Lessons in the Wind:

Connecting Ideas, People and Knowledge in Today’s Classrooms

Chris Bigenhocbigenho.unt@gmail.combigenhoc@greenhill.org

Discussant

Practitioner

Researcher

Storyteller

Futurist

Motivator

Skeptic

Expectations

Good?

Bad?

TechnologyTechnology

Web 1.0

Web 2.0

Sharing

Living Web

Trends in the World of the

Digital Native

93%PEW Internet Life Project (2007)

Teens use the Internet…

48%PEW Internet Life Project (2008)

PEW Internet Life Project (2007)

64%PEW Internet Life Project (2007)

Teens Creating Content

PEW Internet Life Project (2007)

55%PEW Internet Life Project (2007)

PEW Internet Life Project (2007)

26%PEW Internet Life Project (2007)

Teens remix content…

PEW Internet Life Project (2007)

28%PEW Internet Life Project (2007)

Teens create blog or journal…

PEW Internet Life Project (2007)

Generation M: Media15 Key Findings

• Time with Media

• Media in Home

• Bedroom/Household Media

• Time on other activities

• Demographic

• Parental Rules

• New vs. Old

• Media Multitasking

• Media Use: grades/contentment

• Television

• Music

• Computers and Internet

• Digital Divide

• Reading

• Video Games

Source: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-olds: Kaiser Family Foundation study, March 2005

Learning is NOT like pornography. You don’t always know it when you see it

Knowledge Construction

Situated Cognition

Legitimate Peripheral Participation

Understanding

Social Cognition

Thinking Styles

Community of Practice

Multiple Intelligences

ConstructionistConstructivist

Leaders have followersManagers make widgets

A shared interestA way to communicate

Challenge the status quo

Two questions:1. If I get criticized for this, will I suffer any measurable impact?2. How can I create something that critics will criticize?

Three Requirements for Technology in Education

Cognition

Collaboration

Accessibility

Social Software

Collaboration

Connections

Sharing

http://gladwell.typepad.com/

Tell A Story

Reflect on Experience

Share Thoughts/Resources

http://srhayes.wordpress.com/

http://krishnap.wordpress.com/

http://www.underw0rld.net/thenote/walts_blog/walts_blog.html

http://www.wefeelfine.org/

Markets are Conversations

www.cluetrain.com

1999

People of Earth…

Dave Carroll

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo

140 characters or less…

What can you really say?

http://twitter.com/bigenhoc

A Few of My Favorites

Character Development

http://twitter.com/mheadcase1

mxheadcas3

http://twitter.com/sirix777

http://www.twhistory.com/?page_id=8

Telling Stories

through Digital Threads

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fhashemi/sets/72157619758530748/show/

http://mashable.com/2009/06/20/iran-youtube/

http://mashable.com/2009/06/20/iran-youtube/

Game Play

The Note

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfrONZjakRY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC4FAyg64OI

Cognition

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List 1.1

List 2.1

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List 3.1

Environmental Condition Note-taking Condition Mean S.D.

No Distractions No Notes 9.33 3.17

Handwritten Notes 13.00 3.63

Computer Aided Notes 9.81 2.89

Auditory Distraction No Notes 9.00 2.97

Handwritten Notes 10.81 3.27

Computer Aided Notes 11.14 4.43

Auditory/Visual Distraction No Notes 9.57 4.30

Handwritten Notes 8.24 3.39

Computer Aided Notes 8.95 4.01

N=21

Chris Bigenho

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