Unlock the Potential in Your Classroom With Digital Locks!

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Explore and create : Creation lab

Caty Carmendy
Use digital locks to unlock your students' potential! Engage your students using Google Forms and puzzle-solving to break out of the same old activities. We will explore easy ways to create a lock for any content area while also participating in a live demo.

Audience:	Coaches, Teachers, Technology coordinators/facilitators
Skill level:	Intermediate
Attendee devices:	Devices required
Attendee device specification:	Smartphone: Android, iOS, Windows Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC Tablet: Android, iOS, Windows
Participant accounts, software and other materials:	Any type of device is required to participate in the live demo.
Topic:	Games for learning & gamification
Grade level:	6-12
ISTE Standards:	For Educators: Facilitator Foster a culture where students take ownership of their learning goals and outcomes in both independent and group settings. For Students: Empowered Learner Students articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes. Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.

Proposal summary

Purpose & objective

Participants will know and be able to use the response validation feature in Google Forms to facilitate digital lock activities.

Participants will know and understand ways that they can pair a digital lock with their content.

Participants will know the different types of digital locks that they can use with students.

Participants will know which digital mediums to use to aid in the creation of a digital breakout

Outline

Hook: Participants will engage in a live demonstration of a digital breakout (20 minutes)

Debrief: Participants will debrief how they felt as a student during the experience (5 minutes)

Clue Exploration: Participants will explore different clue examples through other websites as well as discuss how content can be incorporated into the clues. (15 minutes)

Google Form: Participants will go through a step by step process of how to use the response validation feature in Google Forms to create a lock (10 minutes)

Exit Ticket: Participants will share ideas about how to use this in their content area (10 minutes)

Supporting research

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341654547_Using_Educational_Escape_Room_to_Increase_Students'_Engagement_in_Learning_Computer_Science

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Presenters

Caty Carmendy, Mooresville Graded School District

My name is Caty Carmendy, and I am the Instructional Coach of Mooresville High School. I have previously been a beginning teacher of the year for both my school and my entire district. My teaching background is in high school math, but I now work with all core and elective subjects. I also have an extensive amount of experience as a technology liaison with other school districts to help with 1:1 or other technology initiatives as well as presenting PD at conferences not limited to but including NCTIES and ISTE.