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Changing Tools for
Changing Times
Jane Nauman
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Brave
New World-Wide Web
State of the Internet
st
21
Century Programs?
What do our Classrooms say?
is an information dump – to learn is to
acquire information
Trust authority for good information
Authorized information is beyond
discussion
Obey the authority and follow along
It
Crisis of Significance – Dr. M. Wesch
What do students in these
classrooms say?
How
many points is this worth
How long does the paper need to be
What do we need to know for the test
Only
there for the grade
Students HATE school – LOVE learning
Only 26% of what students read in school is relevant to their
life
Students SHOULD Be Prosumers
Blend
of producer and consumer, coined
by futurologist Alvin Toffler in his book The
Third Wave
Creators
of Information – Blogging
Collective
Intelligence - by working
together in new ways we create info that
rivals the content of experts
Definition of Learning
Learning
is to create
Significance
Meaningful
connections
Trusting relationships
Communities
Changing Tools
Wikipedia
Formally
launched on January 15, 2001
Only 1 paid employee
2 million worldwide
Only 1/3 of traffic is to English articles
More popular than the New York Times
1.4 billion page views monthly
Changing Tools
Blogs
1999
blogger.com started –
2010
Purchased by Google in 2003=no users
= 112.8 million
YouTube
Produced
more videos than all the
networks since 1948 with NO producers
Teacher Classroom Skills
Pull,
don’t push
Raise
lots of “relevant” questions
Bridge knowledge for transfer from
question to insight & understanding
Create
from relevance
Engage
students in experiences from the
concepts you are teaching
NOT
“soft skills”
Creativity,
collaboration, communication,
empathy, and adaptability are core
capabilities
Teacher Classroom Skills
Allow
for variation
Stamp
out one-size-fits-all
Promote mass customization
No
more “spray n’ pray”
Let
the students get their hands dirty
Be an enabler of learning
Teachers
are designers
Prescriptive
rules vs. permissive guidance
Active engagement in learning by doing
Teacher Classroom Skills
Build
a learning community
Learning
happens through social
interaction
Build relationships with parents,
community, and online
Be
an anthropologist, not an
archaeologist
Don’t
go into the future looking in the
rearview mirror
Don’t dig for the future – connect with
people today
Teacher Classroom Skills
Incubate
the future
Help
students to learn future roles in
solving large problems, like global warming
etc., while studying math and science
Change
the discourse
Assess
process along with outcomes
Mix formative assessment with numeric
What is a 21st Century Classroom?
20th Century Classroom
21st Century Classroom
Teacher-Centered
Student-Centered
Fragmented Curriculum
Integrated & Interdisciplinary
curriculum
Students working in isolation
Collaborative learning – with
classmates and globally
Passive learning
Active learning
Diversity of students is ignored
C & I address student diversity
Curriculum is irrelevant and
meaningless to students
Curriculum is connected to students’
interests, experiences, and talents in
the real world
Teacher is judge – no one else
sees student work
Self, peer, and authentic assessments
– public audience
Focus on Lower level of Bloom’s
Taxonomy – Knowledge,
Comprehension, Application
Focus on Upper level of Bloom’s
Taxonomy – Synthesis, Analysis,
Evaluation and includes lower level
21st Century Skills
Communication
Critical
Thinking
Creativity
Online
& Collaboration
& Multimedia
Learning
Communication & Collaboration
Wordle.net
Communication
& Collaboration
Polling
PollEverywhere
Search
Engine
eyePlorer
“graphical
knowledge engine”
Eyeplorer looks for relationships between
the search term and all other documents in
Wikipedia and returns a graphical
representation of findings that allow users
to investigate the “found” links.
Communication
& Collaboration
Visual
Thesaurus
interactive
dictionary and thesaurus which
creates word maps that blossom with
meanings and branch to related words. Its
innovative display encourages exploration
and learning. You'll understand language
in a powerful new way.
Communication
& Collaboration
Flat
Classroom Project
Took
place in Qatar – know where that is?
Communication
& Collaboration
Digital
Textbooks
Today’s
students using traditional
textbooks
Fanfiction
Creating
Book
digital books
Builder
Communication
& Collaboration
Google
Apps for Education
Teacher
Intel
Experience Exchange
Teach
Communication
& Collaboration
Clickers
Wrong
and why you should love them:
answer discussion as well as
correct answer discussion
Identifies bad questions
Engages students in everything from
stories, to lessons, and what is going on
in the classroom
Communication
& Collaboration
Question
“wait” is always perfect!
ALL students are engaged instead of
just a portion
It instantly shows a teacher if the lesson
was successful in teaching the concepts
Critical Thinking,
Creativity & Multimedia
Multimedia
Picture
is worth a thousand words
Shared Experience
Critical Thinking,
Creativity & Multimedia
Threading
A
VoiceThread is a collaborative,
multimedia slide show that holds images,
documents, & videos
Can
leave comments in 5 ways
Critical Thinking,
Creativity & Multimedia
One
True Media
Animoto
Digital
Literacy
Experiential
Learning
Glogster
Glogster
classroom
Posters to use for education
Online Learning - Students
Increased participation of students in
the classroom
Greater emphasis on independent
learning
Increase in independent and selfdirected learning
Increased sharing of ideas and
knowledge-building among students
Online Learning - Teachers
– why it takes more time
How effectively monitor student work
and progress
How to build community of learners
Time
Online Learning
Moodle
Course
Free
Lab
e-learning authoring tool that offers
programming-free WYSIWYG environment
for creating high-quality interactive elearning content
Online Learning
iSpringFree
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lets you publish your presentations
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- free online hosting for presentations.
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Online Learning
ScreenCast
Screencasting
is a very simple concept:
record your computer screen and sounds
while talking about your actions.
Yacapaca
Cool
tool to create quizzes and surveys
and set work for your class
What about PODS?
What
are PODS?
Personally
Student
Owned Devices
bringing in their own laptops
etc. to school to use for instruction.
VIDEO
Q&A
Any
questions?
Any answers?
Any new ideas?
Any “aha” moments of how you might
change just one thing in the way you
are currently teaching?
Any favorite “free” tool you saw today?
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