NOTES

=FEB 28=

What did you notice about your creativity?

Things that affect creativity: time talent or ability (art)

Dot story: i think we are all creative in our own way. the dot story showed how the little girl thought she wasn't creative and slowly started learning and figuring out a creative side to her.

__**March 29**__
Democratization vs. regulation

Social Media gives us the opportunity to participate

2. Creation -users can now create products ideas and information. they now can also share information. Now we can communicate with real people and share ideas and actually influence the world. Knowledge is constructed through experiences. Natural way our brains make and store information...same ways used in social media. Problem now is that it opens up this world of risks. -child predators. designed for kids and predators come...scary! Landisk=monitor what students are looking at and doing on their screens in libraries and etc. -constitutional issues. free speech, privacy, is it really ok for BYU to tell you that you can/cannot see or go to certain sites. Network administrator-it makes sense because you don't want viruses. the more regulated something becomes the less useful it is. distractions, watching games, facebook, -challenges the existing structures of the schools. challenges authority.

Structural: the existing system does not accommodate it. Authority issue: Cultural and Value issue:

Conflicts get played out in the following way...

Perspective Products Practices

Do/Believe/Produce

you can leverage these relationships. most people argue about how they are ging to do it. most of the conflict is really in the whys. What we believe and what we value?

ex: look at a school

Products: lesson plans/tests/wksts/school buletins and policies/pencil sharpener/staplers objects are tied to practices

Lesson plans tied to beliefs and learning

Address chaotic behavior with the hows (practices)

meaningful lesson plans are missing the WHYS

don't have knowledge about what it is they are doing...or they don't have perspective. what the teacher believes the purpose of schooling is and what the teacher believes the role between students and teacher should be and also what teacher believe about students capabilities and how learning happens. If you really want to change the teachers/students they you have to do metacognitive meddling.

Metacognitive Meddling -When you are three years old your perspective is this small. very small... -when something breaks you don't have life experience to know what or how to fix it. -the more spiritual experience you have

Primary- spend all your time with the whats....commandments and sunday school answers primary whats-what is the definition ym/yw-how (so how should you take the sacrament) how do you keep the wow.... Relief society-spend time talkng about why. Why do we keep the wow? Reverance invites revelation, it's an attitude. don't see it reflected in the curriculum. very product focused. why is it that we do what we do? there is physical and spiritual power in reading the scriptures. if you really want to change people you have to change perspective. if you want to change how you interact in the classroom you need to change teh classroom. participation changed 100% (FLAC story)

what are some cultural reasons this may/maynot be true economic political social structural psychological affective/emotional

heuristics (the more you have the easier it is to analyze something)

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Debate practice

Students who have access to computers should

__ April 3 __
Guest speaker:

How do you learn? think about how you learn...where do you learn and how is it different from 5/10/15 years ago? How do you share your learning? exchange ideas and work with peers. Most of the time it's people you know but it can be people you don't know. Most kids are concerned with their grade. Daniel Pink TED talk (Drive) Flow Why do we do what we do? Understanding self motivation

Motivation 2.0 (no more cave man, rewards and punishments) automated tasks. -we are still in a world of compliance. it's all about being compliant. either awarded or punished.

Rewards and Punishments don't work with experiencing things.

Motivation 3.0 all about engagement. trying to engage kids. Intrinsic motivation.

Autonamy/mastery/purpose

those three things really motivate people

autonomy: task/time/team/technique -you are more motivated to do something when you know you can decide and choose what you want to do. People are more motivated when they have these 4 things. You must have some type of accountability.

google: Googletime! they decide what they want to do with who and about what. Very powerful. they chose to do it. Fed Ex days...you've got to deliver something but it can be whatever.

Mastery: motivates us. we want to get better and better at something. We want to get better and better. the urge to always be better. It takes time and is messsy. concept of flow. you are working on something and forget about everythng and just keep going. you get into flow and you are the most motivated. create that moment of flow...try to have it in class

Purpose: the yearning to do something of purpose. something larger than ourselves. we aren't just learning language for ourselves. we want to help other people out. it's bigger than just me. It can be hard to put it all into perspective. choose your task and technique. choose one or two things that you want to get really good at. Pick one or two to get really good at. as opposed to trying to do everything all at once.

__Scared of Twitter:__ What is twitter? microblogging... I've learned more from twitter than my entire life combined. Why because it's an incredible community of people. Unless you have more than 100 people than it really isn't useful. You need to find the right people. How do you find the right people? find educators...#langchat so important, many people participating. every thursday night at 6pm mountain time. people just get together and talk about what they want to talk about. people vote on a topic and it's a really fast paced conversation. many people are just looking and following along. People who are teaching for 50 years and just sharing ideas. You will get to know them pretty well pretty quickly. usually people will come back after using it one time. You can always read the summary. url to the summary site. they actually published a book called Web 2.0 []

what are some of the inibitions of using twitter? keeping track of all the people. how much of it is useful? time. -actually using twitter saves time. i don't have time to read books and stuff and they tell me what's important. filter out the noise. how to manage it? tweetdeck or hootsweet or something to filter the conversations so that you just have to find something about Portuguese and etc. you can filter people out and in. hash tags will be your most powerful resource. let me share some blogs with you. blogs that are phenomenal. writing to reflect. bad teachers don't know they are bad because they don't take the time to reflect. the reflect teachers really are the best. those are the ones i really want to work with.

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They always tell you why they are doing what they are doing as well.

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teaches kindergarten and AP spanish.

talks about things that are going wrong in her classroom. what she did? why it went wrong? inviting others to comment on what went wrong or right. exploring the idea of the one-on-one initiative

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read and learn from other people. use it as a model for your own blogging. you have a voice and you have something to share.

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if we share more and share our resources then we would be much better off.

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don't hang out in the teacher's lounge or office. they can be incredibly negative. people hang out there who don't want to get better.

hooked into sharing and being with other language teachers. made many friends and get involved with others and get connected with all kinds of people from all over the country. It's been super rewarding.

Duties as a board member: ACTFL he reviews conference proposals. inside view on where everyone is at. Submit a proposal for anytime. It's coming to Utah soon. prepare for that. these conferences are rich and empowering. lots of other people just like you out there.

Advice to professionals about how to get professionally connected. How to get actively heard... Compare 5 years ago with now. I used to always say become a member but now... what's missing is that people havent;' shifted from teaching to learning. Language classes are very different from what they were before. We are becoming master officiators ... they don't really need you. they can fnd a million people just like you. Find professional associations. Incharge of what you need. You can find professional development online. You are no longer provider but facilitator and coach. it becomes a platform for professional learning=twitter!!! build professional network to learn and that goes far beyond your campus and language. as large as you could possibly make it. that's how you'll become a real professional in this field.

How to deal with privacy and twitter? I try to keep twitter as professional as you can. personal on facebook professional on twitter. challenge now is that my teachers are on facebook and it's a missed opportunity and now instead of trying to get them to get a new network it gets confusing and so you have your facebook people adn then twitter people...it becomes a one sided thing so he's trying to infuse some personal things into twitter. create an online identity for yoruself. try to make it as close to yourself as possible. protect your future.

1. Follow people - lists of teacher so you can follow someone 2. Participate in some type of chat. you can read along. you don't have to follow the people. 3. make use of hashtags. you'll find other people 4. see who else everyone else is following too 5. read their bio -dont' follow anyone that doesn't have a bio up.

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seasoned teachers are scared because they think you guys know more than they do. Join me.

= April 5 = The tools are ever changing and so because of that you need to choose a tool and know how it will break down. motivation globalization=whys and the effects. anytime anywhere learnign possible. pros and cons to technology.

choose 4 topics critical to when you think of this course which topics have transformed you principles/concepts/your_choice

principles=rules of thumbs concepts=ideas Synthesize: How to figure out the key concepts and important principles and essentially the good examples, experiences or questions. Elder scott had an interesting quote. you ought to have some interesting questions. you will always have unresolved nagging questions. those will be your stepping stones to future learning. they serve as containers of what will be relevant. key names of people that will be thoughtful or relevant. pull out quotes that really hit you.

think about key concepts that matter. group them together. post it note organization. dissertation. seeing connections between the fields. creativity and challenge...flow theory...as you read more and more you find a concept that you can find a post it for everything especially the gospel = that is a truth. start packaging the gospel for yourself. what are some tings we are told all the time. every single revelation because of a problem...cognitive dissonance. prays and asks a question. always comes from a problem. go to the lord with a question. in response to a question it comes. we need to have questions. important to write them down.

Logic chain. take every principle and work out the logic of the argument you are trying to make.

globalization.......last word last word.........third word third word......fourth word fourth word.......etc.

linking all of them together. you should end up with a circle. if you do it right you should end up where you started. then you know you have a nice tight arugment.