Day 4
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Debriefing and connecting
Feedback on yesterday’s reflections
and Facewall postings
A-has continue!
Be student-centric
Embrace the idea that learning is MESSY
and nonlinear
Model the excitement of discovery
Experience/accept the feelings of being
overwhelmed
Question, question, question
Challenges!
Thinking strategically:
What will work with our students?
How much can we realistically expect them to
absorb?
What are best ways for us to sequence things?
How do we get wider support from the adults at
our school?
How can we carve more collaboration time with
our teams after the institute?
More info please!
More tools like the Gantt chart to track
schedules and show research maps?
Link to Art Costa?
Link to Toumlin?
Links to online Senior Project manuals?
More essential questions from teams?
More on how to move from outlines to first
drafts?
My belief confirmed!
The talent and knowledge are not external to
schools
It comes from within dynamic schools
We need to listen to it
We need to nurture and support this talent
and grow it
Essential questions—Day 4
How do we help students construct personal
knowledge from the information collected?
How do we help students reflect on their
research process?
Challenge 8
How do we help students make
sense of information and data?
Synthesizing data
Deductive/inductive reasoning
Understanding of the composition or
combination of elements found through
research
Analysis of different concepts to find overall
meaning
Higher stage of truth or answer to an
essential question
Organizing and synthesizing
your notes
Creating and using
graphic organizers
What are graphic organizers?
Visual representations of thinking
Diagrams that represent relationships of
ideas or information from different sources
Concept dates back to David Ausubel’s work
with advance organizers (1960s)
More on graphic organizers
They capitalize on visual learning
They activate the right brain
They become vehicles for teaching thinking
skills
Form of organizer depends on the kind of
thinking you wish to capture
Popular types of organizers
K-W-L chart
Venn diagram
Web
Know
Want to
Know
Learned
Detail
Marine Life
Detail
Topic
Detail
Detail
Commercial
Fishing
Vessels
Seaweed
Graphic organizers—purposes
Display a sequence of events
Describe a procedure
Show relationships
Compare and summarize data
Identify cause and effect
Describe pros and cons
Time sequence:
display a sequence of events
1
2
3
4
Done!
7
6
5
Flow chart:
describe a procedure
No
Yes
Concept map:
show relationships
Topic
Sub topic 1
Detail
Detail
Sub topic 2
Sub topic 3
Detail
Detail
Sub topic 4
Detail
Detail
Matrix:
summarize and compare data
Animals
Animal A
Animal B
Animal C
Trait 1
Trait 2
Trait 3
Fishbone:
show cause and effect
Cause 1
Cause 2
Effect
Cause 3
Cause 4
T chart:
identify pros and cons
Pro
Con
Details
Details
Matching exercise 1
Analyze the reasons
why the Japanese
Americans were
imprisoned during
WW II?
Time sequence
Flow chart
Concept map
Matrix
Fishbone
T chart
Fishbone:
show cause and effect
Cause 1
Cause 2
JA
imprisonment
Cause 3
Cause 4
Matching exercise 2
Identify significant
events in the Civil
Rights movement in
a chronological
sequence?
Time sequence
Flow chart
Concept map
Matrix
Fishbone
T chart
Time sequence:
display a sequence of events
1
2
3
4
Final
event
7
6
5
Matching exercise 3
Compare cultural
practices of 10
nations?
Time sequence
Flow chart
Concept map
Matrix
Fishbone
T chart
Matrix:
summarize and compare data
Nations
Nation A
Nation B
Nation C
Practice 1
Practice 2
Practice 3
Matching exercise 4
Prepare a debate on
whether U.S. should
continue
interventions in
Iraq?
Time sequence
Flow chart
Concept map
Matrix
Fishbone
T chart
T chart:
identify pros and cons
For Intervention
Against Intervention
Details
Details
Matching exercise 5
Support main ideas
related to the issue
of saving the rain
forest?
Time sequence
Flow chart
Concept map
Matrix
Fishbone
T chart
Concept map:
show relationships
Rain forest
Sub topic 1
Detail
Detail
Sub topic 2
Sub topic 3
Detail
Detail
Sub topic 4
Detail
Detail
Matching exercise 6
Show steps and
decisions involved in
creating a display
board on eating
habits of teens?
Time sequence
Flow chart
Concept map
Matrix
Fishbone
T chart
Flow chart:
describe a procedure
Brainstorm
Gather
data
Analyze
No
Decide
Yes
Draft
Revise
Consult
Analyze
Display
Sources for organizers
HM’s Education Place
Rubistar
Take a look at this!
A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
Challenge 9
How do we help students reflect on
their own learning?
Strategies to reflect on research
Journey map
Chart of findings throughout research process
Visual aid to formulate associations/alignment of
evidence discovered
Tool for continuous assessment of collected data
Support for synthesis of data and the formulation
of answers for essential questions
Refer to: Research Journey Map
Strategies to reflect on research
7 Slippahs: Eh, Nice Slippah…But You Sure
Match?
Protocol for comments and issues for
improvement. To be used for peer coaching, class
sharing or conferencing.
Lens for reviewing analysis and checking for
unbalanced reflection
Process for data driven dialogue
Student connection
Case study
Introduce Misty
Journey Map: Misty’s Journey
Reflecting on the synthesis of data
7 Slippahs: Eh, Nice Slippah…But You Sure
Match?
As a group reflect on Misty’s progress. Create
possible questions for feedback utilizing the 7
Slippahs
Share out to class
Refer to: RJM—Misty and 7 Slippahs: Eh, Nice Slippah
Rubric to assess research process
Critical for student do a self-assessment
Same rubric should be used by instructional
team
Focus not only on what but also how well
Add this type of learning assessment in the
PEARL portfolios you turn in
Refer to: Research Rubric Self-Assessment
Research Rubric Example
Refer to: Research Rubric Self-Assessment Example
Technology Tools
Bibliographies and citations
Online resources
EasyBib
BibMe
NoodleBib
Purdue OWL
Plagiarism
Online Articles
Capital Community
College
Indiana University
Plagiarism.org
Purdue OWL
University of Alberta
University of Hawaii at
Manoa
University of North
Carolina
Online Tools
Plagiarism Checker
Prentice Hall Tutorial
Video
Rutgers University
Break: networking time!
Cohort I Joining Us
Lessons learned
Lunch and networking!
School teams: work session
Work session
Brainstorm strategies that help students
Analyze and synthesize information and create
knowledge
Assess their research process
Post your work in Laulima, or chart them
Share them in the Swap Meet!
Break: networking time!
Swap Meet!
Recapping and reflecting
Have a great afternoon!
Get off the grass, Logan!
Is my
research
really that
way?
Hands-on
projects, yeah!
The forest
is its own
symphony!
This is
cool! I
never
really
went
hiking in
Chicago.
I’m taking
the path
less taken,
Sunshine!
Daily reflections in Laulima