Use this link to get to the attendance sheet in Google Drive, or find the attendance sheet however you like to.
2. A New Quiz Site
Our OBJECTIVE today is to understand quizizz.com and the role it can play in our classrooms. We will accomplish this by comparing Quizizz to Kahoot, a quiz platform we are already familiar with.
Step 1: Let's play Kahoot. Go to kahoot.it in your internet browser. Most of us are familiar with Kahoot, so let's play a short quiz together to remind ourselves the role this familiar quiz platform can play or does play in our classrooms.
How is Kahoot best used in your classroom? What are its pros? Its cons?
Step 2: Now let's look at a new quiz platform. Go to quizizz.com and click on Join a Game in the upper right. Follow the instructions projected on the white board to play this Christmas quiz.
How is Quizizz similar to Kahoot? How is it different? What are Quizizz's strengths and weaknesses, and what role might it have in your classroom?
3. The Challenge
As we head into and out of this break, be mindful of the tools that will help you harness student engagement and provide assessment and re-teaching opportunities. When teen and pre-teen brains have let loose of some of the concepts we've taught, consider tech tools like Kahoot and Quizizz that can help refocus and remind those young minds!
SAMR is an acronym that stands for Substitution,
Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition, labels that define the
levels of tech integration for any given activity.
Our
OBJECTIVE today is to understand SAMR well enough to be able to evaluate
and justify the level of tech integration in our own classrooms. We'll achieve this level of understanding by completing two activities with a partner.
When it comes to technology, the
appropriate question isn't, "Are you using tech?" The question should
be, "Why are you using tech?" Understanding the SAMR levels helps us
articulate the depth of tech integration and the benefits of that level.
Let's start by exploring the SAMR levels.
Introductory Video: Here is SAMR creator Dr. Rueben Puenteduro explaining SAMR (Jim Cash, YouTube)
Let's use this Padlet wall and content partners (or as close to content as you can get!) to practice applying the SAMR levels. See the Padlet wall for instructions.
Use the same Padlet wall from above, but this time, you and your partner think of an activity from your content area. This could be a common activity, or it can be something specific from a unit. Take the activity through the 4 levels of SAMR. Show us what the activity would look like at the Substitution leve, the Augmentation level, the Modification level, and the Redefinition level. Create a sticky note on the Padlet wall with your names on it and the activity in the 4 different levels.
Here's my example:
5. Finally...It's NOT a Contest!
Use technology with your students at the APPROPRIATE level for your
students and the task at hand. There is no prize for hanging out in the
deep end every day -- you'll be frustrated, and your students will be
exhausted. Move back and forth, in and out, as needed. Use the prompts
on the Blue Valley SAMR Instructional Design document as a guide and as justification for your SAMR levels!
6. Your Challenge!
Be MINDFUL of how and why you are using tech
in the next week. Being able to articulate, even to yourself, that you
are using Kahoot to increase engagement or Showbie because it tends to
motivate students to complete their work is powerful. It will also open
up the creative floodgates, and you'll soon be thinking of other ways to
increase efficiency, engagement, and motivation in your classroom.
Technology is a hook; don't be afraid to use it at whatever level works!
Use this link to mark your attendance today, or get into Google Drive and search for the DCMS Tech Training Attendance sheet.
Explorers, we're working with memes. Go to imgflip.com & use the Create button in the upper left to get creative!
2. Project Work Time
Last time we met, we talked about picking a lackluster spot in a unit and designing an activity to add some sparkle. Continue working on this activity and post your progress on the padlet below.
