SuperBold Saturday

Attendees will create and curate their classroom digital ecosystem! Explore a few (yet multi-useful) tools/resources as we use an inquiry lens to project plan for beyond-the-classroom impact. Using AI as an assist plus your existing tech repertoire, create opportunities for students to problem-solve creatively, think critically, and address complex topics/issues in ways that matter to them. We will dabble in idea generation using AI tools such as Khamnigo and Magic School AI. Using the interdisciplinary example of climate change, we will backwards plan to take inquiry lessons/units/projects to the next level!

We will cover some of the easiest lesson frames that you can use on Monday! We will discuss and play with Repuzzler, Archetype, and Wicked Hydra.

Authentic inquiry combines the “have to” curriculum with your “want to” goals of
authenticity and agency in any content area. Learn to guide students to apply in-class learning to the challenge of helping others and creating positive change. This session focuses on how inquiry/PBL can bring relevance to in-class learning using a human rights focus to magnify impact. Learn how an equity lens, Sustainable Development Goals, and tech options facilitate student agency locally and globally by creating authentic and differentiated learning opportunities.

Students need to have a working vocabulary of at least 50,000 words to be successful in college. Most students only learn 3,000 words per year and leave high school with a deficit of 14,000 words. Research shows that 65% of a student’s academic vocabulary comes from ELA (10%) and History (55%) classes. Learn a protocol that improves vocabulary development and reading comprehension no matter what subject you teach.