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Changing Tools for Changing Times

Changing Tools for Changing Times. Jane Nauman. Great Quotes. No need to take notes . Email me at jane.e.nauman@hp.com and I will send you the presentation. Brave New World-Wide Web State of the Internet. 21 st Century Programs?. What do our Classrooms say?.

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Changing Tools for Changing Times

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  1. Changing Tools for Changing Times Jane Nauman Great Quotes

  2. No need to take notes • Email me at jane.e.nauman@hp.com and I will send you the presentation.

  3. Brave New World-Wide Web • State of the Internet

  4. 21st Century Programs?

  5. What do our Classrooms say? • It is an information dump – to learn is to acquire information • Trust authority for good information • Authorized information is beyond discussion • Obey the authority and follow along Crisis of Significance – Dr. M. Wesch

  6. What do students in these classrooms say? • How many points is this worth • How long does the paper need to be • What do we need to know for the test • Only there for the grade Students HATE school – LOVE learning Only 26% of what students read in school is relevant to their life

  7. Students SHOULD Be - • Prosumers • Blend of producer and consumer, coined by futurologist Alvin Toffler in his book The Third Wave • Creators of Information – Blogging • Collective Intelligence - by working together in new ways we create info that rivals the content of experts

  8. Definition of Learning • Learning is to create • Significance • Meaningful connections • Trusting relationships • Communities

  9. Changing Tools • Wikipedia • Formally launched on January 15, 2001 • Only 1 paid employee • 2 million worldwide • Only 1/3 of traffic is to English articles • More popular than the New York Times • 1.4 billion page views monthly

  10. Changing Tools • Blogs • 1999 blogger.com started – • Purchased by Google in 2003=no users • 2010 = 112.8 million • YouTube • Produced more videos than all the networks since 1948 with NO producers

  11. Teacher Classroom Skills • Pull, don’t push • Raise lots of “relevant” questions • Bridge knowledge for transfer from question to insight & understanding • Create from relevance • Engage students in experiences from the concepts you are teaching • NOT “soft skills” • Creativity, collaboration, communication, empathy, and adaptability are core capabilities

  12. Teacher Classroom Skills • Allow for variation • Stamp out one-size-fits-all • Promote mass customization • No more “spray n’ pray” • Let the students get their hands dirty • Be an enabler of learning • Teachers are designers • Prescriptive rules vs. permissive guidance • Active engagement in learning by doing

  13. Teacher Classroom Skills • Build a learning community • Learning happens through social interaction • Build relationships with parents, community, and online • Be an anthropologist, not an archaeologist • Don’t go into the future looking in the rearview mirror • Don’t dig for the future – connect with people today

  14. Teacher Classroom Skills • Incubate the future • Help students to learn future roles in solving large problems, like global warming etc., while studying math and science • Change the discourse • Assess process along with outcomes • Mix formative assessment with numeric

  15. What is a 21st Century Classroom?

  16. 21st Century Skills • Communication & Collaboration • Critical Thinking • Creativity & Multimedia • Online Learning

  17. Communication & Collaboration Wordle.net

  18. Communication & Collaboration • Polling • PollEverywhere • Search Engine • eyePlorer • “graphical knowledge engine” • Eyeplorer looks for relationships between the search term and all other documents in Wikipedia and returns a graphical representation of findings that allow users to investigate the “found” links.

  19. Communication & Collaboration • Visual Thesaurus • interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words. Its innovative display encourages exploration and learning. You'll understand language in a powerful new way.

  20. Communication & Collaboration • Flat Classroom Project • Took place in Qatar – know where that is?

  21. Communication & Collaboration • Digital Textbooks • Today’s students using traditional textbooks • Fanfiction • Creating digital books • Book Builder

  22. Communication & Collaboration • Google Apps for Education • Teacher Experience Exchange • Intel Teach

  23. Communication & Collaboration • Clickers and why you should love them: • Wrong answer discussion as well as correct answer discussion • Identifies bad questions • Engages students in everything from stories, to lessons, and what is going on in the classroom

  24. Communication & Collaboration • Question “wait” is always perfect! • ALL students are engaged instead of just a portion • It instantly shows a teacher if the lesson was successful in teaching the concepts

  25. Critical Thinking, Creativity & Multimedia • Multimedia • Picture is worth a thousand words • Shared Experience

  26. Critical Thinking, Creativity & Multimedia • Threading • A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, & videos • Can leave comments in 5 ways

  27. Critical Thinking,Creativity & Multimedia • One True Media • Animoto • Digital Literacy • Experiential Learning • Glogster • Glogster classroom • Posters to use for education

  28. Online Learning - Students • Increased participation of students in the classroom • Greater emphasis on independent learning • Increase in independent and self-directed learning • Increased sharing of ideas and knowledge-building among students

  29. Online Learning - Teachers • Time – why it takes more time • How effectively monitor student work and progress • How to build community of learners

  30. Online Learning • Moodle • Course Lab • Free e-learning authoring tool that offers programming-free WYSIWYG environment for creating high-quality interactive e-learning content

  31. Online Learning iSpringFree • iSpring lets you publish your presentations right from PowerPoint to SlideBoom portal - free online hosting for presentations. • presentations are available for viewing, commenting, discussing for a million online audiences all over the world. • you can showcase your presentations and explore thousands of others • FREE

  32. Online Learning • ScreenCast • Screencasting is a very simple concept: record your computer screen and sounds while talking about your actions. • Yacapaca • Cool tool to create quizzes and surveys and set work for your class

  33. What about PODS? • What are PODS? • Personally Owned Devices • Student bringing in their own laptops etc. to school to use for instruction. • VIDEO

  34. Q & A • Any questions? • Any answers? • Any new ideas? • Any “aha” moments of how you might change just one thing in the way you are currently teaching? • Any favorite “free” tool you saw today? • Remember – email me for the ppt at jane.e.nauman@hp.com

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