Monday, May 24, 1:45 - 3:15 p.m. Parallel Session #3 Enhanced Teaching through the Use of New Educational Technologies (Room W20-306) Session Chair: Kathleen.

Monday, May 24, 1:45 - 3:15 p.m.Parallel Session #3Enhanced Teaching through the Use of New Educational Technologies (Room W20-306) Session Chair: Kathleen Vandiver

“Electronic Constructivism 2010: Innovative Tools, Virtual Travels, and Great Teaching”

RL: Dr. Maureen YoderSL: Aby Rhode Lesley UniversityCambridge, [email protected]

A Quick Trip Through the Buffet

Bus Ride through Cambridge

Fasten your seatbelts!

Identifying the Essence of a Successful Lesson

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)

Flying through the Sistine Chapel

A Tale of Two Explorers

Connecting With the World

Experiences

Questions

Connections

ToolsMulti-dimensional

data analysis

. . . with a few detours along the way

History, Art, News, Statistics

HISTORY

TEACHER: Write a report on Ferdinand Magellan.

What I Did

The EncyclopediaAmericana

HISTORY

Who led the first exploration around the world?

Who was the first person to orbit the earth?

Ferdinand MagellanPortuguese Explorer

1480 – 1521…..

Captained the first circumnavigation expedition

10 August 1519- 6 Sept 15221079 days

Flagship Trinidad

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin Russian Cosmonaut

1934 – 1968…..

First Person to orbit the earth 12 April 1961

108 minutesVostok 1

Around the World in a Few Years;Around the World in a Few Hours

Teacher: “Imagine Magellan and Gagarin discussing the shape of the world and issues of fund raising, risk taking, and potential celebrity. Create a conversation the two may have had across the centuries using a contemporary technology”.

http://www.dailypress.com/extras/solutions/images/SOL100901.gifhttp://nat.truemesh.com/archives/article-images/gemini.jpg

A group of natives killed me with a poisoned arrow in my foot and a spear through my heart. After I died, my crew burned my ship. My body was left behind. Out of the five ships that began the journey, only one ship [The Victoria] made the voyage around the world. Out of 250 men, only 18 survived… I was not one of them.

http://library.thinkquest.org/J002678F/magellan.htm

The End of My DaysI never made it to the Spice Islands. I was caught in a war in the Philippine islands.

Gagarin became deputy director of the cosmonaut training base and began to re-qualify as a fighter pilot. In 1968, while on a routine training flight, he and his flight instructor Vladimir Seryogin died in a MiG-15UTI crash. Gagarin and Seryogin were buried in the walls of the Kremlin on Red Square.

Monument of Yuri Gagarin on Cosmonauts Alley in Moscowhttp://www.russianarchives.com

ART

ART

“Write a report about the Sistine Chapel.”

Second Life is a 3d on-line virtual world. It is not a game, but a virtual space where any sorts of social activities can take place.

There is a special “island” in SL for educators, at educational discount prices.

http://www.secondlife.com

With one of my students as we journey through educational possibilities.

Who are these people??

I looked back at the educational philosophers who were ahead of their times to imagine what they might think about the new technologies, and to a couple of current visionaries…

http://tinyurl.com/2trk75

3D portals, avatar representation, … MUVEs, … all media flows in and out of virtual web worlds

A visit to the Sistene Chapel

http://www.vassar.edu/headlines/2007/sistine-chapel.html

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Vassar%20Island/128/128/0/?title=The%20Sistine%20Chapel

NEWS

STATISTICS

Earthquake in Haiti January, 2010Technology and its role in communicating the news,

connecting people, and providing assistance

blogs

podcasts

RSS feeds

cell phone apps

texting

CNN iReport is working to put together a database to help try to connect people with family, friends and loved ones in Haiti. The response has been tremendous – more than 4,000 iReports since Wednesday – and we're happy to report that some people on the list have been found.

CNN.com/haitimissing

Missing: 460 pages as of

1/18/10

Podcasts

Available as a new downloadable layer on Google Earth, the new images give a bird's eye view of the destruction, showing sites like the National Palace . . . strewn with debris. Google said that it was working with its satellite partners to continually update the images of Haiti.

March, 2008

January 13, 2010

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ http://news.bbc.co.uk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLd_5LFKPUQ&feature=yva-video-display

Data Display Application

www.gapminder.org/

www.gapminder.org/

“Electronic Constructivism 2010: Innovative Tools, Virtual Travels, and Great Teaching”

RL: Dr. Maureen YoderSL: Aby Rhode Lesley UniversityCambridge, MA

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