Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Teacher and Technology Jan. 23 2014

SB Attendance
We have one student who needs a presentation group. Anyone need a partner or 3rd member? Please see me or the twitter feed message.

John Finch - LwICT - Manitoba Education
Next class - how to cite materials in your web space, Creative Commons, more Big Ideas.
First Meta-Topic Question
Describe one or more 'metateachnition' experiences you have had (or will have in the next week!!). What do you end up noticing? What is important to you? What do you notice about other people? Does this help you understand yourself as a prospective teacher? Please do not use real names.


RWL for Jan 28-31

13 REASONS WHY DIGITAL LEARNING IS BETTER - READ THIS SHORT ARTICLE AND BE PREPARED FOR THE TEST. HOW MUCH OF THIS IS DIFFERENT?

At least TWO of the following and bring your notes:

What You Don't Know Can Hurt You - http://www.sustainable-city.org/intervws/mander.htm
Videos:
http://fora.tv/2006/11/28/Paradigm_Wars#fullprogram - You can watch just segments of this using the choices listed. It would not play in Firefox for me, but was fine in Chrome.
General videos by Mander - or do your own search

Metaphor
Lakoff and Johnson - Metaphors We Live By - and a summary and Bower's critique
Lakoff  video - Framing



In class we will watch videos about waste disposal, cell phone minerals and farming.

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Teacher and Technology Jan 22, 2014

LAB

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)
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.
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.
Random Link



CLASS
From the RWL
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!
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’?
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



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Monday, January 20, 2014

Teacher and Technology Jan. 21 2014

CLASS

Attendance


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


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)
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.
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.
Random Link


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Friday, January 17, 2014

Teacher and Technology Jan 17, 2014

SMART BOARD - ATTENDANCE

Show us your favourite stuff
Tips for Notebook 11 under the Help menu.
Overview/Review
Setup - connect, orient and sound
Pens, writing to text, cloning (attendance names)
Magic pen - erase what you draw around and tap the middle, circle something and it gets highlighted, square around something to zoom in.
SB Resources
TEQ resources - not just SB
Video tips

How I approach tech for teachers

  • Admin tasks
  • Communication with parents and students
  • CAL
  • Creativity and expression of learning
  • Assessment
From the RWL
The Brain -  “Will fast facts do to our brains what fast food has done to our bodies?” R. Redekopp
What have you learned about the brain and our ability to multitask? List 4 important ideas from what you RWL and share them with 2 other people

NY Times article: The Science of Concentration
Q on CBC debate - Is the Internet Making Us Stupider?  (beginning and 16:00 - 17:00)

RWL for Jan 21-24, 2014

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!

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 Chapter 1 in particular
Anarchy and the internet - Gordon Graham

Watch options

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

Listen options

Start with BTR and Liz Kolb (Choose any or all) - BTR Cell Phones in Learning series
Born Digital excerpt - John Palfrey and Urs Gasser (they also have podcasts available)
or any of these
Interview with John Palfrey - Perseus Publishing

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