{"id":155,"date":"2015-03-06T15:36:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T15:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/derekdoucet\/?p=155"},"modified":"2015-03-06T15:36:54","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T15:36:54","slug":"the-learning-never-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/derekdoucet\/2015\/03\/06\/the-learning-never-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"The Learning Never Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Lakefiel\"never-stop-learning\"<\/a>d College posted a job for a Technology Integrator to help support teachers in our transition to Mac computers, I immediately\u00a0wanted it. Having done Cohort21<\/a> I felt I was well equipped for the role but what most excited me was\u00a0working with teachers, and seeing\u00a0what they are doing in the classrooms, as well as inspiring some to try new things. True to form, learning from others\u00a0has been the most positive aspect of my\u00a0role to date.<\/p>\n

@Brenthurley<\/a> and I share the role and this year we’ve implemented a variety of new Self-Directed PD Initiatives. We’ve adapted @gnichols<\/a> Connected Educator Ninja Warrior Program; we have over 15 staff who are currently working their way through the\"Learn<\/a> belts. We’ve implemented a Cohort21 inspired PLC where we’ve introduced teachers to the #Toolkit and the frameworks for integrating technology; for which we have over 16 staff who signed up but a core group of 9 has emerged. We’ve introduced Socra<\/a>tive<\/a>,\u00a0as the Evalution piece in the Five\u00a0Es of\u00a0the Learning Cycle.<\/a>\u00a0We introduced\u00a0Doctopus and Goobric<\/a> paired with Google Classroom to work\u00a0with timely feedback, and Edpuzzle<\/a> to address the Chunk, Chew, Check<\/a>\u00a0when introducing students to new concepts in a flipped classroom, and many more!!<\/p>\n

There have been many highlights this year with people doing amazing things but most recently Lorraine Brown – a Modern Language and AP Eng Lit teacher at the school was looking for a way to help her students critically reflect on their performance in a Harkness Discussion but also wanted them to strive for deeper understanding and critically analyse the discussion. After a brief chat, we agreed that Edpuzzle might be what she was looking for!\u00a0She had recorded her Harkness Discussion and used Edpuzzle to pose open ended questions to deepen their understanding and really made their learning visible… to them! She placed the questions at manageable times in the video in order to chunk the information and give them time to chew, then checked their responses via the back end of the teacher Edpuzzle dashboard.<\/p>\n

She was so impressed with the depth of analysis and deep understanding her students displayed when they were able to see their performance in the discussion. The self-reflection piece to this was key. Students received feedback throughout the process but seeing themselves in the video allowed them to take that first step in internalizing that feedback, and ideally helped nudge them along their path to lifelong self-driven learning.<\/p>\n

This is but one example of the great things I get to see in my role as a Tech Integrator, and I am lucky to work with such inspiring educators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Lakefield College posted a job for a Technology Integrator to help support teachers in our transition to Mac computers, I immediately\u00a0wanted it. Having done Cohort21 I felt I was Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,31,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/derekdoucet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/derekdoucet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/derekdoucet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/derekdoucet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/derekdoucet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/derekdoucet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/derekdoucet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/derekdoucet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/derekdoucet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/derekdoucet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}