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