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Integrate and Disseminate Cutting-edge Technologies to Engage Kids Learning in Elementary and Middle Schools

Integrate and Disseminate Cutting-edge Technologies to Engage Kids Learning in Elementary and Middle Schools . - A Consortium of Technology Integration/Innovation in Upstate NY. Background (1).

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Integrate and Disseminate Cutting-edge Technologies to Engage Kids Learning in Elementary and Middle Schools

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  1. Integrate and Disseminate Cutting-edge Technologies to Engage Kids Learning in Elementary and Middle Schools - A Consortium of Technology Integration/Innovation in Upstate NY

  2. Background (1) • Rapid technological changes - gap between “digital natives” (Web 2.0 users)and “digital immigrants” (Web 2.1 generation) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8 • Web 2.0 – dynamic, interactive, open source • What is it? • Horizon Report (2009)

  3. Background (2) • Web 2.0 • What is it? An intro in 5 minutes • Educational use • Blog • 8th Graders are blogging on Presidential Campaign (Son Michael's Social Studies Class Blog) (2 weeks – 83 comments) • Wiki • The Anatomy wiki - a middle-school class project started in summer 2008 and began popular (10, 000) visitors… or (StephanieClassWiki) • YouTube • Science class – eg. DNA evidence to trace human origins; video by National Geographic - animals, daily news, environment, kids, maps, music, photography, science and space, travels and cultures… • Teachertube.com – Abraham Lincoln Reads The Gettysburg Address • Free webs (Goggles sites/Wikispaces…) • Making instant family website – a Cortland family made one during Children’s Museum time

  4. Overall Goal • Through the Consortium (name?), empower teachers, overcome barriers, disseminate cutting-edge technologies (Web 2.0), make meaningful integration of the technologies into curriculum to engage students and enhance learning outcomes in elementary and middles schools in Upstate NY …

  5. Objectives • #1: Identify/develop good teaching practices integrating Web 2.0 technologies into curriculum. • #2: Provide support (technical and instructional design), overcome barriers, empower teachers, and disseminate the practices/activities . • #3: Engage students and enhance learning outcomes

  6. The Consortium • College • Dean, PDS coordinator • Faculty (instructional design, technology expertise) • Pre-service teachers • Resources • Schools • Teachers (active ones + peers) • Technology coordinators • Administrators (superintendents, principals, board…) • Families • Others • Other existing resources (Technology Centers in schools, Teacher Centers, Career Exchange ) • Kids

  7. Rationale • Why do we need such a system/mechanism • Computers oversold – underused • Why not using? • Technical skills • Application/Integration • Resources • Norms, conventions, values, and more • But if meaningful integration – could be very powerful

  8. Theoretical Framework (1) • Information Ecology (Nardi, 1999) • Define: a system of people, practices, values, and technologies in a particular local environment. • Metaphorical

  9. Information Ecology Epistemological & Ethical beliefs Technical Support Current technology Time Budget Teachers Management issues District laws Activities (meaningful integration) peers Kids Knowledge structure family interest Peers

  10. Theoretical Framework (1) • Information ecology (continued) • Is a complex system of parts and relationships. • It exhibits diversity and experiences continual evolution. • Different parts of an ecology coevolve, changing together according to the relationships in the system. • Several keystone species necessary to the survival of the ecology are present. • Information ecologies have a sense of locality.

  11. Theoretical Framework (2) • Backward Design (Wiggins & McTighe, 2007)

  12. Norms, Conventions, Values, and more… Thirty spokes will convergeIn the hub of a wheel;But the use of the cartWill depend on the partOf the hub that is void. With a wall all aroundA clay bowl is molded;But the use of the bowlWill depend on the partOf the bowl that is void.

  13. Your ideas, suggestions… • Feasible? • Who? • Where to start – 1sts step

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