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Their Voice, Their World
Their Voice, Their World
- Why is it so important to give students an audience?
- Follow your writer's voice.
- Students already have a voice. They need opportunities to use it.
- Your voice is your soul, your essence, your inner being.
- What is student voice?
- Choice
- Ask students
- How do you want to learn?
- Where do you want to learn?
- How can demonstrate it?
- What do you want to change?
- Ask students
- Action
- Use voice to make a change.
- Impact globally.
- Asking good questions.
- Asking the hard questions.
- Create something beautiful.
- Stir others to action.
- Skill
- PVLEGS
- Give students practice.
- I have a voice video.
- Let students surprise you.
- Easy to forget kids have a unique perspective. Ask them!
- Don't underestimate our students just because adults don't know.
- Student ideas might change the world.
- The only one who knows what kids think is the kids.
- One of the most powerful things we can teach kids: Their ideas have VALUE.
- Speak change into existence.
- Their voice changes the world.
- What does it look like when they believe?
- Confidence: It starts small
- Ask students to express opinion.
- What do you think?
- Listen to students answer.
- Ask how to do things differently and try to make a change
- What would be best?
- What would you like?
- Create culture for students to try and take a risk.
- From Greatest Showman: "They are going to love you. They just don't it yet."
- You have to have a voice to speak loud and give your ideas . . because your ideas might just change the world.
- Whenever students change the world we get to change the world through them.
- Choice
- We have an amazing opportunity to do things with our students which have not been done before. It's amazing...and it's SCARY!
- This is the student's information revolution, it is up to us how we respond to it.
- We can inspire kids to think, create and make meaning in the world.
- We need to understand those who sit in our class.
- Gen Z are kids who were born after 2005.
- Gen Z does images > text.
- Kids born into a world with smart phones, tablets, and computers.
- It is not technology. They are born with this.
- Do not consume on two devices but 5.
- Phones are hub of their social life. But they do not talk.
- If you say "Ok Google" or "Alexa" someone answers.
- Attention span of 8 seconds
- This generation does not settle for the status quo.
- They create and develop what they perceive as missing---outside the classroom.
- Why aren't we doing more of this INSIDE the classroom?
- Gen Z! They have an attention span of 8 seconds but are going to solve our problems and think creatively and critically!
- They live outside of mediocrity.
- This generation will not have to do some of the things we considered rites of passage.
- Focus from best practices of teaching to being open to new ways to learn.
- Transliterate: Fluent across all mediums of information not just reading and writing.
- Images
- Video
- Social Media
- Tell your story
- Drivers licenses...because they will have self-driving cars.
- Fewer jobs as a result of AI; who needs counter help when a computer screen allows you to self order?
- Kids need to be transliterate- fluent across multiple media sources.
- We must disprupt our definition of literacy.
- Literacy vs. fluency- it is important to know the difference just as it is important to move from consumption to creation and differentiate between making meaning and transfer/application of knowledge.
- Flipgrid provides a perfect vehicle for transfer of knowledge to be expressed and curated.
- Skipping the transfer of knowledge.
- "We need to understand how people learn when they have a choice, and bring that into places where they are required to learn" ~David Price
- Every kid who walks into our classroom is our kid.
- "Education is not the filling of pails but the lighting of fire." ~William Yates
- Knowledge is not understanding.
- If you try something new, you must practice everyday for some period of time.
- Freeing our brains from predetermined biases is difficult.
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