Teacher and Technology Nov 6 2013

No Lab

Course evaluation at the end.
Year 2 course - Teaching the Social Media Driven Learner (1 of 4 options in Themes in the Senior Years Course).
MetaResponse 3 on D2L - SMART Boards - what have you noticed about our use of the SMART Board for presentations. What was most effective and what was least effective? What are your current comfort levels. Do you see it as an effective part of your abilities or will you leave well enough alone?

Class

Web presence assignment comments

x MetaTeachnition (small groups) - how does the feedback you get in different courses vary and how much does that matter? What kind of feedback do you like, and (more importantly) what kinds do the others in your group prefer?

Article on the Digital Divide released with up-to-date data in Canada: http://www.thestar.com/business/tech_news/2013/11/01/statscan_data_points_to_canadas_growing_digital_divide_geist.html … #umtandt  Thanks Marcus!!

TEDTalk by Clifford Stoll - two minutes of ADHD - hyperactivity and focus.

Presentations

A15 - Coral Baisch  Stephanie Baxter (Comments)

-Kevin Hiebert  Amanda Kula (Comments)

A17 -  Adrian Rozbacher, Jenni Trautwein, Stephanie Gibson (Comments)

SNL iPhone Complaints (1st world problems)

Exam - Questions?

Big Ideas (Take my SY Themes course next year to pursue some of these)

Environment - TED talk on Cell Phones and Mining (and references below)

x assumptions about efficiency - Food, Inc excerpt

Design - modular cell phone (thanks John) and Jared Lanier

Social Media - The great connector or the great divide - how do we make this not an either/or problem??? Sherry Turkle and Stefana Broadbent

Important ideas for_teachers  23 and 24 and 25

The Story Of Electronics and Electronics TakeBack Coalition websites present ideas about how to turn the tragedy around, thankfully.

Kyle suggests:

• Asking manufacturers to design and make more recyclable, longer lasting, non-toxic products
• Sponsoring or participating in design competitions (like this one) that encourage sustainable innovation
• When they’re spent, taking electronics to E-Stewards, recyclers that promise not to export them
• Supporting legislation that would curb exports of toxic e-waste, at the moment the U.S. HR 6252
• Buying from companies that take back electronics when they are broken or obsolete, to dispose of them responsibly

Garbage/Recycling Report

Videos of waste dumping in other countries

The Story of Electronics - See comments/solutions at the very bottom of this post.

Course Evaluation

Thanks for all your hard work and good ideas this term. Have a great practicum experience!!!

Teacher and Technology Oct 30 2013

Lab

BigHugeLabs

Virtual Greenhouse and Activity Sheet

Dragon Genes

Assessment Apps (Thanks Kelsey)

Vialogues - add questions to your video

Alternatives to Powerpoint and presentation rules

10 tips  and 10 more tips (no more than 15 words per slide?)

http://app.emaze.com/

prezi

Keynote (Mac only)

Howard Rheingold - Net Smart

Class

Presentations

A15 - Kathy Silva, Monique Davidson, Rosalie Girouard - Classical History (Comments)

- Kelsey Jones + Morgan Cross - HEALTH (Comments)

A17 -

SNL iPhone Complaints (1st world problems)

Exam Questions - first look

Important ideas for_teachers  21 and 22

Techno-thinking and Electronic Waste

News video - 60 Minutes documentary

Look up Manitoba solutions to e-waste

Assumptions we make

Food, Inc excerpt

Runaway Train - A short film (and commentary) about how we unthinkingly race to our own destruction: http://bit.ly/aolDpu and http://bit.ly/rcQAXT by Winnipeg animator - Cordell Barker

The Story Of Electronics and Electronics TakeBack Coalition websites present ideas about how to turn the tragedy around, thankfully.

Kyle suggests:

• Asking manufacturers to design and make more recyclable, longer lasting, non-toxic products
• Sponsoring or participating in design competitions (like this one) that encourage sustainable innovation
• When they’re spent, taking electronics to E-Stewards, recyclers that promise not to export them
• Supporting legislation that would curb exports of toxic e-waste, at the moment the U.S. HR 6252
• Buying from companies that take back electronics when they are broken or obsolete, to dispose of them responsibly

TED talk on Cell Phones and Mining

Garbage/Recycling Report

Videos of waste dumping in other countries

The Story of Electronics - See comments/solutions at the very bottom of this post.

Video / Games

ARIS

RWL - for Nov 6

Q on CBC debate - Is the Internet Making Us Stupider?

Teacher and Technology Oct 23 2013

Lab

Flipped Classroom Ideas

• iTunes U
• Sophia
• MIT OpenCourseware
• Examples of Flipped Classrooms
• 8 Ways to build Websites for free:http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/05/8-ways-to-build-websites-not-blogs-for.html

YouTube slideshow and audio

Glogster - posters with audio, video, text, images, etc

BigHugeLabs

Class

Presentations

A15 - Tom Friesen + Steve Okolita (Comments)

A17 - English/Art Stephanie Waddell, Jeff Armstrong, Orysa Stein (Comments)

       - Jeremy Lomonaco and Scott Delong (Comments)

“We become overwhelmed by technology when we neglect the pedagogy” - this may turn into an exam question.

Assignment questions? REFERENCES for your web content assignment!!!! You are to have a separate section for text, audio, video, websites, etc on your references page. You are also to link to these (audio, video, images, websites, etc) within your pages.

Comments/followup on the AAC presentation?

Rules for BYOD? From your discussion comments:

How will you handle this? How will you help students ‘manage’ their device time? Is there a difference between using them during ‘lecture’ time and assignment time? Is sending one text in class ‘bad?’ How about two? Are ‘tech breaks’ the answer?

Important ideas for_teachers  21 and 22

The Flipped Classroom

The idea of the flipped classroom is that students can watch video lectures at home (or not during school time) and then spend their class time doing homework, group work, special projects, etc with the help of their teacher.

Some teachers insist on making their own lecture videos, but others choose to direct their students to other sites

Video / Games

RWL - for Oct 30

- do good research for your web assignment!!!

Teacher and Technology Oct 18 2013

Only one class next week!  :( or possibly none

Sign up for SAGE!

Presentations

A15 - Jonathan+Ryan (Comments)

       - Alex Kozub & Janessa Brunet & Jenn Sonnenberg (Comments)

Guest presentation - AAC technologies/ Lori Wiebe from OARC (Comments)

A17 - Sara Oswald, Jared Suderman & Evan Maltman (comments)

       - Dale Thiessen & Gabrielle Wiebe (music) (comments)

New MetaTeachniition Discussion - by Friday Oct 18, 4:37 pm

Consider your own experience with the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) idea in our classroom. How has it changed your classroom experience? How has it changed your 'learning' experience? How has it influenced those around you (don't use names please)? Are you comfortable with it? Is it too much of a distraction? How might this affect how you will run your classroom? Write 250 - 500 words to describe your experience. You may comment (nicely and constructively) to other posts

Important ideas for_teachers  19 and 20

RWL - for Oct 23

The Flipped Classroom

The idea of the flipped classroom is that students can watch video lectures at home (or not during school time) and then spend their class time doing homework, group work, special projects, etc with the help of their teacher.

Some teachers insist on making their own lecture videos, but others choose to direct their students to some of the sites listed below.

1) Learn more about it (Is this much different that having a RWL for your students?):

Video

Choose a couple from among these videos and articles to get an idea of what and why for the flipped classroom

https://www.google.ca/search?q=flipped+classroom&oq=flipped+classroom&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i61j0l4.5005j0j7&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=91&ie=UTF-8#es_sm=91&espv=210&q=flipped+classroom&tbm=vid

Text

Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip_teaching

7 Things You SHould KNow about the Flipped Classroom

Pros and Cons

TechSmith

Image

Flipped Classroom InfoGraphic

Audio

http://edreach.us/channel/flipped-learning/

http://flippedlearning.org/domain/37

http://www.thestateoftech.org/2012/04/episode-14-podcast-flipped-classroom.html

2) Try some of it.

Video

Try two lessons of your choice from Khan Academy, don’t create an account, just go to the Learn menu

TeacherTube Note that there are more than vidoes available - check out a few resources for your subject area.

Games

- find a game or two to try for your subject or try these. Keep in mind what you might be learning!!!

http://immuneattack.org/

Science games web site - not all links work.

More science games

Serious games - http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2009/08/17/50-great-sites-for-serious-educational-games/