Robin+Chavez+Peer+Communication


 * Given your journey, what 3 things would you offer to a teacher starting the journey....**

1. It will feel out of control....let it go 2. Let the plans go....it will al get taught 3. Reflect often, you and the students

Early Adopters = = = = =If only my kids left me in June being students who could "drive" their own learning and become students who take charge of what they want to know. =
 * In the next week I would like to talk to my kids about how their searching of the Gold Rush went for them. What was good and what was bad. Questions they have about finding answers and how might they do it differently next time.
 * Possibly develop a google docs page or even a wiki to park info that might help them in the future and give them access to add to page as the year moves along.
 * research skills
 * search strategies
 * questioning
 * sharing perspectives
 * validating & verifying information
 * using their common sense
 * recognizing range of resources
 * finding primary sources
 * classroom network

Walking the Walk

 * Given our discussion this morning, please consider and respond to the following, as they relate to your personal learning journey this year:
 * **Goal:** At the end of the year will my students become students who can "drive" their own learning and become students who take charge of what they want to know?
 * **Objectives:**
 * search strategies
 * questioning
 * sharing perspective
 * using common sense
 * reorganizing resources
 * finding primary sources
 * **What Obstacles/Problems do you anticipate?**
 * time
 * technology problems
 * group communication
 * willingness to hear each other's comments
 * number of technology devices available in the classroom
 * **What Strategies will you use to overcome these obstacles?**
 * time (make sure the time is respected and sacred)
 * technology problems(have back-up plan for times that this happens)
 * group communication (model and monitor group work, good and bad)
 * willingness to hear each other's comments (
 * What resources and materials will you share via our EA wiki and learning community?
 * Data Collection:
 * Pre-assessment - //how will you determine the base-line of your students in your target area//?
 * Action Research Assessment and Evaluation:
 * How will you measure success?
 * How will you know if you have succeeded?
 * What will you collect as evidence of success?
 * **Social Studies Perspectives** - http://sbisdlearnsymphony.wikispaces.com/Social+Studies+Perspective





**Early Adopter: Inquiry & Design Challenge** Destination Postcard:  media type="file" key="My Learning Story2 - Wi-Fi.m4v" width="300" height="300" My focus at this point is to have my students learn to have authintic communication with other peers within their own class and with at least one other class in our grade level.

Name:
 * Campus:Wilchester
 * Grade Level(s):5th
 * Discipline: Language Arts/Social Studies
 * Topic: Peer Conferences
 * Draft a focus question and subquestions, that include student learning, and be prepared to revise these throughout the challenge
 * Search for existing resources (articles, websites, blogs, videos, etc.) - post below and be sure to add them to your campus Diigo
 * Jigsaw notetaking and sharing of resources
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Individually, design a student resource, activity type, or project to try in the classroom over the next month to test. Then, get feedback from partners.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Try out resource, activity type, or project during the month(s), documenting plan, process, execution and reflection and collect student work samples.
 * Focus Question: What positives come out of communicating outside of the classroom wall?
 * Tweaks, edits, modifications...
 * What question(s) remain?
 * What new questions have surfaced?

"This I Believe..."

 * An Opportunity in Overalls**

How is your journey like that of a storyteller? Of a researcher?

What question are you investigating? (include any tweaks, edits or modifications to your focus question)

As a researcher:

What are you measuring?


 * What patterns are surfacing?
 * What themes are emerging?
 * What does your data suggest?

As a learner:


 * Where have you allowed yourself to be vulnerable in this process? I have allowed myself to be slow and be wrong.
 * How are you allowing yourself, your professional learning to be 'seen'? I don't think I am really showing others what I am doing. I feel like what I'm doing is not really technology driven enough, especially after meeting with middle school and high school.
 * In what way(s) have you found the courage to be 'imperfect'? Letting the kids see that I am learning with them and that I don't know everything is my "imperfect".
 * What elements of a 'breakdown' or 'spiritual awakening' have you experienced? What might these insights suggested to you?

What story is unfolding from your research?


 * (//just bullet point notes for now//)


 * The Power of Vulnerability **


 * Near the close of her talk, Brene shares what she has come to believe about the power of vulnerability. What are your current beliefs about your own research/inquiry project in learning?
 * bullet point list
 * What connections can you draw between your beliefs and the "Top 3" learning essentials your group listed at our last session? (//to revisit these, please go to the discussion area on your campus page//)
 * What connections can you draw between your beliefs and the "Top 3" learning essentials your group listed at our last session? (//to revisit these, please go to the discussion area on your campus page//)

**Resources**:

http://sbisdlearnsymphony.wikispaces.com/Responding

**Activities**: Round 1 Round 2 Round 3