Brains+on+Fire!

= Brains on Fire! Hearts on Fire! = //Perhaps the most important understanding for adults is that students are volunteers, whether we want them to be or not. Their attendance can be commanded, but their attention must be earned. Their compliance can be insisted on, but their commitment is under their own control.// ~ Schelcty

Going to school is not the same as getting an education or becoming a fearless, joyful lover of learning. Students are volunteers–educators may be able to muster general compliance but a learner’s attention and commitment has always been under their own control. Igniting a passion for learning cannot be done without engaging students as active partners in meeting academic challenges inspired by personalized choices [agency] that deliver rigorous and relevant experiences. Explore “Turning UP the H.E.A.T.™” (** H **igher Order Thinking - ** E **ngaged Learners - ** A **uthentic Tasks and added-value ** T **echnology Uses) as high-yielding instructional strategies for growing individualized cultures of curiosity, thinking and mastery of curriculum. Participants will leave inspired to incorporate H.E.A.T.™ strategies, harnessing technology’s capacity for unleashing every student's inner fire for owning learning, thinking, and communicating in a digital age.

**Session Handouts**

 * AGENCY Chart ~ [[file:AffinityAgency Chart.pdf]]
 * AGENCY Planning Template ~ [[file:Designing for AGENCY.pdf]]
 * Brains on Fire! Hearts on Fire! Excerpt - Self-Directed Learning Spaces [[file:Self-Directed Learning Spaces.pdf]]


 * Bernajean's FAV ** Inspiring Digital Tools **for Thinking and Communicating

**Student AGENCY / Affinity[[image:Make Just One Change-thumb-300x300-851.jpg width="300" height="300" align="left"]]**

 * [|Reggio Emilia] Philosophy
 * [|FedEx Day]Time Out for Student Learning Adventures
 * [|Student Engagement Through Passion-Based Learning] - A Google Model
 * Quest Atlantis [|Students Design and Build]Virtual Environments
 * [|Habits of Mind] as Learning Outcomes a la Art Costa
 * Make Just One Change - Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions
 * [|Right Question Institute]- A Catalyst for MicroDemocracy

**Engaged Learning Adventures**

 * [|History CSI] ~ Students as Citizen Historians
 * [|World of War Craft] Meets Common Core [Ramapo Schools]
 * [|WOW in Schools]
 * Investigating The Diary of Louise B. Hancock - [|A History Mystery]

**Resources[[image:Instructional Challenge.jpg align="right"]]**

 * [|Valedictorian Speech] on Her Schooling
 * [|Self-Assessment] - The Key to Stronger Motivation and Student Achievement
 * [|Flow ~A Measure of Student Engagement]
 * Drive [Surprising Truth About Motivation] a la [|Daniel Pink Video]
 * [|Big Picture School] in Rhode Island - [Video] Student Run Curriculum Around Interests and Passions

**Tools for Students Documenting Own Learning**

 * Lesson Ideas Using [|eScrapbooking for Thinking and Learning]
 * [|Ten APPS] for Students Documenting Learning
 * Explain EveryThing
 * DoodleCast
 * Common Craft
 * Plain English - a la RSA or Stop Motion
 * Paper Slides
 * Present.me
 * VideoStudio XV - Video + StopMotion
 * VoiceThread
 * ePortfolio Tools like Wix, Wikis, Nings, CarbonMade, or PupilPages