Digital Students @Analog Schools
stay curious + stay hungry + be creativestay curious + stay hungry + be creative
marco antonio torres
http://www.sfett.com/ican5/digital_students.html
George Siemens on Connectivity- http://www.elearnspace.org/media/Connectivism_IOC/player.html
Recap of Intro to 21st Century Teaching and Learning
We need to rethink learning in terms of how society and technology have influenced the learning environment.
Trends
Decentralization
Democratization
What it means to know
Rethinking Teaching & Learning
1. New literacy
2. Schools need to build capacity
3. Teachers need to design for collaboration and communication
4. Active content creators.
Contemporary Literacy: Essential Skills for the 21st Century
Wanted: 21st Century Skilled Workers
• Personal and Social Responsibility
• Planning and critical thinking
• Strong communication skills
• Cross-Cultural understanding
• Visual and media literacy
• Problem-based decision making skills
• Ability to use technology as a communication and collaboration tool
Clarifying Learning Goals
What are we trying to teach and why?
Is what we are teaching now, aligned with what is needed for successful living in the 21st century.
What is the core curriculum?
What is the best way to find out what children have learned?
Key Assumptions
What are some key assumptions about how students need to learn that are stressed at your school?
Finish this statement….Students learn best when…
Source: John Seely Brown
Source: John Seely Brown
~Through engaging student’s preconceptions
(schema)
~ By using differentiated strategies that embrace
multiple intelligences (convergent and divergent thinkers) and
~ Helping students to know their own processing styles and take responsibility for their own learning through
meta-cognition (thinking about thinking)
~ In environments that encourage risk taking and collaboration
~ From total immersion and engagement with content and facts—(Helping students learn through deep
understanding)
~ In activities that allow for student choice
How the 21st Century Learner Learns Best…
Are We Preparing Our Students to Adapt to New Situations?
Adaptive experts combine:
Efficiency & Innovation
AdaptInnovateTogether
Teaching is a Creative Act
Imagination is more important than knowledge for Imagination is more important than knowledge for knowledge is limited where as imagination embraces knowledge is limited where as imagination embraces the whole world. Albert Einsteinthe whole world. Albert Einstein
Cool Tools---This will be a lightning fast introduction to a selection of powerful online tools that teachers and students can use in and out of the classroom.
Goal: to stimulate your thinking…
What is a Blog?
Will Richardson’s videohttp://campus.belmont.edu/chenowit/dragonstale/WebLoggingSmall.mov
A blog (or weblog) is a website in which items are posted on a regular basis and displayed with the newest at the top. Like other media, blogs often focus on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news. Some blogs function as online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. Since its appearance in 1995, blogging has emerged as a popular means of communication, affecting public opinion and mass media around the world. [1]
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblog
Elementary Kids blog too…
• Kidzlog http://www.haranbanjo.com/kidzblog/
What does a post look like?
Atlantic City Rough Cuts
http://www.starw.org/acrc/2005/11/witches-aliens-and-school-board.html
the elementary school video blogging project organized by Art Wolinsky.
Blogging Begins with Reading
http://21stcenturylearning.wikispaces.com/
Technorati
Google blog search
Blogdigger
Go to www.blogger.com
Go to www.blogger.com 2. Click on "create your blog now" at this link. A new window will open so that
you can read the directions and complete the task. 3. Create your account 4. Click on continue 5. Blog Title: use something about learning or blogging 6. Blog Address: something short and intuitive 7. Email yourself your password, login and your blog address!!!!! (the entire
URL) 8. Key in the word verification 9. Click continue 10. Click to choose a template (only a minute to do this you can easily change
it later) 11. Click on "continue" 12. Click on "Start Posting" 13. Create a title that reflects an introduction. 14. Click Save as Draft. (So you can come back to it later) 15. Now hit reply to this post and give us your URL so we can visit your blog
in a few days!
Vlog
A vlog is a weblog which uses video as its primary presentation format. Vlog posts are usually accompanied by text, image, and additional meta data to provide a context or overview for the video.
http://www.vidblogs.com/ http://andyrush.net/screencast/videoblog.html
Get Rid of Next Blog
1. copy this code <noscript><body></noscript>2. log in to your blogger blog3. click on template4. scroll down until you see the word <body> with these brackets and not {body} (that is a style code)5. replace <body> with the code in #16. republish your blog.
RSS
Rich Site Summary Real Simple
Syndicationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndication
XML language RSS uses very similar to html (Extensible Markup Language)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xml
RSS
Code is often called a feedMakes it possible for readers to subscribeIt comes to you instead of you having to
go get it.Uses aggregator software that creates a
feed collections
Aggregator
Aggregators reduce the time and effort needed to regularly check websites of interest for updates, creating a unique information space or "personal newspaper."
An aggregator is able to subscribe to a feed, check for new content at user-determined intervals, and retrieve the content. The content is sometimes described as being "pulled" to the subscriber, as opposed to "pushed" with email or IM.
Unlike recipients of some "pushed" information, the aggregator user can easily unsubscribe from a feed.
Let’s Create One
Web-based http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_news_a
ggregatorshttp://www.bloglines.com http://www.newsgator.com/home.aspx
You try it…
http://www.weblogg-ed.com/xml/rss.xml
Using RSS in the Classroom
Student Blogs all in one placehttp://www.suprglu.com/Students create feeds for content
Flock
Browser for the digital native.
Look at What We Can Build When We Work Together!
The term wiki is a shortened form of wiki wiki which is from the native language of Hawaii where it is commonly used as an adjective to denote something "quick" or "fast"!
Look at What We Can Build When We Work Together!
http://writingwiki.org/default.aspx/WritingWiki/For%20Teachers%20New%20to%20Wikis.html
http://www.budtheteacher.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/teaching_with_blogs/teaching_with_blogs.cfm
What ideas do you What ideas do you have so far for ways have so far for ways you could use these you could use these tools to further your tools to further your own professional own professional development and development and personal learning?personal learning?
Podcasting
Do I need to have an iPod? Content to go The three steps... 1 - record2 - edit(?)3 - publish
Tools of the Podcaster
http://www.skype.com/helloagain.htmlhttp://audioblogger.com/
http://www.podomatic.com/
PowerGramo, a smart recorder for Skype.
Basic edition is totally *FREE* now.
http://www.PowerGramo.com
Sample Podcasts
http://www.podzinger.com/
http://bobsprankle.com/podcasts/0506/rm208vodcast.mov http://webloggedlinks.pbwiki.com/Pod%20and%20Vodcasting
Matthew Bischoff
David Warlick
Cog Dog
Social Bookmarking
del.icio.us
Live Marks– What is being tagged right now
•Daily Zeitgeist •Mappr •Flickr Tools
What concerns, questions, reactions do you have so far about using these emerging technologies in your classroom?
ReflectReflect
Captionerhttp://shadydentist.com/captioner/Suprgluhttp://www.suprglu.comhttp://www.snbeach.com Writelyhttp://www2.writely.com/info/WritelyOverflowWelcome.htm Writeboardhttp://www.writeboard.com/Jot Livehttp://www.jotlive.com/ NiceNethttp://www.nicenet.org/
Other Cools Tools
Show and Tell
Log into our virtual learning community
Click on links
Add your wiki, your blog, and anything else you want to share.