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Using Web 2.0 Tools to Engage Students and Improve Teaching and Learning
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Where are you on the developmental continuum for 21st Century teaching and learning- on a “know nothing” to “know everything” scale? (Please place your vote on chart)
1. NewbieA newcomer to cyberspace, Web 2.0 and/or social networking.
2. ExplorerWilling to try a few new things, ask questions, and starting to gain an awareness around using blogs, wikis, podcasts, and vidcasts in instruction. You have possibly joined a listserv and are sharing ideas with other teachers.
3. Path FinderYou or your students have created a blogs, wiki, or podcast. Some of your teaching is delivered in a student centered, inquiry-based format. You are reading articles/books about how to use Web 2.0 tools with your students. You understand the term digital native.
4. Power UserYou blog and teach others how to blog. You use flickr, RSS, del.icio.us, and a wiki regularly. You can give at least three traits of a netgener and confusion and chaos do not bother you anymore. You regularly use project/problem based teaching in your classroom.
Today’s Agenda
Virtual Handouthttp://abpc.wikispaces.com/AETC07+Workshop
Welcome and Introductions
Brandi Caldwell – 21st Century teaching and learning Fellow
April Chamberlain –21st Century teaching and learning Fellow
Scarlett Gaddy – 21st Century teaching and learning Fellow
Felicia Myers - 21st Century teaching and learning Fellow
Aimee Smith - 21st Century teaching and learning Fellow
Cathy Gassenheimer President, ABPC
Sheryl Nussbaum-BeachDigital Consultant
John NortonDigital ConsultantEducational Writer
Pay Attentionhttp://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/t4/content/view/221/35/
Our 21st Century Schools
We are currently working with 38
schools across the state.
Buckhorn High
Hazel Green High
Hillcrest High
Mtn. Brook High
Northridge High
Oak Mountain High
Vincent Middle/High
Winterboro School
Athens Middle
Challenger Middle
Our 21st Century SchoolsSchools Starting in 2005-06
Cedar Ridge Middle
Cullman Middle
Calcedeaver Elementary
Central Park Elementary
Chestnut Grove Elementary
George Hall Elementary
Terry Heights Elementary
Vestavia Hills Elementary East
Wrights Mill Road Elementary
Our 21st Century SchoolsSchools Starting in 2006-07
Blossomwood Elementary
Dean Road Elementary
Hueytown Elementary
Liberty Park Elementary
Montview Elementary
Mt. Laurel Elementary
Ogletree Elementary
West Blocton Elementary
West Jasper Elementary
Bob Jones High
Clay-Chalkville High
Discovery Middle
Fayetteville School
Greenville High
Haleyville High
Hewitt-Trussville Middle
Louis Pizitz Middle
Mtn. Brook Junior High
Spain Park High
What We Do
Face-to-face meetings
Elluminate sessions
Tapped In discussion
Online resources
21st Century Octoberfest
Elluminate
21st Century Wiki
Del.icio.us
Tapped In Discussion
Products
George Hall Elementary Wetpaint Site
The antebellum mansion was decorated for Christmas with golden magnolia leavesand sugared fruits. It was breathtaking and we learned so much about colonial life from our tour guides.
Even after the end of slavery, the adoption of segregation laws kept life in the United States
divided. The museum was inspiring.
The students had a chance to touch and feed many of the animals.
Everyone enjoyed learning how the farmers take care of everyone
and everything on the farm.
Products
Wrights Mill Road Webquest on Internet Safety
Products
Cedar Ridge Middle School
Products
Book Genres
Composing Fantasy (fantasy)
Not Necessarily Based on Fact (fiction)
Get Out Your CSI Kit (mystery)
It Coulda Happened (realistic fiction)
Poetic Pinings (poetry)
By Student Request
Cullman Middle School
Products
A Typical Day of Collaboration:
Students start posting at 5:38 am and continue to add writing until 9:10 pm
that night!
Cullman Middle School
Products
Fayetteville High School
Sunnis and ShiitesThe Holy Quran Mecca and Hajj
Links
http://del.icio.us/abpcjohn
http://abpc/wikispaces.com
http://www.tappedin.org
http://www.bestpracticescenter.org
In Small Groups-Please Discuss the Following…
1. Web tools you and your school/district uses for professional development or learning?2. Something you personally would like to do/learn with technology in the coming year?3. Speculate on where you think technology will take your district and your students in the future.
Wiki Know How
Note Taker: http://abpc.wikispaces.com/AETC07+Workshop
Break – 5 minutes
When you come back– cluster in groups of five at four “tables”
Learning Showcase - ABPC 21st Century Fellows
Examples:Using Web 2.0 Tools to Engage Students
Speed Dating Style—
4 tables
4 Fellows
5 participants at each table
10 min presentation
3 min Q&A
2 min transition
4 times repeated
Are you Ready for 21st Century Teaching and Learning?
It isn’t just “coming”… it has arrived!
iPods in Vending Machines
Signs of the Times….
"Technological change is not additive, its ecological. A new technology does not
change something, it changes everything"
[Neil Postman]
Source: Mark Treadwell - http://www.i-learnt.com
Some statistics-
- 1 billion people on the Internet - 57 million blogs, 1.7 million posts a day.-50 new blog sites created every minute
“None of the top 10 jobs that will exist in 2010 exist today." -- Richard Riley, (Former US Sec. of Ed.)
A Changing World
"Jobs in the new economy--the ones that won't get outsourced or automated--"put an enormous premium on creative and innovative skills, seeing patterns where other people see only chaos." --
Marc Tucker, (an author of the skills-commission report and president of the National Center on Education and the Economy*
Currently, the number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the population of the planet.
Remote Control for Your Life
Think of the number of cell phones that are Internet capable!
Imagine with me how we can leverage that accessibility in the classroom!
But NOT just for email or surfing the Web– mobile learning, when it truly arrives will be a way to do things we couldn’t do before.
It is estimated that 1.5 exabytes (1.5 x 1018) of unique new information will be generated worldwide this year.
That’s estimated to be more than in the previous 5,000 years.
Knowledge Creation
For students starting a four-year technical or higher education degree, this means that . . .
half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study.
Source: enGauge 21st Century Skills
Rethinking Teaching and Learning
1. Multiliterate
2. Changing Demographic
3. Active Content Creators
4. Collaboration and Communication
We are in the midst of seeing education transform from a book-based, linear system to an web-based, divergent system with profound implications for every aspect of teaching and learning.
Active Content Creators
On Andrew Churches’ Blog
He takes a stab at a 21st Century tools match-up with the new Blooms.http://www.bloglines.com/blog/andrewch?id=4
Teacher 2.0The Emergent 21st Century Teacher
Teacher 2.0Source: Mark Treadwell - http://www.i-learnt.com
Book-based to Web-based
Source: Mark Treadwell - http://www.i-learnt.com
Talking at your tables…- What excites you about the shift? - What scares you?
Break – 10 minutes
Explore Skype
21st Century Teaching & Learning
What Is An Online Learning Community?
Much of the learning currently happening on the Internet comes from self-motivated individuals with a common interest and a desire to interact with others who share the same interest (Wenger, 1998).
The focus is on interaction…
Attributes of Successful Learning Communities
- a shared vision of what constitutes the mission of the community
- a core group who is willing to chime in on a variety of topics, keep the conversation rolling, and self-monitor the conversations is critical. This can be a formal group "appointed" to the role or just a group who steps forward to assume that role.
- a moderator who maintains the consistent integrity of the group
- opportunities to collaborate and learn such as book reviews, book chats, PD opportunities, lesson sharing, etc...
- provocative issues, yes... topics which draw in a variety of participants from different angles to give new perspectives
First, with several hundred of us from all corners of the field, we have acollective pulse on everything that's going on in education and teacherleadership.
Second, and just as important, our interactions are daily,even hourly. We are not prisoners of time and location. We caninstantly connect with one another to get insight, practical advice, andlanguage to use while working with teachers. I've lost count of thenumber times I've used something I learned from the community when working with teachers, administrators, or schools.
ABPC Participant
The invaluable technological knowledge gained from this experience is the most important aspect of the program. With this knowledge, I am now able to engage students and expand their technological literacy as well.Amy LoweGeorge Hall Elementary
The professional dialogue that evolved in our VLC from the Elluminate sessions has been very purposeful. Also, the sharing of tools and how different teachers have used them has helped us to determine our growth goals.Dottie MontgomeryWinterboro School
This experience has helped me grow more professionally than just about anything I have experienced in a very long time. I feel more confident about myself and more inspired. I have been teaching many years. Though I considered myself an excellent teacher, I have not been where I should be in regards to moving forward in this 21st Century. I now feel as if I am on my way!!Charlotte WilsonVestavia Hills Elementary East
Blogs and RSS
My Bloghttp://21stcenturylearning.typepad.com
Video about Blogginghttp://campus.belmont.edu/chenowit/dragonstale/WebLoggingSmall.mov
RSShttp://www.bloglines.com/public/snbeach
Wikis
Tech Enhanced Learninghttp://techenhancedlearning.wikispaces.com/
21st Century Teaching and Learninghttp://abpc.wikispaces.com/
EduBloggerConhttp://edubloggercon.wikispaces.com/
21st Century Collaborative Wikihttp://21stcenturylearning.wikispaces.com
Look at What We Can Build When We Work Together!
Questions or Comments?
What concerns, questions, reactions do you have so far about using these emerging technologies in your classroom or organization?
