Unclassroom elementary 2014

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Curtis Chandler
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Thursday, June 19, 14

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What are
armpits for?
What would
happen if the
moon crashed
into the earth?
If you were
good, but you
really wanted
coal, would
Santa bring it
to you?
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“How did cavemen learn?”
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Oral Culture
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1. How can we
move beyond the traditional
classroom?
2. What can we glean from
other models of learning?
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1. Lecture, independent
reading, & worksheets fail to
engage students.
2. An examination of other
models of learning helps to

(1) improve lecture

(2) explore increasingly
student-centered
instructional techniques.
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A ﬂy on the wall…
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What would happen if…
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Work like crazy!
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A little while ago…

Nonlinguistic Representations

“Un-schools”
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“Please draw what teaching looks
like in this school.”
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The
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If you were in charge of teaching
your elderly relative how to use
their
ﬁrst smart phone...
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Would you…
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Would you…

Lecture
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Would you…

Lecture

Make them read
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Would you…

Lecture

Make them read

Audio-Visual
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Would you…

Lecture

Make them read

Audio-Visual

Demonstrate
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Would you…

Lecture

Make them read

Audio-Visual

Demonstrate

Discuss
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Would you…

Lecture

Make them read

Audio-Visual

Demonstrate

Discuss

Practice by Doing
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Would you…

Lecture

Make them read

Audio-Visual

Demonstrate

Discuss

Practice by Doing

Teach Others
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When the stakes are high…

Lecture

Reading

Audio-Visual

Demonstration

Discussion

Practice by Doing

Teaching Others
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Power in the Presentation
Learners are likely to retain…
• 5%
Lecture
• 10%
Reading
• 20%
Audio-Visual
• 30%
Demonstration
• 50%
Discussion
• 75%
Practice by Doing
• 90%
Teaching Others
Adapted from David Sousa, How the Brain Learns, Reston, VA, The National Association of Secondary
School Principals, 1995, ISBN 0-88210-301-6. Classroom

Technology can replace
a teacher who lectures.
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What makes this type of
lecture effective?
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What makes this type of
lecture effective?
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-Object lesson
-Props
-Multi-modality
-Rehearsed
-Interacts with the audience
-Abstractions are tied to concrete
objects
-Intonation

--Different things
--Lecture is widely used
--Lecture places learners in a
passive role
--Lecture can be effective,
but is often not
--Lecture can be enhanced by
multi-modality and novelty
--Often perceived negatively
by learners… but not always.
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Technology makes it
easier to…
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Let’s look at some
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Joe Maciello
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Wall Word Song…
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Student Created…
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Use music,
movement, and
student creativity to
improve vocabulary
mastery.
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Use technology to
digitize student work
and to share it with
others…especially
next year’s students.
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• All these roots help us ﬁgure out
new words we haven’t seen.
–Agri is to use the soil
–Aud is to listen
–Bene means good or well
–Circum is to go around
–Corp is a body
–Dict to say or speak
–Dur means long lasting
–Equ/equi means the same
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Mad Scientist Paul
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A class designed like angry birds
Content is
designed to
be mastered
and
remastered
Points earned
for each
module
mastered
Leveling
system tied to
a narrative
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Kyle Hileman
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Kyle Hileman
Make learning
more
experiential
and
participatory!
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What should a class look like?
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• Broadway musical
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• Angry Birds
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• Angry Birds
• A museum
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• Angry Birds
• A museum
• A video game
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• Angry Birds
• A museum
• Video game
• ANYTHING BUT A
CLASSROOM!!!
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CLASS DOJO

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(1) most users
(2) most hands-
on

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(1) most users
(2) most hands-
on
(3) messiest
(4) tended to be
the least like the
activities they
were doing in
school

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Young people are inventors.

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Young people are scientists.

Look at other models.
The
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How to use audiovisual effectively

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Build a Rube
Goldberg machine
that turns on a
light.

English Shorts

Teachers must experience this
as learner for it to permeate
their own instructional/
assessment practices!

1. In a group of two or three
“like” persons, pick
something coming up in
your content area.
2. Create a short introductory
video or one verse of a
vocabulary song.
3. Make it accurate and funny.
4. Do it one take and record it.
5. Upload it to youtube.

What is being used?

Would you…

Lecture

Reading

Audio-Visual

Demonstration

Discussion

Practice by Doing

Teaching Others

• Angry Birds

• Angry Birds
• A museum

• Angry Birds
• A museum
• Twitter

• Angry Birds
• A museum
• Twitter
• A video game

• Angry Birds
• A museum
• Video game
• ANYTHING BUT A
CLASSROOM!!!

1. How can we
move beyond the traditional
classroom?
2. What can we glean from
other models of learning?

Unclassroom elementary 2014

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