Rowan Impact Grant

21st Century Technology

• Participate in a hybrid professional learning community

• Become familiar with and evaluate web 2.0 technologies

• Share resources and content to the wiki rowanimpact.wikispaces.com site

• Team brainstorm and planning project activities integrating web 2.0 and 21st Century Skills

• Skype with WV 12:30

April 14th Objectives

The Vision of Students Today

Vision: NJ will educate all students to prepare them to lead

productive, fulfilling lives. Through a public education system that is seamlessly aligned from pre-school through

college. Students will gain the requisite academic knowledge and technical and critical thinking skills for life

and work in the 21st century

NJ STEPS Redesigning Education in New Jersey for the 21st Century: A Policy Report of the New Jersey High School Redesign Steering Committee

http://www.state.nj.us/education/ser/resources/essential.pdf

Technology in the 21st Century

Technology enables students to solve real world problems, enhance life, and extend human capability as they meet the

challenges of a dynamic global society.

NJCCCS 8.1, 8.2, 9.1-9.4

Vision

The systematic integration of technology across the curriculum and in the teaching and learning process fosters a population that leverages 21st

century resources to:

Apply information-literacy skills to access, manage, and communicate information using a

range of emerging technological tools.

Think critically and creatively to solve problems, synthesize and create new knowledge, and make

informed decisions that affect individuals, the world community and the environment.

Gain enhanced understanding of global interdependencies as well as multiple cultural

perspectives, differing points of view, and diverse values.

Employ a systemic approach to understand the design process, the designed world, and the interrelationship and impact of technologies.

Standard 9.1 describes skills that prepare students to fully engage in civic and work life. The standard includes six strands, which reflect the Framework for 21st Century Learning:

Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Creativity and InnovationCollaboration, Teamwork, and Leadership Cross-Cultural Understanding and Interpersonal Communication Communication and Media Fluency Accountability, Productivity, and Ethics

http://www.nj.gov/education/cccs/2009/std9_career.doc

http://www.state.nj.us/education/cccs/2009/final.htm

Framework for 21st Century Learning

Web 2.0

The term "Web 2.0" (2004–present) is commonly associated with web applications that facilitate interactive information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design and collaboration on the

World Wide Web.

Examples of Web 2.0 include web-based communities, hosted services, web applications, social-networking sites, video-sharing

sites, wikis, blogs, etc

Web 2.0 provides the interactive, collaborative and self-paced or guided learning environments where students can gain skills,

research and apply what they learn

Appeals to Generation Y24/7 Access to Information and Collaboration

Social Free

Cloud Technology

Why Web 2.0?

Example of MoodleTechnology Literacy ...Open Source

Moodle is distributed free under open source licensing.

Moodle’s intuitive interface makes it easy for instructors to create courses. Students require only

basic browser skills to begin learning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-p2KqU7QD4

www.eirc.org/courses

modular object-oriented dynamic learning environment

Working Groups on wiki

http://rowanimpact.wikispaces.com/

• Real or Fake• What do you really know• Advanced Search through Google• Using Search Engines “”, +, • Filetype• Google Options

Introduction to Technology Literacy http://rowanimpact.wikispaces.com/Introduction+to+Technology+Literacy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0Pu61YkGPk

The More Things Change…

What do you think of these pictures?

Which one is real?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/0301/03-fakeorreal.html

Go ahead, click on the Google Search button and see what happens……

Enter John Smith in the Search box

We need to narrow our search

To Help refine your search, you can use additional search tools such as + or -

• Archive.com• Waybackmachine.com

• Social Bookmarking

• Google Docs

• Web Conferencing Tools, Wikis and Blogs• Skype

• Podcasts, Vodcast, Screen casts and Video Resources

Research Technology Resources on wiki

http://rowanimpact.wikispaces.com/Technology+Resources

Web 2.0 Collaborative Resources

• Delicious• Diigo

• Skype• Elluminate V –Room• Spreed

What are your favorite web 2.0 productivity tools

Skype with Mark Swiger, teacher at Marshall County Public Schools in WV

Uses wiki’s and Skype as an integral part of his class

Blended use of Project and Problem-Based Learning

• Wiki works• Blogspots from Google• Facebook• Twitter

• Audacity• JingProject

YoutubeTeachertubeGoogle videosZamzar (conversion)Real Player

The Future is Here….(Full Presentation)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLEEiQZOYDs&feature=related#t=0m49s

• Google Docs• Google Site• Zoho• Microsoft• Xtranormal http://www.xtranormal.com/