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Upcoming Events:
TUES. (1/27) BREAK THE NETWORK DAY --- DISTRICT-WIDE INITIATIVE
In Anticipation Of This Year's Computer-Based State Assessments For Students, We're Scheduling A Time To Test Our Wireless
Infrastructure. If You Have Chromebooks, Laptops, Or iPads In Your
Class, Please Log-On During 2nd Period On Tuesday And Encourage
Students To Use As Much Broadband As Possible (Watch Videos,
Browse The Internet, Take An SBAC Practice Test, Etc...)
Common Core Collaboration / Students Start School at 8:37am
COLLEGE INFORMATION NIGHT FOR JUNIORS
This Event For Juniors & Families Starts @ 6:30pm In The PAC
THUR. (1/29) LOSAL
4LIFE CEREMONY @ LUNCH
Come See The Students You Nominated Win Gift Cards & Prizes
At The Front Of The PAC During Lunch
Celebrating All Of Our Winter Sports & Athletes
FACULTY FORUM --- IN ROOM 153/154 @ LUNCH
Come Let Your Voice Be Heard At This Long-Standing Los Al Tradition
Topics To Be Discussed: Instructional Minutes, New Courses, Contract
QUEEN OF COURTS BASKETBALL GAME --- 7PM IN THE GYM
Your Griffins (Ranked Top 10 In The County) Take On Newport Harbor
ATHLETICS: Los Al Surf... Prettiest classroom there is! (10-footers this weekend!!!)
Sunset League play is underway in all Winter Sports and Los Al continues to thrive amid so many excellent schools and athletic programs in our surrounding area. Go out and support Girls Water Polo, Boys and Girls Soccer, Wrestling, and Boys and Girls Basketball this week and watch our Griffin athletes put their competitive spirit and sportsmanship on display. In part, it's because of our fan-base and support that the fact remains:
#LOSALROCKSATALLSPORTS
2/3 ------------------ Support Ms. Heeren's LAEF Campaign @ On The Rocks, 4-9pm
2/6 ------------------ Mentor Breakfast @ 7:30am
2/13 ---------------- 6-12 Professional Development Day --- REGISTER HERE!
.............. Unlimited Possibilities!
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Google Classroom Just Got Even Better!!!
Half Of Los Al Already Uses"Classroom," And Now That iOS and Android Apps Are Available, Student Access & Success Is Sure To Increase
Whether or not you have a set of chromebooks or laptops in your class right now, Google Classroom is a phenomenal tool for paperless teaching and learning & more!
Google has launched a native Classroom mobile app for both Android and iOS (also available in Google Play for Education) to help teachers and students connect from wherever they are, and save even more paper and time. Google is also launching two new features to help teachers stay organized as they head into the second half of the year: a teacher assignments page and the ability to archive classes.
With the mobile app, students and teachers can:
- Snap a photo: Right from the assignment page in the mobile app, students can snap a photo and attach it to their assignment - whether it's the experiment they just did for a science class, or a drawing they made of their family tree. And if they've forgotten their homework, they can ask someone at home to snap a photo, text it and then turn it in with the app. Of course, if the dog has actually eaten it, Classroom can't help you.
- Share from other apps: Students can also easily attach images, PDFs and web pages from other apps to their assignments. For example, when you're in a drawing app, you can create a graphic for an assignment. When you click "share" in that app, Classroom will come up as an option, and you can attach the graphic to an assignment.
- Offline caching: Even when Internet access isn't available, students and teachers can get information about their assignments in the Classroom mobile app. Class streams and assignment information are automatically cached every time you open the app with an Internet connection, so that you can see them when you don't have a connection.
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The Conversations Educators Have Between Classes Make All The Difference...
When Mr. Lopour and Mr. Reimer get together and chat, the conversations they have move and shift each other's thinking and evolve the way students learn and interact in their respective domains. There is nothing more powerful than the organic conversations teachers have with each other in between class time, and it's moments like these that work to shape the quality and effectiveness of classes at Los Al...
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If you have after school activities, we will be there until 9pm so come anytime! On the Rocks will donate a generous percentage of all food and drinks to Tina Heeren's fundraising event! We have upstairs reserved just for Los Al, so let's make some $$$ for our schools!!!
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SPARKNOTES For Math? (Well, Kinda...)
Click The Picture Below And Watch The Video About A New App That Solves Math Problems
A new phone app that solves math problems by taking a picture could make it so easy for students to cheat that some teachers say it may require a change in they way educators assign, grade, and even think about class and home assignments.
Whether or not you watched the video above and had a reaction one way or another about the intentions and ramifications of PHOTOMATH in the modern math classroom, one thing is undeniable: Technology is fundamentally changing the way we go about teaching and learning in the 21st Century.
The question for teachers, students, parents, and society to grapple now is "How can we evolve the way we teach and learn to build upon the access technology gives us to information?"
That's really all that PHOTOMATH does, when it comes down to it. The app gives access to the solutions and steps used to solve a particular math problem to anyone who uses it. In the hands of the "well-intended," one could conceivably check answers, get instant feedback on a solution, and gain mastery from the information the app provides. In the hands of a "corner-cutter," one could copy a solution, regurgitate the answer, and never learn anything as a result.
This is precisely where teacher expertise and lesson design comes into play.
Ten years ago, when SPARKNOTES came about, and thirty years before that, when CLIFF'S NOTES entered the realm of the high school English classroom, teachers had important discussions about teaching above and beyond the "summary skills" that these short student-facing tools emphasized. Put into real language, here's what one American Math teacher had to say about the PHOTOMATH, "If it could do everything it promised, it'd ideally mean teachers would assign fewer dull exercises and students would spend more time on the more interesting problems that PhotoMath can't solve --- real-world problems, questions that require arguments, estimation questions, graphing questions, etc.,"
Whether it can solve every problem or not, the questions we're asking about our practices are worth every bit of research that went into this product's development.
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GOOD LUCK IN ORLANDO NEXT WEEK!
National Champions In 2012, This Year's Cheer Team
Looks To Bring The Title Back Home Where It Belongs!
From now on, if you need a picture from any of these
Monday Morning Memos, just find us on
The pics there are high quality, easy to access,
and always downloadable.
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Los Alamitos High School
3591 Cerritos Ave.
Los Alamitos, CA 90720
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