Using+Digital+Tools+to+Teach+New+Literacies

REQUEST FOR HIGH QUALITY TEACHER SHARING ACTIVITY Approval by Building Principal and Central Office is required BEFORE Teacher Sharing Activity begins.

SCHOOL __ __Longmeadow District__ _______________ DATE __8/28/11__ REQUESTED BY (FACILITATOR) _ __Anne Marie Salvon__ ____________ TITLE OF TOPIC :  __“Using Digital Tools to Teach MA New Literacies”__ ____________ # OF HOURS REQUESTED __60 hrs___ __ Is this a School-Based High Quality Teacher Share Activity? _ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__√___ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">____No _______Yes <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Is this a collaboration involving more than one school? _______ No _ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__√___ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__Yes <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If yes, list Schools: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Center, Wolf Swamp, Glenbrook & Williams ______ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">________

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The facilitator must provide a brief, substantive description of the content and outcomes of this activity, in full sentences, exactly as it will be used on certificates. State recertification regulations require a minimum of ten (10) hours and a product or other demonstration of learning before a topic is eligible for PDPs, but different sessions may be combined to make ten hours of the same topic. If approved, this activity will qualify for Salary Advancement Credit, per contractual guidelines.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Description of High Quality Teacher Sharing Activity: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Participants will be able to
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Align new literacies and 21st century skills with the new Massachusetts Curriculum Framework for ELA and Literacy*
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Examine Web 2.0 / digital tools to enhance student learning
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Adapt innovative social networking environments for use in 21st century classrooms*
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Learn how your class can collaborate with other inter-district classrooms, and ultimately around the world
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Become an instructional leader for change*
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Design and produce an instructional plan featuring new literacies content and innovative technology*

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Demonstration of Educator Learning (If this is not a content-specific activity, how will participants demonstrate their learning in the own certification area?


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Participants will develop expertise and lesson plans to employ digital tools that address new common core standards. Demonstration of learning can be linked to participants’ individual area of certification.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Participants will need to show a connection between High Quality Teacher Share Activity and its impact on student learning in the classroom by submitting the Impact on Student Learning form at the end of the second (2nd) session. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Revised 3/1/2010 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">31 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">__OUT OF CLASS EXPECTATIONS__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: Participants will be expected to spend some time outside of class reading (see following list of articles), practicing techniques, and gathering data.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Required Reading (*adopted from the MA New Literacies Institute 3-credit Graduate Course via Westfield State University)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Online Collaborative Inquiry || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lee, J. K., & Young, C. A. (2010). Building wikis and blogs: Pre-­‐service teacher experiences with web-­‐based collaborative technologies in an interdisciplinary methods course. THEN: The Journal About Technology, Humanities, Education and Narrative. Retrieved from: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://thenjournal.org/feature/287/__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Zawilinski, L. (2010). HOT Blogging: A Framework for Blogging to Promote Higher Order Thinking. To appear in: Reading Teacher.. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__Download for personal use only__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Online Reading Comprehension || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Coiro, J. (2011). Talking about reading: Modeling the hidden complexities of online reading comprehension. Theory Into Practice, 50(2), 107-­‐115. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__Download for personal use only.__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">McVerry, J. G. (in press). TPACK and the new literacies of online reading comprehension. In S. Kadjer & C. Young (Eds.), Research in ELA and technology: An edited collection. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__Download for personal use only.__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__McVerry, J.G., Zawilinski, L., & O'Byrne, W. I. (2009). Internet Reciprocal Teaching: Navigating the C's of change. Educational Leadership.__] ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Online Content Construction || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Spires, H., Hervey, L., Morris, G., & Stelpflug, C. (In press). Energizing project based inquiry: Middle grade students read, write and create videos.pdf. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Young, C. A., Long, S., & Myers, J. (2010). Editorial: Enhancing english language arts education with digital video. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 10(1). Retrieved from <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.citejournal.org/vol10/iss1/languagearts/article1.cfm__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. ||

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Are you requesting SIS approval for this activity? ___ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__√__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">_YES _____NO

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If yes, explain how this activity will improve instruction for students through the explicit application of (1) Longmeadow Learning Principles and Practices AND/OR (2) the Baldrige Education criteria, tools, and strategies AND/OR (3) other systems/tools of organizational development school improvement consistent with the Baldrige Education Criteria:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teachers participating in this “High Quality Teacher Sharing Activity” will be both, individually and collaboratively, investigating Web 2.0 digital tools such as wikis, blogs, glogs, google apps/docs and/or video generation applications to enrich students’ critical thinking, collaboration, research and communication skills. We plan to utilize these tools in our classrooms, and explore opportunities to build “social networks” among our varied-grade students to interact with one another, thus exposing them to a wider array of opinions and ideas in a creative and “non-threatening” online environment.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For example, if our students participate in a video generation project (digital storytelling), specific to our content area, then they are given the opportunity to demonstrate their creative interpretation of a subject matter. They will be given clear standards and clearly stated expectations of what constitutes quality work as they interact with one another to develop an enlightening student generated video that promotes assimilation and accurate interpretation of content related concepts.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What follows are the Longmeadow Public Schools Learning Principles and Practices, which will be applied throughout this High Quality Teacher Sharing Activity: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Principle 1: Learning is a natural process, in which people will construct their own meaning out of prior knowledge and experience. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Principle 2: People learn in different ways. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Principle 3: People need a repertoire of strategies in order to learn and to work independently. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Principle 4: Often people have to be prompted explicitly to make connections in order to transfer knowledge among various contexts. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Principle 5 : Learning is enhanced if there are clear standards and clearly stated expectations of what constitutes quality work. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Principle 6: People are naturally curious, and learning occurs best in a learning community that is challenging but non-threatening. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Principle 7: Learning is facilitated by a resource-rich environment. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Principle 8: Dispositions, attitudes, and habits of mind affect learning. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Principle 9: Working with others often enhances learning. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Principle 10: Learning requires ownership, involvement, and active processing by the learner: who ever does the work does the learning.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Expected Deliverables Upon Completion of this HQTS activity:
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">All participants of this HQTS activity will document and submit at least one lesson or unit plan upon completion of this activity, and commit to a minimum of 15 minutes sharing your ideas/tools/ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">HQTS <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> experience with colleagues at a future faculty meeting or during an early release day. This "sharing" may be done individually or as a team, but needs to be accomplished at each participant's school.
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Participants applying for SIS will document and submit an <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">__additional__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 3-4 specific applications of digital tools in separate lessons or unit plans upon completion of this High Quality Teacher Share Activity.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Are you requesting the use of an outside presenter? _____YES ___ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__√___ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__NO <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If yes, please provide details: ___ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__n/a___ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">___________________________________________________________________ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If yes, does the outside presenter require payment? _____YES _____NO

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Amount of payment: _____ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__n/a___ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__________ Source of Funding: __________________

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">______________________________ __________ ___________________________________ ______ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(PRINCIPAL’S APPROVAL) DATE) (ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT (DATE)

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If this involves collaboration among schools, please obtain approval from the principal of each participating school:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">______________________________ __________ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(PRINCIPAL’S APPROVAL) (DATE)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">______________________________ __________ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(PRINCIPAL’S APPROVAL) (DATE)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">______________________________ __________ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(PRINCIPAL’S APPROVAL) (DATE)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Please forward to the office of Assistant Superintendent for Instructional Services upon approval by Principal(s). Attendance sheets will be forwarded for your use in tracking attendance for PDPs.