Digital Students @Analog Schools

2. Digital Students @Analog Schools stay curious + stay hungry + be creativemarco antonio torres http://www.sfett.com/ican5/digital_students.html

3. Recap of Intro to 21st Century Teaching and Learning • We need to rethink learning in terms of how society and technology have influenced the learning environment. • Trends • Decentralization • Democratization • What it means to know George Siemens on Connectivity-http://www.elearnspace.org/media/Connectivism_IOC/player.html

4. Rethinking Teaching & Learning • New literacy • Schools need to build capacity • Teachers need to design for collaboration and communication • Active content creators.

5. Contemporary Literacy: Essential Skills for the 21st Century

6. Wanted: 21st Century Skilled Workers • Personal and Social Responsibility • Planning and critical thinking • Strong communication skills • Cross-Cultural understanding • Visual and media literacy • Problem-based decision making skills • Ability to use technology as a communication and collaboration tool

7. Clarifying Learning Goals What are we trying to teach and why? Is what we are teaching now, aligned with what is needed for successful living in the 21st century. What is the core curriculum? What is the best way to find out what children have learned?

8. Key Assumptions What are some key assumptions about how students need to learn that are stressed at your school? Finish this statement….Students learn best when…

9. Source: John Seely Brown

10. Source: John Seely Brown

11. ~Through engaging student’s preconceptions (schema) ~ By using differentiated strategies that embrace multiple intelligences (convergent and divergent thinkers) and ~ Helping students to know their own processing styles and take responsibility for their own learning through meta-cognition (thinking about thinking) ~ In environments that encourage risk taking and collaboration ~ From total immersion and engagement with content and facts—(Helping students learn through deep understanding) ~ In activities that allow for student choice How the 21st Century Learner Learns Best…

12. Are We Preparing Our Students to Adapt to New Situations? Adaptive experts combine: Efficiency & Innovation AdaptInnovateTogether

13. Teaching is a Creative Act

14. Imagination is more important than knowledge for knowledge is limited where as imagination embraces the whole world. Albert Einstein

15. Cool Tools---This will be a lightning fast introduction to a selection of powerful online tools that teachers and students can use in and out of the classroom.

16. Goal: to stimulate your thinking…

17. What is a Blog? A blog (or weblog) is a website in which items are posted on a regular basis and displayed with the newest at the top. Like other media, blogs often focus on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news. Some blogs function as online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. Since its appearance in 1995, blogging has emerged as a popular means of communication, affecting public opinion and mass media around the world. [1] Will Richardson’s videohttp://campus.belmont.edu/chenowit/dragonstale/WebLoggingSmall.mov Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblog

18. Elementary Kids blog too… • Kidzloghttp://www.haranbanjo.com/kidzblog/ What does a post look like? Atlantic City Rough Cutshttp://www.starw.org/acrc/2005/11/witches-aliens-and-school-board.html the elementary school video blogging project organized by Art Wolinsky.

19. Blogging Begins with Reading http://21stcenturylearning.wikispaces.com/ Technorati Google blog search Blogdigger

20. Go to www.blogger.com

21. Go to www.blogger.com • 2. Click on "create your blog now" at this link. A new window will open so that you can read the directions and complete the task. • 3. Create your account • 4. Click on continue • 5. Blog Title: use something about learning or blogging • 6. Blog Address: something short and intuitive • 7. Email yourself your password, login and your blog address!!!!! (the entire URL) • 8. Key in the word verification • 9. Click continue • 10. Click to choose a template (only a minute to do this you can easily change it later) • 11. Click on "continue" • 12. Click on "Start Posting" • 13. Create a title that reflects an introduction. • 14. Click Save as Draft. (So you can come back to it later) • 15. Now hit reply to this post and give us your URL so we can visit your blog in a few days!

22. Vlog A vlog is a weblog which uses video as its primary presentation format. Vlog posts are usually accompanied by text, image, and additional meta data to provide a context or overview for the video. http://www.vidblogs.com/http://andyrush.net/screencast/videoblog.html

23. Get Rid of Next Blog • 1. copy this code <noscript><body></noscript>2. log in to your blogger blog3. click on template4. scroll down until you see the word <body> with these brackets and not {body} (that is a style code)5. replace <body> with the code in #16. republish your blog.

24. RSS • Rich Site Summary • Real Simple Syndicationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndication • XML language RSS uses very similar to html (Extensible Markup Language)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xml

25. RSS • Code is often called a feed • Makes it possible for readers to subscribe • It comes to you instead of you having to go get it. • Uses aggregator software that creates a feed collections

26. Aggregator • Aggregators reduce the time and effort needed to regularly check websites of interest for updates, creating a unique information space or "personal newspaper." • An aggregator is able to subscribe to a feed, check for new content at user-determined intervals, and retrieve the content. The content is sometimes described as being "pulled" to the subscriber, as opposed to "pushed" with email or IM. • Unlike recipients of some "pushed" information, the aggregator user can easily unsubscribe from a feed.

27. Let’s Create One • Web-based • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_news_aggregators • http://www.bloglines.com • http://www.newsgator.com/home.aspx

28. You try it… • http://www.weblogg-ed.com/xml/rss.xml

29. Using RSS in the Classroom • Student Blogs all in one place • http://www.suprglu.com/ • Students create feeds for content

30. Flock • Browser for the digital native.

31. Look at What We Can Build When We Work Together! The term wiki is a shortened form of wiki wiki which is from the native language of Hawaii where it is commonly used as an adjective to denote something "quick" or "fast"!

32. Look at What We Can Build When We Work Together! http://writingwiki.org/default.aspx/WritingWiki/For%20Teachers%20New%20to%20Wikis.html http://www.budtheteacher.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/teaching_with_blogs/teaching_with_blogs.cfm

33. What ideas do you have so far for ways you could use these tools to further your own professional development and personal learning?

34. Podcasting Do I need to have an iPod? Content to go The three steps... 1 - record2 - edit(?)3 - publish

35. Tools of the Podcaster PowerGramo, a smart recorder for Skype. Basic edition is totally *FREE* now. http://www.PowerGramo.com http://www.skype.com/helloagain.htmlhttp://audioblogger.com/ http://www.podomatic.com/

36. Sample Podcasts http://www.podzinger.com/ http://bobsprankle.com/podcasts/0506/rm208vodcast.mov http://webloggedlinks.pbwiki.com/Pod%20and%20Vodcasting Matthew Bischoff David Warlick Cog Dog

37. Social Bookmarking del.icio.us Live Marks– What is being tagged right now

38. Daily Zeitgeist • Mappr • Flickr Tools

39. Reflect What concerns, questions, reactions do you have so far about using these emerging technologies in your classroom?

40. Other Cools Tools Captionerhttp://shadydentist.com/captioner/Suprgluhttp://www.suprglu.comhttp://www.snbeach.comWritelyhttp://www2.writely.com/info/WritelyOverflowWelcome.htmWriteboardhttp://www.writeboard.com/Jot Livehttp://www.jotlive.com/NiceNethttp://www.nicenet.org/

41. Show and Tell Log into our virtual learning community Click on links Add your wiki, your blog, and anything else you want to share.