Experiential Learning: Stop Boring Your Students

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Presentation 1: Cultural Literacy Projects

Mark Labouchere
Re-examine your curriculum through an experiential lens using hands-on activities, portfolios and virtual reality. By creating dynamic and inspiring experiences for students, my belief is that they will develop empathy and better internalize the content and concepts under study.

Audience:	Teachers, Technology coordinators/facilitators, Teacher education/higher ed faculty
Skill level:	Beginner
Attendee devices:	Devices useful
Attendee device specification:	Smartphone: Android, iOS, Windows Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC Tablet: Android, iOS, Windows
Participant accounts, software and other materials:	Ideally attendees would have a google account or a Padlet account however these are not required since everything will be web based.
Topic:	Project-, problem- & challenge-based learning
Grade level:	6-12
Subject area:	Social studies, STEM/STEAM
ISTE Standards:	For Educators: Learner Set professional learning goals to explore and apply pedagogical approaches made possible by technology and reflect on their effectiveness. Designer Design authentic learning activities that align with content area standards and use digital tools and resources to maximize active, deep learning. Facilitator Manage the use of technology and student learning strategies in digital platforms, virtual environments, hands-on makerspaces or in the field.

Proposal summary

Purpose & objective

My purpose is to share best practices and techniques for designing an experiential and technologically deep course.
Participants will:
-identify the neuroscience behind an experiential approach to teaching and learning
-Understand the value of portfolios as a tool for reflection and documenting student learning experiences
-evaluate a variety of Portfolios to use in order to determine which works best for their purpose
-create and roughly design at least one "experience" for use in their class
-evaluate a variety student portfolios and their distinguishing features
-assess example lessons using VR and augmented reality

Outline

The major method of the presentation will be a series of examples of an experiential and technology driven approach to inspire others to be more creative.
Presentation: 60 minutes
1 )Introduction to experiential approach and the neuroscience behind it (10 mins)
2)VR, AR and Analog projects: Participants will examine past experiential projects
and then brainstorm together using a Padlet Wall possible projects of their own
-VR experiences include: Nefertari's tomb
Augmented Reality using HP Reveal
Civilization APP as high quality AR app
-Demonstrate how to use HP Reveal to create an augmented reality Artifact museum
(20 minutes) - Sharing peer to peer and then whole group (I will provide a link to PAdlet with resources and a space to create/ brainstorm ideas
3) The Art and Importance of Reflection: Curating and Designing experiential work through Student Portfolios (15 minutes) - a comparison of ESRI Story Maps, Adobe Spark, Google Sites and Wakelet- peer to peer feedback using backchannel,polls
4 Closing remarks and questions (5 minutes)

Supporting research

Bringing the Neuroscience of Learning to Online Teaching: An Educator’s Handbook (2021) Dr. Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa.
Jay McTighe - Authentic Assessments in a Hybrid Environment

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Presenters

Mark Labouchere, The Westminster Schools

I am a teacher, instructional coach, innovation specialist and the husband to an incredible wife and father to three wonderful kids. As a professional development leader I create conversations and search for wonder and creativity in students and teachers alike. I am an Apple Distinguished Educator who loves using technology to create, remix and redefine what a classroom could be. Searching for questions not answers.