What The Tech Makes Your Brain Pop (1)

What the “Tech” Makes Your Brain POP?: 

What the “ Tech ” Makes Your Brain POP ?

Presenters: 

Presenters Janice Uptegrove- Grain Valley R-5 IT Director juptegrove@grainvalley.k12.mo.us Judy Boutz Educational Consultant judy@interactive-ed.com Interactive Educational Technologies 816-536-8632

Winning The Instructional Technology Challenge with BrainPOP http://www.brainpop.com/about/tour : 

Winning The Instructional Technology Challenge with BrainPOP http://www.brainpop.com/about/tour www.brainpop.com

Let’s Look at a subject.: 

Let’s Look at a subject. Dictionary Day- Oct. 16th Activities has Typeable … Meaning you can now type your answers directly into the vocabulary page or graphic organizer . Note* CC is available. Q & A- has questions with links to answers. Quiz - 3 different formats Graded- graded at the end of the quiz Review- instant interactive feedback Printed

Ian Jukes- The Need for balance: 

Ian Jukes- The Need for balance “Children today are completely comfortable with the visual bombardment of simultaneous images, text, and sounds because, for them, such experiences provide relevant and compelling experiences that can convey more information in a few seconds than can be communicated by reading an entire book. Moreover, these new media are not just designed for passive viewing, because passive viewing just doesn’t cut it. This generation no longer wants just to be the audience; they want to be the actors. They expect, want, and need interactive information, interactive resources, interactive communications, and relevant, real-life experiences. ” http://www.committedsardine.com

“Digital Natives” lack engagement and motivation in terms of what we offer them in our schools.” Marc Prensky: 

“Digital Natives” lack engagement and motivation in terms of what we offer them in our schools.” Marc Prensky Today’s average college grads have spent: – over 10,000 hours playing video games – over 20,000 hours watching TV – over 200,000 emails and instant messages sent and received – over 10,000 hours talking on digital cell phones – over 500,000 commercials – less than 5,000 hours of their lives reading

Digital Natives are used to receiving information really fast : 

Digital Natives are used to receiving information really fast – like to parallel process and multi-task – prefer their graphics before their text rather than the opposite – prefer random access (like hypertext) – thrive on instant gratification and frequent rewards – prefer games to “serious” work.

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Brain Pop & Clickers address the learning styles of this generation! http://www.brainpop.com/educators/interactive_whiteboard_resources Each clicker gives the student a voice in formative and summative assessment. They provide for feedback and differentiation.

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Student Response Systems not only increase student engagement, but also offer more efficiency for classroom administration. Extensive research suggests they promote Engagement Increased understanding for complex subject matter Increased interest and enjoyment Heightened discussion and interactivity Increased awareness and levels of individual comprehension Increased teacher insight into student difficulties http://www.eschoolnews.com/2010/08/25/formative-assessment-that clicks-with-students/3/ ? Formative Assessment the ‘Clicks’ with Students

Clickers- and Interactivity: 

Clickers- and Interactivity We are going to demonstrate with e-Instruction Clickers. Power Turn off/on

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Response Pad Number Battery Power Question Number Your Answer Radio Frequency Connection

How do I use the Response Pad: 

How do I use the Response Pad Click here to Send answers to the receiver. The next question number appears on the screen when the answer has been successfully transmitted.

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Engage Questions using FastGrade Use the FastGrade feature as a supplement to worksheets and other hardcopies. You can create a FastGrade answer key, distribute hard copies of the assessment to students, and have them respond for a quick grade. When you create a FastGrade lesson, please have a hard copy of the course material with you, preferably one that has the correct answers indicated. To create a FastGrade lesson, follow these directions: 1. Open CPS from your desktop icon. 2. Click the Prepare>Lessons and Assessments tab. 3. Select the database name or lesson name, from the lesson side of the screen, that you want to create a FastGrade lesson in. 4. Click New in the Home group . A menu appears. 5. Select the FastGrade menu item. The CPS Lesson Attributes window opens. 6. Type a name for your FastGrade lesson in the Title box and optionally, a description or unique identifier. You can also add a picture file (jpeg, bitmap, or gif) that will appear when you engage the lesson in There It Is! mode. 7. Click OK. The CPS FastGrade window opens

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9. Current Question #: The question number you are currently working on. This number is always one more than the number of questions in this lesson. 10. Next: Moves to the next question in your FastGrade answer key. This action highlights the next question’s type and correct answer as well as displays the number position of this question as the Current Question #. 11. Add: Allows you to add a numeric question. 12. Repeat step until you enter every question into the CPS FastGrade window. 13. Click OK. The Prepare>Lessons and Assessments tab appears with the FastGrade lesson name in the lesson side of the window. When you give the quiz following Brain POP video clip the students input their answers with their response pads. You can immediately check their level of comprehension and your grading time decreases from hours at home to minutes in class.

Fast Grade With Brain Pop Jr.: 

Fast Grade With Brain Pop Jr. We printed off the “Hard Quiz” and entered the answers into our Fast Grade Quiz. Note there is a Senteo Lesson here . There is a Promethean Lesson here .

Brain Pop Jr. Has Many Features http://www.brainpopjr.com : 

Brain Pop Jr. Has Many Features http://www.brainpopjr.com

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http://www.brainpop.com/free_stuff 700 Free resources on BrainPOP 160 Free resources on BrainPOP Jr You can get to Free Stuff on the main page by clicking on the heart.

The Brand new Game site: 

The Brand new Game site http://www.brainpopjr.com/games/ http://www.brainpop.com/games And it is FREE Quality Learning Games • motivate and provide goals • encourage participation • foster creative, interactive problem-solving • strengthen critical and systems thinking • pose adaptive challenges • spark inquiry • require very little prep by busy teachers Game up

BrainPOP ESL: http://www.brainpopesl.com : 

BrainPOP ESL: http://www.brainpopesl.com

Brainpop Espanol http://esp.brainpop.com : 

Brainpop Espanol http://esp.brainpop.com

BrainPOP for Educators has many useful tools: 

BrainPOP for Educators has many useful tools http://www.brainpop.com/educators/blog Be sure to join our community of learners and add them to your PLN. 87,000+ Members 750+ Free Resources .

Missouri State Standards http://www.brainpop.com/educators/state_standards : 

Missouri State Standards http://www.brainpop.com/educators/state_standards

Curriculum Calendar & Classroom Tools- Even Graphic Organizers: 

Curriculum Calendar & Classroom Tools- Even Graphic Organizers

Awards http://www.brainpop.com/about/awards : 

Awards http://www.brainpop.com/about/awards

SO…. What the Tech are you waiting For?: 

SO…. What the Tech are you waiting For? BRAINPOP

Grain Valley Web Resources and Moodle: 

Grain Valley Web Resources and Moodle http://web2650.grainvalley.k12.mo.us/gvsd/dreamweaver2/index.htm http://elearning.grainvalley.k12.mo.us/ Feel free to contact us if you have any additional questions.