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Are You on FIRE? LOTI District Trainer


Image: Tonia Reed (Friendswood ISD) and Dr. Chris Moersch

This past week has been exciting and action-packed! On the hunt for new professional learning opportunities for staff, I found out from LeeChel Moersch that pricing for short online courses is running about $1800 for 30 vouchers. That is, I can run a cohort of 30 people through a 10-week, online learning course–I just had a bunch graduate from one and they loved it–for $1800. This is a phenomenal price and beats any of the other providers I’ve seen out there. The content of the course is also top notch.

Furthermore, I found out from the training I attended that about 6 school districts in Texas–including Cypress-Fairbanks ISD–are participating in designing online courses and training staff. It’s definitely worth looking at.

You can find an online list of courses–but to be honest, they’ll customize the courses to match a district’s needs.

Disclosure: Not a thing to disclose! Please note that I’m not paid to write any of that, it’s what I’ve experienced and have to share it.

That said, the training I went through this week was engaging. Here’s the “piece of paper” as my Dad liked to say:

Nice to have participated in this session…below is some information shared during the session, including a presentation I put together to “graduate” from the training. My thanks to colleague, Tonya Mills for her contributions.

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Additional Resources

Click the image above to start watching Dr. Chris Moersch share about how to TURN UP THE H.E.A.T. with Levels of Technology Implementation.

HEAT is an acronym for…

HIGHER-ORDER THINKING

* Students taking notes only; no questions asked

* Student learning/questioning at knowledge level

* Student learning/questioning at comprehension level

* Student learning/questioning at application level

* Student learning/questioning at analysis level

* Student learning/questioning at synthesis/evaluation

ENGAGED LEARNING

* Students report what they have learned only.

* Students report what they have learned only; collaborate with others.

* Students given options to solve a problem

* Students given options to solve a problem; collaborate with others

* Students help define the task, the process, and the solution

* Students help define the task, the process, and the solution; collaborations extends beyond the classroom.

AUTHENTICITY

* The learning experience is missing or too vague to determine relevance.

* The learning experience represents a group of connected activities, but provides no real world application.

* The learning experience provides limited real world relevance, but does not apply the learning to a real world situation.

* The learning experience provides real world relevance and opportunity for students to apply their learning to a real world situation.

* The learning experience is directly relevant to students and involves creating a product that has a purpose beyond the classroom that directly impacts the students.

TECHNOLOGY USE

* No technology use is evident.

* Technology use is unrelated to the task.

* Technology use appears to be an add-on and is not needed for task-completion.

* Technology use is somewhat connected to task completion involving one or more applications

* Technology use is directly connected to task completion involving one or more applications.

* Technology use is directly connected and needed for task completion and students determine which application(s) would best address their needs.

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