Podcasts, Wikis, and Google Docs

Melissa ShieldsGlencoe High School

July 15, 2008

When I Become a Teacher…..

http://homepage.mac.com/lesleyu/iMovieTheater.html

“Computers in the future may perhaps

only weight 1.5 tons.”Popular Mechanics,

forecasting the development of computer

technology, 1949

No dear, you weren’t downloaded.You were born.

Millennials Want to Learn…

• Technology• With one another• Online• In their own time• In their own place• Doing things that matter

I-Generation

Digital Age Literacy• Teach students for a world that exists now! • Experiment with technology – Don’t be afraid to

ask the kids for help!• Bulletin Boards…or the World? – TeacherTube.com– Youthradios.com– Thinkfinity.com– Uthtv.com– Schooltube.com

“Brain work will cause women to go

bald.”Berlin professor, 1914.

21st Century Concepts

• Bridging the “Digital Divide”• Digital Natives / Digital Immigrants• Flat Classrooms / Thomas L. Friedman • School 2.0 / Jim Hirsch• LOTS vs. HOTS• Cyber Footprints• Informational Bulimia• Wikis, Blogs, Podcasts– What are they? – Visit http://www.commoncraftcom

Flat

Classroom