Presentation for the Diocesean Conference on September 30, 2009

1. Web 2.0 Technology Integration on a Budget

2. What’s so special about it?

3. We are currently preparing students for jobs that don't yet exist, using technologies that haven't yet been invented , in order to solve problems that we don't even know are problems yet. --Karl Fisch, "Did You Know?"

4. web 2.0 Web 2.0 is a two-way medium – a platform upon which content is not only consumed but created ~ Steve Hargadon (A Brave New Classroom)

5. Characteristics of Web 2.0 Participatory Sharing Facilitating Community Open Communication Freedom to share and Reuse

6. Advantages to education Promotes Critical Thinking Social Learning Increase Language Skills Modalities and Learning Styles Creativity Students and Teachers Co-Creators

8. Has friends online (community)

9. Visits program creator to ask questions

12. Travis has better reading skills.

14. Horizontal Learning Instead of the traditional vertical method of teacher to student, the horizontal learning takes place among teachers and students, students and students, teachers and teachers.

15. Differentiated Instruction Teaching with student variance in mind (meeting the kids where they are) No standardized approached to learning ( the text as one tool among many in the teacher’s toolbox) Responsive teaching (rather than one-size-fits-all)

17. Who’s in Your Classroom? Photo from “A Night at the Museum”

19. They’re all different, so howcan you make it meaningful for all of them?

20. What are you trying to teach? Goal of the Lesson – what do you want the technology to do for you? What’s the most important concept or skill you want the student to learn?

21. How will technology contribute to the learning process? If the technology overshadows the purpose or interferes with the process of learning, then it’s best to not use the technology. The technology is only a tool to help a student achieve success and understanding, not the end in itself. Don’t use it if it doesn’t help.

22. Bloom’s Taxonomy

23. Adapted for 21st Century Learning creating Evaluating Analyzing Applying Understanding Remembering ~Lorin Anderson: a student of Bloom’s wanted to update it to fit 21st Century Learning

24. Designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing, devising, making , programming , filming, animating, blogging, mixing, publishing, broadcasting Creating Checking, hypothesizing, critiquing, experimenting, judging, testing, detecting, monitoring, commenting, reviewing, posting, moderating, collaborating, networking, testing Evaluating Comparing, organizing, deconstructing, attributing, outlining, finding, structuring, integrating, mashing, linking, validating, reverse engineering, cracking Analyzing Implementing, carrying out, using, executing, running, loading, playing, operating, uploading, sharing, editing Applying Interpreting, summarizing, inferring, paraphrasing, classifying, comparing, explaining, exemplifying, advanced searches, Boolean searches, journaling, categorizing, tagging, commenting, annotating, subscribing Understanding Remembering Recognizing, listing, describing, identifying, retrieving, naming, locating, finding, bullet pointing, highlighting, bookmarking, networking Based on a revision by Andrew Churches

25. Assessment Strategies

26. Low cost and/or free technology “Many, many technologies that were previously expensive or unavailable are now becoming free to anyone with a web browser.” ~Thomas Bittman

27. WYSIWYG *What you see is what you get (**hey, nothing is perfect) (***what do you want for free?)

28. What will you need? Materials Internet Access, story starters, preparatory work Space Time Equipment Hardware Software Batteries

29. Where to start Don’t try to do everything at once. Will the application be the lesson or enrichment? How much time will you need?

30. Allow for things to go wrong Will the school’s filter allow you to go there? Will your students need special permissions? Does your equipment work? Batteries charged? Room on the photo card? Computers online? Does the website still exist? (it happens!)

31. Be prepared for outcomes When you let kids collaborate, you may get more than you bargained for. Be ready to be a facilitator – guide the students, but don’t take over.

32. Blogs And Wikis and Nings, O My!

33. My Wiki http://sites.google.com/site/tech4020/

34. Tech4020 Ning http://tech4020.ning.com/