Menlo School Workshop
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About Menlo School
Menlo School’s mission is to empower students to explore and expand their interests, reach their fullest potential, develop the skills necessary for success in college, and become ethical, responsible, and engaged members of ever wider communities.
Values At Menlo School, we are passionate about encouraging students to:
Pursue high standards of academic excellence. Discover the joy of learning. Stretch themselves and raise challenging questions. Demonstrate courage, integrity and a commitment to ethical behavior. Develop a sense of commitment to purposes larger than themselves. Appreciate the richness of diversity. Think independently and creatively. Take progressively more responsibility for themselves and their education. Lead healthful lives. Environment At the center of Menlo School is a deep commitment to the development and welfare of each individual student. The School offers extensive academic, athletic, arts and extracurricular activities designed to:
Promote among students, teachers, coaches and staff relationships that are respectful and inspirational. Balance rigorous expectations with extensive encouragement and support.
Source: http://www.menloschool.org/about_menlo/mission.aspx
Workshop Outline:
Introductions
Interactive presentation and discussion
Focusing on the concepts of open educational resources (OER), online collaboration, and social learning. Highlighted Resources:
- MIT Highlights for High School Knowledge is Action: Save the world and List of Design Challenges PDF
- WGBH Educational Foundation Design Process Video
- TERC Study of Place: Ocean Currents Exploration
OER Commons Search
Search http://www.oercommos.org for an activity that teachers can use in their classroom in the next month.
- Before begining the search for an OER for an upcoming lesson or unit that can be used in their teaching, consider the following:
- What are you looking for? (subject, grade level, material type, etc.)
- What is your critieria?
- How do you want to use it?
- Once teachers have found an OER they can use, consider the following:
- How will you use it?
- Will you need to make any changes to it?
What are educators doing with OER?
- Sun Curve Design Challenge
- Tagging, rating, and reviewing OER on OER Commons [1]
- Creating OER using a wiki and sharing it on OER Commons
- Collaborating using a Ning Site Sun Curve Design Challenge Ning
- OER and Arts Education
- Tagging, rating, and reviewing OER on OER Commons [2]
- Creating OER using a wiki and sharing it on OER Commons
- Collaborating using a Ning Site OER Arts Ning
How can open inspire innovation at Menlo School?
Next Steps:
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