Topic 2 – Most Likely to Succeed, Privacy, & Open Education

Welcome to Day 2 of our class! The first day or two are always a learning curve as we set up our various tools and get oriented to BOTH the pedagogy (teaching method) of this class as well as the technology. I will support you through this process.

The class outline covers what we will work on in face-to-face class (either on campus or via Zoom). The homework section is a list of things that I’d recommend you complete at the end of class each day.

Learning Objectives

• Describe the key points of BC Privacy laws as they relate to education
• Discuss the pros and cons of the pedagogy used by the school in the Most Likely to Succeed documentary
• Identify the differences between a Lesson Plan and a Learning Plan
• Find freely licensed images and correctly use and attribute them
• Create blog posts for this course using the provided rubrics, including a critical lens when reviewing educational technologies & pedagogies, that include hyperlinks, images, videos, and attribution

Class Time

Loose ends from Topic 1

• Class Checkin and Q&A
• After your WordPress blog is set up, complete the Learning Pathways survey.
• Submit your blog post to the class BrightSpace website using the Topic 1 assignment page.

Most Likely to Success & Lesson Plans vs Learning Plans

• Discuss Most Likely to Succeed Film:  
  • Pair & share questions (5 min)
    • Do you agree with the film’s assertion that we need to re-imagine education, or is the status quo more or less satisfactory?
    • What do you think stops educators from shifting to these approaches?
    • What might this look like in your context?
    • What concerns or excites you about this approach?
• Lesson Plan vs Learning Plan (2 min):

Lab: Setting up a virtual PLN

• Why PLN’s?  
• Set up a Twitter account if you don’t have one (optional)
  • Log on to Tweetdeck with your twitter credentials (if you choose to use Twitter).
  • In Tweetdeck you might want to try following: #IED336 Twitter hashtags for course related resources & information, #IndigenousLanguages, #LanguageRevitalization, #FirstVoices, #NativeTwitter, #LanguageTechnology, #BCLearns, #BCedchat

• What interesting topics are being discussed in the feeds you’ve subscribed to?

Open Educational Resources:

• What is an Open Educational Resource or OER?  “Open educational resources should be freely shared through open licences which facilitate use, revision, translation, improvement and sharing by anyone. Resources should be published in formats that facilitate both use and editing, and that accommodate a diversity of technical platforms.” – Cape Town Open Education Declaration
• Where can I find OER lesson plans or activities that I could use in my classroom?
  • An example of a general K-12 OER portal website is the OER Commons. Please browse around the OER Commons website, and search for lesson plans and activities for the grade levels you’d like to teach and subjects you’re interested in. You might want to bookmark this website!
  • PLN via Twitter is another great way to find resources from like-minded teachers.
  • An example of a subject-specific OER website is the Hour of Code. It has hundreds of lesson plans, not only for math and coding skills, but most lesson plans are co-curricular, so include a coding component, and additionally language arts, social studies, art, or science-based elements.

Hands-on Lab Time

Images for blog posts

In this activity you will find one or more Creative Commons licensed image to include in the blob post you created yesterday:

• Finding royalty-free images you can use free of charge in your blog posts and elsewhere – Unsplash, Pexels, The Noun Project, Public Domain Vectors (5 min video):

• Here are some curated albums of Unsplash images for Education and Educators.
• Uploading and adding images to a WordPress post or page (2 min)
• Now try adding a YouTube video to your WordPress blog post (1 min)
• How to give attribution or Creative Commons or Freely licensed media:

Blog Post

Begin writing your daily blog post using including one or more Creative Commons photos, plus one or two of the blog prompts that follow it: 

• Do we need to re-imagine education?
• What obstacles do educators often face when they try to change they way they teach?
• What concerns and/or excites you about this approach?
• Pro’s & Con’s of Lesson Plans vs Learning Plans?
• What are the potential benefits of developing a robust PLN?
• What are the potential benefits of using Creative Commons media?

Please complete the Learning Pathways survey.

Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash