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Welcome to Session 3:
Overcoming Challenges
Hello to each cluster!
OrangeSun West
Rosetown, SK
YellowSun West
Rosetown, SK
PinkSt. Anthony
Peterborough, ON
GreenEvergreen School
Division
Gimli, MB
BlueSun West
Davidson School
Rosetown, SK
RedSt. Alphonsus
Peterborough, ON
PurpleSt. Francis of
Assisi
Peterborough, ON
BrownSeven Oaks
Winnipeg, MB
GreySimcoe County,
ON
WhiteWaterloo, ON
Today’s Agenda
● Explore challenges to student voice
a. Peer sharing: what have you been up to?
b. Guest Speaker: Mali Bickley
● Explore how to understand, work through and overcome
challenges
● Social media tools to amplify student voice
● Tasks for Session 4 (April 29)
What challenges are there in the application of
student voice in the classroom and/or school
community?
What have you been
up to?● Vanessa & Roxanne, Sun West School
Division, Saskatchewan
● A team of students from across Sun West
School Division assembles each year to
identify, investigate, and gather information
from peers regarding Hot Topics of interest to
students within our division. At the end of the
school year, they present their findings and
recommendations to the Board of Education.
This is a picture of the various stages of their
initial discussions and investigations around
one of their identified areas of focus for this
year - Assessment.
What have you
been up to?● Sarah, Peterborough, Ontario
● My Grade 3 students are planning an
interest club that can take place at
school. They have to plan out their
club and prepare a presentation for
the school principal.
What have you
been up to?● Dani Vavra, Rosetown, Saskatchewan
● Students broke out into groups centered
around short-term goals and begin
planning what needs to be done.
What have you been up to?
The students wanted to be more
involved with their assignments in
the classroom. They created a
drama assignment based on a
specific outcome. Once they had
completed the assignment they
began working on the assessment.
This picture shows the finished
rubric that they created to be used
in marking their drama assignment.
● Carolyn, Rosetown, Saskatchewan
What have you been up to?
Students used an idea template to
record their ideas for making their
project successful. Then they
shared their ideas, and considered
the pros and cons of the different
ideas.
● Paul, Sun West School Division, Saskatchewan
Guest Speaker: Mali Bickley
Mali Bickley currently works with the Simcoe County District School Board
in Ontario and has over 32 years experience as a classroom teacher. Over
the past 8 years, she has used ICT and successfully integrated literacy
and content area curriculum to have her students connect, communicate
and collaborate with several classes from around the world.
Her students won the My Hero Project’s Ron Kovic Peace Award for their
film “Imagine Peace”: an international art and music collaboration. Mali
was awarded the Mindshare Learning Report inaugural innovation in
teaching award in 2008.
Mali has presented workshops and webinars on a variety of topics:
International Collaborations, Embedding 2.0 Tools into Classroom
Practice, Digital Storytelling and Social Justice for many organizations
including NECC 2008 keynotes, iEARN, World Vision, Adobe Education
Leaders Summit.
How do we understand, work through and
overcome challenges?
Understanding Challenges: Expectation,
Relationship and Participation Gaps
● Expectation gap: What I expect in myself
vs. what the teacher expects of me
● Relationship gap: Do I have a strong
relationship with my teacher? With other
students?
● Participation gap: The few students who
are actively engaged in class and school life
compared to those who are not.
Source: http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/nov10/vol68/num03/Got-Opportunity%C2%A2.aspx
Understanding Challenges
Pat Thompson:
Coming to Terms
with Voice
Working Through and Overcoming
Challenges: Growth Mindset
“...you have to be comfortable with this idea
of allowing kids to fail as part of the learning
process...” - Diana Laufenburg, How to Learn
from Mistakes
Moving from a mindset of “can I do it?” to “how can
I do it?”
● Modelling
● Creating spaces for new ideas - don’t be afraid
to make mistakes!
● Build time for self-reflection
● Formative feedback - power of “not yet” (Carol
Dweck)
Expanding our Locus of Control
what can we influence?
External (can’t control)
Internal (can control)
External (can’t control)
Internal (can control)
“Locus of Control as a principle was originated by Julian Rotter in 1954. It considers the tendency of people to believe
that control resides internally within them, or externally, with others or the situation.”
http://changingminds.org/explanations/preferences/locus_control.htm
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/24277285467193709
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Working Through and Overcoming
Challenges: Scenario Planning
● Planning for the short term: conditions will
be similar to what is happening now, or in
the recent past
● Planning for the long term: how do we
consider multiple, potential futures?
● Asks the question: “If
____________________ happens
tomorrow, how do we begin preparing for it
today?” (initially consider both best case
and worse case scenarios)
Working Through and Overcoming
Challenges: Appreciative Inquiry
Source: https://appreciativeinquiry.case.edu/uploads/Intro%20to%20AI%20v%202011.pdf
● Problem solving asks “what’s the problem?”
i. Looks for “fixes” to problems
● Appreciative Inquiry asks “what is working
well here?”
i. Looks for peak experiences, best
practices
● 4Ds: discovery, dream, design, destiny
What role can social media play in cultivating and
amplifying student voice?
How are you using social media in your classroom?
The Networked Student
● In the next hour, 700,000 will join
Facebook, where more than 1 billion pieces
of content will be viewed or shared.
● 300,000 people will join Twitter today,
sending more than 64 million tweets per
day.
● Youtube is the second largest search
engine in the world (after Google) and more
than 24 hours of video will be uploaded in
the next minute!
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iReY3W9ZkLU
Case Studies: Martin Waller
Twitter in the Classroom
Case Studies: Alex Stamp
Facebook ● Posting homework, reminders, review links and
videos, resources, asking questions (e.g. creating
test questions)
● Diagnostic assessments, creating polls
● Tracking students down who missed a test by
tagging them
● Knowing how many students have viewed an
announcement
● Students answering each other’s questions, giving
feedback, posting work in their own “language”
● Tagging the teacher to ask a question
Tech Tools for Capturing the
Learning Process
Top 10 Tech Tools for
Pedagogical Documentation
Digital
Images
Video &
Animation
Mind
Mapping
Note
Capture
Audio
Recording
Blogging
Social Media
Comic Strip
Wiki &
Online Docs
Presentation
& Polling
Flickr
Global Gallery
YouTube
Vimeo
AdobeVoice
Evernote
Padlet
Blogger
Tumblr
TIGweb
BitStrips
Comic Life
SlideShare
Kahoot
Piktochart
Popplet
MindMeister
SMART Ideas
VoiceThread
Audacity
Wikispaces
Google Docs
Writeboard
Tasks for Session 4
Tasks for Session 4 ● Focus on final project implementation, documentation and showcase at virtual Student Voice
National Showcase in June 2015.
● Prepare and submit final project page before the virtual Student Voice National Showcase.
Please include artifacts that represent the learning journey including photos, videos, mind maps
etc.
● You are invited to submit a short personal reflection on your Student Voice project journey as a
blog in the TIGed virtual classroom. Consider the following questions when writing your
reflection:
o What did you learn about yourself through this journey?
o What did you find rewarding? Challenging?
o What impact did this journey have on your current teaching practice? What impact will it
have on your future teaching practice? On your relationship with your students? Your
school community?
Cluster Activity1) In your cluster, have each person (or team) identify one challenge they would like to address
as part of their student voice project. Using the guiding questions for appreciative inquiry in
the Discussion section of the virtual classroom, collaborate and discuss ideas to overcome
each identified challenge. Post some of your ideas as a reply to the discussion thread.
2) Watch Mimi Ito’s video Learning in Social Media. What are your initial thoughts? How can we
bring in the friendship and entertainment-driven learning from social media into the
classroom? How can social media amplify student voice? Share your ideas in the discussion
thread.
Thank you for your attention!Thank you for your participation!
