T and T Oct 1 Weekend Edition

Class

Shift Happens - are you ready?

Apps I like (you can share too as the course goes on)
 

Important Idea #3

McLuhan  - tetrads and “The Medium is the Message”

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

Do the 'experts' change your mind? Which of their definitions do you like best?
Course overview - continue from slide 12

LwICT Review

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

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)

Lab

Zamzar.com will convert many file formats

RSS feeds - google reader, bloglines, netvibes, or as a widget in your web space

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

Sumopaint

No class next week so for Oct 15 read/watch/listen and be prepared to discuss DIgital Natives and the Brain:

Read
excerpts from iBrain  
Born Digital excerpt - John Palfrey and Urs Gasser

or
Watch
iBrain - Gary Small on video
or
iBrain - Gary Small - "Your Brain on Google" video
or
TVO with Gary Small and Don Tapscott - click on the Your Brain on Tech tab if necessary (also available as a podcast in iTunes.


or listen to 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

R/W/L for Oct 15 Weekenders

No class next week so for Oct 15 read/watch/listen and be prepared to discuss DIgital Natives and the Brain:

Read
excerpts from iBrain  
Born Digital excerpt - John Palfrey and Urs Gasser

or
Watch
iBrain - Gary Small on video
or
iBrain - Gary Small - "Your Brain on Google" video
or
TVO with Gary Small and Don Tapscott - click on the Your Brain on Tech tab if necessary (also available as a podcast in iTunes.


or listen to 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

R/W/L for Oct 5

Choose from

Read:
Read some background on Marshall McLuhan and his main ideas. The 100 year anniversary articles summarize a fair bit

Watch:
Any 3 (most are short) of these McLuhan videos - or find more of your own

T and T September 30, 2011

Course overview - continue from slide 12

Apps I like (you can share too as the course goes on)


Important Idea #3

LwICT Review

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

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)

Lab

RSS feeds - google reader, bloglines, netvibes, or as a widget in your web space

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

Sumopaint

R/W/L for Oct 5

Choose from

Read:
Read some background on Marshall McLuhan and his main ideas. The 100 year anniversary articles summarize a fair bit

Watch:
Any 3 (most are short) of these McLuhan videos - or find more of your own

Larry's Advice

TandT Sept 28 201

Shift Happens - are you ready? (August 2011 version)

NOTE : There is a free version of Acid xPress for the PC for doing your podcasts

Demo - Soundation (not free - $20/year) - http://www.soundation.com/studio
Newspapers and feeds - http://www.scoop.it/t/ipads-in-education and Redekopp OnLine Newspaper - http://paper.li/rredekopp#!tag-edchat

Due dates A1 Oct 7 and A2 Oct 14 by midnight each day

Create and post video demo - Zamzar is a good format changer

Questions from the R/W/L list - The Brain

• Do Digital Natives have different brains?
• Are you a DN? How many are there?
• What was most surprising about the brain research?
• How good are you at multi-tasking?
• How much do we know about the brain

Summary of iBrain


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

Do the 'experts' change your mind? Which of their definitions do you like best?

Weekend TandT Sept 24

Pre-service teacher tech workshops and certificates - interested?? When??

NOTE : There is a free version of Acid xPress for the PC for doing your podcasts

Class

Questions about assignments - DUE DATES - Assign 1 and 2 - Before Oct 29

Shift Happens - are you ready?

Important Idea #2

Discussion from the readings (from both weeks)

• What is McLuhan mean when he says the “Medium is the Message”?
• Which side of the”dumb” argument do you lean to?
• Are you all Digital Natives?
• How does the term help us understand our students?
• How does the term interfere with understanding?
• Even if kids are"Born Digital" do we have to pander to that 'need' or is it important to take them beyond digital into their own 'real' space?

Course overview - continue from slide 12

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

Do the 'experts' change your mind? Which of their definitions do you like best?

Assignments

    x start a rubric for assignment 1 at Rubistar

     Other rubric sites - Eastern School District (Nfld), Kathy Schrock, Teach-noloy

Manitoba Education - Curriculum Navigator

    x let’s plan some lessons together

    x this won’t work well in the lab with more than 10 people!

Lab

Basic video and audio recording

• PC - MovieMaker and Audacity (mp3 plugin)
• Mac - iMovie and Garageband
• Zamzar.com will convert many file formats

Create an audiobook from Frankenstein (free books from Project Gutenberg)

For next week (Oct 1) read/watch/listen and be prepared to discuss:

Read

Must Read!  excerpts from iBrain   or watch the iBrain video

Choose TWO of the following:

Digital Media and Youth.pdf

Youth, Identity and Digital Media.zip

Media Awareness Centre

Center for Media Literacy

Watch

iBrain - Gary Small - "Your Brain on Google" video 

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

The Agenda - Your Brain on Technology
The Agenda - Hardwired to Hurt or The Adolescent Brain

 

Listen

Born Digital excerpt - John Palfrey and Urs Gasser (they also have podcasts available)

or any of these

Interview with John Palfrey - Perseus Publishing

Carly Shuler Using Mobile Technologies to Promote Children Learn Nov 19,2009
The Agenda - Your Brain on Technology - or download in iTunes
The Agenda - Hardwired to Hurt or The Adolescent Brain

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