DAY FOUR UNTANGLING TECH CONFRATUTE 2014

DAY

4SEARCH FOR THE

FUTURE

If your students can GOOGLE the answer...

You may be asking the WRONG questions!

Y2K

padlet.com/brianhousand/tute14

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76% of teachers surveyed “strongly agree” with the assertion that internet search engines have conditioned students to expect to be able to find information quickly and easily.

76%

Agree with the notion that the amount of information available online today is overwhelming to most students.

83%

Today’s digital technologies discourage students from using a wide range of sources when conducting research.

71%

1) In what year was the first U.S. postage stamp issued? !

2) Who was on it? !

3) How much did it cost?

IDENTIFY Important Questions

LOCATE Information

CRITICALLY EVALUATE

SYNTHESIZE Information

COMMUNICATE Answers

NEW LITERACIESnewliteracies.uconn.edu

Fiction f rom Truth using Evidence

“Every man should have a

built-in automatic

crap detector operating

inside of him.”

-- Ernest Hemingway

News Feed

TRIA

NGULA

TION

WHO WROTE THIS

INFORMATION? !

WHEN WAS THE ARTICLE WRITTEN?

!

CAN THE INFORMATION BE VERIFIED FOR ACCURACY?

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ANSWERS ARE EASY.

It’s asking the right questions

which is hard.- T H E D O C T O R

BLUFF THE INTERNET

SEARCHER

agoogleaday.com

google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation

INTERNET RESEARCH

AGGREGATOR

LiveBinders

blendspace.com

TRY THIS! GENERIC SENTENCE FRAMES

“Who are…” “When did…” “Why does…” “What will happen if…”

WHO

WHAT WHEN

WHERE WHY

HOW

IS

DID CAN

WILL MIGHT

SHOULD COULD WOULD

WHAT ABOUT MATH?

My Script Calculator

Google Trends

101qs.com

books.google.com

wonderopolis.org/home

geoguessr.com

geosettr.com

writingprompts.tumblr.com

Horizon Report > 2014 K-12 Edition

nmc.org

SOLVABLE CHALLENGES

> Creating Authentic Learning Opportunities !

> Integrating Personalized Learning

The whole process of education should

thus be conceived as the process of

learning to think through the solution

of real problems. !

-- John Dewey, 1938

WICKED CHALLENGES

> Competition from new models of education !

> Keeping formal education relevant

CURIOSITY

IMAGINATION

PASSION

CREATIVITY

STOP

GO

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TO INFINITY AND BEYOND