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You will use the PBI process to develop your project.
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 * I. PBI Planning Draft of your INITIAL PBI plans. Collaboratively with your partner, complete the following questions by September 29. Write your answers here on the wikispace under each question below. If you don't some of the answers yet, share what you can at this point.**

What is your compelling question? How can I facilitate student accountability and motivation of learning using technology to make content more accessible to students?

What initial ideas do you have for your PBI? At my school I am responsible for integrating science and social studies into my instruction. I often find it difficult to find time to teach science and social studies separately. My ideas for my PBI are to use inquiry based learning to put them in charge of their own learning of social studies concepts. Students will construct their own learning of how an historical individuals influenced our culture and made contributions to our society. Each students will be given a different historical individual to research using informational text and digital literacy. Students will use their informational reading skills and strategies to recount key details with appropriate facts of a historical person’s life from information present through their biography/ historical narrative and multiple forms of digital literacy. To demonstrate their learning and understanding students will represent their knowledge of the contributions and influences of their historical figure in an explanatory text written with guidance and the use of digital tools to produce and publish their writing. In addition students will showcase their understanding of their historical figure by creating a digital media presentation. Essential Question(s): Learning Objectives: [|__PBI Project Common Core and Essential State Standards__]
 * Social Studies: How do I use chronological thinking to make sense of events and organize my understanding of the past, present and future?
 * Writing: How can I
 * Reading: How can I use non-fiction texts to ask and answer question about a historical figure?

What is your target age group? My target age groups is students that are in second grade, which are seven to eight years of age.

Think about TPACK. What content will you focus on? What pedagogical approaches will you use? What technologies will you use? __Technological Knowledge__: I will make the content accessible while supporting pedagogical strategies using the following technological tools: __Pedagogical Knowledge:__ I will make the content more accessible by how presenting it to students using inquiry based learning, kagan structures, and mini lesson workshop model. __Content Knowledge__: (see [|__link__] for detailed information regarding content to be taught) What specific [|Common Core or Essential Standards] learning objectives will your PBI address? Learning Objectives: [|__PBI Project Common Core and Essential State Standards__]
 * Laptop
 * Student laptop to research information and publish understanding of knowledge
 * Teacher laptop to model research process, writing process, and use of technological tools and features
 * Videos to demonstrate and explain skills/ strategies
 * Access to Edmodo to create goals and reflect on learning
 * iPad - camera and iMovie
 * Google Drive (documents and slides)
 * Inquiry Based Learning: Guide students toward achieving learning objectives and mastery of skills that they need. (1) Pose real question: What character traits do these historical figures have that allowed the to contribute and influence our society? (2) Find resources- students will use teacher selected biographies and historical narratives and internet websites to find information (3) Interpret Information- students will generate questions to research based on their readings of biographies and historical narratives; students will determine if the information is relevant and relate to what they already know about their historical figure. (4) Report Findings: students will showcase their learning in an expository text they published online and a digital media presentation.
 * Kagan Structures: Utilize kagan structures, such as round robin and time pair share, to increase knowledge building, and cooperative learning as students interact with each other.
 * Reader’s Workshop: Develop a mini lesson around a specific skill or strategy. Model real reading through think alouds of reading skills and strategies. Through gradual release of learning students first actively engage in their learning through turn-and-talks, think-pair-share during the mini lesson. Students self-select books to practice the skill or strategy independently. Then demonstrate their understanding by reading to a partner.
 * Writer’s Workshop: Develop a mini lesson around a specific writing and research skill or strategy. Model using skill/strategy through think alouds. Demonstrate the appropriate steps and thought processes. Through gradual release of learning students first actively engage in their learning through turn-and-talks, think-pair-share during the mini lesson. Students practice the independently then confer with a partner to demonstrate their understanding.
 * Reading Information Text
 * Digital Literacy
 * Social Studies

What is your timeline for implementing and completing your PBI? November 02, 2015 - December 01, 2015

What materials and resources do you need to be successful? In order to be successful I will materials and resources to carry out the implementation of my PBI project. I will need a variety of biographies and historical narratives that are age appropriate for my students to read at their independent level. I will also need biographies and historical narratives to use as mentor texts to model the skills and strategies good readers use to comprehend expository texts. I will need to reserve use of the school’s student laptop cart and/or computer lab to ensure I have enough working computers for my students to use to complete their digital research and presentation. I will use edmodo to provide differentiation of instruction and timely feedback. I will provide my students will a teacher generate account to google docs. Students will use a online Google doc to produce and publish their writing. In addition students will have access to Google slides to create a slideshow to showcase their learning. Or students will allowed to utilize a tablet (iPad or Kindle Fire) to create a media presentation to showcase their learning.

What part of the PBI do you find or anticipate will be most difficult to plan? I anticipate it will be most difficult to carry out my PBI plan with fidelity. Often their assessments (CMA, NWEA, and mCLASS) that take priority over instruction and student learning. I foresee that I will not be able to get through each part of my instruction and I will have to flexible. I feel that I will also be difficult to plan around the Curriculum Map I must follow for my ELA and Math instruction.

How do you plan to prepare to overcome these anticipated difficulties? To propractive I will use the backwards planning design to determine and scaffold what my students will produce and how they will produce it. I have started with the standards and I need to cover based on my CSUSA Curriculum Map. I will integrate the targeted standards and learning objectives into my instruction and use the project to as an anchor for the curriculum being taught. I will first teach and model the skills and strategies students will need to understand the disciplinary content. To support students who struggle I will provide opportunities of structured collaboration for students to collaborate about their learning. As a facilitator I will ask good questions to and use multifaceted assessments throughout to check in with students. Students will create goals based on their checklist and/or rubric, to track their progress. Students will reflect on their learning to ensure accountability.

What other questions to you have about the PBI project? As of right now I have no questions about my PBI project.

You have a great plan for your PBI. I also looked over your PBI Research where you gathered and analyzed your sources. Very thorough! Hiller

===II. Design space for paper planning===

Gather and analyze sources - [|__PBI Research__]

===III. Design space for video documentary development===