Podcasts, Wikis, and Google Docs
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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