Anna+Risk+Taking

My Big 3 Rules

 * 1) 1 Take a Risk and try something new...
 * 2) 2 Ask why it work or didn't work.....
 * 3) 3 How could I do it better or differently .....

Ridgecrest Critical Thinking - Collaboration
Worked on how we can better help our students to become more of critical thinkers by brainstorming and getting ideas on how to do that. Collaborated and came up with web sites and literacy centers.

Author’s Purpose Verb Agreement Spelling Record Verbal Summary

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Tweentribune.com (k-4, 5-8, and Spanish) [] [] [] [] [] []

**If only my students could leave my classroom and be able to post on a blog with good and accurate comments.**

 * **great a blog**
 * **research** good/bad **comments**
 * **teach what a good comment is**
 * **teach what a bad comment is**
 * **comment on each others work**

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Continuous Learning, Accepting Challenges, Applications and Growth

Year 2: Destination Postcard



Year 1 Destination Postcard

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Year 1 Reflection:

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Name: Documenting and reflecting the learning process via digital journal.
 * __Campus__: Ridgecrest
 * =====Grade Level(s): First Grade =====
 * =====Topic: Risk Taking =====
 * Discipline: All content areas
 * =====Focus Question: How do the students responses in their reflection affect the student learning?=====
 * How will their choices of expression impact the level of learning?
 * Will did you learn from this process and what would you change?
 * What helped you do accomplish the task?
 * What do you plan to do next?

How is your journey like that of a storyteller? Of a researcher? I think that my journey is like both a storyteller and a researcher because I will document and be write about what I will be learning as a story and researcher because I will be discovering what I am able to do and document my journey as I learn how to navigate through my learning journey.I will be learning the new things that I can do in the computer using different programs with my students. I continue to amaze myself of how I am more open to learning and using the technology. I am making or writing my story as a learner as I reflect about my own personal journey in the Early Adopters. I will see or be able to go back and see how I learn and struggle in my journey as a risk taker in this journey as I learn the new technology and implement it in my classroom and learn from my students. As I go through the process of learning, reflecting and making changes to my project designs or my activity designs, I think that process is what would label me a researcher because changes will be made in order to the design or activity to get results, products or measure the process of my students learning.
 * An Opportunity in Overalls**

My biggest A-ha! Has been that I don't have to be afraid to try new things with my technology and so what if it does not work. I will go back and try again or do it differently or even better go ask someone that knows. I can't wait until I can try new things next year or even here at the end of the year with my students because now that I know better will do better.

What question did you start out to find answer(s) to? I thought that the "journey" was going to be about technology but it turned out to be more about me accepting technology and learning to "work" with it and not around it. I found that I could take the risk once I understood it and not be afraid of just going with it. It has been an amazing journey and I am so happy to have been part of it. I am much more of a risk taker with technology too as I am in everything else. What tweaks, edits, modifications have you made to your focus question?

I need to not just understand the different backgrounds of my students, but more importantly how their background affects their perceptions.
 * I like my focus question because I can see their learning and their thinking about the learning. It gives them an opportunity to always explain and analyze. I am asking them to make changes and make modifications.
 * I think that my question was dead on because for me it was the Taking the Risks to try new things with my new devices and I DID! I can do so much more now than ever.


 * What question(s) remain?
 * When can I find the time to actually do the project completely and see their work in the blog for them to go back and enjoy their work. Plan more activities where they can work and up load their work more quickly.
 * What tools can I employ my students with to help them step outside of "their bubble" and how do I do this?
 * How can I became a better teacher and learner to become more of a facilitator in my classroom.
 * How will it improve my teaching experience next year? I am so looking forward to trying new things with my students for next year. I know that will make me a better teacher and my students will enjoy my class even more.
 * What new questions have surfaced as a result of your exploration this far?
 * How can I best measure/resolve my students' perception or point of view hindering mastery of content.
 * I think that my students will be so much more open to everything and be willing to try things more than I ever was.

As a researcher: What are you measuring?


 * What patterns are surfacing?
 * i have found that I have to schedule the time to teach and to learn about technology like I do everything else. I have to plan and have objectives in place in order to teach and learn about technology.
 * What themes are emerging?
 * I need to make a real effort to go and learn what is available to learn in order to teach using technology and programs out there for the classroom.
 * What does your data suggest?
 * There is no going back but moving forward with an open mind about what is possible to learn and teach to enrich my teaching and bring it up to the 21st century and beyond.

As a learner:
 * In what way(s) has your professional perception been expanded?
 * I have had a paradigm shift in my thinking about technology and me accepting it as part of my classroom and my comfort level or anxiety level has diminished and it continues to diminish.
 * How are you allowing yourself and your authentic, real, professional learning to be 'seen'?
 * More than anything is a learner. I am more comfortable and open to new ideas and technology adaptation.
 * In what way(s) have you found the courage to be 'imperfect'?
 * Not knowing everything and be able to accept that and the willingness to learn as well as continue to learn.
 * How do you define vulnerability in the context of our work? What about this process makes you feel vulnerable?
 * Not knowing is make me vulnerable and fearful of that lack of knowledge.
 * What strategies are you using through this process that might benefit your students as well?
 * I am more open and I am more willing to try things even if they fail. I am not afraid of the technology any more.
 * What **//a-ha!//** moments, or elements of a 'spiritual awakening'/'breakdown' have you experienced? What might these insights suggested to you? I can do THIS!!! It is okay to try and fail just try again and again....
 * I knew more than I thought and it is not as hard as I thought.

What story is unfolding from your research? r

Design: Thinking: > Our response: Mr. Wiggins, I really appreciate your article. My colleague and I found the article very enlightening. We strongly agree that there is great importance in thinking and learning how to think, not only for students but for teachers as well. Without the ability to think, we lose the ability to reflect and analyze. We have to teach for our times. However, the curriculum and textbooks need to be taught, but should be taught to promote thinking. Parents, teachers, students, and administrators need to have a paradigm shift and realize that we might have to teach differently in order to encourage and nurture thinking in students. My colleague and I were taking about how teachers need to give the students time to think and formulate their answers, and explain what they mean, rather than give “the right answer”.
 * Resources**:
 * Documentation & Reflection - http://balancedtech.wikispaces.com/Documentation+and+Reflection+Prompts
 * Inquiry - http://balancedtech.wikispaces.com/Inquiry
 * Resources: search for existing resources (articles, websites, blogs, videos, etc.) - please be sure to add them to our [|Diigo]
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 * Wiggins blog post http://grantwiggins.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/thinking-about-a-lack-of-thinking/

Activity:
 * <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.
 * Round 1
 * Round 2
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 * Round 3

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