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Today’s Virtual Handout
http://21stcenturylearning.wikispaces.com
* all resources from this morning * it will be an evolving resource
Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach
http://21stcenturylearning.typepad.com/blog /
What do you need to know, when most of recorded knowledge is a mouse-click away?
How do you teach discernment and decision-making in a contemporary world?
How do we prepare our students for careers that haven’t even been invented yet?
What does it do to the value of information, when everyone is a producer and knowledge isn’t static anymore?
How do we address ethics and safety when we are empowering our students with such prevailing skills?
Are you Ready for 21st Century Teaching and Learning?
It isn’t just “coming”… it has arrived! And schools who aren’t redefining themselves, risk becoming irrelevant in preparing students for the future.
Some statistics-- 1 billion people on the Internet - 57 million blogs, 1.7 million posts a day.-50 new blog sites created every minute
“None of the top 10 jobs that will exist in 2010 exist today." -- Richard Riley, (Former US Sec. of Ed.)
A Changing World
What Do We Mean by 21st Century Learning?
Source:AASA Year Long Study:Preparing Schools and School Systems for the 21st Century
16 Major Characteristics of Schools and School Systems Capable of Preparing Students for a Global -Knowledge/Information AgeOutsourcing Edc. Cartoon Outsourcing Homework
Trussville Needs to Ask These Tough Questions…
How do you think schools need to change in order to meet the needs of 21st Century students? What is the “end” that we should begin with?
In light of this new information technology / access landscape, what do students still need to memorize?
What are we now asking students to memorize that they don’t really need to?
How can we better use precious school
time?
Two Perspectives
Tom Carroll, NCTAF Peter Vaill Antioch University
http://sxnuss.people.wm.edu/tom_carroll.swf
http://sxnuss.people.wm.edu/peter_vaill.swf
Time Travel
Lewis Perelman, author of School's Out (1992). Perelman argues that schools are out of sync with technological change:
...the technological gap between the school environment and the "real world" is growing so wide, so fast that the classroom experience is on the way to becoming not merely unproductive but increasingly irrelevant to normal human existence (p.215).
Seymour Papert (1993) In the wake of the startling growth of science and technology in our recent past, some areas of human activity have undergone megachange. Telecommunications, entertainment and transportation, as well as medicine, are among them. School is a notable example of an area that has not(p.2).
Who is the Net Generation?
Source: Educating the Net Generation, Diana Oblinger and James Oblinger (2005)
•Born in or after 1982•Technology means MP3, PDA, Phones that do it all•Daily communication involves- cell phones, text messaging, IMing, Blogs, and Email •Academically diverse•Consumed by extra curricular activites•Thrive on group interactions•Tinkerers•Family Oriented•Ethically and racially diverse
Millennials…
Millennials Want to Learn…
• With technology• With one another• Online• In their own time• In their own place• Doing things that matter
I-Generation
Digital Disconnect
Schools
Millennials
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
be
Examples of Blogs?
Elementary Blogs
Anne Davis’ WebQuest
http://itc.blogs.com/podcast/files/Zachary32bit.mp3http://itc.blogs.com/podcast/files/Zachary32bit.mp3
Kathy Cassidy- First Grade –
Charlotte Wilson- Kindergarten
Examples of Blogs?
Secondary Blogs
Secret Life of Bees
Erik Myers
Darren Kuropatwa
Edublog Awards
How Can I Find Out More?
Tapped In
Support Blogging.com
(High school teacher)Vicki Davis writes some helps for beginning bloggers:10 Habits of bloggers that win How and why beginners (newbies) should blog. How to add tags to your blog.Setting Up a blog
(Other Teachers)Teachers Teaching Teachers
Teaching With Blogs
Learn About Blogging in Education
Alabama Blogs and other Web 2.0 products.
RSS – Making it Simple!There are many introductions to RSS available
on the Internet.
Blog Lines News GatorWhat does it look like?
Vlog
A vlog is a weblog which uses video as its primary presentation format. It is primarily a medium for distributing video content. Vlog posts are usually accompanied by text, image, and additional meta data to provide a context or overview for the video. Vlogs or videoblogs are created by vloggers or videobloggers, while the act itself is referred to as vlogging or videoblogging Torres
Podcasting
Do I need to have an iPod? Content to go The three steps... 1 - record2 - edit(?)3 - publish
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"!
Let’s brainstorm how we can use wikis….
http://www.mappr.com/
http://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/265279980/
Social Bookmarking
del.icio.us
Technorati
It’s All about the Learning- Not the Technology
Quotes from Growing up Digital, by Don Tapscott
Students are encouraged to think openly and think for themselves, only after memorizing everything they are told by the teacher or made to read in a textbook. By this time, if you think for yourself, question things that don't seem right or question things that don't seem relevant, you go away empty handed, ridiculed for "not paying attention to the teacher." -- An 18 year old
Quotes from Growing up Digital, by Don Tapscott
I think that technology has changed the way adults treat me. They seem to take my opinions more seriously because they realize I just may know something they don't. -- 16 year old
Quotes from Writings & Presentations by Marc Prensky
"When I go to school, I have to 'power down'" -- a high school kid
"I don't want to study Rome in high school. Heck, I build Rome every day in my online game (Caesar III)." -- a high school student
Last Generation
