Changing Times: Technology and PedagodyConnection, Conversation, Collaboration If we use technology effectively, we don't diminish the interpersonal and relation qualities of eduction, we enhance it. (Salman Khan)
Agenda
Set-up welcome, introductions and housekeeping items
Overview and structure of the day
Outcomes and expectations: Connections, Conversations and Collaboration
Three Technology Impacts
BYOD
Social Media
iOS devices
Yammer - Connection, Conversation and Contribution || Back Channelling
sign-up, browse posts, comments - participate in the Back Channel for the day
Read 7 Myths about BYOD and in your table groups discuss what beliefs and values you hold about BYOD in your school and/or in your classroom. Be prepared to respond with one comment or point to the whole group.
Task:
In your table group select one of the questions below - this will be your key responsibility to take jot notes during the videos (make sure all four questions are addressed at your table)
Objective: What key points were made in the videos?
Reflective: How does the information given connect with your own experiences?
Interpretive: What needs do you see resulting as a result of the growing use of social media?
Decisional: What has to happen to address these needs with respect to your students? What is your role?
In your table group respond to the above questions. Ask one individual to be the scribe and to synthesize and record the groups responses. (If you have not already joined this wiki - click the join button at the top of the page and I will approve your request for membership) Group A | Group B | Group C | Group D | Group E | Group F | Group G
What makes a social media tool transformative? - Read One
Summarize your thoughts after the reading by responding to this quote, "Technology doesn't improve education, it changes it.....teachers improve education". (Michael Trump, Calbarras County Schools, NC). Post your thoughts via comment on the Bootcamp: November 2011 brainstorming wall.
Social Media: Writing for an Authentic Audience - Blogging
"The most important things for kids growing up today is the love of embracing change". (John Seely Brown)
Table Discussion: each person examine one of the sites below - explain to your colleagues what makes it 'new'. The New Way: Examples The Holocaust - In Our Hands is a collaborative literary study designed to engage a community of grade eight learners as they socially negotiate the themes and insights evoked by this historical atrocity. Braeden (grade one blogger) Huzzah - grade 6 students from the Comox Valley, BC Reading Aloud – with a Few Twists
Learning New Apps
When a teacher thinks about learning a new technology, they think about who’s going to teach them in a classroom and how they will use it in the classroom. When game designers want to teach you something – they make a game full of challenges – and a community of peer assisted learners forms around solving them. Inside and outside the game – there is no assumption that you need a teacher at all, but that you are literate enough to participate. (Dean Groom)
Google - Create an account and have access to gmail, Google Reader, iGoogle, Google Docs, Spreadsheets, Forms and more....
iOS Devices
Table discussion - where is your school at with regards to iPad/iPod use? What have you learned so far? What place do you think iOS devices have in the classroom? What are the pros? What are the cons?
Essential Question: Can the ipad/ipod be a tool for assessment?
Task:
1) Think of an upcoming assessment that you will be giving.
2) 'Play' with one of the apps assigned to you.
If we use technology effectively, we don't diminish the interpersonal and relation qualities of eduction, we enhance it. (Salman Khan)
Agenda
Yammer - Connection, Conversation and Contribution || Back Channelling
Share your comments and reflections on Yammer.
BYOD "Bring Your Own Device"
Read 7 Myths about BYOD and in your table groups discuss what beliefs and values you hold about BYOD in your school and/or in your classroom. Be prepared to respond with one comment or point to the whole group.
Presentation: Tom Kroczynski, Bready School
Social Media
What comes to mind when you hear the words, "Social Media". Call out.Watch
- Social Media Revolution (2:35)
- Social Media and the Egyptian Revolution
- Social Media in Education: Student Perspectives (2:40)
Task:In your table group select one of the questions below - this will be your key responsibility to take jot notes during the videos (make sure all four questions are addressed at your table)
- Objective: What key points were made in the videos?
- Reflective: How does the information given connect with your own experiences?
- Interpretive: What needs do you see resulting as a result of the growing use of social media?
- Decisional: What has to happen to address these needs with respect to your students? What is your role?
In your table group respond to the above questions. Ask one individual to be the scribe and to synthesize and record the groups responses. (If you have not already joined this wiki - click the join button at the top of the page and I will approve your request for membership)Group A | Group B | Group C | Group D | Group E | Group F | Group G
What makes a social media tool transformative? - Read One
The Case for Social Media in SchoolsTransformative or just flashy educational tools
It Is Not (Only) About The Technology (read the comments as well as the post)
Teaching and Learning with Social Networks: Barriers to Adoption
Summarize your thoughts after the reading by responding to this quote, "Technology doesn't improve education, it changes it.....teachers improve education". (Michael Trump, Calbarras County Schools, NC). Post your thoughts via comment on the Bootcamp: November 2011 brainstorming wall.
Social Media: Writing for an Authentic Audience - Blogging
Reading Blogs "Blogging is about writing but it is begins with Reading" - Dean ShareskiHow to Read Blogs - Micheal Hagel - Luseland
Learning about Blogs FOR your Students: Part 1 - Reading (some good blogs to follow)
- Education Blogs by Discipline (note the last updated date)
- Bloggers Micheal follows
- Suggested bloggers to follow
Experiment/Play/Find blogs to read - igoogleWriting Blogs
Obvious to You, Amazing to Others
Seth Godin and Tom Peters on Blogging (1:37)
Write Thoughts - JoAnne Kasper's blog
Student Blogging - Aimee Whitbread - CKHS
KidBlog and Grade 7 Bloggers from Cut Knife High School
Crafting a Conversation: Blogging and Commenting - AimeeExploring the concepts of connection, conversation and collaboration
CKHS Condor Bloggers (2011-2012 Gr. 7)
How to start your class blog
How to Compose a Quality Blog Comment
Comments for Kids
Willow Awards Project wiki
Snowball Activity - move chairs into a circle in the middle of the room. You will need a pen.
"The most important things for kids growing up today is the love of embracing change". (John Seely Brown)
Table Discussion: each person examine one of the sites below - explain to your colleagues what makes it 'new'.
The New Way: Examples
The Holocaust - In Our Hands is a collaborative literary study designed to engage a community of grade eight learners as they socially negotiate the themes and insights evoked by this historical atrocity.
Braeden (grade one blogger)
Huzzah - grade 6 students from the Comox Valley, BC
Reading Aloud – with a Few Twists
Twitter
Three More Cool Tools:
Remind 101 - Rob Wall, NBCHS
Student Response System - Gary Ball, Cando
Here are some of my thoughts about how I am using the clickers in my classroom.
Evernote - Tom Kroczynski, Bready
http://blog.evernote.com/2011/08/30/teaching-with-evernote-a-6th-and-8th-grade-science-teacher-shares-his-top-tips-back-to-school-series/?utm_source=interspire&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter-0811-v1
Hands-on Activities: Exploring Social Media
Learning New AppsWhen a teacher thinks about learning a new technology, they think about who’s going to teach them in a classroom and how they will use it in the classroom. When game designers want to teach you something – they make a game full of challenges – and a community of peer assisted learners forms around solving them. Inside and outside the game – there is no assumption that you need a teacher at all, but that you are literate enough to participate. (Dean Groom)
Some social media tools to explore:
AudioBoo (Tutorial)
Vocaroo
Soundation
Voki
My StoryMaker
StoryBird
ZooBurst
Glogster
Voki
Blabberize
Museum Box
Awesome Highlighter
PrimaryPad
CoSketch
Scribblar
Doodle
Crappy Graphs
Pretty Graphs
Posterous
Edublogs
Class Blogmeister
Slideshare
Wordia
Tagu
Worlde
ImageChef
Picturetrail
Aviary
Be Funky
Picnik
Flickr
Big Huge Labs
Diigo
Delicious
Only2Clicks
LiveBinders
Netvibes
PageFlakes
Pinterest
Twiducate
Twitter
Wifiti
ScreenJelly
Screenr
DragonTape
Stupeflix Studio
MeMoove
Flixtime
Edmodo
Webspiration
Bubbl.us
WallWisher
LinoIt
TimeGlider
Visual Thesaurus
Wolfram Alpha
Goofram
iOS Devices
Table discussion - where is your school at with regards to iPad/iPod use? What have you learned so far? What place do you think iOS devices have in the classroom? What are the pros? What are the cons?Essential Question: Can the ipad/ipod be a tool for assessment?
Task:
1) Think of an upcoming assessment that you will be giving.
2) 'Play' with one of the apps assigned to you.
Comic Life- iPad
KidAnimation - ipod
Puppet Pals - iPad
8mmHD - ipod
StopMotion - ipod
Doink- iPad
Animation Creator - ipod
iMovie - ipad
Garageband - i[ad
ToonCamera - iPod
ScreenChomp - ipad
Explain Everything - ipad
StoryKit - iPod
ebook Creator - iPod
SonicPics - iPod
Audio Memos - iPod
Beatwave (Create Music) - ipod
Cinch (Podcasting) - iPod
Reflection
email me a short reflection - donna.desroches@lskysd.ca using the following three questions"