March 2024 Resource of Month by connectingEd
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Embarking on the transformative journey of integrating artificial intelligence into education, educators often navigate a continuum of skepticism to empowerment. This continuum, spanning from initial skepticism to becoming adept users, serves as a roadmap for educators, instructional coaches, and other stakeholders, providing actionable insights and steps to navigate the evolving landscape of AI in education. Use the continuum as a springboard to collaborate with colleagues, share experiences, and contribute to the ongoing conversation about AI in education. Actionable steps For Each Phase:
Encourage continuous learning and adaptation in the ever-evolving landscape of educational technology. Add your reactions and ideas in the comments below! Contact us for professional learning and support around AI! This resource of the month was made in collaboration with Chat GPT
Let's start with Collaboration! Here are 5 simple ways to add collaborative experiences into your classroom.
A few things to remember:
If you have other ideas or try one of these, share your experience in the comments!!
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1. Assignment Clarity:
Develop a rubric that clearly outlines the expectations and criteria for each assignment. Share this rubric with students before they begin the task to provide a roadmap for success and empower them to take ownership of their learning by understanding exactly what is required. Give students time to ask questions/clarify the rubric. 2. Peer Review: Incorporate peer assessment by having students evaluate each other's work using the rubric. This not only promotes ownership of their learning but also helps students develop critical thinking skills and gain a deeper understanding of the assessment criteria. 3. Feedback Mechanism: Use rubrics as a feedback mechanism by providing detailed feedback based on the rubric's criteria. (Hint: Use Chat GPT to help you provide feedback using the rubric) This empowers students to understand their strengths and weaknesses and take ownership of their learning by actively seeking ways to improve. 4. Reflection & Goal Setting: Encourage students to set their own goals by using rubrics as a self-assessment tool. After completing an assignment, ask students to evaluate their work against the rubric. Then have them reflect on their learning and performance to identify areas where they can improve and set new goals for future assignments. This fosters a sense of responsibility for their own progress and self-awareness in their learning path. 5. Progress Tracking & Portfolio Guide: Encourage students to maintain a portfolio of their work with attached rubrics and self-assessments. This allows them to monitor their progress over time, identify trends, and make informed decisions about their learning strategies. 6. Student-Led Conferences: During parent-teacher conferences, have students prepare & present their work alongside the rubrics and self-assessments to demonstrate their understanding of their strengths and areas for improvement. This empowers students to actively engage in discussions about their learning.
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When we think of "real world," we often think of careers or work; however, part of real-world learning also relates to the fact that we all bring unique abilities and experiences that impact our learning. As educators, we must be focused on supporting students to know themselves as learners and create learning opportunities that span a wide spectrum of diversity among them. Digital Promise has created a navigation tool through their Learner Variability Project (LVP) work to support teachers in finding resources and strategies that engage, empower and promote excitement in learning for all students.
We chose the LVP Navigator as this month's resource because of the synthesized amount of research by Digital Promise and the offer of great strategies to help us engage the full diversity of learners. The added bonus is that they organized everything in an easy-to-search navigation experience.
Overview
To find strategies to meet the needs of your diverse learning population, after you open the navigator, choose a model. Next explore different factors such as learner background, social-emotional learning, cognition, etc.. that LVP has aggregated to help you hone in on targeted areas. Then find curated strategies and resources to use immediately!
We chose the LVP Navigator as this month's resource because of the synthesized amount of research by Digital Promise and the offer of great strategies to help us engage the full diversity of learners. The added bonus is that they organized everything in an easy-to-search navigation experience.
Overview
To find strategies to meet the needs of your diverse learning population, after you open the navigator, choose a model. Next explore different factors such as learner background, social-emotional learning, cognition, etc.. that LVP has aggregated to help you hone in on targeted areas. Then find curated strategies and resources to use immediately!
Here’s an example A 7th grade Science teacher has a series of readings that students need to engage with as a part of the learning process. To take into account learner variability, she chooses the “model” 7-12th Grade Literacy in the navigator tool. | She’s interested in factors related to “disciplinary literacy,” so she selects this factor, which brings up research about this factor and a curated list of resources and strategies she can use in the classroom. For example, one strategy she’s interested in is “advanced graphic organizer” She pulls up the strategy, reviews it, and adds it to her lesson. |
Recommendations
Don’t Forget!
- There’s so much here in the navigator! We recommend spendings some time just pursuing the factors alone. They can help us think through different variabilities in learners' situations that we may not have considered or tend to forget about.
- Intermediate or High School content area teacher? Use the literacy models to support all disciplines!
- Do you work with adult learners through professional development? In addition to math and literacy models, there is one for adult learners.
- Learn more about Learner Variability Learner Variability Is the Rule, Not the Exception.
Don’t Forget!
- After you use the LVP Navigator, tell us what you think here in the comments below.