cps digital resources to support ccss
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Integrating Free Digital Resources
To Support
Your Common Core
Chicago Principals & Administrators Association Annual Education Conference
Feb 7-8, 2013
Jeremy Dunn, Department of LibrariesEducation Tools and Technology
Today's Objectives
• Know the suite of free resources available to all CPS schools
• Understand how to access resources - from school and home
• Understand how resources can support the Common Core State Standards
• Develop strategies for creating inquiry-based projects to support CCSS-aligned curriculum
• Consider some Best Practices for using these digital resources
• Begin strategy development for integrating use at your school
Instructional Shifts with CCSS
1.Regular Practice with Complex Text
•Accessible texts used inconjunction with complex texts
Instructional Shifts with CCSS
2. Build knowledge through informational texts
•Inquiry-based projects = motivation
Instructional Shifts with CCSS
3. Reading and writing grounded in textual evidence
• Elementary - Narrative, Informational, Argument
• Middle - Multiple sources; explain; convince
• HS - Sophisticated arguments; variety of sources
Common Core State Standards
+
Authentic Learning Experiences
= Inquiry-based learning
This is Research!
Research Project Ingredients• Inquiry-based
• Aligned to CCSS
• Aligned to Research and Technology Skills
• Guided by a Process
Inquiry-based projects• Driven by student questions /
interests
• Guided by teacher
• Grounded in a thematic focus
• Personally relevant, Socially significant
Research Skills in CCSS
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Research Skills in CCSS
CCSS Standards > Research
• Short / sustained research based on focused ?s
• Gathering information, assessing credibility
• Integrating information
• Textual evidence to support analysis, reflection
What do you think?
Are students naturally skillful, or naturally not skillful, when
conducting Internet research?
Research Process
1.Developing the question
2.Identifying Source Information
3.Evaluating Data/Information
4.Organizing Information
5.Synthesizing Information
6.Sharing with Others
7.Reflect and Assess
Research Process
1.Developing the question
2. Identifying Source Information
3.Evaluating Data/Information
4.Organizing Information
5.Synthesizing Information
6.Sharing with Others
7.Reflect and Assess
Online databases contain important
resources to support 21st century
learning. They are:
•Aligned to standards
•Vetted for accuracy
•Authoritative
•Current
•Available 24/7 from home or school
•Provide ability to email and citations
•Some resources have audio narration
Access with these links:
•http://library.cps.k12.il.us
•http://www2.youseemore.com/cps/linkinclude.asp
Use your school’s four-digit unit number
← Multiple formats
← Option for Audio
Tools to support 21st Century skills
Primary sources located alongside current events
Currently, over 7,000+ eBooks and growing!
eBooks can greatly expand your students’ reading choices.
View on computers, whiteboards, & iPads (with a browser other than Safari)
Read-aloud options, too!
http://www2.youseemore.com/cps/
Research ModelGrade 7
Assessment
Students will create public service announcements about selected health
topics in the form of Animoto videos.
Key Elements
• Define the concept
• Highlight statistics to communicate scope of issue
• Offer tips for safeguarding well-being
Developing Questions
21st Century Tools
21st Century Tools
Process continues
1.Developing the question
2.Identifying Source Information
3.Evaluating Data/Information
4. Organizing Information
5.Synthesizing Information
6.Sharing with Others
7.Reflect and Assess
Organizing Information
• Identify three key elements
• Relevant images with URLs
• Citations and links
Students use Wikispaces
Final Product
http://animoto.com/play/50uJDtHkvxw789zKj9DYqA
Research ModelGrade 4
Assessment
Student pairs will create first-persondialogues with their selected rainforest
animal using the iPad "Puppet Pals" application.
Students begin with focused questions provided by teacher
Students use two online resources
to research their selected animal
21st Century Tools
Final Product
Review of Best Practices
• Link to resources from your school’s library or resource web page
• Embed resources into units and lessons - disintermediate -
“cutting out the middleman”
• Use deep linking on project pages to facilitate discovery
• Use a research process that guides students through steps and provides
academic language that they should understand
• Use online resources in the context of lessons built on inquiry
providing an authentic reason to go on a hunt for information.
Review of Best Practices
•Leverage model teachers to demonstrate use to other teachers
•Ask the librarian to develop online resource guides for major curriculum
projects
•Showcase student work so students are “published”
•Communicate with parents about the available resources
•Encourage students to access these resources from home