Less+Is+More+Planning

Less Is More Outline

Get into groups of 3 with people you don't know..... stickies or stickers

- Locate Brainyard as participants arrive - Write 5 words - MSU tab9/ p. 332 - 10 min " Write 5 word you think of when you look at this picture or think about this topic." Less Is More • Find a friend to be a student and recreate a scenario of a problem solving situation you've dealt with this year • Discussion around how participants have encouraged/taught self reliance, grit and problem solving

- DT brainstorm/categorize with sticky notes: scenarios where students were called upon to problem solve - 7 minutes • Discipline • Information •Tech, team, content • Add note to wall

- Show categories on wall: Any that don't fit, need to add? - 12 minutes • Select an item from the wall as a group • Participants Think/Pair/Share a scenario and strategies • Post to Wiki - 5 to share out

- Butterfly video 2 minutes

- Introduce Resource Page - 5 minutes • Yank items from wall • Build solutions for reference

- Student questioning and student ownership - 3 minutes • Help Desk video

1/2 group 1 question each. Research in your group of 3... Doc on wiki/index card the following. 20 minutes What questions should they have been asking? Why? - How is problem solving different from inquiry? How different is defining the problem and asking the right question? Resource and image to support position • Point to questioning resources • Socratic questioning, How the World Works, What we Wonder, Social Studies Workshop • **Note To Share**: Opportunity for continued to probing

- Information Seeking: Problem Solving - Specific example R.E.A.L strategies Teaching Zack to think Ear Mouse

(do they know the right questions to ask? Do they the opportunity to develop and ask them? ) • How do I get the right info about this topic? What questions do I need to ask? How do I know this info is reliable? R.E.A.L strategies Learning Networks
 * Big Picture:** Start with Problems Kid come up against daily, down a layer to Kids asking right question?
 * Twitter
 * Diigo
 * Blogs

- How can you solve a problem without creativity/innovation? Stand and Share MSU BookTab 9/ p. 331 • Grit - "Life = Risk" - video - Lincoln, Ball, Jordan, Jobs Look at creators and innovators that have help to shape our world: Who are? What habits of mind? Dispositions come to mind when you think about them? How do we provide opportunity for kids to develop these traits?

- Screen shots for all the below: - Student created content News In Action Davis/Seley social studies workshop Brainyard My Wonder How Bloggers Network [use 1st year when students created the rubric thingy] • Jordan failure video

- Reflection How are the ideas and info presented connected to what you know and have experienced? What ideas extended or pushed your thinking in new directions? What is still challenging or confusing to you? What questions, wonders or puzzles do you have?

Create scenarios with direct connection to resources page Sticky notes Colored sticky notes or stickers Chocolate print affordances/constraints (Ex)
 * To Do**:

On Wiki: Intro question, Strategies used, Examples of Student work (link or describe) Question tab Share out page screen shot student work samples Get 5 Word thoughts on Session Title - from here ask about their expectations Share our thoughts behind the session activities and flow State the connections between activities Explicitly state "how" activity relates to less/more Spend time showing items on resource page ....... DT? Are we going to use post its?...... Monk video - dark, difficult to understand - Go directly to student ownership from Butterfly video Expand on grit slide/conversation Use REAL (lesson format) as a hands on example of allowing student discover. 5 minutes. What was learned.
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create page for each starting resource & make discussion area on each curate examples & create page pick Roy & Sara's example to excavate put up directions for making new page, using template
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