Four+-+Brains+on+Fire

= EX-Treme Make-Overs: Moving Students from Information Consumers into Powerful Producers =

Wanted: All brains on fire! Seek higher ground for existing lesson units - "H.E.A.T.™-ing" them into engagingly H.O.T. student- driven inquiry experiences with increased learning results. Moving from topical to inquiry-based research; create reasoning-thinking questions that power up tasks; and coaching students from information consumers to knowledge producers. Facilitate students' making meaning beyond existing information and then packing what they know and understand into digital products useful and beneficial for others. The goal is not to use technology but to rehearse the talents and skills needed to be meaning-makers FIRST and then media-makers. Come play a modern day “Extreme MakeOver" game developing engagingly HOT technology uses with kids as the winners!

Driving Questions

 * What are the tasks, expectations, benchmarks, roles and responsibilities for 2011-12 PD project?
 * What are the expectations for student inquiry projects? processes? benchmarks? deadlines?
 * What are the H.E.A.T.™ elements?
 * How might we collaboratively think-tank, implement, and reflect for WOW! HEAT™ projects?
 * What strategies can be used to coach reasoning/thinking questions?

Agenda Topics
Opening Process: Go-Arounds in Learning Circles Topic: Micro-blogging the Day - TL's Help Teacher Friends Log-in Topic: New Media Literacies - Heard of Literacy for Life? Heard of TransLiteracy? Process: Using Micro-blog - what did you hear? what do you think? Topic: Super Librarians - They're on a QUEST! Topic: What is a Wiki? a la Common Craft Video Process: TL's give a wiki tour - help Teacher Friends sign up - post AT LEAST basics to "Curriculum Projects" Process: Project Circle - Sharing Project Ideas for Starting Student H.E.A.T.™ Task Process: Fermi Questions - Ready! Set! Go! Topic: All Questions are NOT Equal! - Depth of Questions Spectrum Process: Generating and Sorting for TYPES of Questions - Group Topic: QFT Student-Driven Questioning Method Process: Round-Robin ~ Gathering Questions (TL's show/tell Post-it Note Tool) Process: Coding Questions for Starting Student HEAT Task Process: Coaching Strategies w/ Classroom Examples (Video) Topic: Information Consumers vs Producers ~ RIGOR or NOT (Considering the BOOK Report) Topic: TYPES of Communication Process: Coding for TYPES / Rigor via VoiceThread ~ Do You Hear Questions? Process: JigSawing H.E.A.T.™ Elements w/ Classroom Examples a la Worms and Wall Street Process: HEAT™ Ideas ~ Generic - Transferable HOT Uses of Tech Tools to Consider Process: Diagnostic H.E.A.T. ™ Coding of Participant's Starting Student HEAT Task ~ a Conversation Processes: Developing GRASP Task for Participant's Inquiry Task a la ietherpad Process: Team Time - What worked about today? What needs to work better for tomorrow? Closing

Group Learning Tools and Links

 * Give Me an "E" OverView a la CoachingHEAT Wiki Resource for the Letter "E"
 * TodaysMeet - Encourage "the room" to make comments and questions
 * CorkboardMe - Shareable sticky notes web-app (YouTube Using CorkBoard w/ Students)
 * Sorting for Rigor or NOT a la VoiceThread (log in w/ teacher user/password)
 * Think-Tanking for Rigor Generating and Reflecting on Guiding EXEMPLAR student digital products?
 * Think-Tanking GRASP Task - Letter "A" w/ ietherpad.com
 * Wikis in Plain English (from Common Craft) - []
 * Fermi Questions Questions - Get Ideas - Add Student Questions TOO!
 * Search Challenges -


 * Getting Started w/ Tools Used Today**
 * CorkboardMe - Shareable sticky notes web-app
 * TodaysMeet - Encourage "the room" to make comments and questions
 * ietherpad - Real-time Collaborative Writing (15 users at a time) w/ Chat box + TimeSlider


 * Learning Experiences from TL PD Time**
 * Lesson Concept - []