T and T Jan 28-29

Class

Important Idea - 6

Presentation - A13 - Robin N Laura F. Trisha

iBrain overview

Lab

Top educational wikis on Wikispaces



Info Gathering - RSS (Google and Netvibes), Teacher Tube, Slideshare


Better Searching - Google help, country codes, Web Quest, LessonPlanet, teacherTap, Google Cheat Sheet
Searching beyond google = U o fMinnesota

Alan November - Info Literacy (understanding a web site - checking validity)

Free online Concept Mapping - Gliffy.com, bubbl.us

Google Sketch-up - free 3D drawing program useable in many content areas (and instead of playing games)

Work on wikis?


When Youtube is blocked (eight ways around it)

Kickyoutube downloads video well. Get the yourube video you want and then add kick in front of youtube in the address bar. Choose a format (usually mp4), click on Go and then right click on download and choose Save Source.
savevid.com works very well, but it does show the most recently downloaded videos and some may be inappropriate for the classroom.

Download and use VLC, a cross-platform media player to view almost anything!! Mac, PC or Linux

Here are some plagiarism checkers on the web: (Thanks Matt!!!)

 
http://www.dustball.com/cs/plagiarism.checker/
http://www.plagiarismchecker.com/
http://www.articlechecker.com/
http://www.plagiarismdetect.com/
http://turnitin.com/static/index.html
http://www.duplichecker.com/
http://www.plagiarismsearch.com/
http://www.checkforplagiarism.net/
http://www.plagium.com/


A long list of Web 2 tools for you and your students from SolutionWatch

Note: File sharing is possible at getdropbox.com (PC, Mac or Linux) if you don't want to use Google Docs or other alternatives.

T and T Jan. 26-27

Important Idea - 5

Presentations -
A13 - Kristen C, Shannon, Sunny
A14 - Jodi, Marilyn & Morgan


Creativity added to presentation rubric instead of group cooperation.

From the r/w/l list: iBrain and Born Digital

1) 24/7 networks, continuous partial attention, rapid response
    x where are you on this scale?
    x where are the students you taught on this scale?

2) Agree or disagree? Is the argument this simple?

But make no mistake: We are at a crossroads. There are two possible paths before us—one in which we destroy what is great about the Internet and about how young people use it, and one in which we make smart choices and head toward a bright future in a digital age. The stakes of our actions today are very high. The choices that we are making now will govern how our children and grandchildren live their lives in many important ways: how they shape their identities, protect their privacy, and keep themselves safe; how they create, understand, and shape the information that underlies the decision-making of their generation; and how they learn, innovate, and take responsibility as citizens. On one of these paths, we seek to constrain their creativity, self-expression, and innovation in public and private spheres; on the other, we embrace these things while minimizing the dangers that come with the new era. source

3) Are our brains really evolving? In what ways are your high tech friends (or you) really representative of a change in how we think and act? How much of your generation is unable to slow down?

Chart  - As we go more digital, what will we gain and what will we lose?


Purpose - Film Tactics


Games in Education?

What is good? What is not so good?

R/W/L to at least one of these and try a game or two from the game sites:

What Exactly Are Kids Learning From Games?

George Lucas Foundation Series
Katie Salen On Learning With Games (Video)
James Paul Gee on Games and Assessment (Video)
No Gamer Left Behind (Video)

The Psych Files (blog with vodcast and text)

Research on violent games by Doug Gentile
Text interview with Doug Gentile on violent video games

Games Sites
Nobel Prize Site - Games
FutureLabs

Extras (optional)
More Nicholas Carr on the importance of books

T and T Jan 21 - 22, 2010

Class

New label on the blog - Read/Watch/Listen to find the R/W/L stuff for each week. Look to the right --->


Important Idea - 4

Curriculum Navigator (for A13 and 14 mainly - EY and MY)

"Are You Playing Attention?"

The information barrage - how to help students cope

Wikipedia vs Encyc Britannica - which is more reliable?

Lab

Final rubrics??  - Assign 1 and presentation

Google Docs - text, presentations, sites - sharing

Wikis - how to and examples - Learning new media “Cool Tools for Schools” and “Getting Tricky with Wikis” .
         - show off your students' work
         - do group/class projects
         - keep class notes

Better searching -- U of M library info/how to,

Time to work on assign 1

Read/Watch/Listen

 For the week of Sept 21/22 read/watch/listen:

McLuhan - McLuhan Overview - disinfodave on YouTube (watch and take notes on the four things that change for next class)

Also watch this 1 minute on The Medium is the Message

Nicolas Carr – Is Google Making Us Stupid?
We can still read! - Why Digital Doesn't Mean Dumb!
What is a good teacher?
Gladwell - How to Identify a Good Teacher Prospect

 

 

for week of Feb 9:

Get rid of the Digital Natives term

Ken Robinson TED talk if you haven't seen it already

The Educause collection of 7 Things You Should Know About ... - look through the list and update yourself on one or two!

YouTube - search for "iPhone concert" and watch a couple or three


Completely Optional - Some free books in PDF format from MIT on Digital Natives

For the week of Feb 1 R/W/L

Games in Education?

What's good, what's not so good?

R/W/L to at least one of these and try a game or two from tjhe game sites:

What Exactly Are Kids Learning From Games?

George Lucas Foundation Series
Katie Salen On Learning With Games (Video)
James Paul Gee on Games and Assessment (Video)
No Gamer Left Behind (Video)

The Psych Files (blog with vodcast and text)

Research on violent games by Doug Gentile
Text interview with Doug Gentile on violent video games

Games Sites
Nobel Prize Site - Games
FutureLabs

Extras (optional)
More Nicholas Carr on the importance of books 





For the week of Jan 26 r/w/l:

excerpts from iBrain  

or

iBrain - Gary Small on video 

or

Born Digital excerpt - John Palfrey and Urs Gasser

or any of these

Interview with Palfrey - Perseus Publishing

RECORDINGS from PBS
Elluminate Full Recording: https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2009-02-26.1609.M.399C8BB330CD35E59AC77AA0AD827C.vcr
Audio (.mp3): http://audio.edtechlive.com/cr20/JOHN PALFREY BORN DIGITAL.mp3Chat (.rtf): http://audio.edtechlive.com/cr20/JOHN PALFREY BORN DIGITAL.rtf

For the week of Jan 19 r/w/l:

 Read Don Tapscott Grown Up Digital excerpt - OR choose one of the business week 8 part series from Don's Articles.

Read one of the articles or reviews of the The Dumbest Generation by Mark Bauerlein.
OR
Listen to an interview on PBS with both Tapscott and Bauerlein

OR TVO with Gary Small and Don Tapscott - click on the Your Brain on Tech tab if necessary

For the week of Jan 12 read/watch/listen:
McLuhan - McLuhan Overview - roddy99 on YouTube (watch and take notes for next class
Nicolas Carr – Is Google Making Us Stupid?

T &T Jan 19-20, 2010

Assignment Deadlines

Haiti hope - image page or slideshow

Important Ideas - 3 (2 and 3 for A13 and 14)

Digital Natives Overview - Tapscott

"Are You Playing Attention?"

Discussion of Tapscott, Beuerlein, etc.

Assign 1 - Google Alerts

The information barrage - how to help students cope

Wikipedia vs Encyc Britannica

Marshall McLuhan (disinfodave on YouTube) - enhance, obsolesce, retrieve, reverse

Clarity

Examples

T and T Jan 14-15

Class

Discuss McLuhan video and ideas.

• What is the difference between hot and cool media?
• Is a wiki a hot or cool medium?
• What are the four effects of any new medium? Show how this happens with a cell phone.

Is Google Making Use Stupid?

• What kinds of reading do you do online?
• Can you do more than skim or are you able to do 'deep reading'?
• “When the Net absorbs a medium, that medium is re-created in the Net’s image.” Yes??? Is our reading always going to be scattered now?
  

Lab

Discuss assignment 1 parameters and make a rubric at Rubistar
        Other rubric sites - Eastern School District (Nfld), Kathy Schrock, Teach-noloy

Create a wiki (PBWorks or Wikispaces) - create, make pages, make pretty, edit sidebar, add video, add users

Citation Sites - BibMe, EasyBib, RefWorks (via UofM library site),

  For next week:

Read Don Tapscott Grown Up Digital excerpt - OR choose one of the business week 8 part series from Don's Articles.

Read one of the articles or reviews of the The Dumbest Generation by Mark Bauerlein.
OR
Listen to an interview on PBS with both Tapscott and Bauerlein

OR TVO with Gary Small and Don Tapscott - click on the Your Brain on Tech tab if necessary

T and T Jan 12-13

 A13 and A14 - John Finch from Manitoba Education will present on LwICT (Literacy with ICT)

For A35, 16 and 18 - 

Important Idea
Good Work
Assign 1 questions


(SY LwICT - http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/cur/ict/framework.html)

We will work on the on the ideas of infusion, affective and cognitive domains, inquiry steps, critical and creative thinking, ethics and responsibility and more!!

Mrs. Cassidy's  grade 1 and 2 blog

Notes

Continuum, not curriculum

What is it?

How to use technology to enhance:

Critical and Creative Thinking

Ethics and Responsibility

ICT literacy

Infusion into the curricula, not supplementary, complementary or integrated.

Use the tech when you need it to get info or solve a problem.

Cognitive Domain (Big Ideas)

Plan and question

Gather resources

Produce and show understanding

Communicate

Reflect

Affective Domain (Big Ideas)

Ethics and Responsibility

Motivation and Confidence

Collaboration

Social Implications

Levels of Thinking

Knows and Comprehends

Analyze and Apply

Synthesize and Evaluate

You don’t schedule your tech time at home – why do we do it at school? Use it when you need it.
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  For next week:

Read Don Tapscott Grown Up Digital excerpt - OR choose one of the business week 8 part series from Don's Articles.

Read one of the articles or reviews of the The Dumbest Generation by Mark Bauerlein.
OR
Listen to an interview on PBS with both Tapscott and Bauerlein

OR TVO with Gary Small and Don Tapscott - click on the Your Brain on Tech tab if necessary

Da Google

 

T and T Jan 7-8

Class
1)  Important Ideas


2) Using Technology in Education for:

1. Basic Communication (blogs. email, texting and PP - students, parents & teachers)
2. Info Gathering (RSS, web sites and advanced search)
3. Subject Specific Software - Drill & Practice, simulations, GPS, graphing, labs
4. Info Creating (wikis, blogs, web sites)
5. Collaboration - wikis, docs, video, audio
6. Presentation / Motivation (Hawthorne effect and larger audience)
   

4) Frameworks for tech in ed - you have to start thinking about the implications of technology

5) McLuhan Overview - roddy99 on YouTube

Lab

1) Claim your U of M ID (if you haven't already)

2) Create a google.com account --- so we can try a bunch of tools
2b) Using tabs to browse and have many things open at once.

3a) Course Outline - http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AW_ST60LiRO1ZGRnNjc5c2JfNDcydmQzNjM5Z2c&hl=en

3b) Add your email to join teacherandtech.pbwiki.com

3c) The class social network - no, not facebook! You may choose to join.

4) Check out netvibes.com/rredekopp

5) Log in to Angel (course outline web)

6) Check the class blog

8) Blogs, wikis and RSS - what, why and what's the difference?


For next week read/watch/listen:
McLuhan - McLuhan Overview - roddy99 on YouTube (watch and take notes for next class
Nicolas Carr – Is Google Making Us Stupid?

T and T Jan 5/6 2010

Welcome to Teacher and Tech Winter 2010

And so the trek begins.

We will be exploring the theme of the 'digital native' as we learn about technology in the classroom and how to use it well. We'll look at theory and we'll do some practical stuff - for you, for your students and for your 'community'.

You all have different levels of tech experience and knowledge of how to make good educational use of it, so this course is about pushing yourself forward from where you are now.

Work hard, push yourself and you will enjoy.

First Class
MetaTeachnition
Introductions - pictures (put your name - large and dark - on a piece of paper) and SmartBoards
Course outline
      Assignments!
What is education?

• What are schools for? What is education? Why are you here? What do you hope to accomplish with your students?
• Write down a one or two sentence response
• Share with one other person and modify/revise if you wish
• Share with another pair of people
• What do some 'experts' say? Audio excerpt from TVO - The Agenda

Shift Happens - are you ready?
Tech as a Tool? Us Using it and IT using us.
Marshall McLuhan - The medium is the message

For next week read/watch/listen:
McLuhan - McLuhan Overview - roddy99 on YouTube (watch and take notes for next class

Nicolas Carr – Is Google Making Us Stupid?