Teacher and Tech Sept 29 2010

A17 and A15

John Finch - Manitoba Education on Literacy With ICT

(SY LwICT - http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/cur/ict/framework.html)

We will work on the on the ideas of infusion, affective and cognitive domains, inquiry steps, critical and creative thinking, ethics and responsibility and more!!

Notes

Continuum, not curriculum

What is it?

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

You don’t schedule your tech time at home – why do we do it at school? Use it when you need it.

Glogster

An example of a cyberbullying page. http://edu.glogster.com/ if you want to try this.

Teacher and Tech Sept 28

Class - A12 and A11
 Important Idea #2 and 3

• slightly older version

Reactions/Comments on the ideas presented by John Finch about LwICT

• not a curriculum
• infusion
• when appropriate
• problem solving
• ethics/responsibility

Assignment 1 due date????

The Case against Technology

Lab

Podcasts -

• Garageband (Mac) or
• Audacity (Mac or PC)

When you are done editing your podcast needs to be:

• converted to mp3 format (GB-Sharing - export song to disk, Audacity - File - Export as MP3)
• uploaded to a web page and linked so people can listen to it.

A podcast of Alice in Wonderland - Chapter 1. Text from gutenberg.org
- save yours as Alice#.mp3 and upload it to teacherandtech.pbworks.com

• log in
• click on pages and files
• click on the Alice in Wonderland folder
• upload your file

CS Methods Sept 27 2010

We visited Tec-Voc and River East
Please add your thoughts on the pages in the class wiki - csmethods.pbworks.com 

Computer Science Fairy Tales

T and T A15 and A17 Sept 24 2010

Class
To get rid of pbworks update emails - login and go to Account - Home and select how often you want to receive email (at the bottom).

Important Idea #3

Presentation signup space is now available

"Are You Playing Attention?" (A15)

Is Google Making Us Stupid?

• What kinds of reading do you do online?
• Can you do more than skim or are you able to do 'deep reading'?
• “When the Net absorbs a medium, that medium is re-created in the Net’s image.” Yes??? Is our reading always going to be scattered now?

Start a rubric for Assign 1

• What are the important things to assess - tech ability, content, creativity, colour, organization, HTML, sources, images, videos, podcasts?????? What is the relative value of each of these?
• Create a sample rubric with a group of 3 or 4

Sample exam question: Are we more connected and more isolated at the same time?

For next week - Understanding Digital Natives:

Read Don Tapscott Grown Up Digital excerpt - OR choose one of the business week 8 part series from Don's Articles.

Read one of the articles or reviews of the The Dumbest Generation by Mark Bauerlein.
OR
Listen to an interview on PBS with both Tapscott and Bauerlein (click on the Listen link)

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

Lab
Google docs accounts - professional names please!
Create a wiki (PBWorks or Wikispaces or Google sites) - create, make pages, make pretty, edit sidebar, add video, add users


(SY LwICT - http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/cur/ict/framework.html)

T and T A11 and A12 Sept 23/24 2010

A 11 and A12

John Finch from Manitoba Education was our guest speaker to talk about Literacy with ICT.
(Literacy with ICT)

We will work on the on the ideas of infusion, affective and cognitive domains, inquiry steps, critical and creative thinking, ethics and responsibility and more!!

Mrs. Cassidy's  grade 1 and 2 blog

Notes

Continuum, not curriculum

What is it?

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

You don’t schedule your tech time at home – why do we do it at school? Use it when you need it.

CS Methods Sept 23, 2010

 Video from TVO - The Agenda on Robotics and Society

CS curriculum - from Man Ed
 
Take one of the books and work out how much of it you would use and what order you would do it in. Imagine that you have a class of complete novices.

So - how should we get them started with CS?
What are different ways of getting them used to code?

• Give code with blanks to fill in
• Give code with simple errors
• Use templates that they can adapt - see below

Remember
This is not just another math course!

x we need other examples and graphics and movement and ..........

x CS language skills / social skills / problem solving skills

x different aspects of CS - what should they know?