Technology Integration for PDS

Integrating Technology

into the 21c Classroom

Doug Adams

ALTEC

[email protected]

PowerPoint Slides

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The Millennial Generation

“Millennials” “Digital Natives” “Thumb Tribe”

“Kids say e-mail is, like, sooooo dead.”

– CNET News, July 18, 2007

The Millennial Generation

“Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach” Mark Prensky

“I have to ‘power down’ when I go to school.”

“When I am really busy, I hate going to school because I can’t do any work there.”

Attitudes in the Millennial School

Characteristics of Digital Natives

Active Multi-tasking Non-linear thinking Ubiquity Technical Fluency Expectations of Feedback Individualization Risk-taking Information sifting

Brain Research

The brain developed to solve problems related to surviving in an unstable outdoor environment that occur in near constant motion. John Medina, Brain Rules

Brain Research

If you wanted to create an educational environment that is directly opposed to the way the brain is good at doing, you would probably design something like the modern classroom. John Medina, Brain Rules

21st Century Skills

21stCenturySkills.org

21st Century Skills

Core Subjects and 21st Century Themes Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies Global Awareness and Civic Literacy Economic and Business Literacy Health Literacy

Learning and Innovation Skills Creativity Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Communication and Collaboration

21st Century Skills

Information Media and Technology Skills Information and Media Literacy Communication and Technology Literacy

Life and Career Skills Flexibility and Adaptability Initiative, Productivity, and Self-direction Social Skills Leadership, Accountability and Responsibility

Visual Ranking and 21st C Skills

Intel’s Education Page

http://intel.com/education/tools

1) Visual Ranking Tool

2) Click Student Log-In [email protected] Team ID Team Password

Visual Ranking and 21st C Skills

In groups, sort the list from most important (top) to least important (bottom)

For the top three items, double click and explain why you ranked them as most important

For the bottom two items, double click and explain why you ranked them as least important

Why is it important to encourage higher-order, complex thinking?

Complex Thinking Strategies

Decision Making Reasoning Investigation Experimental Inquiry Directed Problem Solving Creative Problem Solving Reflective Thinking

Technology and Complex Thinking

Intel Thinking Tools http://www.intel.com/education/tools

Visual Ranking: Assign ranking to a list; and then debate differences, reach consensus, and organize ideas

Seeing Reason: Investigate relationships in complex systems

Showing Evidence: Construct well-reasoned arguments that are supported by evidence, using a visual framework

90% of what they learn when they teach someone else

5% of what they’ve learned from a lecture

10% of what they’ve learned from reading

20% of what they’ve learned from audio-visual presentation

30% of what they learn from a demonstration

50% of what they learn when engaged in a discussion

75% of what they learn by doing

Students retain…

Source: NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science

Project-Based Learning (PBL)

“I hear and I forget.

I see and I remember.

I do and I

understand.”-- (Confucius)

Why Projects?

To learn collaboration, work in teams.

To learn critical thinking, take on problems.

To learn oral communication, present.

To learn written communication, write.

To learn technology, use technology.

To develop citizenship, take on civic issues.

To learn about careers, do internships.

To learn content, do all of the above.

Project-Based Learning Resources

Buck Institute for Education (BIE) http://www.bie.org

iEARN (International Education and Resource Network) http://www.iearn.org/

Edutopia http://www.edutopia.org/project-learning

Collaboration and Technology

Collaborating with Google Docs

http://docs.google.com Word Processing Spreadsheet Forms Presentations

Authentic Activities in the Classroom

Building engagement through real world connections

Student ownership increases motivation

Web 2.0 provides hundreds of ways to demonstrate understanding

Web 2.0

Users of the Web create information and have control over it Blogs, Wikis, YouTube

The Web becomes truly interactive as different sites link data Mashups - Flickr, Google Maps Aggregators/Portals – IM, Twitter, RSS Social Bookmarking, “Folksonomies”

Engaged Learning

Connect students to the world

http://muti.co.za/static/newsmap.html

http://www.tenbyten.org/10x10.html

http://galleryofwriting.org

Connect students to each other

http://www.epals.com

Authentic Learning with Web 2.0

Workshop presented by blogger Alan Levine Outline a story idea Find some media Pick a tool to build

the story

50 Ways to Tell the Dominoe Story

Google Earth

Explore geographic locations both on Earth and in space.

View geography and buildings in 3D

View community content Create interactive projects

which include, images, text, video and sound.

http://www.google.com/educators/geo.html http://earth.google.com/outreach/index.html

Google Earth

Google Lit Trips

Use multimedia and Google Earth to take users on tours of places in literature.

Download a .KMZ file and open in Google Earth

http://googlelittrips.com/

Primary Source Material

Engage Students Tie to prior knowledge Evaluate the source Look at details Make it personal

Promote Inquiry Make speculations (creator, purpose, audience) Compare to other primary and secondary

sources Talk about other places to find primary sources

Primary Source Example

Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov) American Memory Project World Digital Library Thomas – Legislation Information Veteran’s history Teacher Resources

More Primary Sources

Similar resources exist at many high-level government sites Geology & Geography (http://USGS.gov) Space and Physics (http://NASA.gov) Oceanography & Meteorology (http://NOAA.gov) Health & Medicine (http://CDC.gov &

http://HHS.gov) Energy (http://www.energy.gov) Smithsonian Museums (http://si.edu)

Resources

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Doug Adams

[email protected]

http://altec.org