Technology Integration

ISTE's draft of new National Educational Tech Standards for Students
Has been updated to include many of the 21st Century skills "What students should know and be able to do to learn effectively and live productively in an increasingly digital world."

If you want to give them feedback, go to www.iste.org/nets-survey

Labels: Draft of new ISTE NETS for Students

FETC 2007

If you haven't read the Time Article "How to Bring our Schools out of the 20th Century" - it is very interesting and very necessary reading...

Went to the Florida Educational Technology Conference last week and learned much from both "experts" and other teachers. Thought I'd compile some links and learnings here...

Kathy Schrock did a presentation on Web 2.0 . Here you will find many of web 2.0 applications. What is Web 2.0? Basically, Web 2.0 is a combination of many online "applications" that people are using to collaborate and communicate: blogs, wikis, podcasts, vodcasts, social bookmarking, collaborative writing/spreadsheets (Google docs and spreadsheets), RSS so that all of this can come to you as changes and additions are made. Allows many users to contribute to create a presence online and to stay connected and share ideas and help each other learn. Did you know there are about 300 social "tools" online today? More coming all the time.... leading to Web 3.0!

Google for Educators has some great online, web 2.0 applications and is adding more all the time!

Arnie Abrams presentation "Multimedia Magic: Improving Learning through Digital Media" was very good - check out the links on the last page!

There is a great elementary science program online that is inquiry-based and looks exceptional and very engaging for students - GALAXY Classroom. Saw a demo of one of their videos and actually got to participate in one of their hands-on experiments.

Alan November, as always, challenged us to think. His topic this year was "Preparing Students to Succeed in a Global Economy." His blog and podcasts can be found at www.novemberlearning.com

Since I incorporate visual literacy into my digital storytelling and digital video/camera classes, I usually use a book called "Visual Literacy: See to Learn" - I was excited to attend the session by the book's author, Lynell Burmark. She showed a powerpoint with her presentation, but most of the powerpoint was photos - not words, not hundreds of bullet points! The "story" came from her. She talked about Technology and Differentiated Instruction - wish I could share with you the entire presentation but check out some of the links on her handout.

John Kuglin speaks at many of the tech conferences. This year, his presentation was "21st Century Learning - 21st Century Technologies." He is now the technology director for Eagle Co. Schools in Colorado. Lots of good resources can be found at his website. John says every teacher needs a "digital presence" - webpage, blog, or eboard. He also said every computer in the school should have answers.com installed - includes encyclopedia, thesaurus, dictionary, and 1-click answers. He has powerpoint presentations on his website about cyber bullying and online predators that anyone can use with students, teachers, parents, and community members.

One of the best sessions I attended was "Literacy Instruction and Podcasts: Partners in our Reading Classrooms!" presented by Reading First Professional Development at the University of Central Florida. They have PD streaming videos and audiocasts. Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format.

I attended the session Tablets for Teachers and found a few resources: InkArt - free download from Microsoft - also the education pack, experience pack, and power toys are all free from MS.

Such interesting and thought-provoking responses on our Discussion Board! Thanks for taking the time to share.

When creating your lesson plan, consider student-created multimedia projects. Assessment should match the type of assignment. You might want to use a rubric - RubiStar

Until we have a "how to use Powerpoint" class, Atomic Learning will help you with those "How do I...." questions.

Survey for class
http://www.aea13.org/programs_services/surveys/aea13/profdev.htm

Course ID #6002
Semester Code 1

Links for you from Monday's class:

Content Area Links from AEA13

Audacity - free audio editing software for PCs

QuickTopic - online discussion board

Avoca's Website

Apple - Education - iLife '06 in the Classroom - take a look at these great multimedia projects created with iLife - can do the same with PCs and different software...

Marc Prensky has written several articles and books about today's students. Yes, they really ARE different than students were even 10 years ago! His newest writing is about using gaming for high level learning - video games. Interesting...
Choose one of Marc's articles. Read and be ready to summarize and share your thoughts with the class:

Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants

Do They Really Think Differently?