{"id":3382,"date":"2017-08-22T11:07:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T15:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=3382"},"modified":"2017-11-01T16:10:10","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T20:10:10","slug":"new-teacher-academy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=3382","title":{"rendered":"New Teacher Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?attachment_id=3384\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3384\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Capture-1-300x226.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Capture-1-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Capture-1.png 679w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Today was New Teacher Academy, our county&#8217;s training session for newly hired teachers. My team&#8217;s job was to share ideas for using technology in the classroom. Alfonso and I presented a session called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vTvDVKZPQUum8ZoJJOIr7XYmje6z6D2pXiEZlfNuMHZajn3X3d1Wc1zc_aWJ1N63Esp8vl9BYFDpHFY\/pub?start=false&#038;loop=false&#038;delayms=3000\">Mysteryland<\/a>&#8221; with the 4th grade teachers.  Mysteryland is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysteryland.nl\/\">music festival<\/a> that I <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/97887082\">attended<\/a> one summer, but it could also be your classroom, because classrooms are places for exploring mysteries.  When you present topics as mysteries to solve, it stimulates students&#8217; natural curiosity and increases motivation to learn. We used clouds (SOL4.6) as an example to show that every topic has plenty of mysteries to investigate: How much does a cloud weigh? Why does a cloud form in one spot and not another? Does anything live inside a cloud? Does lighting come down from clouds or up from the ground? Do clouds protect us from anything? Does wind speed and direction have anything to do with cloud cover? (<em>Look <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meteoearth.com\/\">here<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/earth.nullschool.net\/\">here<\/a> and turn on cloud cover<\/em>)? Technology can be used by teachers to present these mysteries to the students in creative ways, but once a few mysteries have been presented, technology can be used by students to share their own questions with each other, research the answers collaboratively, and publish their findings online. We shared a variety of webtools for accomplishing these tasks.  For example, we asked each new teacher to research a cloud mystery and post their answers on a <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/10dkIbDgpwss4DaqnvpRryatJ905nhOIrxYuXXkf4NHQ\/edit?usp=sharing\">shared Google spreadsheet<\/a>. Try adding an element of mystery to your lessons this year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was New Teacher Academy, our county&#8217;s training session for newly hired teachers. My team&#8217;s job was to share ideas for using technology in the classroom. Alfonso and I presented a session called &#8220;Mysteryland&#8221; with the 4th grade teachers. Mysteryland is a music festival that I attended one summer, but it could also be your&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=3382\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-3382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4th","category-staffdev","tag-webtools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3385,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions\/3385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}