Learning in Progress

Who are you? You fill the seats of our classrooms every day. I am told, you are “neurologically processing information in a fundamentally different way than the “older generations”. I am “paper trained” logical, linear, left to right, top to bottom, beginning to end. You are "media trained"VISUAL nonlinearTRANSFLUENT scrollingHYPERLINKED. In the last year - as of today at about 1pm -  there were well over 300 BILLION mobile YouTube view You were watching a lot of those -- Over 30 billion photos were added to Instagram You posted a lot of those photos -- In the month of August alone there were almost 80 million of you playing Fortnite And let’s not forget the videos you are watching about it and the dances you were practicing from it and the conversations you were having about it. You love with your whole heart, so we see that we must protect it. You put your everything into your day, and we push you bey...

Post also appears on FTISEdTech Last night I participated in an #AppleEDUChat for Animated Sketchnoting and the learning was too good not to share right away. I have long seen the value in using Sketchnoting as a strategy for engaging learners in summarizing, visualizing and remembering content. There are lots of apps you might use with your class to encourage this activity including: Jamboard , Paper 53 , most of our Microsoft Apps (PowerPoint, Word, OneNote) include a drawing tab, and Sketches for School shows some promise.  Last night, however, I was completely blown away by the use of Keynote  as a sketchnoting and animation tool. What on the surface looks like just another presentation tool, is in reality a seriously robust application that we have not been using to its potential. at all. In just a few minutes I was playing and learning new strategies as the chat happened. How It's Done Challenge to 3-5th grade students I was so inspired by m...