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THE NEW LEARNERPlugged In, Multi-Tasking:How Do you Connect?

Kirsten Olson and Karen LanglaisMCCPSE Instructional Forum

February 5, 2010

Let’s start with you…

How do I feel about using technology in my classroom? My experiences with technology have been…

+What’s Your Biggest Challenge inTechnology Use? Any technology we adopt must

solve a problem. Otherwise, why use it?

If it’s just cool, that’s nice. But I’m too busy!

They’re on 11 hours a day already. My job to provide something else!

Let’s Ban Chalk Talk http://www.slideshare.net/thecleversheep/lets-ban-chalk-2952833

+ Technology is changing our ideas about knowledge

Who is authorized to provide? How is it produced? Who generates it? Who’s allowed to say?

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“Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing.”

-Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia

+ To prepare students, we have to get on board “New Learners for the New Economy” Adaptive Questioning See patterns Broad knowledge Self regulating Team!

+ Learning to integrate technology in new ways requires an investment of time, and moving out of our comfort zones.

“The most difficult thing I face in teaching teachers to integrate technology is getting them to use technology in new ways. Too many of them want to do the same old thing and just use technology to do it.”

(EduTechie.com, July 2009)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY

Real collaboration Formative assessment New ways to “research” Student engagement!

Q. How many Wiki people does it take to change a light bulb?A. One, but ANYONE can change it back.

+Meet Karen, two teachers in one

• The good old days…..“Take out a piece of white lined paper”

The focus was on TEACHING

Today… “What can students know and do?”

The focus is on LEARNING

Why use a wiki? Meet the Magazine Project that started it all….. Student collaboration on

paper Good days and bad days Student collaboration on a

wiki What is a wiki? Sharing digital space Trust and transparency,

anyone? Formative assessment,

minute by minute

Newsroom format of the room…

+ Fits and Starts

How I got started What I worried about How I survived my first wiki project

“I get by with a little help from my friends”

When I knew it would be OK, and even great

+What I learned about learning

Students become learning resources for each other, on line and in real-time

Students benefit from taking the lead in technology; it’s where they live

Students reach for mastery when writing tasks are authentic and assessable to all

Let’s look at the projects…

+ The Hero research project

+Okay, now you are going to make YOUR wiki!

“It’s as easy as a peanut butter sandwich!”

Step #1: Create an account…

+ Step #2: Do you want a tutorial?

+ First Page: Using “Edit”

http://www.oldsowwork.wikispaces.com

Adding Pages and Layers

Page History

+ Discussion

+ How could you use this in your classroom right now? Why? What problem will this help you solve?

+ Best Educational Wikis 2009

http://blog.wikispaces.com/2010/01/best-educational-wikis-of-2009.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wikispaces+%28Wikispaces+Blog%29