Teacher and Tech Oct 5 2010

Class  

Efficiency - from Food Inc.

Assign 1 - What is the summary
Audacity demo
Important Idea 5


Brain research and Digital Natives

Lab

In iMovie - first go to preferences and turn off letterboxing!
Theme for our videos ?

iMovie and MovieMaker

• make a plan (storyboard)
• do the filming
• capture your video
• edit it and add music, voice-overs and titles, etc.

CS Methods Oct 5 2010

Presentation - Chris

Review of ideas from schools visits - and third school? What do you want to see?
    x who’s right - Kate or Chris?

Scratch, Alice or Scheme? Pros and cons?

   HS CS - intro / real CS / fluff credit / prep for real world.

Dr Java and Scheme ???

VB - can you teach CS with VB or Scheme?

    Or - What is computer Science really?


Graphing Calculator story

Teacher and Tech Oct 1 2010

Class

Important Idea #4

Video - next lab - bring your own camera and cables (and laptop) if you like

Is google making us stupid - some ideas


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

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

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

Read/Watch/Listen

For the week of Oct 5, some of:

excerpts from iBrain  
or
iBrain - Gary Small - "Your Brain on Google" video
or
Born Digital excerpt - John Palfrey and Urs Gasser (they also have podcasts available)
or any of these
Interview with Palfrey - Perseus Publishing

RECORDINGS from PBS
Elluminate Full Recording (requires a free software download): https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2009-02-26.1609.M.399C8BB330CD35E59AC77AA0AD827C.vcr
or
Audio (.mp3): http://audio.edtechlive.com/cr20/JOHN PALFREY BORN DIGITAL.mp3Chat (.rtf): http://audio.edtechlive.com/cr20/JOHN PALFREY BORN DIGITAL.rtf

Teacher and Tech Sept 30 2010

Class - A12 and A11

Important Idea #4

Questions about podcasts and uses for them.Brainstorm some ways you could use this with students.

Video - next lab - bring your own camera and cables (and laptop) if you like.

Is google making us stupid - some ideas



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

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

Digital Citizenship (only the first few slides)
Grown Up Digital - Don Tapscott’s findings



The Case against Technology



Read/Watch/Listen

For the week of Oct 5, some of:

excerpts from iBrain  
or
iBrain - Gary Small - "Your Brain on Google" video
or
Born Digital excerpt - John Palfrey and Urs Gasser (they also have podcasts available)
or any of these
Interview with Palfrey - Perseus Publishing

RECORDINGS from PBS
Elluminate Full Recording (requires a free software download): https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2009-02-26.1609.M.399C8BB330CD35E59AC77AA0AD827C.vcr
or
Audio (.mp3): http://audio.edtechlive.com/cr20/JOHN PALFREY BORN DIGITAL.mp3Chat (.rtf): http://audio.edtechlive.com/cr20/JOHN PALFREY BORN DIGITAL.rtf

For week of Oct 5, 2010

For the week of Oct 5, check some of these:

excerpts from iBrain  
or
iBrain - Gary Small - "Your Brain on Google" video
or
Born Digital excerpt - John Palfrey and Urs Gasser (they also have podcasts available)
or any of these
Interview with Palfrey - Perseus Publishing

RECORDINGS from PBS
Elluminate Full Recording (requires a free software download): https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2009-02-26.1609.M.399C8BB330CD35E59AC77AA0AD827C.vcr
or
Audio (.mp3): http://audio.edtechlive.com/cr20/JOHN PALFREY BORN DIGITAL.mp3Chat (.rtf): http://audio.edtechlive.com/cr20/JOHN PALFREY BORN DIGITAL.rtf

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.