Tasks
Looking for some tasks to grow or showcase your skills? Check out the tasks below.
Note: Dream Camp applicants may choose to do any of these if they want. It's not required for application.
These tasks are intended for learners to grow in how they see themselves and others as humans who can intentionally effect their own flourishment.
Users may choose these as part of their own growth plan or to showcase their learning pathway to others.
Tasks belong mainly to one of the following channels:
#ai-learning tools
Strategically using AI tools to enhance educational outcomes, demonstrating an understanding of how technology can support learning.#building-thinking-classrooms
Fostering environments that encourage active thinking and problem-solving, moving beyond rote memorization to develop critical thinking skills in students.#curriculum
Skillfully designing or adapting curricula to enrich learning, showing a commitment to evolving educational content for maximum impact.#learning-to-human
Skillfully meeting each learner as a human and employing effective practices in facilitating learner growth.#assessment-for-learning
Utilizing assessments as a means to support and guide students' learning journeys, focusing on feedback and improvement rather than solely on grades.
For users to submit digital artifacts, please complete the release form above
#learning-to-human
Skillfully meeting each learner as a human and employing effective practices in facilitating learner growth.
Task 001 - You the Learner
On your own or with a partner, create a digital artifact of how you see yourself as a learner.
Note: Audio or video recordings should be done only with permission from each voice.
Some questions to consider:
What were you like as a younger learner?
Describe what it was like to be a learner in elementary, middle, or high school.
What type of things would you or the teacher do?
What helped you grow as a learner?
What advice would you give yourself as "little you" to grow as a learner, now that you know all you do?
What are you like as a learner now?
What advice would you give a team who is reimagining how school and learning will look for future students?
Other interview questioning ideas can be found here.
Share your digital artifact with eachvoice@newesd101.net or at cothinkingclassrooms.slack.com (join here)
Task 002 - Your Dream Class
On your own or with a partner, create a digital artifact of your vision of an ideal classroom, your dream class.
Note: Audio or video recordings should be done only with permission from each voice.
Some questions to consider:
What would it look like?
What would it sound like?
What would it feel like?
Challenge: After discussing in partners, discuss your thinking as a group, department, school, org, etc.
Share your digital artifact with eachvoice@newesd101.net or at cothinkingclassrooms.slack.com (join here)
#ai-learning-tools
Skillfully meeting each learner as a human and employing effective practices in facilitating learner growth.
Task 003 - Candi the Learner
Use AI tools to analyze this transcript of Candi telling her story as a learner.
Some questions to consider:
What impact did the learning spaces have on Candi?
What was the effect of the teaching practices Candi experienced?
How does Candi's experience relate to the key principle frameworks of education?
Share your digital artifact with eachvoice@newesd101.net or at cothinkingclassrooms.slack.com (join here)
Task 004 - Task Analyzer
Create a GPT to analyze the quality of a STEM task (including facilitation guide) that might be used in a classroom.
Some questions to consider:
How does the task (including facilitation guide) align to the STEM content Standards? Practice standards?
How does the task (including facilitation guide) align to the key principle frameworks of education?
What guidance might be given to a teacher to facilitate the task?
What modifications to the task (including facilitation guide) would make it better?
Share your digital artifact with eachvoice@newesd101.net or at cothinkingclassrooms.slack.com (join here)
Task 005 - Slack Summaries
Using AI tools, build a process/tool that will summarize the contents of a Slack workspace channel (or more).
Some questions to consider:
What aspects of the conversations should have priority?
When should people be noted in the summary?
How might the summaries be used?
Share your digital artifact with eachvoice@newesd101.net or at cothinkingclassrooms.slack.com (join here)
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Knowledge Base Documents
Principal Educational Frameworks provides an overview of the principles and practices that best guide learning according to current research