Teacher and Technology Jan. 21 2014

CLASS

Attendance

Privacy and Ordering Pizza!

Important Ideas - #9 and 10

from the RWL (Read/Watch/Listen)

For an overview of some terminology see the Educause collection of 7 Things You Should Know About ... - look through the list and update yourself on one or two!

You chose THREE from the RWL list. With 3 other people share the main points of what you learned.

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

Darin Barney

Barney and google from Reynold Redekopp

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

Digital Literacy

LAB (11:20ish)

bibme.org - easy citations (or easybib (only MLA is free) or CiteFast (for single citations)

Rubrics - Rubistar, and a list of others (and the dangers of using tech tools)

x a rubric for creating rubrics (very bottom) and other rubrics

Better searching - Advanced search (or create good starting places on your web page)

     x search for your name in Google, Bing and Yahoo???

RSA Animation -  PowToon - a sort of RSA animation thing. This has a learning curve.

My PowToon sample and a better one

Other samples

Create your own Powtoon (with a partner if you like) summarizing either something in your subject area or what you learned from the RWL discussion. Email me the link to your Powtoon.

How to do a REAL RSA - RSA videos to improve learning or How-To RSA with Students

Random Link

6 Strategies to Support Math learning - mainly EY but ...