Explore and create: Deep-dive Creation lab 
Preregistration Required
Learners will leave our session knowing:
-how to design lessons where learning is personalized (accessible and engaging to all students)
-how to connect lessons and make them authentic (has real-world meaning)
-how to engage students to make them active participants in the design of their learning
-how to design activities that are more open-ended, creative, metacognitive, rigorous, multisensory, multi-intelligence, and enjoyable
-how to apply a framework for selecting and measuring the effectiveness of technology tools, strategies, platforms, and environments/spaces; and
-find that when students engage in STEM content across disciplines– particularly technology and computer science– they are not only more likely to understand it; they will discover greater meaning and relevance.
All digital tools will be fully web-enabled and accessible across platforms. Additional tech devices will be available on site. We will also provide all materials and tools for design challenges.
We will know we have been successful by checking in on student learning throughout our program using formative assessment tools like Pear Deck as well as the delight our participants express in their designs and takeaways in the classroom. Ultimately, the forging of long-term relationships as well as a support network as our learners are leaders in the classroom and the impact the shift in mindset to student-driven classrooms will have on future generations.
2 minutes: Introduction
3 minutes: Getting to Know You Activity: Personalizing the learners learning - Google Form, Music Video
4 minutes: Collaborative definition of Personalized Learning & Discussion - Menti-Meter Word Cloud
7 minutes: Design Challenge 1 - Hands-on materials built with choice
5 minutes: What makes learning authentic? Project vs. Problem Based Learning - Discussion and Jamboard
8 minutes: Beginning with the end in mind: Standards and meeting objectives across disciplines - Interactive Pear Deck
2 minutes: Taking charge of your learning: Skills Training preview of options - Direct Instruction
7 minutes: Skills Training: Tech tools with multiple modes of expression to demonstrate student learning. Self-paced content for each small group. - Small Affinity Groups: Pear Deck, Screencastify & Flipgrid, Canva & Jamboard, Storyboard That, GlideApp
7 minutes: Design Challenge 2 - Hands-on with device of choice
14 minutes: Gallery Walk - Peer-to-peer interaction
8 minutes: Brainstorm & Discussion: Rubrics and criteria for success - Padlet, Rubistar
5 minutes: Flexible spaces for flexing the mind - interactive Pear Deck
5 minutes: Discussion & Sharing: Sample personalized learning template - QR Code share of template
8 minutes: Taking it bigger: personalizing learning for your classroom or school, developing your own template - Peer to peer interaction
5 minutes: Wrap it up! Final sharing, learning, and takeaways - Facilitated Discussion
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Use of Digital Resources to Personalize Learning
Creating a personalized learning classroom environment from ISTE https://www.iste.org/explore/Personalized-learning/Turn-your-classroom-into-a-personalized-learning-environment
Interview with ed tech author Holly Clark on using tech from DYKnow https://www.dyknow.com/blog/how-to-use-technology-to-personalize-learning/
ISTE slide presentation by Sumption and Damm, Southwest West Central Services https://www.swsc.org/cms/lib/MNO1000693/Centricity/Domain/124/Technology%20Supporting%20Personalized%20Learning.pdf
New frontiers in student-centered learning from the CT Department of Admin Services https://portal.ct.gov/DAS/CTEdTech/Commission-for-Educational-Technology/Initiatives/Personalized-Learning
Ten tips for personalizing learning using technology from Edutopia https://www.edutopia.org/stw-differentiated-instruction-ten-key-lessons
Use of data to personalize learning from the National Forum on Education Statistics https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2019/NFES2019160.pdf
Using technology to personalize learning in K-12 schools from SRI Education https://www.sri.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/using-technology-personalize-learning-k-12-schools.pdf
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