How to Reach the 21st Century Mind - Using Multimedia in the Classroom to Impact Instruction
Matt Monjan
Students Learn Differently Todayan obvious fact – but the basis for this part of the presentation
They also pull media/information from different sources
As educators how can we support the following trends?
Students and Media
• Young people (8-18) today, spend an average of 6 ½ hours a day with media– 4 hours a day watching TV
• 2 ¼ hours with parents
– 1 ¾ listening to music• 1 ½ doing physical activity
– Over an hour on the computer• Under an hour doing homework
Source: A Kaiser Family Foundation Study. March 2005
Top Five Gifts for Teenagers
• Portable Game Device
• Cell Phone
• Computer
• Video Game Console
• MP3 Player/iPods
Source: Starkman, Neal (2007).Leave Me Alone.... T.H.E. Journal. 33-38.
It is not surprising that..
Students’ # 1 request regarding technology use at their schools:
Relax school rules about email, IM, cell phones and online use
Favorite communications device (K-12)
Cell phone (73% in grades 9-12 use a cell phone daily)
Percentage of middle schoolers that have online friends from other schools, states or countries
54%
Speak Up 2006 (www.tomorrow.org)
As They Get Older• What’s “in” on Campus• Spring 2005
1. Drinking beer2. Drinking other alcohol
• Spring 20061. Drinking beer2. Drinking beer tied with
Facebook.com and iPods3. Drinking other alcohol4. Text messaging
Source: USA Today. June 8, 2006
So they’ve got this stuff
…how do I use it in my classroom?
iPods as Learning Centers and More!
• Teach a Geography Lesson(north/south example)
• Use iPod to reach ELL or Audio and Visual learners
• Create an eBook (or iBook) to use in a learning center
Create a PPT with images that match the text that you want your students to learn. Then read aloud, or even better have students read aloud the text. Record and put onto iPod
Ok – I’m with you with on the iPods…but cell phones
…in my classroom???
I actually met a high school principal in Ohio last week who encouraged his teachers to tell kids “Turn your phones ON!” when they come to class.
Not as in start making all sorts of phone calls, but as in let’s learn how we can use our phones (since just about every student had one at his school) to extend what we’re doing in class. - post by willrich
Will Richardsonhttp://www.weblogg-ed.com/
He goes on to say…
We can try to fight this, I suppose, as many schools are. Or, we can try to inculcate appropriate use from early on by modeling our own cell phone use to access information and learn throughout the curriculum.
Will Richardsonhttp://www.weblogg-ed.com/
We have to somehow find strategies to teach our kids to use cell phones and computers and the like in effective ways, and we also have to bend our thinking a bit in terms of what we ask our kids to do in classrooms in the first place.
Will Richardsonhttp://www.weblogg-ed.com/
Bottom line…
Here’s a Way to Model…
Next time you catch a cell phone in your class do the following – ask the student to:
1. Take a picture of a rhombus somewhere on campus with their cell phone camera and send it to you
2. Interview a Veteran and send you a link to their podcast
3. Text you three significant quotes from your area of study
4. Record a ring-tone of an musical innovator…
From 1963
Use Discovery Education streaming images and create a voicethread – www.voicethread.com
http://voicethread.com/share/42329/
Create an Assignment, Quiz or Writing Prompt and Embed the voicethread in the Builder Tool
1. Go to www.voicethread.com and create a voicethread
2. Click on the right-arrow to copy the Embed Code
3. Log into DE streaming and the click on Teacher Center
4. Create a new assignment5. Enter instruction into the
instruction boxes6. Paste the Embed Code from
voicethread into an instruction box
7. Give the assignment code to your students
Want to see an example of what else you can embed in an Assignment?
Let’s go to my assignment – first a little story…www.discoveryeducation.com or embed the link to your assignment
Dinosaurs and Sharks
Opening up the Closed Captions
1. To help hearing impaired students
2. To reach visual learners
3. To teach a grammar lesson
4. To teach a vocabulary lesson
5. To work on predicting outcomes
Why might we want to use CC in the classroom?
A Really Neat CC Example
The Bite Strength of Sharks – a unitedstreaming video clip
Now take that new found knowledge and add a language!
1. Go to www.google.com
2. Then choose Language Tools
3. Then choose your languages
4. Convert
5. Cut and paste back into your .smi/text file.
6. Voila!
Or…
Now that you have that .smi/cc code you can
– Add CC to any video you wish!– And it becomes …– Translate it into textspeak– www.transl8it.com
Ok Let’s Talk About The Free Stuff!
• Photo Story 3 – Windows PC• Movie Maker – Windows PC – (movie maker example)
• iPhoto – Macs • iMovie – Macs• www.Archive.org – Website with free archival
material • Freeplaymusic.com (only for classroom)
Let’s meet my godson Zack
What About the Paid Stuff?
•PowerPoint (almost free since it’s already on your computers)•Adobe Premiere Elements•Discovery Education streaming
Examples of Teachers’ Work
PowerPoint + DE streaming audio
DE streaming video and images + Adobe Premier Elements, and audio
Discovery Atlas, Google Earth + Adobe Premier Elements, green screens
While many schools restrict access to blogs, WIKI’s etc…
…others embrace it.
Wait a minute…couldn’t my students use their cell phones with Gcast too?You bet! Check this out –
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Using DE streaming Tools to Reach the 21st Century Mind
Collaborative Projects using DE streaming editable movies, cell phones and cameras!
Displaying DE streaming videos on TVs and LCD projectors, whiteboards, etc
Projecting DE streaming math or close captioned videos, articles, calendars and images on interactive white boards
Creating learning centers or labs with DE tools like the Assignment, Quiz, and Writing Prompt Builders
Making it portable – DE On-The-Go with iPods
Tying DE streaming into teacher/class wikis, blogs, websites
So now that you’re brain is buzzing how would you use these tools to differentiate your instruction?
Let’s Start with Giezi My Notes• 1st grade Reading level• Grew up on a farm in Puerto
Rico, loves the outdoors• Auditory learner, prefers to
work independently
Action Plan• Content = Jeff Corwin videos• Process = Learning center
assignment with closed captioning enabled
• Product = Short quiz linked to assignments, and/or writing prompts
How about Michelle? My Notes• Grade-level reader (above
grade-level in Spanish)• Enjoys reading stories about
kids her age• Expresses herself best through
her writing
Action Plan• Content = Short stories (e.g.,
Chicken Soup for the Children’s Soul)
• Process = Customized writing prompts (English and Spanish)
• Product = Digital portfolio of journal entries
And Ebony? My Notes• Excellent reader• Wants to be a news
reporter• Does not test well, but
loves to work on projects
Action Plan• Content =• Process =• Product =• MovieMaker, iMovie
And finally, Daniel My Notes• Advanced in all subject
areas• Wants to write, produce
and direct movies• Artistic and creative
Action Plan• Content =• Process =• Product =
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