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Student 2.0: New Technologies, New Opportunities for 21 st Century Learners. April, 2007 Julie Mathiesen Education Technology Specialist TIE. What is our business?. What is our Business?.
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Student 2.0: New Technologies, New Opportunities for 21st Century Learners April, 2007 Julie Mathiesen Education Technology Specialist TIE
What is our Business? “..the invention of tasks, activities, and assignments that the students find to be engaging and that bring them into profound interactions with the content and processes they will need to have mastered to be judged to be well education”. Schlechty (2001)
To design engaging knowledge work that students believe is worth doing.
Are Our Customers’ Needs Changing? Is technology changing the waystudents learn and work?
The New Labels • Digital Natives – Marc Prensky • Clickerati – Idit Harel, MaMaMedia • The Net Generation • Nexters • Screenagers • Millennials – Educause/Oblinger • Generation Y or D or M • Echo Boomers • My Space Generation
*The Pew Internet &American Life Project • There is a widening gap between techno-savvy students and their schools. • Many schools and teachers have not yet recognized – much less responded to – the new ways students communicate and access information over the Internet. • Students want more and more engaging internet activities at school that are relevant to their lives.
Web 1.0 a Web 2.0 “Meaningless marketing buzzword or new conventional wisdom” Tim O’Reilly Static a Dynamic Content Consumer a Content Creator information silo a architecture of participation (use of Web 2.0 adds value to the product)
Web 2.0Read, Write, Speak, CreateCommunicate, Collaborate • Blogs – journal style website in reverse chronological order • Wikis – simple, editable website
Blogs (weB log) • individuals and groups can create a web presence with no programming skills • an online journal • open to the rest of the Internet world, can also be closed • like-minded bloggers often group together to share ideas, comment on each other’s posts, and generally create a sense of community
Blog as Administrative Tool(a virtual chalkboard) Vicki’s Blog on eLearning to explain development of the flatworld Mr. McDowell’s World History Class
Blog as Discussion Tool Civic Dude!
Blog as Publication Tool BlogWrite Sheehy - Interaction
Blogging Products • Make thinking public • Develop Voice • Deep Thinking • Creating Community • Authentic Work/Authentic Audience • Improve Literacy • Self-Expression A World Tour of Classroom Blogs – Google Earth Anatomy of a Blog