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April 25, 2013
Afternoon presentation to staff
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
- Scott’s page for parents and educators
- Rethinking AUPs
Opening conversation
- Making the shift (Scott’s slides and videos)
- TED – Erik Brynjolfsson [VIDEO]
- 5 videos on connected learning from the DML Research Hub [VIDEOS]
- RSAnimate: Daniel Pink, Drive [VIDEO]
- Engagement is not a goal, it’s an outcome of students doing meaningful work
- What schools need: Vigor instead of rigor
- Personalization v. differentiation v. individualization
- The REAL pedagogical problem
- George Siemens / David Warlick quotes
Scott’s slides
- Global Economy
- Are You an Active Participant?
- Local v. Global
- Crowdsourced Amateurs
- Open, Accessible, & Free
- Active & Interactive
- Are Your Students Findable?
- Exponential Change
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
Evaluating technology integration in our classrooms
- Some mental frameworks
- Replicative technologies
- Personalization and technology
- Some video scenarios
- The FULL Arizona Technology Integration Matrix
Designing for cognitive complexity, tech infusion, and student agency
- Tech integration successes and failures (Set 1)
- Tech integration successes and failures (Set 2)
- Design Team 01
- Design Team 02
- Design Team 03
- Design Team 04
- Design Team 05
- Design Team 06
- Design Team 07
- Design Team 08
- Design Team 09
- Design Team 10
- Design Team 11
- Design Team 12
- Design Team 13
- Design Team 14
- Design Team 15
- Design Team 16
- Design Team 17
- Design Team 18
- Design Team 19A
- Design Team 20A
- Design Team 21A
- Design Team 22A
- Notes 1
- Notes 2
- Notes 3A
- Our answers lie within
Activities
- Premortem (BLANK; Bolman and Deal)
- Reverse assumptions (BLANK)
- Effort-impact quadrant (BLANK)
- “But I’m an excellent teacher without technology”
- A new design for education (video by Farmington, MN and Spring Lake Park, MN school districts)
- Education in a Digital World (Scott McLeod video) or What 64 schools can tell us about teaching 21st century skills (Grant Lichtman video) PLUS 8-Section Notes (BLANK)
- See also How Do We Dream? (Part 1, Part 2)
Technology integration resources
- Subject-specific blogs
- Technology and learning spectrum
- TPACK (see also handout)
- Technology integration matrix
- 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
- Gagne’s 9 events of instruction
- Educational technology bill of rights for students
Problem- / Inquiry- / Challenge-based learning resources
- Science Leadership Academy (Philadelphia, PA) core values
- Center for Authentic Intellectual Work
- Buck Institute for Education (videos; student testimony and teacher restructuring; technology and PBL)
- College and Work Readiness Assessment (example report)
- Whitfield Career Academy (example projects)
- Discovery and Unlimited (Christchurch, New Zealand)
- New Tech Network (videos; solar oven)
- High Tech High (videos; projects)
- Big Picture Learning (podcasts and videos; student testimony and personalization)
- EdVisions (videos; traditional v. self-directed students)
- Envision Schools (PBL in action and success story)
- Expeditionary Learning (stories)
- New York Performance Assessment Consortium
- Independent Curriculum Group
- Band of Educators
- CASTLE’s list of exemplary 21st century schools
Standards, frameworks, and reports you should know about
- NCTE 21st century literacy standards
- ISTE essential conditions (see also rubric)
- National Educational Technology Standards (NETS): Administrators, Teachers, and Students
- NAIS Guide for Becoming a School of the Future: PDF or HTML interactive
- See also Kevin Kelly’s 6 Words for the Modern Internet
- See also Scott’s The Future of Learning
Putting students to work
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
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
Student content curation
- Social bookmarking: Delicious, Diigo
- Storify: Wordle resources
- See also Wikispaces, WetPaint, LiveBinders
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
Some of Scott’s Delicious tags
- Elementary
- English Language Arts
- Writing
- Social Studies
- Math
- Science
- World Languages
- Ed Tech
- 1 to 1
- Everything
- Do a Delicious search!
From extracurricular to curricular
The media feeds juvenoia
- Teen cyberbully pleads guilty
- Nevada teen pummels helpless classmate
- Ten high school girls caught in texting scandal
- High school student accused of dealing pot between classes
- David Finkelhor, Crimes Against Children Research Center
Powerful technologies, powerful youth
- More than that [VIDEO]
- Minecraft history project [VIDEO]
- Richard’s Rwanda
- Never seconds
- We are hungry [VIDEO]
- Miriam’s magical moments
- The Do Not Enter Diaries
- FanFiction (e.g., kazoquel4, Lost In Your Eyes)
- Pontiac Fiero
- Minnesota nice (see also Ames High Compliments Page)
- Lueroi’s walkthroughs
- Teen app designer now a multimillionaire
- A kid’s guide to Northwest Florida
- Historical storytelling
Empowered use: Service learning goes global
- A question for the audience…
- Schools that change communities [VIDEO]
- What would an empowered use policy (EUP) look like? (instead of an AUP)
- Hello Kitty in Space v. Curie School asteroid
- Oakridge Reads! v. Amazon book reviews
- Khan Academy v. Student Made Math Movies (e.g., Factors, Arrays, and a Sloth)
- Class wiki v. Wikipedia
From extracurricular to curricular
- Create (see also Dream and Love)
- Students’ work must have wings
- Monkeys, flea jars, crab buckets, and educational risk-taking [flea jar video]
