How to Reach the 21st Century Mind - Using Multimedia in the Classroom to Impact Instruction Matt Monjan.

How to Reach the 21st Century Mind - Using Multimedia in the Classroom to Impact Instruction

Matt Monjan

Students Learn Differently Todayan obvious fact – but the basis for this part of the presentation

They also pull media/information from different sources

As educators how can we support the following trends?

Students and Media

• Young people (8-18) today, spend an average of 6 ½ hours a day with media– 4 hours a day watching TV

• 2 ¼ hours with parents

– 1 ¾ listening to music• 1 ½ doing physical activity

– Over an hour on the computer• Under an hour doing homework

Source: A Kaiser Family Foundation Study. March 2005

Top Five Gifts for Teenagers

• Portable Game Device

• Cell Phone

• Computer

• Video Game Console

• MP3 Player/iPods

Source: Starkman, Neal (2007).Leave Me Alone.... T.H.E. Journal. 33-38.

It is not surprising that..

Students’ # 1 request regarding technology use at their schools:

Relax school rules about email, IM, cell phones and online use

Favorite communications device (K-12)

Cell phone (73% in grades 9-12 use a cell phone daily)

Percentage of middle schoolers that have online friends from other schools, states or countries

54%

Speak Up 2006 (www.tomorrow.org)

As They Get Older• What’s “in” on Campus• Spring 2005

1. Drinking beer2. Drinking other alcohol

• Spring 20061. Drinking beer2. Drinking beer tied with

Facebook.com and iPods3. Drinking other alcohol4. Text messaging

Source: USA Today. June 8, 2006

So they’ve got this stuff

…how do I use it in my classroom?

iPods as Learning Centers and More!

• Teach a Geography Lesson(north/south example)

• Use iPod to reach ELL or Audio and Visual learners

• Create an eBook (or iBook) to use in a learning center

Create a PPT with images that match the text that you want your students to learn. Then read aloud, or even better have students read aloud the text. Record and put onto iPod

Ok – I’m with you with on the iPods…but cell phones

…in my classroom???

I actually met a high school principal in Ohio last week who encouraged his teachers to tell kids “Turn your phones ON!” when they come to class.

Not as in start making all sorts of phone calls, but as in let’s learn how we can use our phones (since just about every student had one at his school) to extend what we’re doing in class.  - post by willrich

Will Richardsonhttp://www.weblogg-ed.com/

He goes on to say…

We can try to fight this, I suppose, as many schools are. Or, we can try to inculcate appropriate use from early on by modeling our own cell phone use to access information and learn throughout the curriculum.

Will Richardsonhttp://www.weblogg-ed.com/

We have to somehow find strategies to teach our kids to use cell phones and computers and the like in effective ways, and we also have to bend our thinking a bit in terms of what we ask our kids to do in classrooms in the first place.

Will Richardsonhttp://www.weblogg-ed.com/

Bottom line…

Here’s a Way to Model…

Next time you catch a cell phone in your class do the following – ask the student to:

1. Take a picture of a rhombus somewhere on campus with their cell phone camera and send it to you

2. Interview a Veteran and send you a link to their podcast

3. Text you three significant quotes from your area of study

4. Record a ring-tone of an musical innovator…

From 1963

Use Discovery Education streaming images and create a voicethread – www.voicethread.com

http://voicethread.com/share/42329/

Create an Assignment, Quiz or Writing Prompt and Embed the voicethread in the Builder Tool

1. Go to www.voicethread.com and create a voicethread

2. Click on the right-arrow to copy the Embed Code

3. Log into DE streaming and the click on Teacher Center

4. Create a new assignment5. Enter instruction into the

instruction boxes6. Paste the Embed Code from

voicethread into an instruction box

7. Give the assignment code to your students

Want to see an example of what else you can embed in an Assignment?

Let’s go to my assignment – first a little story…www.discoveryeducation.com or embed the link to your assignment

Dinosaurs and Sharks

Opening up the Closed Captions

1. To help hearing impaired students

2. To reach visual learners

3. To teach a grammar lesson

4. To teach a vocabulary lesson

5. To work on predicting outcomes

Why might we want to use CC in the classroom?

A Really Neat CC Example

The Bite Strength of Sharks – a unitedstreaming video clip

Now take that new found knowledge and add a language!

1. Go to www.google.com

2. Then choose Language Tools

3. Then choose your languages

4. Convert

5. Cut and paste back into your .smi/text file.

6. Voila!

Or…

Now that you have that .smi/cc code you can

– Add CC to any video you wish!– And it becomes …– Translate it into textspeak– www.transl8it.com

Ok Let’s Talk About The Free Stuff!

• Photo Story 3 – Windows PC• Movie Maker – Windows PC – (movie maker example)

• iPhoto – Macs • iMovie – Macs• www.Archive.org – Website with free archival

material • Freeplaymusic.com (only for classroom)

Let’s meet my godson Zack

What About the Paid Stuff?

•PowerPoint (almost free since it’s already on your computers)•Adobe Premiere Elements•Discovery Education streaming

Examples of Teachers’ Work

PowerPoint + DE streaming audio

DE streaming video and images + Adobe Premier Elements, and audio

Discovery Atlas, Google Earth + Adobe Premier Elements, green screens

While many schools restrict access to blogs, WIKI’s etc…

…others embrace it.

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Using DE streaming Tools to Reach the 21st Century Mind

Collaborative Projects using DE streaming editable movies, cell phones and cameras!

Displaying DE streaming videos on TVs and LCD projectors, whiteboards, etc

Projecting DE streaming math or close captioned videos, articles, calendars and images on interactive white boards

Creating learning centers or labs with DE tools like the Assignment, Quiz, and Writing Prompt Builders

Making it portable – DE On-The-Go with iPods

Tying DE streaming into teacher/class wikis, blogs, websites

So now that you’re brain is buzzing how would you use these tools to differentiate your instruction?

Let’s Start with Giezi My Notes• 1st grade Reading level• Grew up on a farm in Puerto

Rico, loves the outdoors• Auditory learner, prefers to

work independently

Action Plan• Content = Jeff Corwin videos• Process = Learning center

assignment with closed captioning enabled

• Product = Short quiz linked to assignments, and/or writing prompts

How about Michelle? My Notes• Grade-level reader (above

grade-level in Spanish)• Enjoys reading stories about

kids her age• Expresses herself best through

her writing

Action Plan• Content = Short stories (e.g.,

Chicken Soup for the Children’s Soul)

• Process = Customized writing prompts (English and Spanish)

• Product = Digital portfolio of journal entries

And Ebony? My Notes• Excellent reader• Wants to be a news

reporter• Does not test well, but

loves to work on projects

Action Plan• Content =• Process =• Product =• MovieMaker, iMovie

And finally, Daniel My Notes• Advanced in all subject

areas• Wants to write, produce

and direct movies• Artistic and creative

Action Plan• Content =• Process =• Product =

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Contact Info

Matt Monjan

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