Skype Call with Heidi Hayes Jacobs, author of Curriculum21-Essential Education
August 18th, 2010
Collaborative Real Time Google Doc Note Taking
Essential Application for MJGDS
Education
To teach is to Use online applications, rather
learn. Be a public than worksheets.
learner. Every classroom needs to
personalize the global.
Look at all work as
collaborative. Look Use more language-based
at current apps for math because math is
references. theoretical. When a student can
verbally explain and describe
Personalize the how to solve problems, then
global. What you they really understand them in
want your students practice. A teacher can have
to get out of “math concerts” by presenting
learning. real-world situations
mathematically. This is an
Use 21st century integrated use of mathematics.
pedagogy. Use If a child cannot tell you what
more language to they’re doing, then they don’t
show know what they’re doing!
understanding of
concepts; real Sustainability
world applications; FacingTheFuture.org
Curriculum Finder
use technology 3 download-able items
tools to expand This will help us become
learning. “futurists.”
Integrate multiple StreetsEducation.org
disciplines. Formal Long-term ways of improving
collaboration with our neighborhoods
media specialist.
FORMAL digital portfolios:
Have clear expectations,
GET OVER 20th student-selected samples, and
CENTURY self-assessment by students.
PEDAGOGY. This record is also a gift to the
families.
Projects, Tools, Websites mentioned
Web 2.0 applications
applications in music - composition, mitting
(?) program, online applications in lieu of
music sheets, podcasts; allow students to
help teachers as they are in the forefront.
Wolfram Alpha:
http://www.wolframalpha.com
Visual Thesaurus:
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/
Welcome to use the clearing house offered
through HHJ.
“PERSONALIZE THE GLOBAL”
Electronic fieldtrip to anywhere (ie embassy
of Indonesia)
More language-based math with technology
tools.
Electronic binders the kids use to solve math
problems.
Video podcasting equipment to analyze math
word problems; if they can do this, they can
use it in real world math problems.
YOU CAN’T SKIP TRAIN STATIONS IN
MATH
A statistical application; teach math as a
foreign language.
www.WOLFRAMALPHA.ORG -
computational knowledge engine
Product As teachers commit to working
development with closely with the Technology
technology Specialist, it benefits students.
applications.
Acknowledge that even if you
are comfortable, there is a ton
Sustainability of we don’t know.
what you are Strategic selection of where to
teaching. start, start small.
Help students be Music: self tutorial tools,
“futurists” in their ITunes, Podcasts, DJ’s of the
thinking/learning. week prepares a podcast for
the class to listen to.
Digital portfolios Look for what we have
need to be formal. available technology and then
Use assessments! see how it works. While looking
for applications to use for your
subject, you might find
resources for other teachers, so
share.
Music and Math are theories.
More language based math.
Use tools to demonstrate
understanding. More
assessment in verbal.
Math concert (few times a
year): in 4th grade students
work independently on a
subject, Collapse of the bride
More math exercises shoud be
done and saved in folders. In
Japan, not solve problem,
instead, describe in their words
how to solve.
Math
-more language oriented
-periodic more demanding
application of math
HHJ - Nothing practical in math;
math is 100% theory.
Library - Media Center
are teachers of research.
R&D
Re-title Librarian to reshape perception of the
value of media within the school.
“Media Resource Person”
“Media Specialist”
Museum Boxes
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT motivated
The language of sustainability www.
FACINGTHEFUTURE.ORG - curriculum
finder - a great array of free downloadable
materials, as well as those that can be
purchased.
NEW YORK TIMES 8/18: article on the
change in transportation but important to
reinforce sustainability concept.
“NO EXCUSES”
“What can be done?” attitude to empower
kids and quash the despair...will allow
children to become more forward thinkers.
Sustainability runs the gamet from Urban
Planning, environmental, etc.
STREETSEDUCATION.ORG
How do we have adaptive work?
Require students to have a formal DIGITAL
PORTFOLIO where they select the entries,
NOT the teachers. It makes the child have
ownership. State of Rhode Island began this
strategy approximately 7 - 8 years ago, which
begins in kindergarten.
Webinars with classes in Israel to include in
the students portfolio.
Language programs available for self-tutorial;
for example for a struggling student.
Valerie Truesdale - Superintendent of
Beaufort School System using Rosetta
Stone’s English for kids struggling with
English as a first language.
Example: Integrate Math into
Social Studies study of the civil Alan November says:
war (statistics of casualties)
Assessment needs to be “No child should ever leave the
developed classroom without perfect notes!”
Develop a way to share this
information Clearing house info mentioned during
webinar with HHJ
Sustainability
‘facingthefuture.org’
curriculum finder- search http://www.curriculum21.com/index.ph
topics. p?path=/clearinghouse
Help kids be futurists.

Hebrew language assessment--

digital portfolio!
samples of
reading/writing/commentary
students select entry so that
they have ownership.
interview formally
self-assessment to help kids
improve follows in portfolio
group work ---examine story or
character formally to allow
parents to see
self-tutorial for some kids as
backup
Rosetta Stone- even for first
language or second language
acquisition
family is important and crucial
to our whole learning.. Hebrew
effects it all