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Bowdoin College, Brunswick ME
July 24 - 26, 2012
Below is the list of cohorts available at the 2012 Summer Institute. Each cohort will run three days and will be limited to 15 participants (unless otherwise specified). When registering you'll be asked which cohort you wish to participate in, so please review our list below and pick the one you feel best suits your needs.
A Farewell to the Digital Mesolithic: Resources and Spaces for Student-Centered Learning
The challenges posed by new visions of education such as Mass Customized Learning require approaches to the sourcing and development of resources for education that differ in more than minor details from previous methodologies. In these sessions we will look at these new approaches, and see how they are inseparably intertwined with the creation of Personal Learning Communities, the development of new learning spaces such as the Flipped Classroom, and the integration of student assessment processes into the creation of learning materials. We will employ throughout a "theory into practice" approach, with hands-on application of the software tools provided by the MLTI to the processes at hand. Breakout groups will focus on practices and resources specific to ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies.
Target Audience: Appropriate for grades 7-12 teachers, with most attention on ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies content areas.
Contact: Ruben Puentedura
Read Ruben's Bio
Digital Citizenship: Helping Students Thrive in their Digital World
Our students are part of a digital life that is changing education and social communication and bringing exciting new opportunities to create and learn. These same opportunities can present students and schools with challenges.
This year the Digital Citizenship Cohort will look at current research concerning our students and the digital world they live and the need to specifically teach Digital Citizenship. We will explore the changing nature of information retrieval, creation and communication and how schools around the country and Maine are rising to the challenge.
Digital Citizenship cohorts are encouraged to come as a team to learn how schools throughout the country are incorporating digital citizenship in their schools and plan for your classroom, school or district. What role does social media have in education and what is the responsibility of your school in helping students navigate the digital world in which we live and learn? We will look at curriculum designed to help students think critically about their use of technology.
Cohort participants will come out with an understanding of the issues involved, a plan for implementing a program in their schools. Cohort members will also create a 5 minute ignite presentation that can be used to begin the school year with a little professional development to your faculty and staff.
Topics to be covered:
Target Audience: Appropriate for grades K-12 teachers, all content areas
MLTI Software: Noteshare, Photobooth, Quick time, Comic Life, Keynote
Contact: Teri Caouette
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Mass Customized Learning: Making it Happen with Challenge Based Learning
Challenge Based Learning (CBL) emphasizes exploring topics from many angles and through the lens of multiple disciplines, which allows the learner to appreciate the natural connections between subject areas that might not always be evident.
This MLTI Challenge Based Learning workshop models an engaging multidisciplinary approach to teaching and learning. Using this approach, learners leverage the MLTI technology used in daily life to solve real-world problems.
Challenge Based Learning presents a ready, scalable model for the classroom or school. Workshop participants will engage in the process and design a relevant and rigorous Challenge Based Learning experience to use in their own settings.
This workshop is for all subject area educators and all levels of technological know how.
**This cohort has space for 30 participants.
Target Audience: Appropriate for grades K-12 teachers, all content areas
MLTI Software: MLTI Device with current image installed
Contact: Tim Hart or Ann Marie Quirion Hutton
Read Tim's Bio
Read Ann Marie's Bio
Meeting Community Challenges
Having students research, identify and respond to challenges in their community can bring huge learning opportunities and develop skills useful for civic engagement beyond the classroom. This session will explore the ins and outs of using a challenge based approach for all learners, with a hands on approach to understanding what a fully engaged community of learners will look like. Using digital tools to transform the traditional paradigm of service projects and local studies, participants will design responses to issues in the summer institute community. Through debriefing, discourse and decision making, participants will find out how challenge based projects can successfully introduced in their schools, with their students, colleagues and community.
Topics to be covered:
Target Audience: Appropriate for grades 8-12 teachers in the Social Studies, ELA, Health, CTE content areas.
MLTI Software: Acorn, Comic Life, DataStudio, Safari, GarageBand, Google Earth, iCal, iChat, iMovie, iPhoto, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, MindNode, NoteShare, OmniGraffle, Quicktime Player.
Contact: Jim Wells
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Once upon a time in a digital world...
Everyone loves a good story and stories are told and heard, written and read in every classroom, every day, as we strive to help our students understand the world. Traditionally students have learned to tell their stories in written language, but now we have authoring tools that allow them to create digital narratives that combine text and sound with still and moving images in amazingly creative ways. Using the production tools on the MLTI devices, students can create digital stories that can deepen their understanding of a subject and develop their skills in visual literacy. We will discuss how to plan and develop digital storytelling projects, and examine what factors contribute to a successful, high-quality project. Teachers from all grade levels and all content areas can learn to leverage the exciting possibilities for incorporating digital storytelling into the classroom with applications such as iMovie, Garageband, and iPhoto.
Bring a digital camera with you, though if you don't have one, there will be some available to borrow.
Target Audience: Appropriate for grades 7-12 teachers, all content areas
MLTI Software: iMovie, Garageband, iPhoto
Contact: David Patterson
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Real Technology for the Music Classroom
Music technology has come a long way and teachers and students need to effectively integrate the tools into the creation, archiving, sharing, and collaborating into the music educational process. We will be using an extremely hands on approach to write, score, produce, perform, and publish music using the MLTI device.
We will be directly addressing both the music standards and the Common Core.
Topics to be covered:
Target Audience: Appropriate for grades K-12 teachers who teach Music.
MLTI Software: GarageBand, MuseScore, iMovie, Keynote
Contact: Steve Garton
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The Networked Student: Research in a Digital Age
How do we make Maine’s recently-adopted Common Core Standards relevant for learners who grew up connected to technology? The Common Core Standards for ELA and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science and Technical Subjects expect students to have the “ability to gather, comprehend, evaluate, synthesize, and report on information and ideas, and to conduct original research.” Our challenge as educators is to help our students use digital media effectively, responsibly, and creatively to demonstrate content area learning through their research process skills.
In our sessions, cohort members will address research in a digital age and the benefits of working collaboratively in an inquiry-based learning focus to ensure that students are prepared to read, write, and research across the curriculum. The goal is for you to leave the sessions with a draft research unit, so consider bringing a team: content area or grade level teachers, library media specialist, technology integrator. We will explore using online resources and finding online sources for digital text. We will integrate formative assessment and student self-assessment so that student products reflect evidence of their learning and mastery of the research process. We will provide models for best practice through resources and collaborative instruction within a framework of technology that influences teaching and learning throughout the school.
Specific Topics:
Target Audience: Appropriate for grades 7-12 teachers in the following areas: ELA, Social Studies, Science, and School Library Media Specialists, Tech Integrators, with school collaboration teams of content area teacher, librarian and tech integrator encouraged.
MLTI Software Used: Noteshare; Omnigraffle
Contact: Sylvia Norton and Pam Goucher
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Using GeoGebra to Create Resources to Target Critical Mathematics Concepts
This summer institute strand focuses on the use of the dynamic, interactive Open Education Resource GeoGebra to create and share lessons targeted at key mathematics concepts as described in the Common Core Mathematics Standards for middle and high school students. Over the three institute days participants will engage with a range of GeoGebra features from introductory to advanced in order to create tools and resources for the specific use in the mathematics classrooms in which they teach. The session will be designed to nurture and promote collaboration between and among participants and workshop leaders to support the continuous improvement and extension of resources related to the dynamic mathematics software GeoGebra.
Target Audience: Appropriate for grades 7-12 Math teachers
MLTI Software: GeoGebra
Contact: Pam Buffington
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Using Standards and Technology to Support Learning in Science - Aligned with Best Practice
As we realign our expectations of how teaching and learning occur in our classrooms, we need to examine what changes and what stays the same. We've used standards to design curriculum, adjusted the way we deliver content, and used assessment to measure proficiency and differentiate. How can we use what we know to help us meet the challenge ahead of us?
Access to quality content is not the only benefit of integrating technology into a classroom. There is great promise to using the technology to support the best research based practice in science classrooms. Creating an environment in which questions lead to learning involves thought to enduring understandings, activities that are engaging and meaningful, and a culture of rigor and participation. There are many ways that technology can help in the creation of that environment.
Join us and spend some time getting the background and developing your own units that match standards and the new Conceptual Framework from The National Academies, and think about how students can succeed in the new environment.
Topics to be covered:
Target Audience: Appropriate for all grade levels but most attention to grades K-12 teachers who teach Science
MLTI Software Used: Logger Pro, Data Studio, ME Explorer, NoteShare, Numbers, Safari, Preview, OmniGraffle, Molecular Workbench, GeniQuest, NetLogo
Contact: Phil Brookhouse
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8th Grade Mathematics And Then Some, Understanding Algebra Through Polynomials And Technology
Learn about and explore a Common Core aligned, 8th grade/algebra course, which comes complete with interactive GeoGebra applets and Chipmunk Basic math programs. Become familiar with the accompanying software, and then get firsthand experience with the conceptual based, textbook alternative, which will appear on next year’s MLTI image.
A working copy of the in progress, digital, 8th grade/algebra course, complete with interactive applets and math programs, will be included with this class.
Topics to be covered:
• Quick overview of the course
• Familiarization with the software, as needed
• Active exploration and use of course material
Target Audience: Appropriate for grade 8 Mathematics and/or algebra teachers
MLTI Software: Chipmunk Basic (MLTI 2012 Image), GeoGebra, Grapher, OmniDazzle Scribble
Contact: Alex Briasco-Brin
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Moving From traditional Textbooks To Open Source Content: The New Digital “Textbook”
Syntiro and Acrossworld have spent the past year working with teachers from the Maranacook Middle School to discover, design and develop open source content in the areas of 7th grade Social Studies and 8th grade Visual and Performing Arts. Using the Maine Learning Results as a template, teachers researched available OER and created three trimesters of content to use with their students next year. The platform is designed to allow teachers to create student playlists based on different classes, student needs, and content. Join us as we share our learning and introduce you to the platform which will be available to all teachers next year.
In this interactive session, participants will explore copyright, OER, and the Education Bridge platform.
Topics to be covered:
Target Audience: Appropriate for middle school teachers in the content areas of 7th grade Social Studies and 8th grade Visual and Performing Arts
MLTI Software: additional software is not necessary, specific logins will be provided
Contact: Therese Bernier Burns, Assistant Director at Syntiro and Beth Lambert, Assistant Director at Syntiro
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How Technology Can Support Customized Learning
In Collaboration with the Maine Cohort for Customized Learning
This training will be delivered in 2 parts
Part 1: Dr. Juie Mathisen, Director of Technology and Innovation in Education, in Rapid City, S.D. will help teachers explore the electronic resources that help make student acquisition of skills and content more independent. Teachers will develop customized learning activities integrating a variety of electronic resources.
Part 2: The iPad as a Tool for Customization (facilitated by a representative of Apple). Apple's iPad allows customization across the complex layers of a learning community - for students, teachers, administrators, parents, and the community.
In this hands-on, interactive session, participants will be introduced to the capabilities of the iPad and supported in visioning how the iPad might be embedded in a highly customizable learning environment.
At the end of the session, participants will have:
(While no previous iPad experience is required, participants are encouraged to bring their own iPad along, as well as any discoveries or questions they may have).
Presenters: Dr. Julie Mathisen, Director of Technology and Innovation in Education (Part I) & Jim Moulton, Apple Inc (Part II)
Read Dr. Julie Mathisen's Bio
A Consortium for Mass Customized Learning: The Vision and Design
In Collaboration with the Maine Cohort for Customized Learning
Purpose of the Consortium:
School Teams will:
Presenter: Bea McGarvey
Target Audience: District/School Teams just beginning the journey (100)
Team Configuration: District Leader, Principal, Assistant Principal, 5-6 Teachers
This Consortium will also meet 2 additional days: October 15th & December 10th (location TBD) and these two additional days (minus lodging) are included in the cost for this Consortium. To view the costs for a school team to participate, please visit the registration page.
