User:Vtaylor/AITR

blog :  Academy site  :  Ford Partnership : Florida Virtual School : Volusia K-12, FL standards

http://techonline.sprucecreekhigh.com

http://portfolios.sprucecreekhigh.com/

http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/ftc/email-blast-9292011


 * FIRST Tech Challenge 2011 Bowled Over
 * Sugar Activities projects - programming - Etoys, Turtle Blocks, translate / create IAEP docs in Spanish / English
 * Aviation / aerospace education

http://www.usfirst.org/sites/default/files/uploadedFiles/Robotics_Programs/FTC/FTC_Mentor_Guide_2011.pdf
 * atir - ftc mentor guide, focus, tasks

== NASA== directions - NASA robots - application

2012

5. 	Please describe how participation in the FIRST Robotics Competition will provide an inspirational experience for the participating students, how they will be encouraged to consider science, technology or engineering related careers, and how participation will contribute to your school's overall educational goals.


 * working with mentors who are professionals in these fields
 * visits to mentors and sponsors places of work - experience first hand what they do
 * using engineering and design processes for competition teams, encourage students to learn and appreciate learning more and working with these skills and processes.


 * Team 2152 robots and team members were featured in the newly launched Education Zone at the 2011 New Smyrna Beach Balloon and Sky Fest that attracted more than 40,000 attendees from around Florida as well as local Volusia County residents. ?? any new AITR students as a result]

== Grants proposals==


 * Oct 25, 2011 - NASA Robotics http://frc-grants.arc.nasa.gov/rcs/directions.php


 * http://STEMgrants.com


 * AITR - K-12, teaching and learning, academy model, challenges, curriculum integration, emphasis on engineering (what it is, why is it different than science), projects, teams of mixed grade-level
 * issues - standard testing, core curriculum
 * ? minority, diversity
 * develop materials as required for proposals - critical thinking, reflection

== Journals, notebooks==


 * science notebook - setup, assessing

== Portfolios==

proposed research


 * For meaningful assessment, interaction of pieces of evidence within an portfolio is more important than single pieces of evidence.
 * Reflection on pieces of evidence within an portfolio and on the portfolio as a whole provides information for assessment that is not available by other means.
 * The material practice of portfolio composition generates distinctive knowledge about learning.
 * portfolios enable meaningful comparison of student learning across institutions (and other contexts) without standardization.

sample activity


 * log in, create profile, include a graphic or picture for your profile icon
 * create a page, make it public, and include at least 5 component blocks. Customize the theme and layout
 * complete the What Color is you Brain quiz http://www.truecolorscareer.com/quiz.asp, then join the group for your Brain color
 * in the Forum for your Brain color, post a message listing 3 things that you remember from the Brain Color test
 * as a group, using only the forum, pick 3 things that were remembered by most people in the group
 * visit the portfolio Views of 3 people in your Brain color group. Leave a comment and describe something you liked about the content or layout of their portfolio View.

http://portfolios.sprucecreekhigh.com/


 * overview - what, why, so what?
 * different than Moodle, Facebook (social)
 * Mahara - how - create profile, resume,
 * what to keep
 * questions - friends, groups, blog


 * Mahara is an open source e-portfolio system with a flexible display framework. Mahara, meaning 'think' or 'thought' in Te Reo Māori, is user centred environment with a permissions framework that enables different views of an e-portfolio to be easily managed. Mahara also features a weblog, resume builder and social networking system, connecting users and creating online learner communities.


 * Social Networks and Interactive Portfolios: Blurring the Boundaries - Electronic Portfolios have been with us for more almost two decades, used primarily in education to store documents and reflect on learning, provide feedback for improvement, and showcase achievement for accountability or employment. Social networks have emerged over the last five years, used by individuals and groups to store documents and share experiences, showcase accomplishments, communicate and collaborate with friends and family, and, in some cases, facilitate employment searches.


 * Getting Started on Creating Your Own ePortfolio - examples, suggestions, resources

There are three main types of e-portfolios, although they may be referred to using different terms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_portfolio


 * developmental (e.g., working),
 * reflective (e.g., learning), and
 * representational (e.g., showcase).

collect, select, reflect, connect - imagine, research, investigate, discover, evaluate, elaborate, refine, think critically, link, share, exchange


 * work can be public, access can be limited
 * academic requirements - process, products
 * personal learning network / environment - areas of interest
 * assessment criteria, rubrics
 * archive - available for access and export ?? years after publication


 * demonstrates professionalism, responsibility


 * features - comments, personalize - theme, add functionality - widgets
 * search, retrieval - tags, categories, static content - pages, media - embedded, files download


 * space - subject to availability for fat files - media bandwidth, image resolution, ...


 * additional functionality for integration, user-controlled access to content
 * privacy, identity protection

== Minecraft==


 * ... see /Minecraft/

== Notes, resources==


 * design / innovation - Nightline The Deep Dive 1, 2, 3 one conversation at a lime, stay focused on topic, encourage wild ideas, defer judgment, build on the ideas of others


 * groups - http://wikieducator.org/Collaboration_and_Group_Projects

Before Sept 2011

Create a Diigo account and join this group. Set the preference to daily digest. You will get an email with links any day new ones are added. Then when you have that down, you can start adding your links and the rest of us will see those in the group daily mail. Much simpler and cooler than it sounds. http://groups.diigo.com/group/techlearn 	technology supporting learning k-12 science and engineering
 * Diigo - Yet another technology - social bookmarking for sharing links. Some of the information in the "share" site were links. That's what this does, but it has some nice features for managing, categorizing and sharing the entries.


 * Drupal - portfolios


 * Voicethread - Spanish examples http://voicethread4education.wikispaces.com/

Before April 2011


 * Our Motivation... 	As we refine the online stuff - one thing to keep in mind. We want every child to go home every day and say something like "You won't believe what I [learned, saw, created, did, etc.] at school today!"


 * The Science of Motivation - From TED.com - http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html We heard Dan Pink in D.C. at the NAF Conference. This is thought provoking and might be useful...


 * a new free resource! http://fas.org/programs/ltp/games/index.html


 * Cell Animation from Ted.com - This is the type of content we need: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/david_bolinsky_animates_a_cell.html


 * Grading Policy - Teachers will put grade values on assignments. Assessments will be 100 Points. Challenge grades will be 20% of Hexmester grade.

AITR links
 * creekaitr.org - RSS feed


 * mLearning - http://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Mobile_app


 * What's the problem - problem-based learning, problem identification and solutions, resources, time, cost, priority, assumptions

CBB - with kids comments


 * scheduling - startup, change ? student input


 * new ways of working - preparation, access to materials, tools, documentation - PDF cf web, laptops (less filtering and restrictions)


 * document process, progress as blog posts weekly, 3rd party observations


 * support - time, scheduling, tracking - for students, teachers


 * assignments - projects, not-projects ? requirements definition, structured


 * graphics - make sure to get high res versions of sponsor logos, be careful moving graphics so as not to reduce resolution


 * CAD - have several people trained, use cad for prototyping, add cad drawing to engineering notebook


 * http://wikieducator.org/FRC_scout_report_form

Learn more...


 * AITR blog - shared


 * Several open computer science textbooks have been reviewed http://collegeopentextbooks.org/opentextbookcontent/thereviews.html


 * Maybe the district MIS folks could help "teach" / coach students through some industry programs


 * Open courses - all the information is here - just add knowledgeable mentor / instructor http://sofia.fhda.edu/gallery/

http://sofia.fhda.edu/gallery/security/ http://sofia.fhda.edu/gallery/java/ http://sofia.fhda.edu/gallery/flash/ http://sofia.fhda.edu/gallery/html/
 * These are actual community college courses but they would work for AITR. I worked on this project as an editor. They are somewhat dated, but most of the information is still ok. That's what the mentor / instructor would provide.


 * industry certifications that could be overseen by MIS folks although the actual course content and study materials are available online. - Cisco, MicroSoft


 * open online textbooks in many technical areas that could be considered as well. http://cnx.org/


 * The MIS folks would be great resources without having to develop courses or materials.

Technology Supported Learning

Here are the links for the development workshop that I'm doing for faculty at DeAnza College in California.

We are having an on-campus session on Fri Feb 4, followed by 3 weeks of online discussion and activities.

Daily update on progress, interesting ideas... http://technologysupportedlearning.wordpress.com/

There is a "subscribe" link - you can receive an email anytime there is a post.

Way more than you probably want to read but... http://wikieducator.org/Technology_Supported_Learning

I hope it is going to be interesting. I'd love to have AITR teachers humm along if there is interest.


 * Technology Supported Learning - workshop activities, reading, resources


 * WE Moodle - discussions


 * notes - subscribe to get updates as email

Future projects


 * using an interesting idea / application to open students to work in a broader learning space using web resources, blogs, RSS feeds with tracking and aggregating.

sample "newsletter" constructed using the application to harvest RSS feeds and tags http://cck11.mooc.ca/newsletter.htm

application - description, code... http://grsshopper.downes.ca/about.htm

This is probably too abstract for now, but some day it might be really interesting to do a proof-of-concept demonstration as I think it fits with the AITR model.

AITR Presentation


 * who are you - name, interests, grade, track, years in aitr, plans for after high school
 * what is AITR
 * what is the same
 * what is different
 * why do I care
 * would my parents let me transfer

..vt 27apr


 * overview - academy, project based learning, teachers as facilitators, student responsibility
 * technology - laptops, online assignments, learning areas / labs
 * tech tracks - software - programming, web design, hardware - PCs, operating systems, network administration, games & simulations
 * challenges - problem-based learning, across subjects
 * project-based - group work, robotics
 * SOAR - Service, Opportunity, Academics, Responsibility
 * differences from traditional high school
 * successful students - responsible, group work, leadership
 * summary
 * invitation to visit, contacts
 * Q & A

Questions
 * core subjects - What about other subjects like English, Spanish, History?
 * scheduling - How can the Robotics Team go off for several days of competition?
 * college prep
 * extra-curricular - sports teams, theater, clubs