So later. Hall Davidson, Discovery Ed, senior director of Global
learning Initiatives. Take it away, Hall Laurie and thank you very much
on good. You make me a presenter so I can share my screen. Oh my
goodness, he's so demanding. I can absolutely
And also thanks for the great introduction. It's three older. You
get the more introduction sound like eulogies, but it's all true and it's
been fun. I'm sort of a serial early adopter. So it's been fun, and
that's some of the stuff I'm going to share. Uh, it's interesting. That sort of
20 minutes is the new our eso. I'm in front of jam a lot of
stuff in there, but everything is online. Laurie is gonna post
the link, and I will, too. You'll see it on the screen. So you're gonna
screenshot something screenshot the first one so we could take a look at that.
So here's Here's the good news hall. We have so many people in this
session, I'm trying to find you. Oh, good. Miriam, if you
happen to see or anybody on my team, if you happen to see Hall there, if you
could make him a presenter, that would be great
because I am having trouble getting him, so I'll show you some things were gonna play with
today. May I should do this. Now, look, I've got this was we did
the keynote that at that I think it was gonna be time to show this,
but I can stall with it on FB TC that
we've Catfish Rocket, Annabella and lovely fish. And I presented all this great
stuff, and the thing that took the prize was this little thing, which you can
get for five bucks. But it's this light, and I usually set it
up by doing a by showing you here is a Here's a laser
pointer, right? And you pointed at your hand and you get it, But you can grab it. And
once you grab it, then you could take it back and forth and send it around and
do stuff like this and toss it back and forth can even do it. If you have ah,
Confederate out in the Microsoft teams, you can throw it
back and forth and it'll come back anyways. Five bucks and people just went wild for
that. It's obviously a better in person. Think Oh, I can share my
screen now. A better in person. Thanks. Thank you anyway. Thumbs. So I
really wanted to show that we really couldn't figure out how to do it. But hopefully that'll be
fun. So we're gonna go thio screen number one
here. And I think you see my opening screen, Laurie, and tell me if
if you can is coming.
You're good. All right. Good. So that's
me. This is Broward. Great to be here. Thanks to the foundation. Also
on dare you see the u R l tiny or l dot com
HD handouts. So this whole presentation is there. It's pdf
it slides If you want the videos, just let me know. But we'll get started
on I'm happy to be presenting here. I was thrilled to be us, but I
will say that I do. Miss Florida. I miss being in Florida.
I still have family there. My mother lived there,
Andi and gosh, I missed the whole experience. I
just basically missed airports. Just so you know, this is your
airport. And there used to be people there. Really? There were people in
airports and we all got to use it and it was fun, and it was It was
great. Let me say, though, that since we're doing distance learning
and since everybody is doing it. I've been moderating a panel since the
since last semester about distance leading, and I thought it at least share this with
you a distance leading the lessons learned from dozens of
administrators, superintendents and teachers is that it's
basically matters low before Bloom. And we thought this was kind of a brilliant thing, and
people were actually writing books with that title. But it's the pyramid
versus the taxonomy, and I'm sure you all know this. We don't need to explain more,
but it's sort of the love that you have to give, uh, sort
of come before learning theory idea that you're supportive of the
idea that everything is going well, uh,
that everything not may not be going well, but you supported anyway.
Maslow that great pyramid, if you don't know, definitely look it up.
But that's one of the things we've learned. And that's one of the first things I want to share.
Because not only is this true for students, but we've also
learned from working with all these administrators that it's also true for
teachers. So if you're a teacher and you haven't had any
trauma or stress, Uh, since Koven came, then
I want your DNA because everybody basically has been
been going through this, and this is just just launched
its in a soft launch now. But you see these air trauma, informed care and
educated, well being modules or digital modules and their intended for
teachers. They're intended for teachers for staff who needed
to come together. I'm sure you have with your staff. I know you're in a
hybrid environment. Still a lot of stress there because,
uh, many of you have kids at home and have an environment
that anyway that Kobe's kind of threw out anyway. So this is ready set
rise modules. This is from a partnership of Kaiser Permanent Ah,
great healthcare organization Discovery. Yet coming up next is cultural
sensitivity and equity, which I know is important, and Brauer. So those air this is
totally free. Click on it, download it. I think this
is really perfectly timed anyway. Race at Wright's
modules. Another thing that's fun is there's a virtual filter appear.
Learn experience happiness dot com. It's for students. It's
exercises that science based that helps you
get happy. Uh, this is meal. If you go to the virtual field trip, you'll
see me. And that's one of the new Mythbusters host. And we come and we
visited a high school. We also talked to the head of the, uh,
the Greater Good Center sort of happiness center at U C. Berkeley.
So it's all science based anyway. Those air to three things that I
think really timely. For that I want to be able to share those.
And this is these videos there chapter you can share them with kids
on. Why not get happy? That's what I say. Uh, now some of
the promised tips and strategies again, these were
sort of the best of from things that we've done at
the larger conference Aquino's and I'm trying to pull the
ones that make sense for distance learning. So this is thing you may not have thought about. I love
this thing. This is a little microscope. You put it
on your cell phone. What? Yeah, You actually got a 60 power
microscope on your cell phone across 6 95 you'll find a bunch of different
ways. But when you do that, you can actually push this
through through a distance learning environment. So the way you do that is
you. You take your charging cord. Uh, this is a This is an
iPhone. It also works for Android little Ah, little more hoops
to jump through for Androids. But it's on the website how to do that. But you connect it and
then you can show the camera live. This is me doing it. This
is zoom, not teams. I don't have a chance to try it with teams. I'm sure
it would work. You never played a little bit to share your screen. And then there's your
camera from your phone on. You can then show the
microscope image on on your screen and share
not only in the class through a projector, but also share it with
anybody that's watching on teams or zoom or whatever you're gonna do.
This, for example, is a honeybee wing. This is
the slides. I love sciences of the slides that you get that has
a bunch of different stuff on it. Amoebas, etcetera. This is a honeybee
wing, and I just took it from the camera phone, which means I could
share this through my computer, not only to a class
but Thio disappointed as well. And this works with
iPads again work with android devices. It's a lot of
fun. If you have trouble, you're gonna get my email address that then you can let me know. But I really
like this thing. If you're because it's a phone, it also has
a video camera. So here is a video that was shot that kids put
some music on, too. So here's the Here's the video of a
grasshoppers leg,
somewhat squashed grasshopper.
But you get the idea that's actually shot
with this. A little a little microscope on
again, the zoo royalty free music that was added to it. Hopefully, we'll get to royalty
free music at the end. So you've got that you can
also for social studies or anything else that this is a $5 bill.
Eyes you actually look, you can find the state name Florida
on a $5 bill. What? Florida's on the $5 bill?
Yes, get the little microscope and look for it. There is what it looks like with
Colorado, but I left Florida mystery so you can find it could
only be in a couple of places, but you'll find it or a kid can find it again.
You can share that out. Thio through the
software that you're using. Eso these air three things that make it,
I think a lot of fun, and I'll stick around looking chat if there's any questions, but you'll
have my email and address to in workshops. This is really a lot of
funding to do with teachers again. Seven bucks. So
those air that way don't need that anymore. The other thing I really
wanted to make sure I shared with you is virtual reality.
Uh, there's me having a virtual experience in a museum, a museum
that has a lot of its displays now virtual. So you get a headset. You
could do it. Kids were doing this. I know that people have been doing
cardboard stuff in Broward for a while, but this is not entirely new, but
there's been sort of a game changer nearby, and that's the
quest to quest. To is to 99. I know why you're showing us
June 99 thing, Mr Davidson. Well, okay, it's got donors choose written
all over it. But
this'll is,
uh, something that you have to have for every single kid. But but this really
is high quality breakthrough environment for those of us that were early
adopters and it took a gamer computer and a heavy headset to
do that. That's why it works anyway. So that's it. One of the
things you can see. He is my favorite thing out there Now David Attenborough has done
Micro Monster. So you put on a headset and by
a giant sized spider and you see the spiders
fight and one, actually, it's a micro
monster. Oh, somebody needs to mute out there, you know?
Anyway, so here here's one of the things. In addition to experiences like
this on, there are many. You can go
inside a ballet. You can visit the pyramids
lots of cool things that not to mention the spider. But one of the things to think about
with with virtual reality, is the impact that has on students.
Aside from curriculum, this is Ray Montague, who was a glass
shadow Her she became the first female program managers of ships.
She is back in the day they still use some of her ship designs.
By the time she retired, she was briefing the Joint Chiefs of Staff every
day. Many first, as you can imagine with her, and she became an
engineering how, when there weren't any. There weren't many
female engineers, not to mention female engineers of color. And it goes back to the
time when she was with her grandfather in World War Two. She was
young. I think she might have been seven at the time, and she was inside a
captured German submarine they were bringing around to get everybody excited
about. She was an Arkansas going
through with her grandfather, and she saw all this is actual picture of a German
submarine. She looked around and said, Who knows how all these dolls
works? Who made all this happened? And the guy said to her, Well, it's an
engineer, honey, but you don't have to worry about that on that
inspired her and she became, uh, really a
groundbreaking, ceiling shattering engineer. And she did that
because of that time. How long was she in that submarine? You know, that wasn't
long, but it was enough. So we can through VR we can give kids a
seriously experience without them having to be there. The other
thing is that G were what if we're we have kids, that air are working at
home and we have kids in the class. How can we share all this with one
headset? And we did that with a purple feed foundation over the summer.
So my friend Lance, we emailed me and said, Hey, listen, we
have these kids and we used tohave an in
person experience, and now we can't, but they still
like to go visit other places. And they took votes and
Paris got the biggest votes. So I said, Okay, here's what I'm gonna
do. I'm gonna put on a headset and walk around in Paris, and here's how we're going to
do it in the headset you can
share, you can go live or you can cast, which means that the
person in the headset can share their experience
online. How do that well, and opened up this
Facebook page, just Lance's Facebook page. The kids were
not on Facebook with just his account, and I streamed from my
headset because Oculus is owned by Facebook,
streamed from my headset toe Lance's
page, which he then zoomed out again. It's zoom, not
my team is. But I know it'll work with teams zoomed out, and,
uh, everybody got to see the experience. So here's the experience that they saw. There's
just a little bit of it we recorded, made a video looks. This is
a This is Paris where they wanted to go. This is me looking
around, and you'll also see in there an avatar of a person
that I brought along who went toe high school in Paris. So these
were middle school and high school kids. Andi. She was able to share her
experiences. We went to a lot of different places in Paris, including the
catacombs where thousands and thousands bones from,
uh, former Parisian residents are housed. And this is middle
school. So they really liked the idea of visiting
things Tomb. So we went a lot of other places to museums
and lots of places, but we used wander and we
went again through my single headset
single head set out to everybody. So if you get when you can share, it's pretty good.
Here's the other thing is, uh, that's knew about this and I think pretty
important again, because I know, um,
uh, culture and experiences and equity is
important. And Broward, this is what they look down at your body and see
that you're a different race or a different gender. And so what we find is
that this sense of embodiment really lends itself to how much immersion
you feel in the experience and that we can induce something called body
transfer. So we not only create these experiences, but we also
run rigorous academic studies to look at the impact of these
experiences on people, attitudes and behaviors for others. And what we're
looking at is trying to see like is v r a more powerful well tool than other
types of media. And typically, the answer to that question way found
his. And yes, okay, so a compelling
video. This is Stanford. You studying this stuff? But, uh, you can Actually,
the environment you're talking about is you put on the headset and you walk in
virtual reality to a mirror and you're somebody else
s. So you can really walk in somebody else's
moccasins, as the old expression was on,
understand what they're going through. So that's pretty good. Also
your ableto see what it's like to be if you're not a
good reader, if you've got dyslexia, it's like a this the
world is very different to you then so everybody can explore that Anyway, that that's kind of fun.
Oh, great 2 99. Thanks for showing us that, Mr Davison. But
here's another thing you can start with because I know, uh, and
your Tim's form creating understanding building it is
important part of it. This is panda form dot com. This is panda form, worked
with cardboard works. Just plain old phone, by the way. And essentially, what you do
is you downloaded Grill me, show you a little bit more. It's panda form dot com.
It's free. You get downloaded grid that looks like
this. There's a grid that looks like that. And then, uh,
your students will color that in and what they will do.
And this is just one from the workshop. But here's a
Z. You can see a grid. Uh,
that's been colored in, and when you put this, you take a
picture of this on your phone, send it to the
website of PANA form. It just says. Try it. See easy to dio.
You'll do it if you go to the website, walks you through it pretty pretty carefully. But when you do
that, then what you get is this thing turned into a
virtual space. So now your students can actually look around
inside the world they created, and this is just taken from a cell phone.
There's just made from my phone. Um, if I click on the headset, then I
could put my phone and Google hardboard actually be there on a much more headset
experience. But in a phone I can actually walk around inside
this virtual reality the kids have drawn, which I think is pretty
neat. Uh, if if we were in
person, I could determine if you think the same. But here's the
other thing is that you can make this. This is from a Texas
block, but if you do, let's say the life cycle of
a frog. When you look around, you can actually see a zoo. You move from left
to right. The eggs go into a tadpole, go into a frog. You could also do
this with the water cycle, with
chemical combinations and things like that so that the VR experience
isn't just like a cool experience. It's actually a
thing where the sequence makes sense. So that's it. I'll
just close with this. It's not closed this presentation, but closed the
VR section of the presentation with this. If you've got I don't know if
you've ever watched home improvement shows, um, they're big
in my house and it turns out vocabulary, like blow out a
wall can be expensive. So rather than do
that, if you've got a room you don't like, uh, this would be a bathroom.
You can put a headset in there. Anybody that puts on the headset will
walk in and they can pretend they're in the United
Airlines bathroom. So this is a bathroom picture from an airline.
See how it cycles back? I just wish that we could get on
planes anyway, that Z that's how that works. So that's VRS.
We've looked at the camera, which is kind of fun, and you could go through the
the teams in Roman to show that we've also looked at virtual
reality, which can also push out the classes in person, be a
projector or or through through a virtual learning
environment. Here's another one that's really important. As as
artificial intelligence becomes more and more important, it is more and more people
get Lexus and Google home the apple. You're gonna
find that they need to know more about AI. This is a great way of
getting at dot com. This is quick draw.
Quick draw is a lot of fun. Kids can do it at home. Do it on the chromebook. Do it on
their iPad. It's a it's a lot of fun. Essentially, what you do is it gives
you a challenge like this and you draw.
Just draw a shoe so you do that on your computer or your phone and
the computer uses machine learning to guess what you're drawing. I
C Square or some case or canoe? Yeah.
Oh, I know it's shoe. So the computer
tries to guess what you're drawing, and it does
that. It does that because it's
got all these other uh, drawings that people have
made so that if you look at how it knew it was a
calculated remember, it's not looking through. The camera is just looking at how you drew it,
where you went on the on the pad where your mouse went,
and it shows that when you reflect on this, it's a good, fun
game that kids will enjoy playing. They tried to get the computer to guess it doesn't always
guess, but what does it mean? It means that the computer can guess, because it
has all this data and that's really the introduction. Artificial
intelligence. There's a lot of other things on there as well on that site. So go, go
explore that. That's also relatively, um,
uh, affordable. And relatively, it's free. They can do it at
home, and I think both elementary and secondary gives would like
it again. You go deeper with reflection about how the
machine knows what the guesses and when it gets is a shoe is a canoe.
Why, and you see the data has it. Can Onley learn
from the data it has? If everybody that drew a
shoe drew what looked like a canoe, it will never know the
difference. So those are important things to know we're all different music. I think we have time
for one more thing world to be music. I'll do this quick. It's
again. This is all online. Go to the YouTube library.
Um, going to your channel. There's an audio library in there.
This is all royalty free again. I'm going through this awfully quickly, but I do
wanna everybody time to reflect and then go out to the next
session. You could do a search by genre and mood. So for there's
a lot of fun to do that I searched for pop and happy,
and I got my regular limo. Uh, by,
uh, Princess Marie, I think Andi, it
means that you can record. And so I recorded this
live This is the Broward County thing and just added that music onto it to see what it looks like.
E
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That's free audio stuff. We don't have time for much else. There's the u. R l
thank you very much for inviting me. It's great to present to so many
teachers at one time. I know this is a very tough
time to be an educator. My son is a middle school teacher in Los
Angeles. They're totally remote. It's very, very
hard. My hat is off to you. Remember? In these
resource is you've also found some things that are there for your
well being as well s. So I hope you'll have a chance to
do that. And then I will leave the rela up here. But Lori
and I will turn this back to you. And we were out in time
to get people to their next. Fabulously we should
have named it not so secret. I have your title here. Not so secret.
Tep Tech Tips and strategies in 20 and under 20
right? Basically, you did it, Paul. I feel like we should have
had you as, Ah, breakout session. Amazing. I'm so
excited to go through your power point. So incredibly indebted
to you for what you've done. Thank you so much for giving us your time. I'm sure the
teachers in the session, um, are excited about it. I know that
many people have been coming in as you've been talking, so definitely will get that
link into the canvas course as well as, um, it's in the
chat hall. Thank you so much. Truly just such