Final Vision Brainstorming

Brainstorming for my Final Vision of the 21st century Classroom

When I began this course I was certain that my final project would be about "how to transform a school library into a learning commons, as I spent the fall in a temporary-contract position as a teacher-librarian and heard the term "learning commons" so often. I am still very much interested in learning more about "learning commons" as I am working towards becoming a full time teacher-librarian. In the meantime, I  was assigned to a grade 6/7 class two days a week for the remainder of this school year. Since I have not taught grade 6/7 before in length I have been using other grade 7 teachers lesson plans and ideas, which has been a great help. My brain is constantly consumed with how to meet the PLO's in a 21st century manner that keep the students engaged and actively learning as well as taking ownership over their learning. For this reason, I have switched my final vision focus to creating a vision for the 21st century classroom and teaching using 21st century tools and strategies.

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I have heard a little about the flipped classroom model and would like to learn more about it as I am interested in using it possibly for teaching Math as I find it challenging to teach two different math lessons to two different grades one after another while still ensuring that students remain on task.
So prior to creating my final vision project, I will have to learn more about the flipped classroom model and how this may fit into the 21st century classroom. To get to this point, I will be learning more about the flipped classroom model using some of the following resources: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H4RkudFzlc‎ The Flipped Classroom by Aaron Sams on U-tube:

and also www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQWvc6qhTds‎ How the Flipped Classroom Works by Mediacore.com

                                         

I am also going to use the following websites for information; The Flipped Classroom: Turning the traditional classroom on its head http://www.knewton.com/flipped-classroom/ This is an infographic to help understand the difference between traditional teaching and "The Flipped Classroom"model. To help better understand how to record lessons for students to view at home and do educational Vodcasting, I found information at this site: http://www.techsmith.com/education-flipped-classroom.html titled "Flip Your Classroom". The Flipped Learning Network http://flippedlearning.org/FLN is another place I will gain information as well and http://flippedclassroom.org/main/authorization/signIn?target=http%3A%2F%2Fflippedclassroom.org%2Fgroup%2Ffirsttimeflippers, which is a social network dedicated to teaching and supporting "First time flippers" in the education world. Jon Bergmann seems to be a leader in the field in terms of flipping the elementary classroom and I will learn from his site as well.http://jonbergmann.com/flipping-the-elementary-classroom/.
As I am brainstorming about my final vision I am thinking about what that will look like. I am realizing I will need to learn about several digital tools that students would use in the 21st century classroom. I see myself listing and discussing how different digital tools would be used and how that is different than the traditional style of learning. So perhaps I would do a comparison of the learning tools of the traditional classroom with the digital learning tools in the 21st century.
Some of the sites I will use to research and find out more about this topic are:

• .http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/sites/edtechmagazine.com.k12/files/rg_21stcent_k12_031011.pdf  21st Century Classroom- Improving classroom engagement through technological innovation. 
• shttp://www.web2teachingtools.com/team-collaboration.html Building Strong Team Collaboration Skills with Web 2.0 Tools
• mhttp://www.edutopia.org/pdfs/guides/edutopia-parents-guide-21st-century-learning.pdflassr;l
• http://www.teachthought.com/technology/9-digital-learning-tools-every-21st-century-teacher-should-be-able-to-use/nghr

  

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• I think I would also talk about the physical layout of the classroom and how this would be different than the traditional classroom. I might mention the type of actual furniture that I see in the classroom as well as the physical arrangement of this furniture and how this lends itself to collaboration .This is a site, I will research further to get more information on this topic: https://static.squarespace.com/static/510b86cce4b0f6b4fb690106/t/512eafb7e4b0ed945e310a91/1362014135657/stephen-harris_virtual-pedagogical-physical-space.pdf Sydney Centre for Innovation in Learning -The Place of Virtual, Pedagogic and Physical Space in the 21st Century Classroom. https://edorigami.wikispaces.com/21st+Century+Learning+Spaces 21st Century Learning Places, and http://www.oecd.org/education/innovation-education/centreforeffectivelearningenvironmentscele/46413458.pdf CELE exchange. "Can the physical environment have an impact on the learning environment?"

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Another thing I might look at is how students are evaluated in the 21st century classroom and what that looks like.I would also take a look what students are learning about and how they are demonstrating their learning in the 21st century classroomhttp://etec.ctlt.ubc.ca/510wiki/Assessment_tools_in_a_21st_Century_classroom Assessment tools in the 21st Century Classroom.http://www.slideshare.net/teachandlearn/assessment-in-the-21stcentury-classroom-presentation Konrad Glogowski Assessment in the 21st Century. Another place I will review 21st Assessment is at Education Week Teacher PD Sourcebook: Classroom Assessment for a New Century. http://www.edweek.org/tsb/articles/2010/10/12/01wolpert-gawron.h04.html

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In terms of how to deliver this information for my final vision I am contemplating a few different methods such as:

• using google drive ??? I think this is what it was called. Aaron showed us this in last weeks hangout and it is similar to a power point presentation
• making a presentation using "Explain Everything" 
• doing a blog post
• making an i movie

Since this course is all about learning new technology I will probably try to do something other than the blogpost since I am now fairly familiar with how to blog.

I envision my audience for this assignment to be teacher colleges. I would share it online for other teachers to access on web searches of this subject.