Monday, September 30, 2013

Teacher and Technology Sept 30 2013

John Finch - Manitoba Education
LwICT in the SY
Copyright - Copyright Matters 3rd Edition that has gone to each teacher in Manitoba as of January last year. http://cmec.ca/Publications/Lists/Publications/Attachments/291/Copyright_Matters.pdf
The RWL for today
Creative Commons - about it,


Video

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Thursday, September 26, 2013

Teacher and Technology - Sept 27 2013

Class

Note: Class next Monday!

Important Idea #8 and 9

Need more Twitter to #umtandt. Create an account and tweet to our hashtag #umtandt

Production App that you might use - Educreations - small groups - PLAN and create a short lesson on a topic in your major area.

Tech break for 2 minutes
From the RWL:
  • What does technology have to do with democracy?
  • What in the world does McLuhan mean? (exam question based on this)
  • Is the Internet the epitome of anarchy as Graham defines it?
  • How does Barney define fundamentalism?
  • Are we losing our social capital or are we gaining with all our various connections?
  • Does the Digital Literacy video support Nicholas Carr’s ‘Is Google Making Us Stupid’?
Tech break - 2 minutes
Metateachnition 1 (on D2L by Monday 11:59 pm please) - How broadly do you use the internet and all its resources? Think about how much you use the vastness of the internet when you are not doing something for school or work. Do you tend to go to more than 10 websites on any given day or week or do you pretty much go to the same places all the time? Why/why not? If yes, would you list some of the sites (your choice to list or not to list). When do you you branch out?
Marshall McLuhan - the medium is the message and the ‘tetrad’
    - “We shape our tools and then they shape us.”
“We are always living way ahead of our thinking”
Winston Churchill - “We shape our buildings and then they shape us”
Research of the Future (start at 1:00)
    x McLuhan tetrads - open this on your device and with 2 or 3 others try and guess at the answers (before looking) and be ready to try and explain the concept.
    x ENHANCE, REVERSE, RETRIEVE, OBSOLESCE
Darin Barney - the fundamentalism of technology

RWL for Sept 30 - Oct 4

For Monday - Copyright Issues
Creative Commons - about it,


Video


For Wed and Fri. ------------------------------------------------------------------

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


George Lucas Foundation Series
The Psych Files (blog with vodcast and text)
Research on violent games by Doug Gentile
Games Sites
Bio Games link - Spongelab Interactive
explorelearning.com - class code: 3FRYNF7PEQ
Stu's Quiz Boxes (requires a download and install on a WIndows computer)
Game Creation software
Kodu - easy to learn 3D game cration

A side note - Interacting with Computers - Project Milo
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Teacher and Technology - Sept 25 2013

Lab

Note: Class next Monday!
bibme.org - easy citations
Choosing a blog / wiki / web site for your Assign 2
  • wikis (pbworks and wikispaces) vs blogs (blogger. tumblr, and WordPress) vs web sites (weebly and google sites). There are lots of other options.
Rubrics - Rubistar, and a list of others (and the dangers of using tech tools)
x a rubric for creating rubrics
Better searching - Advanced search (or create good starting places on your web page)
     x search for your name in Google, Bing and Yahoo???
SumoPaint or OneMotion or ArtPad or choose another -  create an image of how you feel about tech in the classroom or how you feel about technology generally

Class

Tech break as we settle in to class

Important Idea #6 and 7

MetaTeachnition - are you practicing this?

Need more Twitter to #umtandt. Create an account and tweet to our hashtag #umtandt

Production App that you might use - Educreations - small groups - PLAN and create a short lesson on a topic in your major area.

Bigger Ideas - Social Impact of technology

Neil Postman - Five Things we should Know About Technological Change

x The summary
From the RWL:
What does technology have to do with democracy?
What in the world does McLuhan mean? (exam question based on this)
Is the Internet the epitome of anarchy as Graham defines it?
How does Barney define fundamentalism?
Are we losing our social capital or are we gaining with all our various connections?

Does the Digital Literacy video support Nicholas Carr’s ‘Is Google Making Us Stupid’?

ISTE Standards for teachers and students


Read options

Social issues - some entry points
Bowling Alone - America's Declining Social Capital - Robert Putnam - also a book version.
One Nation Under Google (pdf) - Darin Barney
Anarchy and the internet - Gordon Graham

Watch options

One Nation Under Google - Darin Barney (Part 1)
Privacy and Ordering Pizza! (just for fun!)

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Friday, September 20, 2013

Teacher and Technology - Sept 20 2013

Deadlines (Assign 1 - Sept 25 11:59 pm and Assign 2 Oct 30 for A17) and questions

x sign up for group presentations
Textbooks - you need one. Let me know if you cannot afford it. I have one I can lend out.

Important Idea #4 and 5

MetaTeachnition - are you practicing this?
From the RWL - groups of 3 or 4 (try to find two you have not worked with before)
The Brain -  “Will fast facts do to our brains, what fast food has done to our bodies?” R. Redekopp
Report (A17):
  • The most interesting or startling fact you came across
  • Whether your group did more of R,W or L
  • Thoughts on concentration - can you train yourself to ‘pay attention’?
  • Do you multitask or just switch attention a lot?
  • When is multitasking really possible without a significant loss?


Tech break!!!
Twitter demo and how you will use it - people and hashtags (groups or topics). (@rredekopp and #umtandt). Create an account and tweet to our hashtag #umtandt

Production Apps that you might use - Educreations - small groups - PLAN and create a short lesson on a topic in your major area.

Neil Postman - Five Things we should Know About Technological Change

x The summary

ISTE Standards for teachers and students
Video and audio creation and uploading - more ideas

RWL for Sept. 25

Bigger Ideas - Social Impact of technology

Choose THREE from the list below. Since they are not all the same, be prepared to share your info based on what you read, watch OR listened to.

Read options

Social issues - some entry points
Bowling Alone - America's Declining Social Capital - Robert Putnam - also a book version.
One Nation Under Google (pdf) - Darin Barney
Anarchy and the internet - Gordon Graham

Watch options

One Nation Under Google - Darin Barney (Part 1)
Privacy and Ordering Pizza! (just for fun!)

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