Transcript What is the DEN? - Discovery Education

How to Reach the 21st Century Mind - Using
Multimedia in the Classroom
to Impact Instruction
Matt Monjan
Students Learn Differently Today
an 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
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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 beer
2. Drinking other alcohol
• Spring 2006
1. Drinking beer
2. Drinking beer tied with
Facebook.com and iPods
3. Drinking other alcohol
4. 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 Richardson
http://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 Richardson
http://www.weblogg-ed.com/
Bottom line…
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 Richardson
http://www.weblogg-ed.com/
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 assignment
5. Enter instruction into the
instruction boxes
6. 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
Why might we want to use CC in the classroom?
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
A Really Neat CC Example
The Bite Strength of Sharks –
a unitedstreaming video clip
Now take that new found knowledge and
add a language!
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Go to www.google.com
Then choose Language Tools
Then choose your languages
Convert
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!
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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
Making it portable
– DE On-The-Go
with iPods
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
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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students?
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Contact Info
Matt Monjan
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