Connecting with Kids“The best teachers constantly monitor what is happening to students as they set about learning and investigate when things do not proceed as planned or expected. They also enquire their own practice so they might get better at ensuring that their students learn successfully.”

- Demos 2004. About learning, Report of the Learning Working Group, Demos, London www.demos.co.uk

Overview

Why are we here?What do we need to accomplish?How will we get this done?

Why are we here?

Take the PILOT Survey

Why are we here?

Technology Dog and Pony Show

Interactive WhiteboardsC.O.W.BloggingDigital StorytellingPodcastingWiki'sThinking MapsWeb PagesOnline Grades

What do we need to accomplish?

Get ideas on how technology can improve the learning experience in our classrooms

How will this get done?

Those who have not taken the PILOT survey will do so on a laptop while the dog and pony show is conducted.

Please pass the computers around to those who have not taken the survey during this presentation

PILOT Survey

Let’s Take the Survey

The World is Flat

Globalization

1.0 NATIONS1492 - 1800

2.0 COMPANIES1800 - 2000

3.0 INDIVIDUALS2000 - Present

Digital Immigrants and Natives

Teachers had to be taught to use communication technologies

Students raised with communication technologies

Visual Literacy and Media

The research is in: the use of visual media in the classroom enhances learning and retention.Humans process images 60,000 times faster than text.With visually rich multimedia, students learn faster, remember better, and can apply their understanding and skills to new situations.

- Dr. Lynell Burmark

Dog and Pony Show

Interactive WhiteboardsC.O.W.BloggingDigital StorytellingPodcastingWiki'sThinking MapsWeb PagesOnline Grades

Interactive White Boards

Cow

Computers on Wheels (C.O.W.)

Blogging

Digital Storytelling

Podcasting

Wiki’s

Thinking Maps

Teacher Web Pages

Online Grades

We need to start planningfor our future

As a schoolIn departmentsIndividually

Questions

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