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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
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 iSpring
lets you publish your 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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