Growing students online and on task

Growing students online and on task.

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Mounting evidence indicates that a student born after 1982 has a different relationship with information and learning than previous generations. This is a direct result of computer-enabled technologies.

Despite their young ages 27% of 4 to 6 year olds use a computer daily.

A 21st Century student is aMulti-tasker who uses sound and images to convey content (creators)Text is needed (or wanted) only if technology does not support something better (such as chat rooms).ROTFL, B4, LOL, POS, CD9, GNSTDLTBBB, CUL8R, Text Dictionary <3, *$, 182, ;),:P, emoticons

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Less emphasis on memory

More weight on connections

Thinking and solving

Move beyond absorbing information

Life long process of coping with change.

Manipulating resources.

Learning how to learn

Recognize traits: Digitally literate, social, technology is a part of them, crave interactivity, strong visual-spatial skills, inductive discovery, short attention span Process more information in 24 hours than the average person processed in a lifetime. Prefer hands on activities over listening.

Teacher’s role •Provides multimedia•Facilitates•Teaches less faster, less sequential, and provides greater random access to knowledge.

Online learning Blended courses Continuous and formative assessment Greater flexibility to customizing course

content to meet learner needs Classroom is a virtual space Online quizzes, forms for feedback, voting,

games, creation and publication, message boards, forums and discussion boards, multimedia

Immersive and collaborative activities Connecting, creating, active participation

Fall……..184 students….70% successful!

Their library of videos covers K-12 math, science topics such as biology, chemistry, and physics, and even reaches into the humanities with playlists on finance and history. Each video is a digestible chunk, approximately 10 minutes long, and especially purposed for viewing on the computer.

Flipped classrooms use technology — online video instruction, laptops, DVDs of lessons — to reverse what students traditionally have done in class and at home to learn. Listening to lectures becomes the homework assignment, so teachers can provide more one-on-one attention in class and students can work at their own paces or with other students.

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It might not be the answer to all pedagogical prayers, but some educators say that flipping is an effective way to teach a generation that’s grown up on YouTube.

There is a type of "blended learning" that is a combination of online and face-to-face approaches. 

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Using screencasting technology is not a one-size fits-all methodology to be rolled out on a large scale because it would be foolish to use this tool when it is not appropriate to do so; it is tool in the toolbox of education that prevents a teacher from wasting class time lecturing. This tool spends class time meeting the individual needs of students." 

It allows the teacher to maintain the use of appropriate direct instruction.

Technology is the key ingredient in flipping a classroom, because students must have Internet access after school hours in order to watch the lessons that educators record and upload. There are many flipped class facilitators online as well as social networks for flipping, like the Flipped Class Network. Instead of creating videos, teachers could assign Internet video tutorials that are already available. One of the most widely watched online teachers is Salman Khan, who founded the Khan Academy, which now offers over 2700 instructional videos online.

Pressed for time and struggling to reach a generation raised on YouTube, a growing number of teachers are digitally recording lessons with a tablet computer as a virtual blackboard, then uploading them to iTunes and assigning them as homework. In class the following day, a teacher helps students work the exercises and answer questions.

The easiest way to post a video is through Jing, captures anything on you see on your computer screen, as an image or short video (with or without audio), and lets you share it instantly.

Snagit is an enhanced Jing. You can actually import Jing movies into Snagit.

http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/

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Free video/audio storage for teachers (not districts)

Free file storage from Microsoft

http://www.livebinders.com/shelf/my

http://thwt.org/index.php/presentations-multimedia

http://cybersmartcurriculum.org/safetysecurity/networking/

http://cybersmartcurriculum.org/assets/files/CyberSmart_Scope.pdf

We never want to forget to prepare students for the new tools that they are being given.

Quizmaker, storage, exchange files, social networking

If you are from a county that needs to utilize Moodle, ……..

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