Learning+&+Innovation+Skills


 * == **Skill - Creativity and Innovation** == || == **How Your Media Coordinator Can Help** == ||
 * ===//Think Creatively//===
 * 1) ===Use a wide range of idea creation techniques (such as brainstorming)===
 * 2) ===Create new and worthwhile ideas (both incremental and radical concepts)===
 * 3) ===Elaborate, refine, analyze and evaluate their own ideas in order to improve and maximize creative efforts=== || # ==Teach brainstorming techniques such as thinking maps and online brainstorming sites==
 * 4) ==Use of thinking maps to refine and analyze using graphic organizers and organizer softwares ([|Inspiration])== ||
 * ===//Work Creatively With Others//===
 * 1) ===Develop, implement and communicate new ideas to others effectively===
 * 2) ===Be open and responsive to new and diverse perspectives; incorporate group input and feedback into the work===
 * 3) ===Demonstrate originality and inventiveness in work and understand the real world limits to adopting new ideas===
 * 4) ===View failure as an opportunity to learn; understand that creativity and innovation is a long-term, cyclical process of small successes and frequent mistakes=== || # ===Use of wikis between you and your students and student to student : Ex- Post a discussion topic for students to comment on, Students===
 * 5) ===Use of Google docs=== ||
 * ===//Implement Innovations//===
 * ===Act on creative ideas to make a tangible and useful contribution to the field in which the innovation will occur=== || * ===Help design and implement Project Based Learning opportunities (PBLs)=== ||


 * == **Skill Critical Thinking & Problem Solving** == || == **How Your Media Coordinator Can Help** == ||
 * ===//Reason Effectively//===
 * ===Use various types of reasoning (inductive, deductive, etc.) as appropriate to the situation=== || * ===PBLs=== ||
 * ===//Use Systems Thinking//===
 * ===Analyze how parts of a whole interact with each other to produce overall outcomes in complex systems=== || * ===PBLs=== ||
 * ===//Make Judgments and Decisions//===
 * 1) ===Effectively analyze and evaluate evidence, arguments, claims and beliefs===
 * 2) ===Analyze and evaluate major alternative points of view===
 * 3) ===Synthesize and make connections between information and arguments===
 * 4) ===Interpret information and draw conclusions based on the best analysis===
 * 5) ===Reflect critically on learning experiences and processes=== || ===1 - 5. Controversial issues research projects===

5. Journal entries, peer reviews
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 * ===//Solve Problems//===
 * 1) ===Solve different kinds of non-familiar problems in both conventional and innovative ways===
 * 2) ===Identify and ask significant questions that clarify various points of view and lead to better solutions=== || * ===PBLs=== ||


 * == ** Skill - Communication and Collaboration ** == || === How Your Media Coordinator Can Help === ||
 * ===//Communicate Clearly//===
 * 1) ===Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using oral, written and nonverbal communication skills in a variety of forms and contexts===
 * 2) ===Listen effectively to decipher meaning, including knowledge, values, attitudes and intentions===
 * 3) ===Use communication for a range of purposes (e.g. to inform, instruct, motivate and persuade)===
 * 4) ===Utilize multiple media and technologies, and know how to judge their effectiveness as well as assess their impact===
 * 5) ===Communicate effectively in diverse environments (including multilingual)=== || ===1 - 5. Teach students use of VoiceThread, Poetry Ex Podcasts for projects. Project ideas- audio books, online dictionaries (Poetry Ex). Students can comment on each others VoiceThread===

4. Plan and co-teach a variety of tech projects then design a lesson in which students choose which technology to create their project
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 * ===//Collaborate with Others//===
 * 1) ===Demonstrate ability to work effectively and respectfully with diverse teams===
 * 2) ===Exercise flexibility and willingness to be helpful in making necessary compromise to accomplish a common goal===
 * 3) ===Assume shared responsibility for collaborative work and value the individual contributions made by each team member=== || # ===Plan & co-teach collaborative projects for your students. Examples: Genetic Disorders Projects, Book Trailers.===
 * 4) Same as #1
 * 5) ===Guide students through the process of creating a rubric to grade themselves and their group for group projects=== ||