UEN Professional Development TV
UEN PDTV is on-demand, streaming professional development for teachers in the state of Utah. Each episode will focus on how educators are implementing Utah's education technology competencies in their classrooms. View all episodes by clicking on the PDTV playlist, the UEN PDTV YouTube Channel, or in UEN's eMedia.
On this episode of UEN PDTV, we are making sense of sensemaking. We head over to Olympus Junior High and Tooele High to see how JoAnne Brown and Nicole Belnap (respectively) implement personalized, competency-based learning (PCBL) and engage students in sensemaking.
Apply the EdTech competencies taught in this video using the resources linked below!
Utah Educational Technology Competencies
Guiding Documents
Sensemaking Courses
- Student Sensemaking course - MIDAS (USBE)
- The Cross-Cutting Concepts course - MIDAS (USBE)
- Foundations of Student-Centered Instruction course - Coming soon! (UEN)
Sensemaking Articles
- ASD Science - Sensemaking (Alpine School District)
- Sensemaking (NSTA)
- Promoting Sensemaking (NSTA)
- Development of the Sci-math Sensemaking Framework: categorizing sensemaking of mathematical equations in science (International Journal of STEM Education)
Sensemaking PD Materials
- Facilitator Sensemaking Materials Download (OpenSciEd)
- UEN Teacher Tips - Reimagining Learning through a Phenomena-Based Approach
- UEN Teacher Tips - Fueling Curiosity in the Classroom - Coming soon!
- Communicating for Sensemaking - YouTube playlist (OpenSciEd)
- Using Mathematics for Sensemaking - YouTube playlist (OpenSciEd)
- OpenSciEd sensemaking videos on YouTube
Sensemaking Technology Tools
- Canvas (UEN)
- Google Workspaces for Edu (UEN)
- UEN & GEGUtah Open Google Certified Educator Training: Google Sites - YouTube
- UEN & GEGUtah Open Google Certified Educator Training: Google Docs - YouTube
- Nearpod (UEN)
- Utah’s Online School Library (UEN)
- Let your students experience the benefits of using Scrible in Utah’s Online School Library - YouTube short
Your Host:
Katie Blunt is a product manager with the Utah Education Network. She has a doctorate in Educational Leadership and Policy and a master’s in Instructional Design and Educational Technology from the University of Utah. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education from Brigham Young University. Katie has K-12 administrative licensure and teaching endorsements in ESL, Ed Tech, Keyboarding, and Multimedia. She is an ISTE, Apple, Nearpod, and Google certified educator and UCET past president.