1 st used a card reader in 1981 with SPSS

1. 1st used a card reader in 1981 with SPSS • 1st home computer an Apple 1 built inside a plywood box in 1983 • 1st Educational computer application Appleworks on II E’s in 1984 • 1st School computer lab Macintosh with graphic interface in 1986 • 1st Microsoft lab, 286’s in 1988 • Follow-up through the Microsoft generations of Operating systems and Intel generations of microprocessors • Board and School-level Technology committees for decades • Collaborative projects since the early ’90’s • Currently my students spend a minimum of 1 period in 4 on computers

2. Why we need to back off of Web 2.0 By: Robert Huxley For: The Principal, GEA 522 Professor: Scott Conrod

3. What is Web 2.0 anyway? http://oreilly.com/pub/a/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html?page=5 • Services with cost-effective scalability • Control over unique, hard-to-recreate data sources that get richer as more people use them • Trusting users as co-developers • Harnessing collective intelligence

4. Wikipedia is more specific listing • Web Applications • Social networking sites • Video sharing sites • Wikis • Web logs or Blogs • Microblogging • Folksonomy e.g. Tagging people in • Tag clouds

5. Web 2.0 vs. School Created at http://www.wordle.net/ Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

6. Do you see: participation, convergence, economy, usability, standardization, design, remixability? http://www.wordle.net/ Created at http://www.wordle.net/

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8. WAIT!But some of these are interesting

9. Two Rules Keep the focus on the learning. Keep the learning focussed on the QEP.

10. Reform Broad Area of Learning: Media Literacy To enable students to exercise critical, ethical and aesthetic judgment with respect to the media and produce media documents that respect individual and collective rights Cross-curricular Competencies 1 Uses information 5 Adopts effective work methods 6 Uses information and communications technologies 8 Cooperates with others 9 Communicates appropriately Web applications and Learning

11. BAL Media is everywhere Judgment takes time Producing media takes time Thoughtful, respectful media takes even more time CCC Information is everywhere It actually makes 5 and 9 more difficult Cooperation requires others, not technology There is lots of ICT Do we need Web applications to do these things?

12. So we don’t need the applications.Do we want them?

13. Blogs Google Gmail et al Picassa Wikipedia Wikispaces Wordle Youtube Sure we do. That’s why we have it.

14. Edumail Gizmos Learn Virtual Classroom Media awareness network Portal Rubistar Time line makers VOD zone No we don’t. That’s why we don’t use it

15. Some schoolsSome teachersSome applicationsAre they being used correctly?

16. Principals can ask teachers: • Why do we need it? • Where does it fit? • BAL • CCC • SSC • Key Features • Does it do the job reasonable and efficiently? (Time and Money) • How will it be evaluated?

17. Does the application meet the BAL? Critical judgment Do students understand the Wikipedia discussion page and quality rating scale? Ethical judgment Do students know how to reference Internet material? Do they know what Creative Commons implies? Aesthetic judgment Do students spend so much time animating Power point the message is lost? Produce media documents that respect rights Do students know what is, and is not, a right?

18. Quality of the Interaction Will students be active followers of sites related to courses? Networking has quanity but does it have quality? How do you evaluate that quality? Problems with cooperation and collaboration Are we ready for the problems that such exchanges may bring? Bullying or… Value of the contribution Does everyone have some expertise or knowledge to bring to the new media? What kind of thought goes into these exchanges? Does added commentary add value in itself?

19. Worse. Quick texts leave records that can be misinterpreted • « Wilson and educators like him are learning the world of social media can be a tricky place, especially when students are involved. They can find themselves in deep trouble — and their names in the newspaper — when that blurry line between student and educator is crossed. » Texting, Facebook can give teachers struggles with virtual boundaries, Denise-Marie Balona, Orlando Sentinel March 1, 2010

20. Four CQSB restricted applications • Chat (restricted in 84% of US schools) • File sharing (email is restricted in 62% of US schools) • Micro-blogging (all blogs/ bulletin boards also 60%) • Social networks (forbidden in more than 50%) http://www.masternewmedia.org/learning_educational_technologies/social-networking/social-networking-in-education-survey-on-new-generations-social-creative-and-interconnected-lifestyles-NSBA-20071109.htm

21. What do Web 2.0 proponents say? Ferriter in Educational Leadership, February, 2010 Advocating for the teacher use of Twitter wrote, « elementary students would struggle to build a meaningful network of peers, and schools would have to actively address Internet safety. » Tapscott in the ASCD community blog March 7, 2010 « We can’t just throw technology in a classroom and expect good things » Hargadon in a educational company booklet entitled Educational Networking:The important role Web 2.0 will play in education(undated accessed, 8-03-2010) « the first real area of significant adoption for educational networking: professional development for educators. »

22. Do we want to be where the students are or do we want to bring them closer to where we are? Why do students need to exchange with technology? Where will teens have a place to be teens? Why Bother? Why do we need to teach what they already know?

23. Why should Principals care? We should not allow the student’s interest in their virtual lives to dictate our interest in their real lives. Our jobs are to instruct, socialize and qualify the biological beings in front us daily so that they may become productive, well-balanced adults in the real world not a virtual one. We are advocates for students and for learning.

24. Exposing the hypeDemonstrating a Broader view • Not everyone is on Facebook or Myspace. • E-bay and Amazon will not have what you need today nor give jobs to your town. • There are people without Internet. • Are we keeping our students safe? • Are we demonstrating judgment?

25. Defending learning • Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: • that what we believe is not necessarily true, • that what we like is not necessarily good, • and that all questions are open. • Clive Bell

26. Conclusions • Forget Web 2.0 • Teach the applications that make sense to teach because: • They respond to the curriculum • They do things as well as or better than earlier tools • They fit into a structured educational plan inside the school • They fit inside a structured plan inside the class • Be Professional • Do not take the easy way of restricting or allowing everything • Think about the students. Are they really going to benefit? • Think about the learning. What actually is being learned? • Thank you.