"Welcome to EdTechAfterDark! Our community was born out of discussions for a rich EdChat type gathering for those of us who are thinking about the digital edu-landscape long after the sun has gone down. For us night owls, when the clock strikes 10PM EST, you’ll find us on Twitter over at #edtechafterdark. All are welcome! Our discussions range from our philosophies about EdTech, digital best practices, and simply sharing our stories." --www.edtechafterdark.com
Welcome to #EdTechAfterDark! I'm Dan, tech coach from FL, and I'll be your host tonight. Be prepared to flex your creative muscles and get to making - tonight is all about #creativity!
Good evening all! Felecity from WIsco, tech integration, and I LOVE to go for long run, snowshoe, hike....whatever, to relieve stress! Pound it out with footsteps! #EdTechAfterDark
Alex here from Citrus County, FL where I serve @LecantoHigh as an AP; what do I do to relax and find peace? Turn up the music loud enough that o can’t hear my own terrible voice and sing the entirety of a long car ride... #edtechafterdark
Hi everyone! I'm Meg, Tech Integration Coach in Citrus County, FL & doc student at USF. My favorite stress relief is listening to loud music and singing along poorly. #edtechafterdark
Whats up #edtechafterdark ! Elementary AP from Brooksville Fl. My favorite stress relief method is picking up a control and getting old school on some video games with my son!
A1a: “Kids will take a chance. If they don’t know, they’ll have a go...I don’t mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is, if you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up w/ anything original” @SirKenRobinson#EdTechAfterDark
Mike, MD, EL LMS .... .... I keep myself too busy for stress ... (Oh, wait. I think that just adds more stress.) #edtechafterdark - not here long just popping in to say hello
A1b: This is a sketch and descriptor of the Big Dipper created by my 5 year old tonight... when he takes on a task that’s unfamiliar, he takes a shot. Of course it’s not “correct” but this willingness to give it a go is the prerequisite to creativity. #edtechafterdark
A1: I keep this by my desk at all times. I’m using photography as my creative mode because sketching makes me uncomfortable! 😂 #edtechafterdark#creativity
A1: I posted this last week but this is a photodiodes what my 1st grade son did with his spelling words. He wanted to be creative instead of doing his normal boring (his words) work. #EdTechAfterDark
A1 This is my three year old son’s take on a Valentine’s Box. To answer your Qs, creativity is about understanding that you have a goal & a medium through which your goal/idea will be interpreted by others, & the creative mind then brings that vision into reality #EdTechAfterDark
Drawing is hard for me, so@I found an image online. I’m so insecure about what I drew, I redid it 5 times and the said $&@$& it and found an image online #edtechafterdark
SAME! But took a picture instead of finding an image. Makes you think about the times we ask children to do something out of their comfort zone! #EdTechAfterDark
A2. T'was a great lesson to finally internalize for me. I can't be the next Sir Ian, nor POTUS Barack Obama. But, I can definitely be the most awesome Andre Daughty you've ever (or never) have seen.
#andheissoawesome#edtechafterdark
A2: It's where it all begins. Birth-our final breaths! We have to take time to listen to our students as they wonder, and point them in the direction of wisdom. #EdTechAfterDark
Hi, I am retired. Just between us, my favorite pre-test stress release was to secretly burn all the high-stakes standardized test forms and then pretend I had no idea what happened to them! Kids loved it too. #EdTechAfterDark
A2: I never thought I’d find inspiration in the words of The Office’s Michael Scott but this quote hangs in my office and reminds me that leadership lies in what you do not how much you know. #EverybodyDanceNow#edtechafterdark
Been reflecting on my privilege a lot this month, this poem eloquently provides a glimpse into why we fight to Free the minds of the children we serve - Langston Hughes “Democracy” #edtechafterdark
A2: The mind is simply more than a vessel. It is active and thrives on being exposed to new ideas that often spark learning, overcome obstacles, one to do great things, etc.
#EdTechAfterDark
“The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.”-@SadhguruJV#EdTechAfterDark
"A great way to share video content with your students. You can create snippets, add your feedback or questions and invite students to discuss and comment on the clipped video content you shared with them" https://t.co/8fonijcQuB#EdTechAfterDark#LeadLAP#ohedchat#ETCoaches
A2 This is my fav quote. It found me after my father was in a car wreck that left him paralyzed thereafter. It goes beyond the adage of simply saying today matters. Instead, know that you are blessed w so much opportunity today. Use it. #EdTechAfterDark
I like incorporating his poems in my history class. Then my history students are like "hmmm, Ms. K. this isn't ELA." But they realize that literature from a time period helps build empathy & understanding that a history book cannot do. #edtechafterdark
A3: I love this quote. Used it all the time as a coach in wrestling and football. Always reminded the kids that to be the best we had to work our tails off every day!! #edtechafterdark
Tracking the manatee population in the Crystal Bay Area along Magnolia and 3 Sisters Springs. Also sending Ss to work with the Depart of Enviro Prot to monitor water and wildlife quality in the Big Bend of Florida. Also track Biodiversity in our back yard #edtechafterdark
A3: I have limited experience with PBL, but my students do work every spring related to the SDGs. Sometimes we use materials from #TeachSDGs that include field study, etc. #EdTechAfterDark
A3 If you consider a learning to write analysis a problem my students need to solve ... then ... English360 ... all sts writing so that I can see and give feedback #EdTechAfterDark
A3. I did a PBL on what great stories look like. Final product was a stop motion movie. We had a film festival to premiere all the Ss work. This one was called, "The Fantastic 5, No 6!"
#edtechafterdark
A3: When studying the metric system, my kiddos put together a METRIC Olympics for our class to participate in. This is a pic of the straw javelin. Pretty intense, but man, they walked away with a bad case of Metric MaDnEsS! #EdTechAfterDark
A3: In a history class, we do mini-inquiries to dive deeper in the content. I'm finding ways to build more of this into the class, but it involves scaffolding, finding relevant topics & authentic audiences for the students. #edtechafterdark
A3: unfortunately no photo, but in high school chemistry the Ss were tasked with demonstrating their observations v. measurement by baking vanilla cupcakes with mystery ingredients (gist of the project) #pbl#EdTechAfterDark
A3. Did a PBL on "Does slavery still exist? Based on the book Nightjohn. T'was very powerful b/c the book (& the sequel Sarny) dug deep into many of the lives of the Ss. In the end, the Ss tested if they were or not using this website.
https://t.co/SMgDLJAfOI#edtechafterdark
A3: these MS students wanted to build exciting gift bags for hospitalized kids; used my ELA class to draft letters to the hospital, create a crowdfunding site, and updated donators via a blog. A real project with real impact. #EdTechAfterDark
A3: #PBL!!! I work at a @newtechnetwork school in @ManorISD, and project based learning in my classroom is presenting a real life problem, offering ownership of learning, providing authentic connections, & allowing creativity in solution & presentation! #EdTechAfterDark
A3. If you ever want to do PBL, PLEASE check out https://t.co/Lh5YVIYiuc. That's how I learned how to authentically do PBL. (Andre also speaks on it at conferences and workshops too if you want to bring him to your school/event)
#smallplug#humblebrag#edtechafterdark
A3: PBL: Students in our 1st grade create an ocean animal, place it in a combined class habitat, then write an individual story and illustrate and tell story on Educreations app. #edtechafterdark
A3: A little GBL using @bloxelsbuilder in our Makerspace/STEAM Lab. Students created characters with complete back stories, then created a world for them to play in. #EdTechAfterDark
WHAT?! I was just talking today about how I want to explore how @bloxelsbuilder could support ELA practices. Oh, we're talking soon sir! #edtechafterdark
In reply to
@EastsideAP, @bloxelsbuilder, @bloxelsbuilder
Come check it out any day we are right down the road. Its amazing!! Soon I will be doing a training with my ELA teachers on how to use @bloxelsbuilder so they can check out our class pack and use them in their rooms!! #edtechafterdark
In reply to
@MrsMJ1218, @bloxelsbuilder, @bloxelsbuilder
Welcome to #EdTechAfterDark! I'm Dan, tech coach from FL, and I'll be your host tonight. Be prepared to flex your creative muscles and get to making - tonight is all about #creativity!
Looks like fun! I have 1. Just need an iPad to use it with ... (long story) Also need ideas for how to integrate it into library / classroom #edtechafterdark
It’s amazing the magic that happened when @MrLeonard8 and I had the pleasure of teaching across the hallway from each other. For everyone of those 3 kids there’s two dozen other PBL success stories that cake out of that time #EdTechAfterDark
A5: If we believe creativity matters (and it does as innovation is the name of the game in our society!) then...and I’m gonna step out on a ledge here...maybe we could stop “scoring” “learning” in a “multiple-choice” “assessment”?
#justsayin#EdTechAfterDark
A5 start each day/week/month/year asking students "what do you want to do?" Students are extremely good at telling us how they would like to reach the learning goals #EdTechAfterDark
Personalized #pbl at @lacrossedesign means managing one student sewing a dress, while another is exploring racism and bias through @Kaepernick7's kneeling, while yet a third is making a stop motion... and there are 17 more students to go! #edtechafterdark
A2: #edtechafterdark A2: "I take my party with me" ~ My mom, circa age 75! This is my favorite quote about creativity b/c it emphasizes the spontaneity of fun!
A5: Standardized testing, scripted lessons, etc are hindering us from teaching and taking any enjoyment of learning from our students. Let inquiry abt the content guide the course #EdTechAfterDark
A5 if we are all willing to be learners, then I have a moral obligation & professional responsibility to provide my students with opportunities to learn and skills needed to find their own success #EdTechAfterDark
A5: This question is ALL the things!!! Nothing is more boring than being the sage on the stage. I’d much rather be a curator of experienced, allowing students to explore, even to fail sometimes and take wrong turns. That’s where the magic happens!! #EdTechAfterDark
A5: starts with supporting Ts-PD on creation tools, building their confidence. Then helping them to design lessons the that allow for freedom of choice for their Ss. #EdTechAfterDark
A4: Student voice can be shown through #educreations videotaping and creating a qrcode and attaching it to a picture and @Flipgrid. We loved Flipgrid so much, we did a PD for everyone with it! #edtechafterdark
A5 if we are all willing to be learners, then I have a moral obligation & professional responsibility to provide my students with opportunities to learn and skills needed to find their own success #EdTechAfterDark
Creativity to me is sitting in a hotel room in Orlando with Alex and Dan in our underwear listening to Bob Marley and Paul Simon, eating starbursts with wreckless abandon and formulating a presentation!! #edtechafterdark
A5: A droning delivery will kill the designing of discovery. Teachers who network, step out of the box and give students a reason to engage will love the passion for learning they could see in their students. #edtechafterdark
I can’t believe I missed another #EdTechAfterDark Whyyyyy? Oh, my boys play baseball ⚾️ in Texas...that’s why. I’ll try again next week or maybe design another way to participate 🤔 #determined
Bonus A: I have done most of these things, but I need to encourage my students to do this more. Thanks for putting that bee in my bonnet!! #whyilovemyonlinePLN#EdTechAfterDark
(You should have seen me on my stage.... Kids looked at me like I was crazy .... I told them that I didn't have recess yet. ) Think stand up comedy / improv. #edtechafterdark
Thanks for rolling with the changes tonight, everyone! What an awesome and fun-filled chat. Check back next Monday at 10PM EST for more craziness! #EdTechAfterDark
