Teacher and Technology Jan. 9 2014

Class

Attendance and a personal fact we wouldn’t guess about you

Check the Twitter feed. Start contributing. Here's how....

Course outline, assignment questions and deadlines!!!

• Have you got your course ‘textbook’ yet???

MetaTeachNition - define this with 2 other people

Important Ideas - #3 and 4

Shift Happens - are you ready?

Blogs vs wikis vs websites vs ??? - what should you choose???

• Blogs - generally one user and a linear (by last entry) format
• Wikis - single or multiple users, many pages, random access possible
• Web sites - more control but can be more work. Can arrange pages in any order
• ex . Weebly, Google Sites

From the RWL - groups of 3 or 4

• is Google making us stupid
• what makes a good teacher?
• “This mirrors the way our diet has improved and varied. Today's media can provide readers with more flavours, more choice and more nutrition.”
• Opinions? Where’s the research?

Put group responses here - A13 and A14

How I approach tech for teachers

• Admin tasks
• Communication with parents and students
• CAL
• Creativity and expression of learning
• Assessment

RWL (Read/Watch/Listen) for Jan 14 - 17

The Brain -  “Will fast facts do to our brains, what fast food has done to our bodies?” R. Redekopp

Technology and the brain - connectedness (Turkle), distractedness (ADHD?), shallow-tasking (Carr) and unbelievable resources.

Start with this short NY Times article: The Science of Concentration

Then choose one more from among the following and bring your notes to class:

Gary Small - iBrain - text (Look Inside) or video choices or audio

Multitasking or Paying Attention: Winnifred Gallagher - the book Rapt, or video (around the 30 minute mark to find the multitasking stuff) audio

Your Brain on Technology - audio

Next lab

Video and Audio tools and formats (and places to upload your products)

Your own web space or:

Audio - SoundCloud, Podbean, Podomatic, iPadio, Mixcloud

Video - Vimeo, TeacherTube, YouTube,

Teacher and Tech Jan 8 2014

A16
John Finch from Manitoba Education spoke about LwICT and copyright for teachers. He will be back to speak to A13 and 14 on Jan 23 or 30.

Teacher and Technology Jan. 7 2014

Class

Release forms for research

Pictures!!

Intros and a personal fact we wouldn't guess about you

Me

Course outline and assignments

Course ‘textbook’

MetaTeachNition - a new term and survival tool! It means to think about your (or anyone else's) teaching and what is going on in terms of the you, the students, the classroom environment, your lesson, etc.

Important Ideas - #1 and 2

Pencil Technology (in case you thought twitter was useless)

Shift Happens - are you ready?

LAB (around 9:15)

Create a google account if you don’t have one - share a google doc

Online notes and resources (request access to pbworks but set prefs to no email!!)

D2L - grades and discussions

Dropbox for sharing larger files

Envisioning the Future infographic - http://envisioningtech.com/envisioning-the-future-of-education.png

Symbaloo package - http://www.symbalooedu.com/startoftheschoolyear2013/

RWL (Read/Watch/Listen) for Jan 9

These are all short articles - please read them

Nicolas Carr – Is Google Making Us Stupid? (video version)

We can still read! - Why Digital Doesn't Mean Dumb!

What is a good teacher?

Gladwell - How to Identify a Good Teacher Prospect

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 Nov 1 2013

Class

A17 - 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.

I am asking you to do this as I think it will be the way you will need to ask your students to reference things when they do assignments that involve web content.

Presentations

A15 - Travis DeKezel, Katherine Kazun, Ashley Kossack - Science (Comments)

Reid Bouvier, Ian MacDonald, Grant Kroeker - History (Comments)

Laura Fridfinnson, Kurt Hildebrandt, Paul H- Phys Ed (Comments)

A17 -  Chris, Allan and Becky (Comments)

CompSci - John & Mehran (Comments)

Susanne Allmendinger and Janette Reimer (ELA) (Comments)

SNL iPhone Complaints (1st world problems)

Exam - Questions?

Digital Divide

Abroad - Dr. Kasongo Kalanda (Lesotho)

At home - what’s in your school? What do your students bring?

Important ideas for_teachers  23 and 24 and 25

A15 - Look up Manitoba solutions to e-waste

Assumptions we make

TED talk on Cell Phones and Mining

Food, Inc excerpt

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.

Video / Games

ARIS

RWL - for Nov 6

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