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Why Am I Doing This?

Why Am I Doing This? . Giving Students Meaningful Work for the 21 st century. Presented by Kelly Ford March 2012. 3 Mega-Skills for Students (as they enter the 21 st century). Expert Researchers – learning how to manage the overwhelming amounts of information online

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Why Am I Doing This?

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  1. Why Am I Doing This? Giving Students Meaningful Work for the 21st century Presented by Kelly Ford March 2012

  2. 3 Mega-Skills for Students(as they enter the 21st century) • Expert Researchers – learning how to manage the overwhelming amounts of information online • Global Communicators– linking students to students outside of the classroom. • Being Self-Directed– having a voice in the direction of their learning From NJDOE 21st Century Conference with Alan November of NovemberLearning.com

  3. What are leading-edge high schools doing? • Connecting outside the classroom through technology • Expeditionary Education • Students give input about what they want to learn. • Collaborating – students grade each other using collaboration rubrics. • Relevant, relevant, relevant

  4. Questions randomly asked during classes I’ve observed: -- Is there divorce in China? -- Will I ever use algebra in the real world? -- How did the cavemen figure out that flint started fire? -- Do the clouds we see in our sky travel as far as other countries? -- How does a roller coaster not fly off the track with the weight of all those people on it? -- Do students in England learn different things about the Revolutionary war? They can’t become expert researchers without opportunities to feed their natural curiosity.

  5. Global Communicators • Skype • Epals • Facebook • Blogs – Committed Sardine http://www.committedsardine.com/blog.cfm • Reviews on every site • Comments on every site What is my message and why is it important?

  6. Author Greg Neri • Skyping with G. Neri

  7. Even advertisers are catching on to the crucial factor of relevancy… “If I can’t relate to it, I can’t understand it.”

  8. Being self-directed By asking your students where THEY want to take their learning, it takes the burden off of you to try to come up with something relevant. I dare you: ask your students what they want to learn about a broad topic you give them.

  9. The Many Free Tools And Then Some… • Animoto -- http://animoto.com/play/YRqdJIXUC6h5aXUMmsfmNg?utm_content=challenger • Jing -- http://www.mathtrain.tv/play.php?vid=105 • Weebly -- http://msumeyers.weebly.com/student-website-examples.html • Glogster -- http://tehescmarts.edu.glogster.com/the-2011-japan-tsunami/ • Khan Academy -- http://www.khanacademy.org/ • Academic Earth -- http://academicearth.org/subjects/

  10. The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly – Which Is Which?

  11. Final Example One teacher used this video to spark an authentic project students then wanted to do, focusing on this essential question: Is progress always a good thing? Are there times when going back to the way it was once done is smarter for the future? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMfSGt6rHos

  12. How’s This For Student-Centered? 1. Explore something online that piqued your curiosity today 2. Find out more about it 3. Report back to workshop participants in 20 minutes

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