1. 21st Century Technology and Marzano's Effective Teaching Strategies Shannon McNeice Library Media Specialist Sedgwick Middle School
2. The meta-anaylsis. . . http://www.mcrel.org/SuccessInSight/Portals/7/Classroom%20Instruction%20That%20Works.jpg McREL researchers “combined the results from a number of research studies” The “effect size” is a measurement of the effect of the study that shows “increase or decrease in achievement” by comparing a control group to a treatment group. An effect size of 1.0 translates to a 34% percentile gain. So, a student in the control group who did not have the strategy achieves a grade of 60 while a student in the group where the instructional practice was used achieved a 80.4.
4. Instructional Strategies that Work! 1. Identifying similarities and differences 2. Summarizing and note taking 3. Reinforcing effort and providing recognition 4. Homework and practice 5. Nonlinguistic representations 6. Cooperative learning 7. Setting objectives and providing feedback 8. Generating and testing hypotheses 9. Cues, questions, and advance organizers
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7. Identifying similarities and differences .31 31 45 1.61 Standard Deviation No. Of ESs Percentile Gain Avg. Effect Size
8. This program creates an analogy between Kilimanjaro and an island. Ask the class whether this comparison seems appropriate. Remind students that an island is really a mountain rising from the bottom of a body of water. The analogy of a mountain to an island is helpful in giving us an image of Kilimanjaro's position in the desert. Analogies can be helpful in other situations as well. To expand on this concept, copy and distribute the "How Is a Mountain Like an Island?" student handout, and ask students to create their own analogies. Identifying similarities and differences PBS http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/activities/2104_kilimanj.html
26. Reinforcing effort and providing recognition .35 21 29 .8 Standard Deviation No. Of ESs Percentile Gain Avg. Effect Size
27. Reinforcing effort and providing recognition http://fhmsmedia.edublogs.org/students/student-creations/ Have students create book trailers and post them on your blog/website.
29. Reinforcing effort and providing recognition http://areallydifferentplace.org/ Give students their own blogs. Ask them to post their work for real-world recognition
30. Reinforcing effort and providing recognition Let students publish articles on your blog! http://missbakersbiologyclass.com/blog/2009/10/06/teach-a-goldfish-new-tricks/
31. Reinforcing effort and providing recognition Podomatic http://books4all.podomatic.com/entry/2008-11-12T21_02_00-08_00 Create a classroom podcast for the best booktalks
32. Reinforcing effort and providing recognition http://mrflanders.blogspot.com/2009_09_01_archive.html
33. Reinforcing effort and providing recognition Certificate Creator http://www.certificatecreator.com/
34. Reinforcing effort and providing recognition ChartGo http://www.chartgo.com/ CreateaGraph http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createAgraph/
37. Reinforcing effort and providing recognition Matnificent http://blog.whps.org/mack/2009/10/20/fact-vs-opinion-i-cant-figure-this-out/#comments With a blog, a teacher can reinforce effort provide recognition and check for understanding.
80. Setting objectives and providing feedback Matnificent http://blog.whps.org/mack/ With a blog, a teacher can provide feedback to students by replying to their comments.
81. Google Docs http://docs.google.com/ Setting objectives and providing feedback
Researcher Robert Marzano has completed a meta-analysis of 35 years of educational research. Marzano, Pickering and Pollock have identified 9 research-based instructional strategies that have the greatest impact on student achievement. The research of Douglas Reeves has resulted in the addition of a tenth strategy, non-fiction writing.
We spent the entire school year last year reading this book and having in-service on ets. And every time I couldn’t help but think of 21 st century technologies to support these strategies. When I proposed a version of this workshop to the admin, focusing on blogs, wikis, digital storytelling, smartboards, and clickers they balked. They said it would overwhelm people. They wouldn’t let me do it. . .
Build Legos Create massive “set-ups” Play Star Wars Draw battles and monsters and weapons Jump on trampoline Sniff smencils Go on adventures: this summer he went to washington dc, boston, new hampshire, the berkhsires, 4 beaches, 4 museums, 3 playgrounds, wickham park, apple picking, crabbing, sports camp, lego camp, swimming, brainwave bootcamp.
I know that they do more than this, but this is what we see in the backpack and hear about each night at dinner. How do you think Evan is doing?
Kids in the control group who averaged 50 Kids in the treatment group averaged 95
Why not have students create their own chart for comparison in skrbl and “Easy to share online whiteboard”
Compare food in Japan to food in CT. Compare anything!
Read Write Think is very 40-minute class period friendly.
Free web application for brainstorming online. Compare the Aztec the Inca – which made the most important impact on . . .
Collaborative Online mind mapping!
Bio-Cube is a useful summarizing tool that helps students identify and list key elements about a person whose biography or autobiography they have just read.
Microblogging – you may not do it or see the point of it, but if you teach middle or high school, chances are your students do. If you have elementary students, it won’t be long before this new social media is part of their lives.
Neil Gaiman sponsored a random Twitter photo caption contest. Look at the picture and create a caption . Win a book!
Still getting over Google Notebook.
You can have students link to your notebook You can have students email their notes/work to you Students can save work online
Click and drag notecards to make outline. Amazing.
Upload your own document or image or use something from the web. Here I used an article from NPR to make notes. You can change balloon colors and print from the browser. This app could also be featured under the “cooperative learning” section because multiple users can make notes.
Podcasting: Best booktalks to be recorded in Voicethread and published Or recorded using Audacity and published
Creating charts and graphs for students to chart their effort has been proven very effective.
Marzano gives and example about Jane: Jane was accostomed to being asked to keep a learning log which she dutifully compiled. In march, however, the teacher gave the learning log assignment a twist by teaching students how to create a line graph to chart learning and effort. At the end of two weeks, Jane and her classmates noticed that this graph actually motivated them and many admitted that when they felt like just coasting, the picture of the graph popped into their heads.
When student work is polished to publishable, let’s publish it!
Blogs are a perfect way to assign homework and practice.
Wow, create flashcards, matching, concentration, word search, battleship, cloze, hangman, rags to riches, jumbled words and many more. Also create quizzes or surveys.
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Giving a lecture today? Record it. Want students to remember something? Let them listen to it at home. Want to give clear explanation for homework? Record it here. World Language teachers? Let them hear what it should sound like.
Or, have students create the audio to Practice speaking in a foreign language Practice reading a poem aloud – practice alliteration,
Find a picture that represents greed Find pictures of all the terms of geography Find a picture that represents something from the chapter you read last night
Using tags you can search for pics that represent content across the levels
Green light – Gatsby There are several groups about the 1920s Elementary kids could find images of nutrition for a wall pyramid, find an image to write a story about, find an image to go with a research paper about an animal, find pictures to illustrate a country they are studying
So easy Add images and your voice if you want: Everyone else can comment. Do booktalks, create a dragon slideshow for art; the one on the left is pictures from around the school of shapes being studied by kindergartners: squares, circles, etc.
Illustrate anything!
Can also collaborate here.
One of the most powerful and useful tools for student learning that can be used in many of these categories is a wiki. Here students can contribute work, collaborate, look at other student work, reflect on the process.
Let’s brainstorm everything we know about to activate prior knowledge
Make a word wall to activate prior knowledge
Cue prior knowledge with a slideshow Cue prior knowledge with a word wall
Remember, activating students prior knowledge is very powerful. Brainstorm everything you know about . . .save it and add to it as you go, go back to it throughout the unit to see if it needs updating. Put it somewhere that kids can get to it.
This one is added in as a tenth ETS,
Okay, I admit it, I’m a information junkie. I cannot get enough. I don’t have to go anywhere to get it. It comes to me. On my couch. My husband took this picture because Emily was being cute, but when my kids look back on their childhood I think this will be one of the enduring images.
Will Richardson’s blog Web-logged provides much meaningful content.He calls himself “Learner-in-Chief”
Yes, this is fraught with challenges: Access to technology for teachers in schools and kids at home Time to integrate these apps into the curriculum which is already packed Lack of professional development available.