Saskatchewan IT Summit - Bernajean Porter - Turning Up the Heat - Learning, Thinking and Communicating in a Digital Age

http://coachingheat.wikispaces.com/ 

Traditionally school was about being good consumers - "Tell me about..."

Demonstrating Understanding
Meaning Makers and Media Makers: Stop the go forth and make something using technology push and stop and ensure that there is a demonstration of understanding in the project. Compare and Contrast would be a higher level of thinking (demonstration) then a simple fact telling video.

Heat:

• Higher Order of Thinking: Rigor, Questionning.org, Types of Communication
• Engaged Learners: Choices, Curiosity, Affinity, Student Centered (Owned or Driven)
• Authenticity:Useful & Beneficial, Context, Collaborative, Real World Challenges (Drawing Conclusions)
• Technology: Modes & Tools, Added-Value, Transforming Uses

 Used H.E.A.T.ing UP (TM) Student Performance Tasks for Transformational Learning Rubric to evaluate scenarios in groups.

It's a process!

Pre-Producation Phase:

• Writing a narrative Script
• Planning the Project
• Organizing Project Folders

Production Phase:

• Making the Voiceover
• Gathering and Preparing Media Resources

Post Production Phase:

• Putting it all together

Distribution Phase:

• Applause, Applause

 "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"

-Albert Einstein

Digital Scoring Guide for scoring digital products: Data base to make up rubrics for digital projects: http://www.digitales.us/evaluating/scoring_guide.php

About What?: Asking Questions

• So What: Decision
• Now What: Action Plan
• What IF: Invention

wallwisher.com - website to make a url wall with sticky notes for collaborative questioning, thinking and generating ideas on a topic.