Overcoming Resistance to Teaching with Technology and Online

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Mark E. Moran, Founder & CEO, Dulcinea Media

New Leaf in Learning, March 22, 2012

To view this presentation andlinks to all resources we reference:

http://bit.ly/NewLeaf14

Mark E. Moran

Corporate attorneyInternet executive since 1998Parent of three in grades 6, 9, 12School-district committees15 education conferences in past yearHired 50 recent college grads since 2001

Our mission: to help educators teach students how to use the Internet effectively.

Growing Awareness…

Life has become anopen-book test.

“Schools run a great risk of becoming irrelevant to students.”

-- Peter PappasFormer Social Studies

Teacher

The Internet defines the way that young people learn, communicate, and create.

Students feel in charge of information.

What sound does a goat make?

Ask a five-year-old ...

Play

We found our own study materials online.

KIDS ARE KIDS ARE LOSTLOST

Question of the Hour

What are the principles that should

guide education companies and

educators as they support

classroom teachers in embracing

online content, relevant technology and

a student-centered teaching style?

“There is no textbook for what effective practice looks like in continually morphing information and communication landscapes.”

-- Joyce ValenzaHigh School Librarian

Understand

“Teachers waiting for a workshop to show them how to use technology are never going to do it.

Encourage them to jump in and try something.” 

-- Brent JortSocial Studies teacher

Technology is a TOOL…

“One of the enduring difficulties about technology and education is that a lot of people think about the technology first and the education later.”

-- Dr. Martha Stone Wiske

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Nintendo has been on a mission to expand the market.

The $250 Wii console has been stealing the show from

higher-powered consoles with high-tech bells & whistles.

Nintendo focused on making game play easier, more

intuitive and more appealing to a mass market.tive and

more appealing to a mass market.•That bet paid off.

Paradox of the Active User

“Teachers don’t like the words, ‘partial assembly required.’”

-- Peter PappasFormer HS Social Studies

teacher, now EdTech blogger & consultant

“The Battle of Gettysburg happened in July, but I need to see your material on it when I teach it in October.

Get my pacing guide.”

-- Jimmy DaveyHS Social Studies teacher

Give it to me when I need it

•That bet paid off.

There are no Jedi Masters

“Teachers should be encouraged to let students take over.”

-- Shannon MillerLibrarian

“Kids haven’t changed. I have.” -- Marlene

Thornton

11. Under-Resourcing. The initiative is not accompanied by sufficient resources (e.g., time, support, funding, training) to actually make it happen. So why should we bother?

Ohio’s Galion Middle School

$250,000 ARRA grant25% spent on professional developmentA year of PD before any technology purchasedExciting results, but encountering rocks

“Teachers can have tech savvy parents demonstrate real-world applications of technology and help bring non-tech savvy parents up to speed.”

-- Shelley Blake-Plock

7. Concerns About Future Competence. Educators can question their ability to be effective after a change: Can I do it? How will I do it? Will I make it in the new situation?

Personal Learning Networks

“Librarians cannot adequately retool if they do not develop personal learning networks.

Those who don’t drag us all down.”

-- Valenza/Johnson

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TED Talks Demystified

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Primary-Source DocumentsUsing primary sources, students learn to recognize that the record-keepers, whether artists, politicians or slaves, saw the world through a singular lens.

The Avalon Project

Ohio State University’s Official Records

American Rhetoric

Play

Address from the Bradenburg Gate, June 12, 1987

Historic Video and Images

Play

Museum of the Moving Image

The Library Of Congress: Chronicling America

Historical Letters

Play

Artwork and Photographs

Interviews

Timelines: BBC History Timeline

Timelines: YTTM.TV

Tools: Primary Access MovieMaker

Tools: ThingLink

Games and Situations: Games for Change

Science Resource: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Science Resource: National Human Genome Research Institute

Science Resource: BBC’s Science: Human Body & Mind

Find ideas for lesson plans on websites...

@edsitement

Photo Credits

Cover: http://morguefile.com/archive/display/117973

Dangerously Irrelevant: http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2010/08/we-spend-80-of-our-classroom-time-on-the-skills-needed-for-10-of-our-jobs.html

Librarian Action Figure: http://www.flickr.com/photos/libraryman/86206037/

Khan Academy Golden Ratio: http://www.khanacademy.org/video/the-golden-ratio?topic=new-and-noteworthy

Clogs: http://www.freefoto.com/download/1450-07-1/Clogs

Yogi Berra: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yogi_Berra_1956.png

Baby Steps: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kalexanderson/6218038832/

Watering Rocks: http://langwitches.org/blog/2008/01/13/metaphors-mq-as-important-is-iq/

Fear, Uncertainty Doubt: http://www.flickr.com/photos/psd/1805369995/

Training Teachers: http://thejournal.com/articles/2011/03/30/training-teachers-for-21st-century-classrooms.aspx

Shout Out: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shoutput/4269032009/