Sacramental Preparation with Digital Creativity Caroline Cerveny, SSJ-TOSF @ccerveny President and Founder of Interactive Connections Faith Based Educational Technology/Digital Catechesis Center for Church Management: Villanova University Technology Summit II: Technology in Parish Life ● October 14, 2014
What possibilities exist today in today's Digital Culture? Do you want to "flip" your sacramental preparation? What does it mean to "flip" sacramental preparation? Do you want to supplement what you teach in sacramental preparation with a digital activity or two? What is possible and how can I do it?
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Sacramental Preparation with Digital Creativity
Caroline Cerveny, SSJ-TOSF @ccerveny
President and Founder of Interactive Connections
Faith Based Educational Technology/Digital Catechesis
Center for Church Management: Villanova University
Technology Summit II: Technology in Parish Life ● October 14, 2014
“For the first time we are preparing students for a future we cannot clearly describe.” – David Warlick
http://communications.nottingham.ac.uk/podcasts/
Our Shared Problem...
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New and emerging technologies...
http://www.weirdthings.org.uk
...are often met with opposition.
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Young people’s out-of-school experiences with technology can mean that students
find the presentation of school curriculum less challenging, less
relevant and less engaging.
Source: http://community.learningobjects.com
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Education is changing for young people as they experience self-directed learning,
(mostly outside school) about things that interest them.
Source: http://community.learningobjects.com
http://flickr.com/photos/thomcochrane/416206133/
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“The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young" - Bertrand Russell
http://flickr.com/photos/shu1/6065783/
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Does education need reform?
Half of teens send 50 or more text messages a day, or 1,500 texts a month, and one in three send more than 100 texts a day, or more than 3,000 texts a month. (2009 statistics)
• Anointing of the Sick - In the Rites of the Anointing of the Sick, the priest anoints the sick person on the forehead, saying, “Through this holy anointing may the Lord in his love and mercy help you with the grace of the Holy Spirit. Amen.” He also anoints the sick person on the hands, saying, “May the Lord who frees you from sin save you and raise you up. Amen.” The “raising” refers to spiritual healing, as well as any physical healing that may take place.
• Invite the class to brainstorm how being married can be a path to holiness for the married partners and how a couple’s relationship can be a sign of God’s kingdom of love, peace, and justice for others. Ask two students to record on PADLET the ideas that are generated. Point out that married couples live their lives together, sharing—as the vows they make on their wedding day proclaim—faithfulness, good and bad times, sickness and health. They promise to love and honor each other all the days of their lives.
• Brainstorming ideas • Collaboration for catechists in your Parish/ in other parishes • Other…
8. Google Forms: docs.google.com/forms and Flubaroo: http://www.flubaroo.com
Catechists , do you... • Not have enough time for grading? • Want useful measurements on student performance? • Need a free solution to help?
If so, then Flubaroo can help! • Grade online assignments in under a minute! • Get reporting and analysis on student performance! • Email students their scores.
• Student of the week + inspirational quote + student comments
• Parent Support
• Saint Biographies
• Service Projects
• And….
Possible uses
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Photo by Leo Reynolds - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License https://www.flickr.com/photos/49968232@N00 Created with Haiku Deck
PLEs are not only personal web tools and personal learning networks. PLEs
are much wider than this, taking in experiences and realia, as well as learning through TV, music, paper based materials, radio & more formal contexts.