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** Minds of Our Own CEMSS Summer Online Experience with Annenberg ** //If you experience difficulty accessing or viewing the Annenberg Videos, please make sure your computer has the most current version of software downloaded, (i.e.:// [|//Window Media Player 11//] //, version 11.0.5721.5230). If your computer is not capable of running the videos, please contact April Estep, CEMSS secretary, at **(714) 999-3585** who can make arrangements for you to use a computer at the AUHSD office.// [|Click on this link to go to Windows Media Player 11 Download] [|**Minds of Our Own**] is a video documentary on education and learning for K-12 educators and parents. It includes 3 one-hour video programs.Why don't even the brightest students truly grasp simple science concepts? These video programs pick up on the questions asked in the //Private Universe// documentary and further explore how children learn. The programs include:   
 * = **MINDS OF OUR OWN VIDEO DOCUMENTARY**
 * //How Can We Believe Our Eyes?//** systematically explores many of the assumptions that we hold about learning to show that education is based on a series of myths. Through the example of an experienced teacher, the program takes a hard look at why teaching fails, even when he uses all of the traditional tricks of the trade. The program shows how new research, used by teachers committed to finding solutions to problems, is reshaping what goes on in our nation’s schools.
 * //Lessons From Thin Air//** explores why something taught in school can go unlearned and shows that we often teach without regard to what children actually need to know.
 * //Under Construction//** is a series of portraits of teaching shows how six teachers from across the country are working to revamp their teaching and their schools. ||

Welcome to your summer online experience! These activities are designed to be completed in 5 hours, minimum. We are asking you to view a series od videos and respond to a set of questions. Here is the process: PDF Version Word Version [|****Minds of Our Own Video Documentary****] [|****Minds of Our Own Survey for CEMSS****] [|****CEMSS PLC Survey****] **Optional Enrichment Activities:**
 * Print CEMSS Questions for //Minds of Our Own// for your reference as you view the videos.
 * View the video documentary series, //Minds of Our Own by clicking on the link.// As you view, take notes on the questions. You'll be requested to respond to these questions in a survey after you have viewed the videos.
 * When you have finished viewing the videos, complete the //Minds of Our Own// Survey for CEMSS**.** Be sure to complete all sections.
 * We also have another assessment on your experience with PLCs. Please complete the CEMSS PLC Survey.
 * **After the August 19-20, 2008 workshops, a site-specific form documenting each teacher's summer activities participation, including sign-in sheets and proof of online work (survey submissions), will be submitted by Dr. Donnelly-Toscano's office to your site principal as documentation for you to receive your summer stipend from your district office. The CEMSS grant will then reimburse each district office.**
 * 1) **Read more about the [|**Private Universe Project**].** What do your students think? What are their ideas, and how do they come up with them? Take part in the Private Universe Teachers' Lab to practice techniques of identifying student misconceptions and moving toward conceptual change. Basic astronomy is one of the topics by which you can discover student misconceptions and explore strategies that foster scientific understanding.
 * 2) **View the [|**Private Universe**] documentary that started it all.** With its famous opening scene at a Harvard graduation, this classic of education research brings into sharp focus the dilemma facing all educators: Why don’t even the brightest students truly grasp basic science concepts? This award-winning program traces the problem through interviews with Harvard graduates and their professors, as well as with a bright ninth-grader who has some confused ideas about the orbits of the planets.
 * 3) **View some of the subject-specific video documentaries at [|**Private Universe Project in Science.**]** This innovative workshop for teachers explores the reasons why teaching science is so difficult and offers practical advice to help you teach more effectively. Each program focuses on one theme and one content area and uses specific examples to show how students' preconceived ideas can create critical barriers to learning. Education experts also review classroom strategies and results and recommend new ways to involve students and approach difficult topics.
 * 4) **Read [|Tips for Teachers.pdf]** provided by Annenberg Media.**