditchbook A2: Connected classrooms are more "real world" and helps Ss model how to properly connect and network with others (making meaingful connections is much more than random Snapchat followers!)
A2: not only can students make connection and see different perspectives across the world but I can benefit as a teacher by gaining new perspectives and strategies as well. #ditchbook
A2: Connecting to people outside of our own four walls of school helps us to see the big picture in education. Sharing ideas in education is what drives change. Change in education can net better learning gains for our students. #DitchBook chat @DitchThatTxtbk
A2: It shows that your day to day experience is not the totality of experience. There are other people, places, cultures, and ideas out there and they are worth investigating and exploring and interacting with to broaden our own minds. #DitchBook
The day @StationCDRKelly came to my school @SunTerrace1 was an EPIC experience I will never forget. I tool the whole school on a Google Expedition to the International Space Station before his visit. They ALL still remember it!
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A3 – Using PLN’s helps connect Ts around the world. Making connections opens opportunities. @Flipgrid is the epitome of a connected classroom source. #GridPals contains a map of willing people around the globe who are open to connecting classrooms. #ditchbook
A1: hi, David from Covina, CA. Jumping in late. A connected classroom is one that engages with the world outside its borders and leverages technology to make it happen. #ditchbook
Once you get your students connected virtually, what do you do?
How's a Kahoot game sound?
Here's how to do a "connected Kahoot" with you and a partner class -- on a video call! #DitchBook
A3: Twitter!!! Reach out to educators all over through this outstanding social media tool! I also love the Google communities devoted to #connectingclassrooms! #ditchbook
A3: #Gridpals through @Flipgrid has been great in connecting classrooms. MysteryHangouts and Skypes through good old Twitter has let me connect to some great people that my Ss have enjoyed #ditchbook
A3: @SkypeClassroom, @Flipgrid, Google Drive, Hangouts....it's a great time to be an educator right now. We can reach far beyond what we once did! #DitchBook
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Activities for ALL grade levels.
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A3: Twitter and @voxer are the ways I connect my Ss with other classrooms, but @SkypeClassroom , @Flipgrid are also good tools! Connect yourself as an EDU first with awesome Ts like the #DitchBook crew, then connect your classes.
A3: Oh my gosh... hardest and easiest to answer. You have to find someone (easy part) & ask them!! That’s sometimes the hard part! My first reach was to @KarlyMoura . Thought for sure nothing would happen, but it did! Then @jmattmiller then @rlfreedm and then all of #Ditchbook!
A3: I have loved GHO for connecting outside. Need to revisit it. This year, Ss will blog and podcast which potentially opens more doors as well as windows. #opportunity#DitchBook
A3: hmm. The Internet. Connect w/ classrooms using @Skype, @flipgrid, through podcasting, @twitter... get kids into posting in educhats to connect w/ other kids around the world. #ditchbook
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@DitchThatTxtbk, @Skype, @Flipgrid, @Twitter
Looking for a class to partner with virtually?
Or a guest speaker? Or a FREE virtual field trip?
Check out the amazing database at https://t.co/mReWECzeov! Get connected all over the world! #DitchBook
Outside of @Flipgrid gridpals and Skype if you are a Texas local@you could use @Connect2Texas to see tons of programs around the state that can connect digitally to your school. #ditchbook
Outside of @Flipgrid gridpals and Skype if you are a Texas local@you could use @Connect2Texas to see tons of programs around the state that can connect digitally to your school. #ditchbook
A4 – Reach out to local missions. My wife @aubreeperry is opening her classroom with pen pals from Jamaica through a local mission. Students are sending pictures of themselves/families. Beyond the walls! #ditchbook
A3: Tools I like best to connect my own classroom are the ones that allow greater collaboration and offer the teacher the power to give quick and meaningful feedback. I really like @msonenote and I'm hoping my district opens @MicrosoftTeams soon! #DitchBook chat @DitchThatTxtbk
A2: when I used @flipgrid for feedback with a partner school for our CYOA stories, the students got more our of the feedback than when it was written. They loved being able to respond to their reviewer. #Ditchbook
A4: Even within the school, there is power in connecting with another class in the same building. Team up to discuss content in a face to face interaction. #ditchbook
A4: Optional field trips on weekends. Ss attended a play w/ me two weeks ago. This weekend some mtg at Ren Faire. Take the learning into the world! #DitchBook
A4: Connecting classes doesn't have to require #edtech ...
👉 The Safari Hook from #tlap! Take students to locations on campus or beyond!
👉 Find ways to connect learning to the service of others in the community
👉 Draw, write, etc. and send through the mail! #DitchBook
A4- Get creative- Worked at Mark Twain elem, we took annual FT to boyhood home where there was another MT elm. We met w/ them in person for a picnic and cont. old fashion snail-mail afterwards. It was kinda cool. #DitchBook
A4 we have had the mayor come in to class.
I would like to start a list of local experts Ltd for my Ss to access for genius hour projects.
Connecting among each other in class/school-games, we created families/houses, biweekly clubs #DitchBook
A4: This year I'm very excited about our new Lead2Feed elective; getting our students out into the community to engage in service projects and designing solutions for social problems #DitchBook
#Ditchbook A4 We have had Brad Long, Buddy from the movie Hoosiers, Philo Barnhart creator of Ariel from The Little Mermaid and Kyle Cook of Matchbox 20 visit live. Able to share their trade in person with our students.
A4 A great way to connect our classes offline is through community volunteering opportunities. Having students get out and volunteer in their communities not only results in great connections, but it also shows students they can make a difference. #DitchBook
A4: Show them the old school way of connecting.. write letters or postcards to pen pals. Go to another grade level and do a project together. Invite local experts into the classroom. OPEN YOUR DOOR!!! #DitchBook
A4 two history teachers have their kids make signs for Veterans Day thanking the veterans and stand outside the school holding them for passers by on Main Street on Veterans Day #Ditchbook@tdaaustino@grumpyhistoryt1
A4: Care packages sent to the classrooms we connect our Ss with and pen pals are fun ways to connect offline. Snail mail letters, cards, and service projects. Also, conferences and community outreach. Care packages to our military familes! Letters to soldiers! #DitchBook
Looking for things to do with another class once you're connected virtually?
Here are 20 activities you can do together!
https://t.co/hDobCvVDaq#DitchBook
A4: Google Classroom is good tool 4 connecting classrooms online. Here are 50 Awesome Apps that Integrate with Google Classroom to make connectivity even better! https://t.co/xUXAIiPFS4#Ditchbook#edtech
