How to get your students to be creative.

1. Creativity and Integration
Creating a Digital Learning
Environment
Ben Smith
@edtechben

3. Why this session?
http://www.schrockguide.net/bloomin-apps.html

5. Data Collection Analysis
Communication
Apps Approach
Multimedia
Reference
Journaling
Content Based

6. Appfluency

7. Curricular Approach
Measuring
Annotate Cartoon Gaming
Audio & Video
Click to Move

8. How can students use the iPad to collect data?

9. Getting to Results

10. How did I get here?

11. Being Vague

12. Instructional Design

13. Culture and Tools

14. Building the Infrastructure

15. 1layerone

16. Questions

17. Who is the "Answerer"
I know nothing - Socrates

18. Students Generate

19. UCC

20. Student Generated
Problems

21. Interdependence

22. Build Independence

23. Buy-In

24. 2layertwo

25. Tool Chest

26. Example - Infographics

27. Lecture

28. Social

29. When is Done... Done?

30. Teacher as Coworker / Boss

31. Gamification

32. Rubrics
Metiri Group - learning.metiri.com

33. Content is NOT Enough

34. Differentiation

35. Classroom

36. Classroom

37. Classroom

38. Beyond the Classroom

39. Celebrate Success

40. End Product

41. 21st Century Learning

42. Transformation - SAMR

43. Is IT Integration?

44. A Taxonomy for Integrating Technology
Increasing Levels of Cognition
Curriculum mastery deepens
Increasing Complexity of Technology Skills
Technology choices become autonomous

46. Observing
Students are passive spectators of the technology

47. Incorporating
Students are leveraging technology to increase productivity

48. Producing
Students create a product with a single technology

49. Exploring
Students engage in discovery learning prior to formal instruction

50. Collaborating
Students interact with peers, instructors, and outside resources

51. Applying
Students are guided to combine and integrate technologies

52. Creating
Students are making sound choices about the appropriate synthesis
of content and technology into a final product

53. Leap One
Observing to Incorporating

54. Observing
Students are passive spectators of the technology
Observing to Incorporating
Incorporating
Students are leveraging technology to increase productivity

55. Examples
Students use the interactive whiteboard to manipulate pictures in a classification activity
Students narrate a Discovery Streaming video in lieu of the “stock” narration
Using Inspiration to create chemical element cards that can be manipulated to
Create a periodic table
When writing an abstract, students must use the formatting features that are built into
Word to identify claims and substantiating facts
Students create a Diigo or or Delicious page to organize and identify supporting
evidence for an experiment or study
Observing to Incorporating

56. Leap Two
Incorporating to the “Triangle”

57. Incorporating to the “Triangle”
Incorporating
Students are leveraging technology to
increase productivity
Producing
Students create a product with a single technology
Exploring
Students engage in discovery learning prior to formal instruction
Collaborating
Students interact with peers, instructors, and outside resources

58. Examples
Students podcast observations in lieu of a data table
Post a video that displays a scientific principle to Voicethread so that the class can
comment and/or predict its law
Design an experiment in Google Docs and complete it with your lab group, online
Make a movie trailer about a chemical reaction, describing its mathematics and properties
In a dramatic or comedic way
Students explore the principles of a gas law by engaging in a simulation about that
law prior to experimentation
Incorporating to the “Triangle”

59. Leap Three
The “Triangle” to Creating

60. The “Triangle”
Students are guided to use different tools
The “Triangle” to Creating
Creating
Students are making sound choices about the appropriate
synthesis of content and technology into a final product

61. How to Erase Technology
• Have students move through the taxonomy
• As students acquire the skills of using a
technology….
• It becomes a tool they may choose
• The emphasis of an activity shifts from the
technology to the cognitive skills students must
employ
• Becomes invisible

62. Inspiring Creativity
• Creating the Canvas
• Word, PowerPoint, Inspiration, Wikis,
Google Docs
• Learning to Paint
• User Created Content: Podcasts, Movies, Animoto,
Mapping
• Creative Process
• Instructional Design: Be Vague

63. Practices

64. What do iDo?
Practice Makes….
Created by YETC - 2012

65. Tools for Integration

66. Planning Documents
• Year Long Plan
• Being Creative
• Curriculum Map
• What are 21st century skills?
• What are technologies you / your students can use?
• What are your current integration activities?

67. The resources…

68. The NETS as a Lens

69. Performance Indicators

70. Focus Point

71. 10,000’ View

72. Example
•Performance Indicator
• Students demonstrate creative thinking,
construct knowledge, and develop innovative
products and processes using technology.
• Performance Indicator
• Students interact, collaborate, and publish
with peers, experts, or others employing a
variety of digital environments and media.
• Performance Indicator
• Students locate, organize, analyze, evaluate,
synthesize, and ethically use information
from a variety of sources and media.

73. Example
• Moving back to the
curriculum planning
document, we see that the
designing creative activities
tool informs the curriculum
template…

74. Example
• Using our taxonomy tool,
determine the cognitive
level to which students will
be engaged in the activity.

75. Eliciting Creativity
• Designing activities that ask students to be creative must
begin with the end point in mind.
• The “being creative” document will help…

76. Ensuring Success
• In order to allow students to be successful, we must
scaffold our activities from a content perspective as well
as a technology one
• The Year Long Plan will help:

77. Assessing Technology
Integrated Projects
• What are the goals / objectives of the project?
• Curricular
• Skills
• Technology
• Develop a rubric
• Curriculum Focus should be first
• Need a rubric area to deal with technology aspect
• Collaboration
• Problem Solving
• Communication

78. Questions
• Email: info@edtechinnovators.com
• Website: www.edtechinnovators.com
@edtechben