1. Table of Contents Objectives “The Machine is Using Us” (video)
Student Directed Instruction
Now…Do This
Creating Customized Curriculum
Steps for Curriculum Development
Lesson Overview

2. WEB 2.0
Bill Bagshaw | General Director of Student Services Topeka Public Schools

3. Objectives Reflect on what what we do.
Consider how we might use other resources.
Challenge our own thinking.
Core values or belief statements.
Are we willing?
Empower others.

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Bill Bagshaw | General Director of Student Services Topeka Public Schools

5. Technology
Information
Automation

6. Using Technology to Bolster Student-Directed Instruction
Shifting the responsibility for learning decisions from teacher to student
Allowing students to access a world of information
Utilizing authentic audiences
Students become the source of instruction
Teacher facilitates student creativity

7. How Is This Achieved? Effective Staff Development:
Provides teachers with tools to implement engaging and challenging learning opportunities for students.
Stresses that skillful instruction requires multiple approaches to teaching.
Teaches how to group students for optimal learning.

8. Student-Directed Instruction (cont.)
Using technology to supplement textbooks and other printed resources

9. Small Group Activity Activity One
Question: What are some elements of a quality lesson?
Discuss with your group and make a short list
Time: 5 minutes
Create a large group list

10. Does Your List Include? Standards-based Relevance Engages students
Allows for reflection
Assessment
Promotes problem-solving
Requires critical thinking
Utilizes technology (information/communication)

11. NOW. . .DO THIS
Bill Bagshaw | General Director of Student Services Topeka Public Schools

12. Small Group Activity Activity Two Question:
What skills and interests do students demonstrate outside of school that can be brought into the classroom?
Individually, make a list
Time: 5 minutes

13. Can you add to this list? Personal computing computer games E-mail
Instant messaging
Cell phone Text messaging
Ipod
DVD
Playstation/Xbox
Internet internet search chatrooms/discussion boards purchasing goods
Digital still/video cameras

14. Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence.

15. CREATING CUSTOMIZED CURRICULUM
Bill Bagshaw | General Director of Student Services Topeka Public Schools

16. Richard Baraniuk: Goodbye, textbooks; hello, open-source learning
Richard Baraniuk is founder of Connexions, a free, open-source, global clearinghouse of course materials. People in some 200 countries tap into its vast store of texts on everything from engineering to ornithology to music, adapting the content as they see fit

17. Open Source Courseware
Creative Commons
Light and Matter

18. Building Capacity with Staff
Utilizing technology
Course development
Creating engaging lesson plans
Peer collaboration
Bottom-up approach

19. STEPS FOR CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
Bill Bagshaw | General Director of Student Services Topeka Public Schools

20. Identify target audience.
Elementary
Middle/High School students
Special needs students
Advanced Placement students
Adult Education students

21. Determine how you want to use your curriculum?
An entire course
Thematic units
Teacher professional development
Interdisciplinary curriculum

22. Outline. What are the components the curriculum will contain?
What resources will the curriculum need to meet desired goals?

23. Create, Mix, Rip, Burn
Putting together the curriculum and other resource materials/creating interactive assignments and implementing exciting student resources.

24. Open Source Courseware

25. Course Assembly (cont.)
Word processing/creating content

26. Course Assembly (cont.)
PowerPoint/Curriculum presentation

27. Course Assembly (cont.)
Assorted media/student engagement
Examples:
Hope Street Project with Israel
Sightseeing in Topeka Project with Korea

28. Course Assembly (cont.)
Authentic feedback
Internet allows us to communicate with live, primary sources
Examples:
Marshall Stelzriede's Wartime Story
War on Their Minds
Sgt. William Heller's

29. Course Assembly (cont.)
Formative assessments
Both student and teacher track progress
Self-checks/self-quizzes
Reflection questions
Multiple drafts of products
Posts to blogs

30. Course Assembly (cont.)
Summative assessments
Understanding of learning objective is measured
Projects
Unit test
Midterm
Final
State assessments

31. Curriculum Examples
World History
Biology

32. Why Create Your Own? Cost Ownership Customized Instruction
Best Practices
Cross-Curricular
Student Engaging
Easily Modified

33. Each Student Group Will Be Responsible for the Following:
Conducting research on State Indicator to present to class.
Dividing group responsibilities.
Presenting information in a dynamic and interesting formats
visual (PowerPoint, Excel, Publisher, Microsoft Word, posters, pictures)
audio (speeches, eyewitness accounts, first-hand news reports).

34. Facts

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Bill Bagshaw | General Director of Student Services Topeka Public Schools