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Driving Question: How can you help students achieve deep learning by designing a unit from one of the five models of this workshop?

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Agenda

Teaching and Deeper Learning in Digital Settings

In this interactive workshop, teachers will investigate avenues for them to use deeper learning concepts in their blended or online settings. In deeper learning settings, students use their academic abilities to build on their core academic foundations, think critically and use problem solving strategies in collaborative groups, develop self-directed learning opportunities, and effectively communicate their learning. The workshop is developed with project-based learning principles, focused on the participants’ active and engaged learning. Groups of teachers from the same school are encouraged to attend as a learning team.

Participants will design a deeper learning digital learning unit with age-relevant content, including audio, video, and games, with a learning model they select, such as project-based learning, game-based learning, resource-based learning, inquiry-based learning or case-based learning. All of these models support deeper learning’s framework. Through a short interactive module, teachers will select a model as their framework. They will develop an authentic assessment. As needed, they will individually target a technical skill to develop, such as audio, video, or visual strategies. They will identify technologies that support the deeper learning principles of their learning plan. The final product of the workshop will be a short video that the participants will share with the ICE conference participants through social media to gain peer feedback about their designs.

Participants should bring a laptop or tablet. All content will be shared electronically in a variety of formats.

Workshop objectives:

Teachers will:

• Design a deeper learning activity or unit with project-based learning, game-based learning, resource-based learning, inquiry-based learning or case-based learning.

• Understand digital learning strategies, such as visual, collaborative, inquiry, and assessment.

• Design an assessment for the learning activity/unit

• Select technologies to support learning.

• Develop a short video to explain the deeper learning design that will be shared with the iNACOL conference participants for peer feedback.

Credits:

Thanks to Dr. Ardelle Pate from Concordia University Chicago for her guidance on the development of the topics in this workshop.

Thanks to Dr. Michelle Licata from the Florida Virtual School for her contributions to this workshop.