Young Minds Prep SchoolTECHNOLOGY FOR LEARNING: CHOOSING AND USING THE RIGHT TOOLS

Kristine DienerCardinal Stritch University

kkdiener@gmail.com

http://tinyurl.com/Dec2YM

LOOKING BACK – Where are you now?

THE SWEET SPOT

“Experienced teacher who has been using the technology at least two years, using it about 75% of the time, and who has enough training to be confident.”

Dr. Robert Marzano, CUE keynote, March 2009

THE SWEET SPOT

“Experienced teacher who has been using the technology at least two years, using it about 75% of the time, and who has enough training to be confident.”

http://tiny.cc/sweetspotimplications

WEB 1.0 VS WEB 2.0Web 1.0 Web 2.0

StaticPublishingLectureReadingPassiveClosedFinding informationClient-server

WEB 1.0 VS WEB 2.0Web 1.0 Web 2.0

Static DynamicPublishing ParticipationLecture ConversationReading CreatingPassive ActiveClosed CollaborativeFinding information Making connectionsClient-server Peer-to-peer

COMMUNICATION• Harness our greatest

asset: our people resources, their knowledge and experiences

• Communicate at a distance, synchronously and asynchronously.

• Provide communication options, reduce meeting time and save travel.

Geek and Poke

SELECT COMMUNICATION TOOLS

• LMSo Blackboardo Brainhoneyo Moodle

• Google Sites• Survey Tools

o Poll Everywhereo Google Formso Doodle

• Edmondo Educational Social Networking

• Class Blogmeister• Virtual Workspaces

o Learn Centralo WiZiQ

• Conferencing Toolso ooVooo Skypeo Eye Jot

• CoverItLive/

Learn Central

• What is Elluminate vRoom? • What does your vRoom look like? • Create an Elluminate vRoom tutorial • Register for vRoom • Hardware/Software test for Elluminate

COLLABORATION• Harness collective

intelligence • Capture the “wisdom of the

crowd.”

A diverse collection of independently-deciding individuals is likely to make certain types of decisions and predictions better than individuals or even experts. As users add new content, and new sites, it is bound into the structure of the web by other users discovering the content and linking to it.

Geek and Poke

SELECT COLLABORATION TOOLS• Google Docs• Wallwisher• Type With Me • Etherpad • Voice Thread • Share Tabs • Big Huge Labs• Skrbl

• Photo Story • Prezi • Glogster • Audacity • Xtranormal • Social Bookmarking

o Diigo o delicious

CRITICAL THINKING/INFORMATION LITERACY • Allow us to investigate

issues that are not always clearly defined and have no clear-cut answers by asking significant questions and exploring different solutions.

• Simply accessing information is not enough, we need to analyze, synthesis, and evaluate information.

Geek and Poke

SELECT CRITICAL THINKING/CREATIVITY TOOLS• Digital Storytelling

o Animotoo BubbleRo BookR o SmileBox

• Mindmappingo BubbleUso Webspirationo MindMeister

• Visualizing Text – The Semantic Webo Wordleo Word Sifto Buzzword buzzword

• HOTSo Worlfram Alphao Nat’l Library of Virtual

Manipulativeso Brain Boosterso Google Wonder Wheel

DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP• Evaluate information for usefulness and accuracy.• Use information appropriately and creatively.• Understand the ethical and legal issues concerning the

use of information.

Vermont Internet Safety Project

DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP RESOURCES

• Using Technology Appropriately o http://www.digitalcitizenship.net/Nine_Elements.htmlo http://www.brainpop.com/spotlight/digitalcitizenship/ o http://www.commonsensemedia.org/digital-citizenshipo http://digitalcitizenshiped.com/

“Any school in this country, if they’re willing to use the tools that are available to them, can make a difference. There’s no magic bullet but if you give magic BBs to teachers who are committed and understand their craft great things can happen.”

Dr. Robert Marzano

CARTOON SOURCES

• Geek and Poke http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/ These works are licensed under a Creative Commons

Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 License.• Vermont Internet Safety Project

http://vtisp.org/resources/vocabulary/digital-citizenship/