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twitter.com/sethbowersDirector of Information & Instructional Technology, CCSD62 Des Plaines, Illinois
blc09
• I say to students "if you are not talking you are not learning - learning is a conversation”– Darren Kuropatwa #blc09 by way of John Davitt by
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Information
Friday review
• An inventory• What is a classroom in 2009• How do we get there
Decision makers
A day in the life – students A & B
• What are the differences between literacy now and literacy ten years ago
Challenge
• Student reports on a recent event in history– prove that the event happened in the manner
most widely accepted by using valid primary and secondary eyewitness reports
Student A
• I found a lot of eyewitness reports on the Internet, in fact I almost had too many– The best site was allowed people to post their
experiences for others to share– Selecting some of the best, I built my report step
by step, providing an almost hour-by-hour view of the event. I almost feel like I lived through it.
Student B
• I really liked the reports I saw on this site, but wanted to assure that they were valid
• I performed a “Whois” lookup and found out that the site was owned by a fiction writer’s club
• After some more searching, and validating, I found some legitimate sites that allowed me to collect the quotes I needed
Describe
• What did good work look like before– What does it have to look like now
By the way…
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First time sex
• and the beauty of 1.0
Podcast a poem
• Aaron “Red”
Create experts
Try this at home – IM in ModLang
Give students meaningful tasks
Google custom search
Social bookmarks
• chicklitt
Screencapture
• Jing!• Screentoaster
School Toolbox
• http://www.wiki62.wikispaces.net/Toolbox
Don’t teach tech
• Get out of my lab• Technology Benchmarks• • By the end of Kindergarten students should be able to:• use the left mouse click to navigate documents and pull-
down menus, hyperlinks and the internet. • use the scroll bar (thumb) to move up and down. • locate and open a program from the desktop and Start
Menu. • print a document from an application like MS Word or
Kidspiration.
Make things easy
• Mount the projector
Start small again
• Blog homework• Newsletters• Podcast reading passages
Build stories of success
• Dave• Sue• Marcie
Dave
• theprincipalandinterest.wordpress.com• leadertalk.org
Marcie
• SPNN
Whoa are the learners
There is no spoon
• Change– Minds– Relationship with education– Attitude about ownership
Connect with outside experts
Is a classroom space, people, or things
Adopt a feature
Adopt a feature
Adopt a feature
Sorry about that
Have a great trip home
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