Mobile Learning

I have been part of a conference called Mobile Learning this past week - one session in Winnipeg (March 16) and one in The Pas, Manitoba (March 22). The sessions focus on new ways of learning and interacting with students and technology.
Carly Shuler is the keynote speaker and she presents her research from Pockets of Potential report - sponsored by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center of Children's TV Workshop. She has some interesting info on using mobile learning for learning - in and out of the classroom.
She mentions program such as Learning2Go and ookl.
I give a talk on Educational/Serious Games in Education which covers some of the brain research of digitally immersed (commonly called digital natives - which is an awkward term) people and also on the characteristics of a new age of students. Finally I look at some of the obstacles that teachers face to using games and how to move beyond these. I feature some of the video of James Paul Gee from Edutopia and audio of Angela McFarlane from her talk on novemberlearning.com.
That's the morning for the teachers, but we also have a student session and they spend their morning on Mobile Learning, using their cell phones to gather and share information. This session is led by Rob Fisher, Darren Kuropatwa and John Evans from Manitoba Education.

In the afternoon the teachers do the activity led by Rob, Darren and John and the students learn about possibilities in the IT industry in Manitoba and finish by playing an online/mobile game.
The idea and program were developed by Norm Lee from MindSet - the Manitoba Network for Science and Technology

T and T Final Post Winter 2010

EXAM Questions 

Course Survey online - A13, A14, A16, A18, A35

Thanks! Have a great teaching block!!

Check your T and T March 2-3, 2010

EXAM Questions

NOTE: A16 is in room 222.

Check your marks on Angel

Presentations
A!3 - MaryJane and Reuben and Melody
A14 - Cerrone, Darcy and Joel (Mac vs. PC)
A35 - Alena, Steph & Courtney --- Stacy, Mary Ellen, Rachelle
A16 - Dan,Krysten & Lisa ----- Brandy, Kelly, Tegan  ---- David
A18 - justin and andrew

BIAS!
Important Ideas - 14 - ?

Online Polling with Cell Phones - www.polleverywhere.com

A13 - Text CAST 25114 and your message to 32075
A14 - Text CAST 25118 and your message to 32075
A35 - Text CAST 24346 and your message to 32075
A16 -
A18 -

Facebook EULA (thanks Nathan) and other agreements

Integrade ??

Differentiated instruction and differentiated presentation/communication ?

Big MetaTeachnition - attendance/on-time, re-writes, class participation marks snd/or engagement (especially from the 'shy' people)



Final Exam questions? Final Exam video?

Paper evaluation

T and T Feb. 25-26, 2010

A35 - in Lab first hour with one presentation, 3 presentations after
A16 - lab not available for first 40 minutes

Paper Assessment - next Tuesday

Class

Presentations

A13 - Duncan, Rob ----   Crystal
A14 - Alli, Kaitlan, Myriam (interactive cell phone use) ------ (Lex Christian, Roley - YouTube)  -------- Kseniya
A35 - Kevin, Erickson, Vikki (Using Musical Games in the Classroom) -------  Melanie & Tyler ------ Stacy, Rachelle & Mary Ellen "Free online resources for your early years music class" **Computer Lab Required** ------- Sarah & Michelle
A16 - Alex, Lianne, Sam
A18 - Kayla, Amanda, Brooklyn *** pod casts/digital story telling***

Lab

Google Earth - where do you want to go today?
 - earth, sky, ocean and time
 - lit trips
- 100 Incredible trips

Xtranormal - script to 3D animation

T and T Feb 23 - 24, 2010

Presentations


A13 - Kate and Kim
A14 - lucas and phil;   Shawna, Suzanne, Kristin (Using Mimio for eBooks and more)
A16 - Kelsey and Paula;    Cat & Renelda & Kate (Skype )
A18 - Warren, Eric, Scott    "SRS system - Anki"

Questions about exam questions

Important Ideas - 10 - 13

In strange news - Einstein on social media branding (with obvious extensions into education)
And in other strange news - a debate on quadratic equations from the British Parliament - on the need to keep quads in the curriculum.

Assessment

Yours (metateachnition)

• was the assignment fair to digital novices?
• was the assignment necessary for digital natives?
• How much of the mark should be on tech and how much on content?
• Will this happen in your classroom?
• Some had to re-do parts of their assignments - is this an unfair advantage or good teaching?
• was the rubric fair/useful? 
• What about someone who had no images?
• What about video or podcasts?

Students

• Assessing the hard stuff = problem solving, creativity, initiative, cooperation, etc
• We all know this is important, but it's not really important on teh report. THink back to the first class and what paretns want from schools (and from S/P/T interviews)
• How open should assignments be?
• The rubric process

Know when to throw out the rubric (thanks Crystal)
Here is the video of the teenager who invented the solar powered bike (and got a B!):http://watch.discoverychannel.ca/daily-planet/february-2010/daily-planet---february-03-2010/#clip263432
If it doesn't start there, it is clip #5 from February 3rd and it starts at 5:30 (approx.).





Finish and watch your movies and de-brief them. What should we do and what should we avoid when we go into video assignments.

T and T Feb 18-19, 2010

Class

Presentations:
A13 - sarah hank peter
A35 -  Kara & Krista & Kristina ?
A16 -  Ryan Noel Steven
A18 -  Kalyn and Chui  **Skype**  .....   Emma and Carley and Paul

Important Idea  - 12  (10 & 11 for A16 and 18)

Lab

Put your assign 1 link on - http://teacherandtech.pbworks.com/Winter-2010-Wiki-Links

Put your presentation link on - http://teacherandtech.pbworks.com/Winter-2010-Presentations

Video Capture and Editing - iMovie and MovieMaker
    - we will use video cameras from the lab (or your cell phone if you can email video free)

Exam Questions

Alternates
Animoto - create cool videos from video and pictures
Doink - simple drawing and animation
Glogster - create posters

T and T Feb 16 - 17, 2010

Note A35 - come to class but then we will go to FGMB to do some soundboard training.

A16 and A18 will be in room 222 (behind the cafeteria area) for a guest presentation

Presentations -
A13 - Kristen Harley, Jenny Z, Lindsay D.
A14 - Amos, Ben

Important Ideas - 10 + 11

Video as Essay - UNESCO examples

Literacy With ICT

• at what level of the Cognitive Domain are we being creative? [Knows&Comprehends, Analyzes&Applies, Synthesizes&Evaluates]
• is it possible to be creative in the affective domain? [Responsibility & Ethics, Social Implications, Collaboration, Motivation & Confidence]
• how can ICT assist in extending critical and creative thinking?

Fresh Brain
iPhone music - U of Michigan (thanks Steph)

Video/Mashups - the new essay?
    - samples from REC UNESCO projects

Thanks Amanda for this:
Steven Cameron, in his article, "Technology in the Creative Classroom", provides another point of view on creativity in Digital Natives. He points that creativity is an individual artistic quality that lies in those willing to take the time to pay close attention to detail. As a professor of creative technology classes, his trained eye can see a clear difference between those students who took the "short cut" in quickly cutting and pasting their projects together and those who actually spent time in manipulating their work into creative masterpieces.

While Cameron's skepticism of creativity may be of greater importance in his university classrooms, it is also a valid point for senior years teachers to keep in mind when seeking creativity from their students. Has the student quickly slapped Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Cache-Control: max-age=0

gether their 'creative' project, or is there something more, something fresh and original such as Palfrey and Gasser are alluding to, coming out of their digital work? This question is for the classroom teacher to decide when assessing their students' digital work.

(Thanks to Kim for this)

Sprenger (2009) offers seven strategies to help achieve this balance between the digital world and the real world:

1) Provide time for reflection

• assign journals allowing students to think about their thinking and learning experience

2) Disarm them

• take away gadgets and explain to students how face-to-face communication is impaired when one or both parties are communicating electronically with others
• practice attentive listening

3) Let them teach

• encourage students to teach each other digital skills

4) Use interactive white boards

• allow you to project computer onto a large interactive screen

5) Build emotional literacy

• students need to take time to examine how others are feeling
• guide students on how to deal with complicated situations through role playing and discussions

6) Teach mindfulness

• students need to focus on themselves and be aware of their own thinking
• teach them how to calm themselves and stay focused
• breathing exercises and meditation can help acheive this

7) Encourage storytelling

• storytelling is an effective tool to engage the digital brains of youth
• make story relevant to topic and students' lives