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A Vision of Students Today

A Vision of Students Today. Knowledge is specific content. Learners are empty vessels to be filled with knowledge. Knowledge is created. Learning is a collaborative social endeavor. A Paradigm Shift. Tools for Supporting Relationships. Tools for Supporting Individuals.

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A Vision of Students Today

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  1. A Vision of Students Today

  2. Knowledge is specific content Learners are empty vessels to be filled with knowledge

  3. Knowledge is created Learning is a collaborative social endeavor

  4. A Paradigm Shift Tools for Supporting Relationships Tools for Supporting Individuals

  5. Acquiring 21st century skills such as higher level thinking, stronger communication abilities, and collaborative learning will encourage student engagement and increase academic achievement (Department of Education, 2002)

  6. Are You Paying Attention?

  7. Are You Paying Attention? • How do your students learn? • How do you assess their learning? • What is the difference between a digital native and a digital immigrant?

  8. Horizon Report 2007 Key trends affecting higher education—next 5 years • One year or less • Social Networking • User-Created Content • Two-Three Years • Mobile Phones • Virtual Worlds • Four-Five Years • New Scholarship and Emerging Forms of Publication • Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming

  9. Choose the Right Tool • GroupWise • Blackboard • Datatel

  10. GroupWise…Have you used for • Filtering and finding mail • Mailing Lists • Proxy access • Folders you can access from anywhere • Delaying delivery of items • Organizing your schedule • Inviting others to meetings

  11. Blackboard…Do you… • Teach online? • Use Blackboard to organize your course? • Use Blackboard to extend your f2f course? • It can be a lifeline for your students…

  12. Datatel….Can you…. • Create a faculty icon? • Check registration? • Check/Create rosters ? • Check student schedules ? • Find advisee information ? • Check room availability, course loads, instructor schedulesv • Help or hindrance?

  13. Choose the Right Tool • Communication • Content • Collaboration • Organization/Mgt • Assessment

  14. Synchronous Communication • Virtual Conferencing • Elluminate • Chats • Skype • Asynchronous Communication • E-mail • Blackboard Discussion Boards • Blogs • Social Networks

  15. “live” interactive virtual environment Communication Presentation Interaction instruction

  16. Chats • Usually organized around a particular topic • Interaction through typed messages • Works well for brainstorming or if format is well structured ahead of time. • Live online Author Discussions: extend students’ understanding of a particular author’s works and the writing process: • Book Raps • Read Around Australia

  17. FREE VoIP technology • make audio and video phone calls from your computer  Promoting Synchronous Interaction in an eLearning Environment

  18. Discussion Board Forums • Time and place independent • Time between messages allows for reflection • Speakers of other languages have added time to read and compose answers • Responses can be seen by all—making learning more visible • Messages archived--providing a database of interactions

  19. Blogging in Education

  20. Blogging: Most Recognized Example

  21. Blogs in Plain English

  22. Social Networks: Connect Users into Communities of Trust (or interests)

  23. Social Networking in Plain English

  24. Social Networking Software • Social Networks • Keep contacts online through web interfaces • MySpace, FaceBook most common • Social Calendaring • Share agendas for events arrangements and meetings planning • Groupwise, Google Calendar

  25. Social Networks: Connect Users into Communities of Trust (or interests) What can you do with Pronetos? Create your home page Find scholars in your field Share a paper with colleagues Post course materials to your site Network and collaborate with colleagues Find research in your field Post an announcement to your colleagues See the message board in your discipline

  26. Microsoft Office • Web-based applications (Google Apps) • YouTube/TeacherTube • i3D • Learning objects • Simulations • Podcasts • WebQuests

  27. Invention of the Year (2006)

  28. You-Tube Education Today and Tomorrow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnh9q_cQcUE Ignite your students imaginations Use video clips to introduce/demonstrate concepts Have students incorporate videos in their projects Have students evaluate video content—information literacy Have students create videos & post them to YouTube

  29. Online community for sharing instructional videos • Provides anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers • Site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill http://www.teachertube.com

  30. i3D • Learning Objects • Simulations

  31. Podcasting • Pod (iPod) + broadcast = Podcast • Differs from streaming audio • Automatically delivered to player –don’t have to click on a link to download • Listen when you want – not when a program is scheduled

  32. Podcasting in Plain English

  33. Finding Them

  34. Making Them Dead simpleMore involved Windows Sound RecorderorFreecorder or Digital voice recorder + Podomatic Audacity + Podomatic Audacity + Blog + Feedburner

  35. Inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web.  • WebQuest.org • History of Computers WebQuest • Will Technology Elevate Higher Education?

  36. Google/Yahoo Groups • Blogs • Blogger • Wikis • Wikispaces • pbwiki • Virtual Reality (2nd Life)

  37. Wikipedia: Collaborative Dictionary Edited in Real Time by Anyone

  38. Wikis in Plain English

  39. Wikis:The ultimate collaboration tool • Special web site • allows visitors to add, remove, edit & change content • Not need access to or knowledge of web publishing software • Collaboration • Group members work on common document in common location

  40. Teaching & Learning Resources Wiki • Toolkit of online resources • Course design • Course management systems • Faculty Development Resources • Online Training • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning • Web 2.0 • Learning Theories • Learning Styles

  41. Wikis in Education • Amistad wiki • Creative Web Tools For and By Kids • Welker's Wikinomics Page • Eckerd College • Teaching & Learning Resources wiki

  42. Horizon Project http://horizonproject2008.wikispaces.com/ Collaborative global project between classrooms in diverse geographical locations • USA (6 classes—4 schools) • Japan (1 class) • Qatar (2 classes—2 schools) • Austria (1 class) • Spain (1 class) • Australia (2 classes—2 schools)

  43. WikiBooks Started July 10, 2003—mission to create a free collection of open-content textbooks that anyone can edit http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Foundations_and_Current_Issues_of_Early_Childhood_Education/WikiText_Development_Process • Old Dominion—WikiText project • Students enrolled in class develop own textbook for the course

  44. Course Management Systems • RSS • iGoogle • Slideshare • Flickr • Social Bookmarking • de.licio.us • Furl • Citeulike

  45. RSS in Plain English

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