PLAYDATE > A new way to approach EdTech PD
FAQs
1. What’s a PLAYDATE?
'PLAYDATE’ is an acronym: People Learning & Asking ‘Y’ Digital Age Tech Exploration. At a PLAYDATE you join other participants and a facilitator, who is usually a peer, and you play on an EdTech tool (e.g. a device, a website or an application).
2. Wait. You said, “play”? I’ll be ‘playing’ during a PLAYDATE?
By ‘play’ we mean play. ...Just like you would when you were little. Play and conversation are low-stress ways to unpack new EdTech tools or discover new functionality of a tool you use.
3. Who leads a PLAYDATE?
You, your peers, and school leaders are all capable of leading a PLAYDATE. The three things that separate a PLAYDATE facilitator from a participant are: (1) Google, (2) YouTube, and (3) a head start. That’s it! Your facilitator is just further along in his/her exploration of a particular EdTech tool than you are.
4. How does a PLAYDATE run?
A PLAYDATE starts with participants receiving a 1-sheet that provides: (1) a learning target, (2) links to web resources (e.g. videos, articles, blog posts), and (3) some broad questions that participants work to answer during the PLAYDATE. The facilitator frames the PLAYDATE briefly and then provides the balance of time for participants to play with the EdTech tool (individually or in small groups). With about 2-3 minutes left in the session participants regroup and share their learning from the session.
5. Who attends a PLAYDATE session?
Anyone who’s interested in a PLAYDATE topic should feel free to participate in the session. If you get settled into a session and realize that you’re no longer interested in the topic, gather your belongings, excuse yourself and step into a different session for the remaining time.
'PLAYDATE’ is an acronym: People Learning & Asking ‘Y’ Digital Age Tech Exploration. At a PLAYDATE you join other participants and a facilitator, who is usually a peer, and you play on an EdTech tool (e.g. a device, a website or an application).
2. Wait. You said, “play”? I’ll be ‘playing’ during a PLAYDATE?
By ‘play’ we mean play. ...Just like you would when you were little. Play and conversation are low-stress ways to unpack new EdTech tools or discover new functionality of a tool you use.
3. Who leads a PLAYDATE?
You, your peers, and school leaders are all capable of leading a PLAYDATE. The three things that separate a PLAYDATE facilitator from a participant are: (1) Google, (2) YouTube, and (3) a head start. That’s it! Your facilitator is just further along in his/her exploration of a particular EdTech tool than you are.
4. How does a PLAYDATE run?
A PLAYDATE starts with participants receiving a 1-sheet that provides: (1) a learning target, (2) links to web resources (e.g. videos, articles, blog posts), and (3) some broad questions that participants work to answer during the PLAYDATE. The facilitator frames the PLAYDATE briefly and then provides the balance of time for participants to play with the EdTech tool (individually or in small groups). With about 2-3 minutes left in the session participants regroup and share their learning from the session.
5. Who attends a PLAYDATE session?
Anyone who’s interested in a PLAYDATE topic should feel free to participate in the session. If you get settled into a session and realize that you’re no longer interested in the topic, gather your belongings, excuse yourself and step into a different session for the remaining time.
2015-2016 Plan Docs
Below is the Christa McAuliffe Charter School PLAYDATE Plan 2015-16. Please direct any question you may have about the information contained in this doc to me.
Session Hyperdocs
Below are PDFs of the 13 PLAYDATEs that were facilitated at McAuliffe Charter School over the course of the 2015-16 academic year. I have each PLAYDATE hyperdoc saved as a Google Doc. I would be happy to share files to interested parties who might want to edit the docs to better fit their EdTech PD model. Just reach out!
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