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So made it into the #SYD19 Google Innovator academy hosted at the Sydney Google office. Major benefit is connecting with some awesome educators. Amazing start to this 3 day event. Here are some brief notes, resources and pictures.
After almost 50 Academies there are over 1500+ Google Innovators in over 40 countries.
Difficult paths lead to beautiful destinations
Sam Gibson
So you can now buy brain wave monitors….
…with science and the human heart there is no limit
U2 – Miracle drug
You are an architect of the possible
Google Glass instruction
I do not think the measure of a civilization is how tall its buildings of concrete are but rather how well its people have learned to relate to their environment and fellow man.
– Sun Bear (Vincent LaDuke)
Google Earth Voyager
Google Earth – Timelapse
Lion (film) based on book A long way home by Saroo Brierley
Keyboard shortcuts in Google Earth: arrow keys, shift + arrow keys, option + arrow keys
3D images made by plane flying over multiple times and images getting stiched together.
Students tell narratives through Google Earth.
John Bailey (Google Earth education lead
SmashboardEdu – an example of a Google Innovator challenge from 2017
Activity – Zen counting
Innovation is a social justice issue
Stuart Kelly
“People don’t cling to small goals”
Twice a term, Aorere College asks it’s students (via Google Forms) what the school needs to:
Quantity > Quality
Culture of Google: Curiosity, Agency, Collaboration, Risk-taking
Project Culture Shift
“Have a go”
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Books will soon be obsolete in the schools. Scholars will soon be instructed through the eye. It is possible to teach every branch of human knowledge with the motion picture. Our school system will be completely changed in ten years.”
Thomas Edison, 1913
Upschool – a series of videos that explains teaching and learning to parents.
“What happens with the rockstar leaves”
It’s more than ‘buy in‘, it’s co-creation.
Advocacy
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
The Dalai Lama
Sean Arnold – Educational advocate
Google’s advocacy playbook.
More than a tech – advocating to parents about tech use.
BewellEDU.com – an example of a previous Innovator’s project.
Link to session resources
MMTS is just for the ‘Explore’ part of the learning. They are not Hyperdocs where students are expected to develop and apply their understanding.
Acknowledge source when reusing. ‘Created by xxx, remixed by xxx’, ‘Inspired by xxx, recreated by xxxx’
Present work as not tasks to be completed (i.e. a worksheet) but as a springboard to further learning.
“You have 8 minutes – learn as much as you can about refugees using this multi media text set. In partners, least amount of battery close your lid”
Feedback from questions posted from students – choose an open question (describe what open vs closed is).
“What is a search term you could use, how could you start finding an answer?” That is our lesson for today. Tomorrow we will do the same. For 5 days you will have the same routine – 8 minutes, post question, and explore the answers.
Collect comments on Padlet with no names as it is non-threatening.
No ear buds as students don’t work together. Used Closed Captioning to read the text and turn volume down.
Next session: “I’m going to let you explore alone”
Next next session: “I’m going to get you to choose if you work alone or in partners”
Questions, wonders and Aha’s
Lisa Highfill
Extension: Student to create Text Set (share the template).
In his session today, Suan went over some key principles behind digital citizenship and internet safety. Google has put together an awesome resource for teachers and students and it was great to get the opportunity to dive deeper.
https://teachercenter.withgoogle.com/digital_citizenship/preview
Two factor authentication (change in myaccount.google.com). Protects your account with something you know (password) along with something you have (phone or physical key).
Google Smart lock works similar to Last pass/1Password and can also generate secure passwords. There are also other online password generators
Beware of fakes…
Resources:
https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/en_us/resources
Bunch of Slides with tasks for teaching the skills
So I finished the first level of the Kind kingdom and got a certificate!
Applied Digital Skills course – over 43 lessons to choose from that all have complete resources that students can work at their own pace.
Keynote speaker at the EdTechTeam Auckland Summit 2019 is Lisa Highfill. Best know for hyperdocs, she provided a thought provoking and inspiring start to this 2 day conference. Here are some random links and notes from her opening session.
If this then that https://ifttt.com/
Sharing good ideas
“The value of an idea lies in using it.”
Thomas Edison
Good example of two learners in action.
Multi media text sets to engage students and build curiosity
The importance of a question
“What do you wonder?”
Which questions are ungooglable?
Open vs closed questionsh
Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions
“Here’s (insert new tool name here), make something!”
Hyper doc – ‘hyper’ meaning ‘alive’
Show what you know challenge
“Miss, do you think it is finished?” “Do it till it’s done..”
Submit project via Form. Share with Sheets
Design tasks with low floor, high ceiling, and wide walls.
Bookbentos – an image with a book at the centre and items that were in the book or features are around the outside.
Thinglink: turns an image into clickable, linkable areas.
Teachers give teachers – share one, get one. A great way to expand your collection of hyper docs.
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