SCUSD Summer 2008 Ed Tech Institute
Alice Mercer Oak Ridge Elementary
Creative Commons Licensed (except the BLAUGH cartoon which is used under their
guidelines)
Agenda• Review what is Web 2.0 and
why use it? (5 minutes)• Project Based Learning (5 minutes)• Units and projects on the web
– ELD Projects– GATE Projects
• You do it!
What is Web 2.0?
Content creation…
Interactive
AND social
How do we learn?
How do we learn?
The Zone
Knowledge
• Learning must be demonstrated
• This has different levels, higher and lower
• Benjamin Bloom’s Taxonomy
• Construction is the highest level.
How do we
learn? Part II
Create Content
Who is it?
Why is it, in spite of the fact that teaching by pouring in, learning by a passive absorption, are universally
condemned, that they are still so entrenched in practice? That education is not an affair of “telling” and being told, but an active and constructive process, is a
principle almost as generally violated in practice as conceded in theory. Is not this deplorable situation due to the fact that the doctrine is itself merely told? It is
preached; it is lectured; it is written about. But its enactment into practice requires that the school
environment be equipped with agencies for doing, with tools and physical materials, to an extent rarely
attained. It requires that methods of instruction and administration be modified to allow and to secure
direct and continuous occupations with things
John Dewey, Democracy
and Education,
1916
Research projects and the multitude of ways they can go wrong…
Teaching plagiarism with cut ‘n paste
From BLAUGH.COM (see their site for licensing/usage rules)
Just the facts m’am
Just do it: free-range projects = feral students
http://flickr.com/photos/bass_nroll/1442790011/
Creative Commons license http://flickr.com/photos/auntiep/2055051/
Getting more (quality)…
…by demanding less (quantity)
Creative Commons licensehttp://flickr.com/photos/sukkulaati/423983587/
You need a plan…
The elements…
Accessible Resources
Pre-vetted sitesTeaching of evaluation
skillsHow to glean a main idea
Bookmark http://flickr.com/photos/derbeth/300105723/
Otherwise, this is all they see…
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From: http://www.lipsum.com/
Using Diigo to show how-to
Highlighting Postmodernism http://flickr.com/photos/stephmcg/1265507662/
Structuring for success
…and giving feedback
Scripts and storyboards: Don’t do a project without one. TITLE
SCRIPT
http://flickr.com/photos/63031528@N00/852247291
A picture is worth 1,000 words
Sources of photos
Flickr (Creative Commons)http://flickr.com
Library of Congress (Public Domain)search for LOC on Flickrhttp://loc.gov
Wikipedia (Both)http://wikipedia.org
In progress…TITLE The Boston Tea Party (1773)
SCRIPT The Sons of Liberty through all of the tea into the Boston Harbor. This is important because the war began.
In progress…TITLE Declarations of Independence
SCRIPT Back in the days not all people were treated fairly. So they decided to write the Declaration of Independence therefore they got representation