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.