Changing Tools for Changing Times

Changing Tools for Changing Times

Jane Nauman

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Brave New World-Wide WebState of the Internet

21st Century Programs?

What do our Classrooms say? It is an information dump – to learn is to

acquire informationTrust authority for good informationAuthorized information is beyond

discussionObey the authority and follow along

Crisis of Significance – Dr. M. Wesch

What do students in these classrooms say?How many points is this worthHow long does the paper need to beWhat do we need to know for the test

Only there for the grade

Students HATE school – LOVE learningOnly 26% of what students read in school is relevant to their life

Students SHOULD Be - Prosumers

Blend of producer and consumer, coined by futurologist Alvin Toffler in his book The Third Wave

Creators of Information – Blogging

Collective Intelligence - by working together in new ways we create info that rivals the content of experts

Definition of Learning

Learning is to create

Significance Meaningful connections Trusting relationships Communities

Changing ToolsWikipedia

Formally launched on January 15, 2001 Only 1 paid employee 2 million worldwide Only 1/3 of traffic is to English articles More popular than the New York Times 1.4 billion page views monthly

Changing Tools

Blogs 1999 blogger.com started –

Purchased by Google in 2003=no users

2010 = 112.8 million

YouTube Produced more videos than all the

networks since 1948 with NO producers

Teacher Classroom SkillsPull, don’t push

Raise lots of “relevant” questions Bridge knowledge for transfer from question to

insight & understandingCreate from relevance

Engage students in experiences from the concepts you are teaching

NOT “soft skills” Creativity, collaboration, communication, empathy,

and adaptability are core capabilities

Teacher Classroom Skills

Allow for variation Stamp out one-size-fits-all Promote mass customization

No more “spray n’ pray” Let the students get their hands dirty Be an enabler of learning

Teachers are designers Prescriptive rules vs. permissive guidance Active engagement in learning by doing


Build a learning community Learning happens through social interaction Build relationships with parents, community,

and onlineBe an anthropologist, not an archaeologist

Don’t go into the future looking in the rearview mirror

Don’t dig for the future – connect with people today


Incubate the future Help students to learn future roles in

solving large problems, like global warming etc., while studying math and science

Change the discourse Assess process along with outcomes Mix formative assessment with numeric

What is a 21st Century Classroom? 20th Century Classroom 21st Century Classroom

Teacher-Centered Student-Centered

Fragmented Curriculum Integrated & Interdisciplinary curriculum

Students working in isolation Collaborative learning – with classmates and globally

Passive learning Active learning

Diversity of students is ignored C & I address student diversity

Curriculum is irrelevant and meaningless to students

Curriculum is connected to students’ interests, experiences, and talents in the real world

Teacher is judge – no one else sees student work

Self, peer, and authentic assessments – public audience

Focus on Lower level of Bloom’s Taxonomy – Knowledge, Comprehension, Application

Focus on Upper level of Bloom’s Taxonomy – Synthesis, Analysis, Evaluation and includes lower level

21st Century Skills

Communication & Collaboration

Critical Thinking

Creativity & Multimedia

Online Learning

Communication & CollaborationWordle.net


Polling PollEverywhere

Search Engine eyePlorer “graphical knowledge engine” Eyeplorer looks for relationships between

the search term and all other documents in Wikipedia and returns a graphical representation of findings that allow users to investigate the “found” links.


Visual Thesaurus interactive dictionary and thesaurus which

creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words. Its innovative display encourages exploration and learning. You'll understand language in a powerful new way.


Flat Classroom Project Took place in Qatar – know where that is?


Digital Textbooks Today’s students using traditional textbook

sFanfictionCreating digital books

Book Builder


Google Apps for Education

Teacher Experience Exchange

Intel Teach


Clickers and why you should love them:

Wrong answer discussion as well as correct answer discussion

Identifies bad questionsEngages students in everything from

stories, to lessons, and what is going on in the classroom


Question “wait” is always perfect!ALL students are engaged instead of

just a portion It instantly shows a teacher if the lesson

was successful in teaching the concepts

Critical Thinking, Creativity & Multimedia

Multimedia Picture is worth a thousand words Shared Experience

Critical Thinking, Creativity & Multimedia

Threading

A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, & videos

Can leave comments in 5 ways

Critical Thinking,Creativity & Multimedia

One True MediaAnimoto

Digital Literacy Experiential Learning

Glogster Glogster classroom

Posters to use for education

Online Learning - Students

Increased participation of students in the classroom

Greater emphasis on independent learning

Increase in independent and self-directed learning

Increased sharing of ideas and knowledge-building among students

Online Learning - Teachers

Time – why it takes more timeHow effectively monitor student work

and progressHow to build community of learners

Online Learning

MoodleCourse Lab

Free e-learning authoring tool that offers programming-free WYSIWYG environment for creating high-quality interactive e-learning content

Online Learning

iSpringFree iSpring lets you publish your presentations right

from PowerPoint to SlideBoom portal - free online hosting for presentations.

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Online LearningScreenCast

Screencasting is a very simple concept: record your computer screen and sounds while talking about your actions.

Yacapaca Cool tool to create quizzes and surveys

and set work for your class

What about PODS?What are PODS?

Personally Owned DevicesStudent bringing in their own laptops

etc. to school to use for instruction.VIDEO

Q & AAny questions?Any answers?Any new ideas?Any “aha” moments of how you might change

just one thing in the way you are currently teaching?

Any favorite “free” tool you saw today?Remember – email me for the ppt at

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