marchmeeting

=In-School Instructional Technology Support Teachers= March 11, 2008 NBCHS Lecture Theatre

Visit, share, discuss and record - capture at least one great idea from each person in your group
 * 9:00 -** **Sharing**
 * Your blog posts/photos
 * Great blogs you read
 * Professional development activities
 * New tools used - how and why
 * Discovery Video

Discussion Group 1 | Discussion Group 2 | Discussion Group 3 | Discussion Group 4 | Discussion Group 5 | Discussion Group 6

>> Living Sky Blogs >> [|David Warlick] >> [|Will Richardson] >> [|Dean Shareski] >> [|Alec Couros] >> [|Kim Cofino] >> [|Clarence Fisher] >> [|Kathy Cassidy's Grade One Classroom] >> [|Darren Kuropatwa] >> [|CBC News Feeds] >> [|Scientific American News Feeds] >> [|Canada.com] (including the Star Phoenix) >> There are blogs on lots of other topics that have nothing to do with your work. For example: >> [|Everyting Rachael Ray] (Cooking) >> [|Inside the Dodgers] (Baseball) >> [|Jeff Straker] (Music) >> [|No Impact Man] (Environment) >> [|Battlefords Jazz Society] >>
 * 9:30 - Creating a Network**
 * RSS readers ([|Bloglines]; [|Google Reader])
 * [|RSS in Plain English]
 * [|del.icio.us]
 * [|Social Bookmarking in Plain English]
 * [|Twitter]
 * [|Twitter in Plain English]
 * [|Twirl] - a desktop client
 * Time to Play: subscribe and create your networks
 * Suggestion for your network:
 * Suggestions for your reading pleasure:

10:30 Information Literacy
//Did You Know?// media type="youtube" key="xHWTLA8WecI" height="355" width="425" //A Vision of K - 12 Students Today// media type="youtube" key="_A-ZVCjfWf8" height="355" width="425"
 * What is information literacy?** - At your table distribute the reading below and craft a definition of information literacy at your table add the definition to your table's wiki discussion page.
 * [|Towards a Definition of 21st- Century Literacies]from the National Counci of Teachers of English (NTCE)
 * [|Connectivism’s] eight principles
 * The six senses from [|A Whole New Mind]
 * [|Bloom's Revised Taxonomy]
 * The eleven new skills of [|Participatory Culture]
 * Life and career skills from the [|Partnership for 21st Century Learning]
 * Sixteen [|Habits of Mind]
 * [|Revised NETS] (National Educational Technology Standards) - One page pdf
 * [|AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner]
 * [|The International Baccalaureate - MYP - Approaches to Learning]and [|The International Baccalaureat - MYP - Design Cycle]
 * [|Canadian Teens are Leading the online revolution? -Maybe Not...]
 * Our Kids Future will Require them to Be....

The Definition ===Students will use engaging technologies in collaborative, inquiry-based learning environments with teachers who are willing and able to use technology’s power to assist them in transforming knowledge and skills into products, solutions, and new information.===

//Re/Search Re/Mixed// media type="youtube" key="q8P6Tjz5BEk" height="355" width="425" [|Inquiry-based Learning]
 * What needs to change?**

**Task 2**

 * 1) Discuss, debate and come to a consensus on four 'strands' that you feel must be included in any Information literacy curriculum. List them on your discussion page and be prepared to defend them. The strands must be applicable to all grades and all subject areas.
 * 2) Large group discussion

=How does an information and technology curriculum stay relevant and meaningful in the 21st Century?= media type="youtube" key="4xBYSdMK1LU" height="355" width="425"

 An Information Literacy Curriculum
 * Task 3**
 * Within your discussion groups review the document - revise, add and delete. Present to large group

Best practice
 * Task 4**

My activities until the end of the year