Downham+Collaborate

My Destination Postcard:

Early Adopter: Inquiry & Design Challenge
I want students to understand collaboration by using personal and global connections to build real time and digital collaborations.

Name: Malissa Downham
 * =====Campus: Frostwood =====
 * =====Grade Level(s): 5 =====
 * =====Discipline: Math/ Science =====
 * =====Topic: notetaking =====
 * =====Focus Question:How will comprehension of content material through the use of digital notetaking skills improve?=====
 * What are some digital notetaking tools?
 * padlet.com
 * edmodo
 * google docs
 * evernote
 * Is there a progression of complexity in tools to support a complexity of notetaking?
 * Is the use of technology enough to motivate students to determine importance in content to improve their ability to access and comprehend content materials?
 * Include the critical three questions from CCP
 * What is this piece about?
 * What does this mean to me?
 * What is new to me?
 * ** ( to enhance writing) What can I learn about expository writing from this writer?

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 * Resources: //s// //earch for existing resources (articles, websites, blogs, videos, etc.) - please be sure to add them to our [|Diigo] //
 * Who else is thinking about your topic?
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 * http://balancedtech.wikispaces.com/
 * Who else is grappling with this element of practice?
 * All teachers are grappling with this idea and searching for ways to grasp comprehension of technical content.
 * Grant Wiggins... "What matters is that students – and their teachers! – grasp that the aim of such work and methods is meaning, not acquisition, and that the work has been designed accordingly: meaning is foreground, content is background."
 * What are they finding?
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 * How are they sharing?

> Working on the Work
 * ===== Activity: =====
 * 1) Individually, design a student resource, activity type, or mini-challenge to try in the classroom over the next month to test. Then, get feedback from partners.
 * 2) Try out resource, activity type, or project during the month(s), documenting plan, process, execution and reflection and collect student work samples.
 * Downham Padlet Intro
 * Padlet Exit Ticket
 * reflect and refine understanding 2
 * Walking the Walk
 * How are you prepared to //Walk the Walk// this year? How will your journey reflect //action research// ?
 * Please go to your personal learning journal page and respond to the following:
 * Identify your Goals & Objectives
 * What Obstacles/Problems do you anticipate?
 * What Strategies will you use to overcome these obstacles?
 * 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?

//Please create a page for your activities that will help others understand the steps you are taking in your inquiry and design process.//

**Creating Your Activity Page [[image:sbisdlearnsymphony/InqDesign.png align="right"]]**

 * 1) Please make a new page:
 * Title: 
 * Template: activity design
 * Tag : design, campus
 * 1) SAVE your page
 * 2) Check to be sure your page appears at the top of our Activity Share page

//example:// Jennifer F. Round 1