Building+Blocks

Sara Wilkie saraswilkie@mac.com //@sewilkie// 248.420.5124

LEGO Challenges

 * [[file:balancedtech/LEGOChallenge1.png|Challenge 1 Slide]]
 * [[file:balancedtech/LEGOChallenge2.png|Challenge 2 Slide]]
 * [|LEGO Smart Activities]
 * [|LEGO Smart Kits] (click Build this Set!)

Problem Solving Strategies

 * BalancEdTech Problem-Solving
 * [|Building Blocks Discussion Area]
 * Mini Challenges

FAILure

 * [|F.A.I.L.]
 * Mindest by Carol Dweck
 * [|Interviews from her Brainology site]
 * [|Tech Nation interview]
 * Grit

Teacher Role(s)?

 * From your perspective (see your responses to numbers 2&3)
 * Anything to add?
 * What does this mean for //student role//(s)?

Questioning

 * Your Questions


 * [|Essential Questions]
 * [|CBL (Challenge Based Learning)]
 * BalancEdTech Questioning
 * Question Types/Starters
 * [|A Questioning Toolkit]
 * [|Wonderopolis]
 * [|Questioning Game]- Rosencrantz & Guildenstern

Documentation & Reflection

 * BalancEdTech Documentation & Reflection
 * The Reflective Student: A Taxonomy of Reflection
 * High Tech Reflection Strategies to Make Learning Stick
 * Reflect, Reflecting, Reflection
 * Sowing the Seeds for a More Creative Society
 * The Reflective School

Student Self Assessment

 * Effort & Achievement Rubric
 * Thinkering Studio Rubric
 * [|Rubistar]
 * BalancEdTech Assessment
 * Student Portfolios
 * example
 * example
 * BalancEdTech Diigo Boomarks: Assessment
 * Dylan Williams: Papers on Assessment

Student Agency

 * ==Digital Learning Farm==
 * [|Students As Contributors]
 * [|Who Owns The Learning]
 * [|Langwitches' Digital Learning Farm Posts]
 * ==Information Processing==
 * [|Big 6]
 * [[file:balancedtech/psposter.jpg|Problem Solving Graphic]]
 * Critical Consumption - C.R.A.P. Testing
 * Google Search Challenges
 * Get Real - Information Literacy
 * [|Wolfram Alpha]
 * ==Reaching Out & Pulling In==
 * Wikispaces
 * http://blog.wikispaces.com/
 * Articles & Resources A great tutorial about what a wiki is, why to use wikis in //education//, and how to **...** Using Wiki in //Education//
 * http://blog.wikispaces.com/2012/01/best-educational-wikis-of-2011.html
 * http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/Examples+of+educational+wikis
 * Edublogs
 * Edublog Awards (examples of award-winning educational blogs)
 * http://edublogs.org/10-ways-to-use-your-edublog-to-teach/
 * Edublogs on Twitter
 * Haiku - Beyond Content Delivery...Student Voice, Student-created content, Student Portfolios
 * Diigo
 * [|Twitter]
 * [|Twitter]

Less Is More Continuum?

 * Autodidacts, Self-Directed Learning, Student Exploration, Guided Discovery, Direct Instruction**
 * The Self-Directed Learning Handbook
 * Invent To Learn
 * [|Supporting Self-Directed Learners: Five Forms of Feedback]
 * BalancEdTech Student Led Blogging
 * Student Shark Blog
 * [|Today's Question]
 * BalancEdTech Thinkering Studio
 * Engage

Closing Thought

 * What difference does the metaphor make?
 * Following a guided path.
 * Setting up guard rails. Wide enough to empower but narrow enough to guide.
 * Following a set of blazes.
 * Following footsteps.
 * Sometimes the guardrails are unnecessary or limiting. Sometimes they are freeing. How do we know?
 * [|Get Back In The Box]

Session Evaluation

 * Feedback Form

More Questions

 * At what point is "Less" not enough? [|Enhanced Discovery Learning]
 * Do our students suffer from learned helplessness? Why? What can we do about it?
 * Throughout the course of the year (or several years), does this approach take more time?
 * Failure
 * How much is too much, how much not enough?
 * Should we scaffold moving students to embrace F.A.I.L.ing? How?
 * When do we let kids stop/quit/move on?

Other Resources

 * [|Be less helpful] - Dan Meyer
 * Essential Questions
 * [|Failure Faire]
 * [|Making Their Way: Creating a Generation of ‘Thinkerers’]
 * [|Accept Defeat: The Neuroscience of Screwing Up]
 * enGuage Framework
 * [|Got Grit?]
 * [|How To Fail] (To The Best of Our Knowledge - Show)
 * [|We Create Video]
 * [|Why Won't You Just Tell Us the Answer? Teaching Historical Thinking in Grades 7-12] by Bruce Lesh
 * [|Why Won’t You Just Tell Us the Answer?] - Physics teacher gets asked every year
 * [|What Do Kids Really Learn from Failure?]
 * The Power of Vulnerability, Brene Brown
 * Levels of Integration