The Big Ideas in Educational Technology

Creating a Classroom of Critical Thinking, Creativity, and High Standards

with Everyday Technology Dr. Christopher Shamburg

Medium

Medium: a means of effectively conveying something.

--Merriam Webster Dictionary

“O”

O: interjection. Expressing surprise, frustration, discomfort, longing, disappointment, sorrow, relief, hesitation, etc.

The Oxford English Dictionary

“O”Sad

“O”Angry

“O”Surprised

“O”You stubbed your toe

“O”You remembered something

important

“O”You just won a game

Context: The situation or conditions in which something exists or occurs which can affect its meaning.

I didn’t say he ate your sandwich.

I didn’t say he ate your sandwich.

I didn’t say he ate your sandwich.

I didn’t say he ate your sandwich.

Technology

Context

Medium

Essential Questions

What skills do people need to reach their full potential today and tomorrow?

What are the best ways to teach these skills?

DIY Media

Remix

Participatory Culture

Effectively and

Ethically

Growing focus over last 40 years from “Reading” to “New Literacy”

•National standards

•Policy

•Research

•Other fields such as labor studies, economics, sociology

•Everyday experiences

.

Reading: Internal and Cognitive

Literacy: Combination of skills related to society and economy

New literacies: combination of cognitive, social, technical skills tied to society and globalization

DIY Media

1970 2011

Student-Centered Learning

Math and Engineering

MIT’s Scratch

http://scratch.mit.edu/users/cshamburg

http://is.gd/scratchwork

Audio, Math and Science

• Convey Issues Through Debate, Interview, or Discussion

• Audio to Accompany a Visual Inspection or Tour

• Initial advice or hints to problems, equations, or diagram

• Memorization

https://sites.google.com/site/podcastingmathandscience/home/our-podcast

Language and Literature

http://www.folger.edu/remix

Making Shakespeare

• Engine Roar

• Match Strike

• Crickets Chirp

• Beating Heart

• Phone Ring

• Water Splash

Drug-Free DetectivesNarrator Voice: Now for another episode of the Drug-Free Detective.

Detective: Just another day at the track watching the races. [Engine Vroom] What a nice day. [Phone Ring ] Wait, it's the be-safe cell phone. I'd better answer it quick. A man, lighting a cigarette, next to the woman in the baseball cap? I'm on it. How rude, giving yourself and your girlfriend lung cancer. The adrenaline rushes through me. [Heart Beating] I scan the crowd quickly, spot him, and make a mad dash with limited resource. "Wait" [Striking a Match] "Stop." [Water splash]

Man screams: "Ahhh“

Detective: Trust me, sir, being covered in Sprite is better than being diagnosed with lung cancer. [Crickets Chirping] Maybe I made a bit of a scene this time, but it's important you know how bad cigarettes are for you.

Narrator Voice: Just another day in the life of the Drug-Free Detectives.

http://is.gd/6sounds

Remix…

to take cultural artifacts and manipulate them into new kinds of creative blends

Steal?

Borrow?

Modify?

Improve?

Inspire?

Transform?

Some Examples of Contemporary Remix Practices

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ek9CchVpWE

http://www.archive.org/details/DjDangerMouse-TheGreyAlbum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtEH6wZXPA4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnhKPw2NXIw

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

=2T5_0AGdFic

Martial Arts

Food

Two Views of Macbeth

1600 ( ) 2011

Guttenberg’s Printing Press

Wine Press—1st Century AD

Chinese Moveable Type –10 Century AD

Gutenberg Printing Press—15th Century AD

“More bricolage than breakthrough”

Design That Matters: The Car Parts Incubator

http://designthatmatters.org/portfolio/projects/incubator/

Steve Jobs

2002

2001

2010

Late 1990s

Tablet

MP3 Player

From http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/11/14/111114fa_fact_gladwell#ixzz1dPyB1d7Q

The Graphical User Interface (GUI)

Bill Gates to Steve Jobs on the GUI: ”Well, Steve, I think there’s more than one way of looking at it. I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.”

Remix as a Lens

Fanfiction

Machinima

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JTFgOIhdzs

London by William Blake

I wander thro' each charter'd street,Near where the charter'd Thames does flow,And mark in every face I meetMarks of weakness, marks of woe.

In every cry of every Man,In every Infant's cry of fear,In every voice, in every ban,The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.

How the Chimney-sweeper's cryEvery black'ning Church appalls;And the hapless Soldier's sighRuns in blood down Palace walls.

But most thro' midnight streets I hearHow the youthful Harlot's curseBlasts the new born Infant's tear,And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.

London by William Blake

I wander thro' each charter'd street,Near where the charter'd Thames does flow,And mark in every face I meetMarks of weakness, marks of woe.

In every cry of every Man,In every Infant's cry of fear,In every voice, in every ban,The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.

How the Chimney-sweeper's cryEvery black'ning Church appalls;And the hapless Soldier's sighRuns in blood down Palace walls.

But most thro' midnight streets I hearHow the youthful Harlot's curseBlasts the new born Infant's tear,And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.

I Walk Alone by Green Day

I walk a lonely roadThe only one that I have ever knownDon't know where it goesBut it's home to me and I walk aloneI walk this empty street

On the Boulevard of Broken DreamsWhen the city sleepsAnd I'm the only one and I walk alone

I walk aloneI walk aloneI walk alone

My shadow's the only one that walks beside meMy shallow heart's the only thing that's beatingSometimes I wish someone out there will find me'til then I walk alone

London's Boulevard of Broken Dreams

I walk a lonely road,The only one that I have ever known,And mark in every face I meet,Marks of weakness, marks of woe.In every cry of every man,On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams,In every voice, in every ban,I walk this empty street.But most, through midnight streets I hearMy shallow heart's the only thing that's beating,Blasts the new-born infant's tear,Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me.

http://is.gd/remixpoetry

Remix to ResearchDigital

Documentaries

Create a Persuasive Video / Send a Video to your Representative

13 Colonies

Persuasive Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idh5-P2fmQM

Should the Confederate Flag be banned?

Does the constitution support the right for individuals to keep and carry firearms?

Organizer for Digital Storytelling Projects

Assessment Rubric

Working with Video: Trailers

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD41EDDA0908BB486

Brainstorming Trailer: Dred Scott, the Movie

Dred Scott was a slave who appealed to the Supreme Court in 1856 to be freed. Scott’s case was based on the fact that he had lived in states and territories where slavery was illegal. The court ruled that Scott could not be free. The Supreme Court ruled that all blacks, slaves as well as free could never become citizens of the United State. The case and decision brought the plight of slaves to greater national attention and fueled abolitionists.

Trailer Elements• Compelling Title

• Images, Video, Titles

• First Line Hook

• Narrator Description

Alternating with

• Quotes/Scenes from the Movie (we will use primary sources

Other Elements

• Parts of reviews, cast, director, etc…• The ‘Preview has been Approved’ message • Film Company Logo

4-5 lines about the story. Lines the narrator will say

• He was a man yearning for freedom and his family

• In a world consumed by slavery

• He took his case to the highest court in the land

• But some battles need to be lost, so the war can be won.

http://youtu.be/7QPMvj_xejg

Write 4-5 lines from primary sourcesLines people said or wrote during the time that

the ‘characters’ say.“The Legislation of the Republic is in the hands of this handful of Slaveholders!”

“The conspiracy is nearly completed.”

“The American Congress has no power to prevent the enslavement of men?”

“Compact yourselves together for the struggle which threatens your liberty and will test your manhood!”

" want freedom from myself and my family! “ (hypothetical)

Primary Source from The Evening Journal of Albany, New York, March 9, 1857•http://history.furman.edu/benson/docs/nyajds57309a.htm

Make a Trailer for a MovieTopics:

• Dred Scott• Whiskey Rebellion• 1776, 1876 or any particular year.• Amistad Uprising • War of 1812• The Expedition of Lewis and Clark• etc…

• For Dred Scott, look here for some starter mediahttp://is.gd/trailermedia

https://sites.google.com/site/remixhistory/

Daniel Pink and Thomas Friedman on Globalization and Education

Friedman: The assignment can be: “Mash these two together.”

Pink: And these kids get mash-ups

Friedman: Oh, they get mash-ups. They do it naturally. And today, he who mashes best will mash most and be wealthiest.

From School Administrator February 2008

Participatory Culture

1,500,000 hours of programming

On Major TV networks from 1948-2008

1,500,000 hours of programming

On Major TV networks from 1948-2008

On YouTube from July–December 2008

An Overview ofUniversal Design for

Learning (UDL)

UDL in Plain Language

Think of a teacher who communicates clearly, sparks student interest, and cares about every student in his or her classroom.

Give that teacher the tools and encouragement to do all of these things better and then make this a systematic model for a school.

This is UDL

UDL is…A set of research-based guidelines for curriculum development. Guidelines that focus on:

Multiple means of representation—what is learned

Multiple means of expression—how it’s learned

Multiple means of engagement --why it’s learned

--Arne Duncan, US Secretary of Education Letter to Congress Introducing

the National Educational Technology Plan

http://www.ed.gov/technology/netp-2010/letter-secretary

“The model of learning described in this plan calls for engaging and empowering personalized learning experiences for learners of all ages...It calls for using state-of-the-art technology and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) concepts to enable, motivate, and inspire all students to achieve, regardless of background, languages, or disabilities.”

A National Imperative: National Educational Technology Plan

In Higher Education

UDL is also a significant part of the Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) of 2008, which is the reauthorized Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA).

NOTE: The difference between UDL and differentiation

UDL works on curriculum from the ground up.  It's bigger, better, and more ambitious.

Differentiation makes adaptations to the existing curriculum, without demanding the curriculum changes for all students.

More Information: UDLcenter.org