Yesterday, our #itdml program took part in a couple on air hangouts with Heidi Hayes Jacobs, Lisa Jobson and two ladies from Mystic Seaport Museum. It was a great experience. Below is a brief overview of the discussion we had with all of the participants.Hangout with Heidi Hayes Jacobs, author of Mastering Global Literacy:
- Global literacy should involve relevant and meaningful aspects of teaching
- There is a total of 5 portals in global literacy and writing in curriculum
- Scaling is an important portal
- We should scale nationally, through our school, as well as an individual
- Literacy is depth and connectivity, mainly making meaning of it all
- Finland gives feedback and not tests, is there a difference?
- Google earth pro is a great tool to use in our classrooms to help to connect our students with the world.
Lisa Jobson was our second speaker discussing project from iearn:
- We as teachers need to teach our students to learn and work cross culturally
- Students work better with connection to the information
- iearn is designed by teachers
- Some projects have 60 classrooms working together
- If a teacher wants to use iearn they should:
- start with projects already up and running
- pick one that correlates with their topics
- iearn has a collaboration center for teachers secure
- iearn is project based learning
- Join a teachers cohort with other teachers around the world to learn how to use iearn (teachers lounge)
- Projects show one day in the life of another student through various journal entry and photos
- To good projects are solar cooking, and the teddy bear project (swap teddy/mascot across world)
The last hangout we did was with two people from Mystic Seaport Museum:
- Website for educators
- Art and objects are stored in a vault
- Museum offers opportunities for students to connect with artifacts used around the world.
- Teachers act as facilitators of learning
- Student driven atmosphere.
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