Cathy Oxley 20 October 2008
Aug 29, 2014
Cathy Oxley 20 October 2008
- The Silent generation - people born before 1946.
- The Baby Boomers - people born between 1946 and 1959.
- Generation X - people born between 1960 and 1979.
- Generation Y - people born between 1980 and 1995.
Why do we call the last one generation Y?
The Y Generation
Sort Of Dunno Nothin'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_veIGGP1Uh4
The Old Days
Disengaged Students
Disengaged Students
Disengaged Students
The Old Days (or now?)
A magic place !
It’s all about connecting people
Collaboration‘This generation collaborates as a core ethos—e.g., in multiplayer web games, with IM, in co-laboratories, virtual classrooms, and chat rooms. It is exciting to have an environment where information can be introduced and processed and where life, play, entertainment, school, and work co-mingle’ (LibraryJournal.com Born with the Chip)
“There are currently 117620 people playing “
Collaborative, transformative technologies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEFKfXiCbLw
ICT POWER
http://xkcd.com/256/
Where are you?
"The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." -- Alvin Toffler
Infobesity
Hours of Search Engine Use 2003
0
2,000,000
4,000,000
6,000,000
8,000,000
10,000,000
12,000,000
14,000,000
Google Yahoo MSN
Search Engine Market Share 2006
GoogleYahoo
MSN
41.4%
28.7%
13.7%
922 million to 1032 million: the estimated number of unique individuals who will use the Internet in 2006, all countries combined.
So how do we capture
the best informatio
n?
RSS - feed your mind!“Connecting with what other people are writing”
RSS continuall
y feeds
RSS – your own customised
newspaper
Add an RSS Feed
Bloglines
How will it help students?
They can also set up RSS feeds now from some of the databases your
library can subscribe to through UQ
Cyberschool – Opposing
Viewpoints and Expanded Academic
http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs
How will it help teachers?
Reading other
people’s blogs is the best form of professional development
you can participate
in!
So, how do weengag
e them?
Mom’s William Tell Overture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxT5NwQUtVM
Animoto• Readers Cup
Competitionshttp://animoto.com/play/8ace1032fe2330c410673c7f3ddc73fe
• Redlands College Libraryhttp://animoto.com/play/d516d33b81e5636af786026709cfb6f3
‘Our goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and
home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional
development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where
teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a
concept or skill ‘
http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=93b89d8fbee5667d077f
http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=6f2c2eba77f39993d118&page=1&viewtype=&category
=
Did You Know? 2.0
Maths Lesson with Abbott & Costello
Ning – a place to sharehttp://education.ning.com/
http://www.classroom20.com/
Shift Happens“We are currently preparing
students for jobs and technologies that don’t yet exist…in order to
solve problems that we don’t even know are problems yet.”
"The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." (Alvin Toffler)
Captivate them!
"Sometimes traveling to a new place leads to great transformation" --Fortune Cookie
Tutorials and Links
• How to set up an RSS feedhttp://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?
viewkey=8d0c2d792a719dfb602e
• Using RSS in educationhttp://www.slideshare.net/leonardstern/rss-in-education\http://www.slideshare.net/bwatwood/using-rss/
• 102 RSS feed sites http://oedb.org/library/features/the_ultimate_rss_toolset
Contact me• My email address
• My bloghttp://cathryno.globalteacher.org.au/
• My bookmarks on Diigohttp://www.diigo.com/user/cathryno