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Jewish Educators Network at ISTE 2012 Monday, June 25, 5:30pm-6:45pm PDT Building/Room: SDCC 5 (San Diego Convention Center)


 * Schools and iPads
 * Jeff's school does not use iPads b/c kids would break them.  his  charter school
 * Liz's special needs school Gateways just bought 1 iPad for each class.
 * Alison teaches music but doesn't have one
 * jenny started using the iPad 1 year ago for music with instrument  apps
 * And for math & writing
 * Jenny also has touch sensitive tables and they can use in small groups
 * Allison raised the issue that tech can't teach everything and some skills may be best enhanced through old school methods
 * Jeff said that we have to teach technology skills or they cannot do things


 * Online learning / blended learning


 * Integration of web tools into Judaic studies


 * Integration of web tools into teacher training


 * Favorite useful resources online/ offline

> remained ed models; what problems are being solved and what problems not being solved and then adjust models. how can we address one on one collaborative time. > first - cycle skills leads to knowledge and knowledge needs to skills there are schools that say knowledge is enough and does not have to leave to action; twenty first century not enough, have to teach that, cant just expect that schools just want kids to learn those chapters, or texts, tractates we normally learn - if content goal berachot and shabbat; schools were general gets at least as much attention as general ed; general following diff model, Jewish studies needs to follow suit argue separate question from content versus skills; wants driving differences is access, can have any access google any given question; you'll get lots of sources; > science or history - sites made specifically; found certain sources, sudio, not made on student level - best out there; lots of students frustrated with lack of quality of the materials. > Jewish ed contributes > have to focus on goals; identify goals and work backwards and not the other way
 * Other:
 *  flipped classroom - beit mid rash model of learning that model; preparing materials in advance, using collaborative time, lecture time distinct, two areas have really been around for a long time;
 *  some significant changes for it to really be 21st c class; need to be new models - how do we get there.
 *  new sometimes taking existing models, apply in places it has not been applies.
 * PBL school; how do we apply that - CHris Lehmann project based learning.
 *  not about scale as much but about diversity;
 *  can't teach how to do something; have to teach how to know how to do something
 *  so much classical Jewish ed focuses on skills rather than content; advantage of Jewish ed no curriculum every Jewish school must complete; even schools content focused, ultimate goal teaching students to learn; school Eliezer's kids go to very content focused; kids do not know how to learn value still to content in a very real way; end of day learning skills so you can learn content better
 *  project with sixth and seventh graders - look up sukkot google.com google.co.il and another; look up Gilad Shalit; more of a Jewish point of view; will get that; when we did sukkot ; tons of resources; if you search in English might be a problem; many don't have large enough can use google translate co.il and search for Hebrew terms but English overwhlelms Hebrew on the twitter .galim - huge project; brain pops.co.il
 *  mikrah net; gemorah net; midreshet have to start with the goals and work backward; what your institutional and classroom goals are; all about institutional and classroom goals.
 * PBL - went to poster session with person from Chile; laid out PBL - narrative with branches, problme - options to solve and builds curriculum with narrative, students may come up with different ways; visual narrative map; also balance
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;"> digital citizenship - have opportunity to model proper use of tech in your schools; opportunity to model official lessons;