EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

1. The Changing Face of Teaching and Learning EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES July 9, 2009

2. A virus expected to have greater impact than H1N1. • A type of Native American shelter. • A free group communication website. 1. Wiki

3. A wiki is a website that uses wiki software, allowing the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked Web pages, using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor, within the browser. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. Wikis are used in business to provide intranet and knowledge management systems. For more information, watch… Wikis in Plain English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY 1. Wiki

4. A cross between a poodle and a miniature schnauzer. • A mess made by a three-year old using mud and noodles. • A free and open source e-learning software platform. 2. Moodle

5. Moodle is a free and open source e-learning software platform, also known as a Course Management System, Learning Management System, or Virtual Learning Environment. It is designed to help educators create online courses with opportunities for rich interaction. It has a significant user base with 49,256 registered sites with 28,177,443 users in 2,571,855 courses (as of February, 2009). 2. Moodle

6. A song by the Black-Eyed Peas. • Dick Cheney’s pseudonym. • A free service where thousands of people store their bookmarks, enabling you to see what's trendy and popular. 3. Delicious

7. Delicious is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. It has more than five million users and 150 million bookmarked URLs. It is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Allows you access to any website that you bookmark regardless of what computer you’re using. For more information, watch… Social Bookmarking in Plain English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x66lV7GOcNU 3. Delicious

8. A retail shopping strategy for identifying bargains. The crime of removing tags from mattresses, pillows, and upholstered chairs. A way of organizing and/or classifying information on the Internetsometimes by just one person (the content creator), and other times by a community (social tagging.) 4. Tagging

9. Tagging is organizing content organically and without a pre-determined structure. So, instead of starting off with a big list of categories to choose for your posts, you 'tag' the posts as you go along with relevant keywords. This concept is also called 'folksonomy' because it is a taxonomy emerging from us common folk instead of being handed down by an information architect or librarian. 4. Tagging

10. A trendsetting term for an optometrist • A way to find a physician in your neighborhood • Free web-based word processor and spreadsheet, which allow you share and collaborate online. 5. Google Docs

11. Google Docs is a free, Web-based word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and form application offered by Google. It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating in real-time with other users. For more information, watch… Goggle Docs in Plain English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqUE6IHTEA&feature=channel Teachers and Principals Talk About Google Docs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYPjJK6LZdM&feature=channel 5. Google Docs

12. A remote control for the remote control that husbands tend to monopolize. • A backyard trap for cicadas. • An audience response system that gives every student/participant a ‘voice’ when a question is asked. 6. Clicker Technology

13. Outspoken students don't dominate class opinions, and shy students are given a voice. Students can also answer and voice their opinion behind a cloak of anonymity. After all responses are captured, a graph appears on the screen showing percentages for each ranking. Clickers provide an excellent way to analyze the data independently and then talk about the data together. For more information, check out… Things You Should Know About Clickers http://www.educause.edu/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutClick/156805 6. Clicker Technology

14. A subsidiary of SQS for rural schools • A version of swine flu found only in rural Siberian snowfields • Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a method for online publishers to share and distribute their content directly to other websites or individual Internet users. 7. RSS

15. RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a method for online publishers to share and distribute their content directly to other websites or individual Internet users. RSS allows other websites to display the latest content from other websites. Similarly, Internet users will often collect RSS feeds from their favorite websites and use special software known as "RSS readers" to receive the latest content from these sites without having to visit them one at a time. It's not unlike having your own personalized news wire service, only including the blogs and news headlines that you select. For more information, watch… RSS in Plain English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU&feature=related 7. RSS

16. Like a blob, only gooier. • A type of dry swamp located in west Texas. • A type of website (web log) usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. 8. Blog

17. A type of website (web log) usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. For more information, watch… Blogs in Plain English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI&feature=channel PBS Teacher: Learning Now http://www.pbs.org/teachers/learning.now/2006/05/what_exactly_is_a_blog_anyway.html 8. Blog

18. A design found in a very small percentage of spider webs. • A machine for re-strapping lawn chairs. • Short for Web-based seminar, it is a presentation, lecture, workshop or seminar that is transmitted over the Web with the ability to give, receive and discuss information. 9. Webinar

19. A key feature of a Webinar is its interactive elements -- the ability to give, receive and discuss information. Contrast with Webcast, in which the data transmission is one way and does not allow interaction between the presenter and the audience. 9. Webinar

20. Warp-resistant plywood available at The Home Depot. • The screen on the I-Pod Touch. • An interactive whiteboard that turns a computer and data projector into a powerful tool for teaching and presenting. 10. SMART Board

21. With the computer image projected on the Board, simply use your finger and press on the large touch-sensitive surface to control the computer. This allows your students or employee's to do presentations from the front of the room instead of having to be at the computer. The ‘screen’ can be printed out as hard copy. 10. SMART Board

22. A type of light tackle used in the Azores. • Jewelry made from seed pods. • A pre-recorded digital file – either audio or video - available for download from the web, to be played on a computer or MP3 player. 11. Podcast

23. Anyone with something to say and a desire to say it can create a podcast and publish it to the world in very little time and at very little cost. Podcasters (as they are called) are not restricted by the FCC or traditional broadcast formats and regulations. This allows for numerous subjects and formats. For more information, watch Podcasts in Plain English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-MSL42NV3c 11. Podcast

24. Which of these emerging technologies are our clients – principals and teachers - using? • How can these emerging technologies impact continuous school and classroom improvement and the training/coaching we provide? • How can these emerging technologies impact the way WE communicate, collaborate, and learn together? Implications for JSA

25. Tonight you’ll receive an e-mail inviting you to join the JSA Learning Lab wiki! • This is a space where we can learn together about emerging technologies and how our teachers and their students are using them to continuously improve the learning in their classrooms. • Participation if voluntary. More to learn…

27. The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need - and What We Can Do About It Tony Wagner

28. Seven Survival Skills Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Collaboration and Leadership Agility and Adaptability Initiative and Entrepreneurialism Effective Oral and Written Communication Accessing and Analyzing Information Curiosity and Imagination

29. 7 Disciplines For Strengthening Instruction Data are used to create a sense of urgency. There is a widely shared vision of what good teaching is. All adult meetings are about instruction and are models of good teaching. Both teachers and students understand what quality work looks like, and there is consistency in standards of assessment. Supervision is frequent, rigorous, and entirely focused on the improvement of instruction. It is done by people who know what good instruction looks like. Professional development is primarily on-site, intensive, collaborative, and job embedded, and is designed and led by educators who model the best teaching and learning practices. Data are used diagnostically at frequent intervals by teams of teachers, schools, and districts to assess each student's learning and to identify the most effective teaching practices. There is time built into schedules for this shared work.

30. Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns Clayton Christensen, Michael Horn, Curtis Johnson

31. Model classroom A classroom which represents ideal fidelity of implementation of the adopted approach. Demonstration classroom Meets or is working toward model classroom status for the purpose of supporting technical support in the school as the school works toward full campus deployment.