tag:nabble.aealearningonline.org,2006:forum-6766Nabble - A Day in the Life...2024-03-28T12:20:52Z <div align="left">We are going to work creatively for this activity. Your task is to describe a day in the life for one of your students. The student can be completely fictional or based on a real student.
<p/>Imagine what a day in the life of a "personalized learner" at school (or maybe not even at school) would look like. In the forum below, provide a narrative that describes the day. Pay unique attention to the following:
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<li>What is the teacher doing during this day?</li>
<li>Who are the "teachers", for that matter?</li>
<li>What perceptions or feelings does the learner have about school and learning in general?</li>
<li>What are things that are working well for the student?</li>
<li>Where is the student struggling?</li>
<li>What role is technology playing?</li>
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Again, don't answer those questions directly in your narrative. You are telling the story of your student's day, and the elements above should surface to some extent during the narrative.<p/>
Be sure to be thorough in your narrative, and feel free to revise your post over time (especially as you reflect more on this course as it progresses). We have provided some examples for you that come from the SIIA-ASCD-CCSSO symposium (2010). The examples can be found on pages 37, 38, and 39 of the document found <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7vXzgs1BeBnYWhSYjR0YTMza2M/view?usp=sharing" target="_top" rel="nofollow" link="external">here</a>.
We won't be adding replies for this forum, but you will need to check out each other's narratives.<p/>tag:nabble.aealearningonline.org,2006:post-7096Nancy Healy - A Day in the Life...2017-02-11T14:04:57Z2017-02-11T14:04:57ZNancy Healy
The student is Preston, a 10th grader who is quiet and introverted but pleasant to teachers and peers. Preston doesn’t hate school but sometimes he finds it monotonous. He doesn’t like to be the center of attention and prefers sitting in the back of a room alone or with his one or two close friends. The school is 1-to-1 with iPads. Preston knows that he goes to his social media sites, YouTube and ESPN on his iPad too much and that they distract him from his schoolwork.
<br/><br/>Preston struggles somewhat with reading but does better in math and science. In English class, the students are reading To Kill a Mockingbird on the Kindle app on their iPads. Preston didn’t like To Kill a Mockingbird at first but is more interested in the story as he reads further into the book. It helps that the Kindle app includes an audio option so Preston can both read and listen to the story. In English and other classes, students do a lot of small group discussions and activities. Even though Preston may have input he could offer to his groups, he remains mostly quiet because he doesn’t feel at ease sharing his thoughts/opinions with others. Preston is rarely an active participant in small groups unless prompted by the teachers or peers. The teachers who observe and assess participation rarely encourage Preston to give his thoughts out loud, thinking that he can instead do this through other opportunities they assign using the iPads (i.e., blogs, online chats). In most of his classes, when students are asked to independently read or do an assignment, Preston usually first checks his email and social media accounts on the iPad, and then gets to the assignments if there is time. The teachers are usually working at their desks or assisting struggling students during this time.
<br/><br/>Preston is proficient in math and science and can usually figure out concepts and problems with little assistance. Most times, instead of asking the teachers for help when struggling with a concept or problem, Preston will search for online tutorials that work through similar concepts and problems. Preston likes the challenge of figuring out problems on his own. The teachers have started to notice this and encourage Preston to do so.
<br/><br/>Preston especially enjoys the ‘hands-on’ classes like Woods and Global Science. He likes to work with his hands, and he will admit that he likes the break from technology, too.
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tag:nabble.aealearningonline.org,2006:post-10574A Day in the Life2018-02-06T18:06:04Z2018-02-06T18:06:04ZAllison Cole
I woke up late this morning and had to skip breakfast in order to catch the bus. I wonder if Mrs. Cole will have anything for me to eat to hold me over until lunch. I'm too afraid to ask her though. We're doing math workstations today. I love math workstations, except for the fact that I'm in the first math group with Mrs. Cole. Everyone knows this is the low math group. Why does math have to be so difficult for me? I wish math came easier for me so I could be in a group with my friend Evelyn. Oh well, at least we get to get on Prodigy for the technology station today!
tag:nabble.aealearningonline.org,2006:post-7072Andy Shea.. A Day in the Life2017-02-10T13:40:36Z2017-02-10T13:40:36ZAndrewShea
Wake up exhausted, head to basketball practice. Not enough time to eat breakfast, late to homeroom and tired at the beginning of first period. Hard to focus on primary sources that my social studies teacher wants me to analyze. Its 8:30 in the morning! What does the Atlantic slave trade have to do with my life? Why does it matter? We have a test on Tuesday!?! At least my teacher linked everything on google classroom so I will be able to study over the weekend. Discussion beginning, sit back and listen to others before commenting..
tag:nabble.aealearningonline.org,2006:post-7097A Day in the Life2017-02-11T14:37:25Z2017-02-11T14:37:25ZDeanna Clark
5:50 I need to email Doc Stock when I get to school before math and English to find out when he can come out to see about my heifer with the bad hoof. I hope he can come out this morning because I have never seen this before.
<br/>6:00 Logged in and starting math. Online classes are awesome for me. I don’t like math but I know I need to be proficient in specific areas that have been determined for me based on my chosen academic path (pre-ag with emphasis in herd management). I like the freedom to log in or out at my convenience. Mrs. Bjork is really good at explain concepts to me when I can’t get it from the tutorials in the program. Kind of hard to find her during planting and harvest because I spend a lot of time on the farm a lot then.
<br/>7:25 Doc Stock will be out at 9:30 better wrap up math and work on English quick. Another subject I tolerate because I know I need to be literate to have a successful farm but I don’t need to be a rock-star writer.
<br/>8:30 Chrome is my friend. I wonder why my cattle are getting hoof rot. Going to research as much as I can to see what info there is out there. I wonder if it is dietary or environment? Doc Stock might be able to help me with that later too.
<br/>9:20 Heading home for the best part of my day. I feel so good learning about farming. I have always known I belong here as a steward of the land. I am so interested in organic farming but Dad is old fashioned, he doesn’t see the benefit when we can keep farming the way we have for years. I’ll have to find someone to help me do an economic study on price margins comparing traditional farming to organic farming…who?
<br/>9:30 Doc Stock is here time to get to it.
<br/>10:15 – 12:00 Chores and lunch
<br/>1;00 – 3:00 More research and collecting samples. Split wood and deliver for my small business, “Freddie’s Firewood”.
<br/>3:30 I have soil and feed samples to send to ISU for analysis. Doc Stock gave me contact info for a guy at ISU who can help me get answers to my questions. Might be a chance to do research on hoof rot…awesome.
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tag:nabble.aealearningonline.org,2006:post-7048Sharon Seaton - A Day in the Life2017-02-09T13:12:34Z2017-02-09T13:12:34ZSharon Seaton
<br/><br/>I need to go into school today. Need some help with this Biology assignment. I am sure glad the teachers are here from 7:00 am to 5:00 pm. I would not be able to take college classes during the day and work at night plus go to high school if they just worked until 3:15pm. Oh here she is. " Hi Mrs. Seaton". "Hi Gus, what can I do for you today?" Mrs. Seaton is our science teacher. She teaches all the science classes. I get a computer and sit down with her and begin to ask all my questions. That is the way it is here. We have to take a certain number of classes and complete the required work, but then I get to choose what I want to study. I can come either in the morning or the afternoon. I can work on my own or with others who have the same classes I do. I can work in the classroom or the student lounge. We have rules here but for the most part everyone does their part. I struggle sometimes with computers that don't work or if my teachers are gone or busy I have to wait. I like it here.
tag:nabble.aealearningonline.org,2006:post-7170Tracy Petersen A Day in the Life2017-02-15T23:18:51Z2017-02-15T23:18:51ZTracy Petersen
JP wakes up when his older brother hits him. He looks for clean clothes, not finding any, he puts on the ones he wore yesterday which are in a pile on the floor. He is late and his grandma who is taking him to school yells for him to hurry. He grabs a Poptart and heads out the door, forgetting his backpack. Once at school, he stops in the nurse's office to take his meds, he was refusing to take them at home so now he has to take them at school. He doesn't like how they make him feel but he knows if he doesn't take them he will get in trouble.
<br/>In reading, he knows that he is in the lowest group and he has to meet with the special reading teacher. He knows that she only works with "dumb" kids who can't read, all the other kids say so, so he must be dumb at reading. He is working on fluency and knows that he has to read faster but then he can't understand the story and who wants to read about a stupid planet anyway? If it was about computers, then he could read faster and understand it better.
<br/>JP thought he was supposed to get a break after reading but his teacher didn't say anything so maybe not. He heads right into math. He likes numbers and he can do the adding and subtracting but don't even think about giving him a story problem about a class with pencils and how many more do you need? Doesn't everyone have their own pencil? You shouldn't need any more, what kind of class is this?
<br/>Lunch and recess, finally. JP sits with his friend Q and they talk about a you tube show that they like.
<br/>After lunch is PE, JP knows that he will not be chosen for a team and that he is pretty clumsy and not athletic, which seems to be important to the other boys and girls in his class.
<br/>Social studies next, they are studying the Southwest states and JP has to research Arizona. He has never left Iowa but he has seen pictures on-line and he has an on-line friend that he plays MineCraft with who lives in Arizona. Finally time to go home. JP is exhausted and has work to take home because he couldn't get it done at school. But he knows that he won't get it done at home, his brother will bother him and besides they don't have a pencil sharpener and all of his pencils are broken. Oh well, his teacher will be mad tomorrow.
tag:nabble.aealearningonline.org,2006:post-7236Mindy Cairney2017-02-18T20:10:08Z2017-02-26T13:04:33ZMcairney
8:20 Hilda finds a spot in the classroom to sit. She chooses the recliner at the back of the room because it is the most comfortable and she doesn't know anyone else in the class. There is a survey she needs to take quick before class begins to let the instructor know what she already knows about the topic and what her goals are for the day.
<br/>8:30 Class begins. The instructor explains the agenda for the day. She shares the resources they will be going over. Participants are able to work through the materials on their own and ask questions through a TodaysMeet discussion or asks the questions as the instructor checks in during the morning.
<br/>8:45 Instructor begins a demo with a small group of teachers that would like to learn step-by-step. Hilda has some background knowledge and would like to work ahead to learn some new ways to use the tool. She settles in and begins to work through the materials.
<br/>9:30 Hilda is really excited about the new ideas that are starting to bubble up. She is curious if there are other teachers in the room that have other ideas to share. She posts to the backchannel chat and asks for some real-life examples of other participants. She receives a reply and joins another teacher in a discussion about how to best use the tool in her classroom.
<br/>10:30 Hilda and the other teacher have brainstormed some ideas of how to introduce the new ideas to the students and have even decided to have their students collaborate online.
<br/>11:00 Lunch! Outside of school! Freeeedom!
<br/>12:00 Hilda and the other teacher meet with the instructor and share their plan. They talk about implications and where they need to strengthen their plan. They celebrate the idea of collaborating online and the instructor gives them a few ideas of how to do this.
<br/>12:30 Hilda and the other teacher begin to research some online collaboration platforms and settle on a tool that will work best.
<br/>1:00 The teacher stops the class and asks them to take a few moments to reevaluate their goals for the day. She gives them time to readjust or add to their list. Hilda's brain is swimming. She takes a moment to take a breath and refocus. Is she on track with her goals? She shares her goals with the teacher and the rest of the class
<br/>1:20 The teacher talks to the group again. She asks teachers with similar goals to group together and have a discussion and share ideas.
<br/>2:00 Next, the instructor asks the participants to share what they have learned so far in one sentence. She asks the participants to join with a few other participants that find the topic of interest or have something to offer. They engage in Edcamp-style conversations either to learn or to teach.
<br/>3:00 Students are given time to plan forward. What will their next steps be? How will they know if they are successful? What will their goals be? They plan a time to Zoom with the instructor to check in.
tag:nabble.aealearningonline.org,2006:post-7071Jessi Murphy - A Day in the Life...2017-02-10T13:20:51Z2017-02-10T13:20:51Zjmmurphy
I don’t have my homework done for English. I’ve been trying so hard to keep up, but my dyslexia is really getting in the way of my idea of success. I emailed Mrs. Murphy to tell her that I need help because I wasn’t able to complete my work at my dad’s house. I am so thankful that she said she will help me and even give me an extension, which is such a relief! It’s so nice to be at this school where I have technology to help me be successful in class and awesome teachers who are patient and willing to go above and behind.
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tag:nabble.aealearningonline.org,2006:post-7078A Day in the Life..2017-02-10T20:40:30Z2017-02-10T20:40:30ZAbby Bock
I am not understanding what is being taught in math. I have been confused the last couple days and feel so dumb for being behind; I didn’t learn this stuff at my other school. I am dreading going to math class. I just failed my quiz and really don’t want to get it back. What if someone sees my score? Good thing Mrs. Bock has time to work with me during AP and can help get me caught up. I am sure I will do better on my retake quiz after getting some one-on-one help.
tag:nabble.aealearningonline.org,2006:post-7084A Day in the Life: Scotti Hagensick2017-02-11T09:06:01Z2017-02-11T09:06:01ZScotti Hagensick
I have been trying so hard to get to school on time lately. Mrs. H, the school counselor, has talked to be a lot about all the tardies I have. I can't believe I started crying in her office this morning. She opened her computer and looked at all the tardies I have. She told me I have 22 tardies to science which is first hour every day. I know Mrs. H has called my mom and dad a few times to try to talk to them about this. They don't really seem to care. I told Mrs. H, "My dad's truck won't start and I have to wake him up myself or I don't get here on time." She seems like she understands and told me I wouldn't be punished because of adult decisions. I just don't get what else I can do. I have been telling my parents every morning that I can't be late anymore or I'll miss out on the ice cream sundae party we are having at the end of the quarter. Every day I'm on time, I earn a punch on my punch card with Mrs. H and after I get 5 punches, we'll have Subway lunch together. I just hope that it happens soon.
<br/><br/>After talking to Mrs. H, I went to science with Mr. K. He had a Prezi open on the projector showing on the whiteboard. I didn't know what he was talking about at first because I was 20 minutes late, again. People just kind of looked up at me when I came in but no one said anything. I think people are so used to me being late. Oh I see now! We're talking about the Earth's crust and what the core is inside the Earth at the very center. Wait, did he just say we have a project? And I get to teach to the students? That's new. We've never done that before.
<br/><br/>Okay. It sounds like we have 3 weeks to do this project. Mr. K isn't really telling us what to do. Don't we get a list of instructions? Am I supposed to use my Chromebook for this? I don't get it. There are no rules? Well, how am I supposed to stay busy for three whole weeks if I don't know what I'm doing? Now he is saying he is our coach for this project. What the heck does that mean?
<br/><br/>Two other kids came up to me and asked if I wanted to work with them. Sure, I guess. They asked what I thought I knew about the Earth already and what I still wanted to learn. Tommy said he feels like he knows a lot about rocks and stuff so he wants to try to find a way to construct a model of the earth so we can see the inside. I really like math so I bet I could help him make everything the right size. We have been learning about radius and diameter in math. I wonder if I could use that to help him out. Samantha said we should try to write a letter to someone who is a science researcher. She said she has a lot of questions and maybe we could all write one paragraph on the letter? I really want to look up some scientists in the area and see who I can find to write to. It sounds like this project could be kind of fun. The only thing we have to start working on today is outlining a plan for our project and what our goals are. Hmm. Okay. I think we have a few ideas to start with!
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tag:nabble.aealearningonline.org,2006:post-7367Rob's thoughts on a day in the life...2017-02-28T09:51:33Z2017-02-28T09:51:33ZRob Brookhart
What is the teacher doing during this day?
<br/>-preparation is different than the traditional classroom. The teacher is reviewing the student's goals and plan. They are thinking about what might be some of the next steps or suppports for the student if not making their goals.
<br/><br/>Who are the "teachers", for that matter?
<br/>-While the teacher is typically the Adult in the room, they may not be the provider of instruction. That teacher roll moves from the "sage on the stage" to the "guide on the side".
<br/>-The teachers roll is more as an instructional coach, helping the student to build, monitor and connect their learning to standards/outcomes vs. giving them their next steps and assigning their next "packet of learning".
<br/><br/>What perceptions or feelings does the learner have about school and learning in general?
<br/>-There's a general feeling of excitement. There's a confidence in knowing what you can do and what you will be able to do next. There's that sense of inquiry and wonderment.
<br/><br/>What are things that are working well for the student?
<br/>-motivation and interest is high for the student,
<br/>-with skillful instructional coaches helping them to self-directed learners, there is also a greater personal connection to the teacher. They know more about me than my name. It's those personal connections that help keep kids from dropping out of school and have a greater sense of community.
<br/><br/>Where is the student struggling?
<br/>-The adjustment to this from traditional learning is tough. I think often when districts start they start at the secondary level. It's hard to undo those years of traditional learning and being told what your project is and the requirements for getting the A grade.
<br/><br/>What role is technology playing?
<br/>-Technology is in a supporting role, it's not the star of the show and it is not determining next steps.