In 1964 Marshall McLuhan said "The medium is the message." McLuhan was interested in the subconscious messages conveyed by the new methods of communication of the day. In our classrooms, McLuhan might ask what messages are our students receiving from the ways and means we use to teach them? Are you conscious of the incidental learning going on in your classroom? How can you convey these subconscious messages deliberately to amplify your student's learning? Today's student brings with them a wealth of technological knowledge that they have learned on their own. As Educators what message do we want to deliver in our classes? What media are we using to deliver that message to an increasingly more demanding audience. Students need to work harder and as educators we cannot force them to do so. By offering learning that intrinsically motivates students we will prepare them to be learners in an ever changing environment.

2. Who I am

3. 1000 Students
140 Grade 8 Math Students

4. Winnipeg
Manitoba
Canada

5. This is how close we are to each other
Only 2500 km apart!
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7. It isn’t all snow and cold.
Summers are great.

8. Darren Kuropatwa
Introduced to Blogging
and Social Networks in
2005
Started a class blog
immediately

9. Sargentparkmathzone.blogspot.com
Makeitinteresting.blogspot.com

10. K12 Online
Conference
Release the Hounds

13. What are you saying?
What message does the “way”
you teach convey to your
students?

14. Historica Heritage
Minute

15. Who was Marshal
Mcluhan?

16. Kelvin High School

17. University of Toronto Centre
for Culture and Technology 1963

18. What was the Medium is the message?

19. Medium

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24. What new medium have you added to your classroom
to change your message

34. Pew Internet Survey 2007

35. Pew Internet Survey 2007

36. Pew Internet Survey 2007

37. Pew Internet Survey 2007

38. Pew Internet Survey 2007

39. A Medium is anything from which CHANGE emerges.

40. All
Ideas Innovation

41. What is the Meaning of The Medium is
the Message?
by Mark Federman
Chief Strategist
McLuhan Program in Culture and
Technology

44. 1970’s or Today?

45. Implications for Education

46. Fear
?

47. The Medium is the Message

48. Assembly Line
Teaching machines

50. Rooted

52. Factory Jobs?

54. Past/Future

56. Ways in which classroom is open all day

57. Conduit

58. Lightning Rod

60. (Principle 1) TEACHERS MUST ENGAGE STUDENTS! PRECONCEPTIONS
Students’ Errors and Misconceptions Based on Previous Learning
Students come to the classroom with conceptions of numbers grounded
in their whole-number learning that lead them astray in the world of
rational numbers; e.g. multiplying always makes numbers bigger.
x =
Source: How Students Learn Photos Source
Title: Nov 15-9:27 PM (2 of 9)

61. UNDERSTANDING REQUIRES FACTUAL
(Principle 2) KNOWLEDGE AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS
The Knowledge Network: New Concepts of Numbers and New Applications
What are the core ideas that define the domain of rational numbers?
What are the new understandings that students will have to construct?
How does a beginning student come to understand rational numbers?
Source: How Students Learn Photo source
Title: Nov 15-10:14 PM (3 of 9)

62. A METACOGNITIVE APPROACH
(Principle 3) ENABLES STUDENT SELF-MONITORING
Metacognition and Rational Number
A metacognitive approach to instruction helps students monitor their
understanding and take control of their own learning. The complexity of
rational number—the different meanings and
representations, the challenges of comparing
quantities across the very different
representations, the unstated unit—all mean that
students must be actively engaged in sense
making to solve problems competently. We
know, however, that most middle school
children do not create appropriate meanings for
fractions, decimals, and percents; rather, they
rely on memorized rules for symbol
manipulation.
Photo source Source: How Students Learn
Title: Nov 15-10:14 PM (4 of 9)

63. Today’s
Student?

64. Change in Social Life

66. Social networks,
cellphones texting etc

67. Notebook Usage 1.0 =(

69. Scribe Posts

72. The World
is shrinking

73. Global Village

74. Person

75. Horse

77. Train

78. Air Travel

79. 20th Century Media

80. 21st Century Connections

81. Tools used to make your class more
connected

85. Now

86. post06wash@photos.flickr.com
Take a picture of someone and email it to this address.

90. Google?

96. Unprojects take content and push the
boundaries

97. Expertvoices.blogspot.com

98. http://teamlrjdev.blogspot.com/

99. Spunproject08.wikispaces.com/Erick+Jerome

100. A Medium is anything from which CHANGE emerges.