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May 16, 2013
March 8, 2013
0. Some things to take home with you today
- Info about UK’s School Technology Leadership programs
- FREE book chapter: Supporting effective technology integration and implementation
- 26 Internet safety talking points
1. Getting started
1a. Mindset shifts
- Schools that change communities
- 3 axes of school reform
- Engagement is not a goal, it’s an outcome of students doing meaningful work
- What schools need: Vigor instead of rigor
- Students’ work must have wings
- Engaged
- Connected learning
- Battling over the meaning of ‘personalization’
- Personalization v. differentiation v. individualization
- The four negotiables of student learning
- Create
1b. Bloom’s / Webb’s
- Webb’s Depth of Knowledge Chart
- Webb’s Depth of Knowledge Guide
- Bloom’s Taxonomy (Revised)
- Iowa State University Bloom’s new taxonomy handout
- Bloom’s quicksheets (see also Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy)
- Bloom’s taxonomy of measurable verbs
- Thinkfinity Bloom’s verbs
- Webb’s – Bloom’s Crosswalk 01
- Webb’s – Bloom’s Crosswalk 02
- Do students need to learn lower-level factual and procedural knowledge before they can do higher-order thinking?
2. Designing for our new information landscape
2a. Characteristics of our new information / learning environments
- Every year learning will be more
- Global, not just local (see School connection and collaboration resources)
- Robust student engagement, agency, voice, and ownership
- Crowdsourced amateurs, not just individual experts
- Open, accessible, and free, not just closed, locked-down, and costly
- Active and interactive, not just passive and receptive
- Real-world, not just classroom
- Production, not just consumption
- Connected communities of interest, not just geography
- Individualized/personalized, not masses
- Self-directed v. instructor-directed
- Disintermediation
- Replacement by software
- Being findable
- Credentialing
2b. Powerful technology, powerful students
- More than that
- Minecraft history project
- Richard’s Rwanda
- Never seconds
- We are hungry
- Curie school asteroid
- Pontiac Fiero
- Lueroi’s walkthroughs
- Minnesota nice
- A kid’s guide to Northwest Florida
- Historical storytelling
- Miriam’s magical moments
- The Do Not Enter Diaries
- FanFiction (e.g., kazoquel4, Lost In Your Eyes)
- Hello Kitty in Space
- Oakridge reads!
- App building
- Khan Academy v. Student Made Math Movies (e.g., Factors, Arrays, and a Sloth)
- Class wiki v. Wikipedia
3. Putting students to work
3a. Backchanneling
- TodaysMeet
- PrimaryPad (example) & Sync.in & PiratePad
- Google jockeying
- Tricider: How can we get more PBL into our classrooms?, Ideas for using Tricider with students
- Google Moderator (example)
- Wallwisher
- Intervue: How digital is your classroom?
- Twitter: Introduction to hashtags, New York Times 1, New York Times 2, Monica Rankin
- Ideas for ways to use backchannels in class
3b. More student interaction tools
- Google Docs templates
- How can learning be different? (example)
- 3-column notes (example)
- 6-3-5 brainstorming (example)
- Reverse assumptions (example)
- Effort-impact quadrant (example)
- Socrative
- Keek
- Chatzy
- CoverItLive
- Using cell phones for learning, mobile learning reflections
3c. Student content curation
- Social bookmarking: Delicious, Diigo
- Storify: Wordle resources
- See also Wikispaces, WetPaint, LiveBinders
3d. Student content creation
- Blogs: Caitlin, Class Blogmeister, WordPress, Blogger, Edublogs
- Present.me: Ancient Rome, Garr Reynolds
- Screencasting: Khan Academy, Screencast-o-matic, Screenr, Jing, iPad apps
- See also StoryBird (example), Slideshare, YouTube QuickCapture, VoiceThread, Mind42, bubbl.us, Learnist, Storify, Glogster, Animoto, xtranormal, dotSUB, Flickr, BlogTalkRadio, Weebly, Google Sites
- Get more ideas at FreeTech4Teachers and Tools for Learners
4. Evaluating technology integration in our classrooms
- Some mental frameworks
- Replicative technologies
- Some video scenarios
5. RSS Workshop
5a. Overview
- The most important tool you probably don’t know
- Kathy’s basket
- How to make better teachers
- What are educators’ professional obligations to learn from social media channels?
- RSS Guide for Educators (a work in progress!)
- Google Reader (see also Google Reader hotkeys)
5b. Eleven education blogs that every educator should be reading
- Dangerously Irrelevant
- Free Technology for Teachers
- Will Richardson
- EdWeek TeacherBeat
- EdWeek Living in Dialogue
- The Answer Sheet
- Reinventing PBL
- Education Rethink
- Powerful Learning Practice
- Cooperative Catalyst
- Andrew Miller
5c. Other education blogs
- This Week in Education
- For the Love of Learning
- Jose Vilson
- Larry Ferlazzo
- The Tempered Radical
- User Generated Education
- SpeEdChange
- Stump the Teacher
- Education Evolving
- Diane Ravitch
- ASCD Inservice
- EdWeek Rural Education
- EdReach
- Larry Cuban
- CNN Schools of Thought
- Huffington Post Education
- See also all of EdWeek’s blogs
- Education Elements (Jason Glass) [IOWA]
- Des Moines Register Education Blog [IOWA]
- Iowa TransformEd [IOWA]
- Education in Iowa [IOWA]
5d. Educational technology blogs
- MindShift
- Hack Education
- Cool Cat Teacher Blog
- 2¢ Worth
- Langwitches Blog
- Moving at the Speed of Creativity
- Ideas and Thoughts
- Generation YES Blog
- The Blue Skunk Blog
- Steve Hargadon
- Stager-to-Go
- The Edublogger
- Assorted Stuff
- The Fischbowl
- 21st Century Collaborative
- EdWeek EdTech Researcher
- EdWeek Digital Education
- DML Central
- OLDaily
- Angela Maiers
- 1-to-1 Schools
- Edudemic
5e. Educational leadership blogs
- Connected Principals
- Practical Theory
- A Space for Learning
- Principals Page
- The Principal of Change
- A Principal’s Reflections
- Learning in Burlington
- The Principal’s Posts
- 21k12
- Culture of Yes
- NAESP The Principals’ Office
- NASSP Principal’s Policy Blog
- EdWeek Transforming Learning
- EdWeek School Law Blog
- NSBA Legal Clips
- NSBA School Board News Today
- SchoolFinance101
- See also Principal Blogs
- See also Superintendent Blogs
5f. Subject-specific blogs
5g. Maximizing your reader
- TreeHugger, Mashable, Perez Hilton, etc.
- Des Moines Register, Cedar Rapids Gazette, Quad-City Times, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, Omaha World-Herald, Sioux City Journal, etc.
- New York Times, CNN, USA Today, Huffington Post, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, E! Online (scroll to bottom), Perez Hilton, etc.
- ISU News, U. Iowa News, Drake U. News, UNI News?
- Google Reader search (e.g., woodworking, wine, Minnesota Vikings, crafts); see also Technorati categories
- Google Alerts
- rssWeather or Weather.com
- Package tracking
- Feed43 turns any web page into RSS feed
- Convert Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Pinterest, and other channels into RSS feeds
- Convert Delicious bookmarks into RSS feed (see also my Delicious bookmarks)
- Send from Google Reader to Kindle
- Other Send To options
- Sharing Google Reader bundles
- 10 things you didn’t know you could do with RSS
- 50 things you can do with RSS
- 100 cool things you can do with RSS
5h. Got an iPad or smartphone?
- Google Reader apps to try out
- See also News.me and Prismatic
- Pocket (also connect Pocket to Google Reader)
6. Delicious
- English Language Arts
- Writing
- Social Studies
- Math
- Science
- World Languages
- Ed Tech
- 1 to 1
- Everything
- Do a Delicious search!
7. Closing thoughts
Miscellaneous Resources
Other technology integration resources
- The REAL pedagogical problem
- George Siemens / David Warlick quotes
- Technology and learning spectrum
- Digital Bloom’s
- SAMR
- Arizona technology integration matrix
- TPACK (see also handout)
- Learning activity types: wiki and mind map
- Web 2.0 that works
- Teacher needs in anticipation of the instructional use of technology
- Technology, coaching, and community
- Educational technology bill of rights for students
Some guiding questions
- What can we do to increase the cognitive complexity of students’ day-to-day work so that they are more often doing deeper thinking and learning work?
- What can we do to better incorporate digital technologies into students’ deeper thinking and learning work in ways that are authentic, relevant, meaningful, and powerful?
- What can we do to give students more agency and ownership of what they learn, when they learn, how they learn, and how they show what they’ve learned?
- What can we do to better recognize and assess when students’ deeper thinking and learning work is (or isn’t) occurring?
- What can we do to build the internal capacity of both individual educators and school systems to be better learners and faster change agents?
- As we move toward more cognitively-complex, technology-suffused learning environments, how do we bring educators, board members, parents, communities, policymakers, and higher education along with us?
- As we move toward more cognitively-complex, technology-suffused learning environments, how do we ensure that traditionally-underserved student and family populations aren’t further disadvantaged?
- As we move toward more cognitively-complex, technology-suffused learning environments, what individual and societal mindsets – and local, state, and federal policy supports and/or barriers – need reconsideration?
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