Technology & Learning’s Tech Forum 10/20/2006
http://www.techlearning.com/events/techforum/ny06/
The conference vault can be found here.
Hall Davidson – Keynote “Thinking as Big as the World is Small”
There is shrinking between geographic places, people, parents and schools, students to students (Hall referred to the “at generation” – online peers), Not we hope, between students and teachers
New Literacies: Enrichment or Essential? Hall Davidson and David Jakes
Wikis blogs podcast
The difference between imagination and reality is shrinking.
Imagination is so close to reality. Where do you start to teach kids with it? Things they have in their pockets. Cell Phones, ipods, mp3 nplayers.
Teach poetry with cell phones
Tanka fits in a text messaging box on a cell phone… 31 syllables in 5 lines 5c 7 5 7 7 800AD
Japanese NPR equivalent on Sat night is tanka night, 3000 entries live
Write your own tombstone limerick
“If you’re ridin’ ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it’s
still there” – Will Rogers
Look for Google trends – shows podcasts search by city…
Notes to self: Spruce up our 21st Cent lit PPT – video contest IC example, pictures of real kids.. class of 2009, show desks in rows.. grid.. the 6×5 grid, show flying tomatoe video then pic of classroom empty row chairs, then kids in chairs… then kids bored in same chairs.. Also pic of shelved books on cart next to laptop.. then kids on on wireless laptops
What space gets 2.5 times more traffic than google? myspace
FOX owns MySpace
Mainstream media MySpace
Us versus Them Cool New People Screen grab from MySpace
Us versus People
Us versus Us
gCast is companion site to grageband.com
audioblogger.com podcast from cellphone
Roundtable Discussions Fostering Multicultural Perspectives and Learning – Meryl Menon – handout Multicultural resources from Meryl Menon
The 10 Keys to Effective Professional Development
David Jakes Great overviewof this session at this blog.
David Jakes , Illinois 5500 kids, 420 teachers,
Do new things support fundamental literacies
1. does the use of this tool or technology support a fundamental
2. does the use of tech extend to places it could not go otherwise
What is essential?
What is enrichment?
Shared knowledge construction
Digital Storytelling – provide voice, writing
Wikis as tool for collaboration on Literary Magazine
Blackboard Learning Management System, bought a building block for wiki….
Flying Tomato on Google Video
Auditory nerve 16000 nerves
Optic nerve 1 million
Panasonic Supacam… $328 video, mp3 podcasting….
Jakesonline.. go to collections area at left
2 slides… can only have 12 images total…. Interpret an image and comment homeless001 on iamchrisjett’s photostream
put 40 images on shared drive… then choose 12 then write.. then do a metacognive report of howe they did their digital storytelling
go to fd’s flickr toys site, use Motivator to develop posters for school (frog eating worm with kid saying underneath
flickr.com/creativecommons site… search for images… show barns, barns NOT owls etc
David Jakes
Aschool districty that cannot learn, cannot teach
Jeff Columbia – need voluntary I found it, hands on fun resulted in change
SCD –no choice, outside trainer, no input, poor quality
1. Understand the goal of professional development
Don’t use the word training stimulus/response = Pavlo’s dog “Professional Developer”
A. Change Behavior – teachers’
B. Improve student learning
Do you have a vision statement for your professional development program
Do you have a vision statement for your professional development program – how you’re going to achieve that vision
2. Align professional development with district goals
Do you agree? The most effective professional development is determined by teachers around their own needs” Jakes diagree – collaborative with admin and based around teacher and student needs Jakes says “Organizational Growth”
Professional Growth Activities
Learner Standards for Technological Understanding
District Goals
3. Know your usership – In God we trust, all others must have data
“provide multiple entry points for different types of users and different needs” agree? He has a Bb academy and puts everyone together.
Goal Driven
Data Driven
User Driven
4. Use Pilots. Pilot, Pilot, Pilot.
Connectors and Mavens Connectors are people that know everyone, Maven knows everything from Malcom Gladwell Tipping Point
5. Invest in peopleware .Who does your professional development? Who should? Develop evangelists. This is good for us, this is good for students.
6. Dedicate people and staff
7. Get off site. Get new ideas.
8. Use technology to encourage personal professional development
9. Extend opportunity through learning teams and clubs – reflect, metacognition,
10. Evaluate
Participant Reactions
Participant Learning
Organizational Readiness
Participant Use of Learning
Student Learning ←Thomas Guskey
11. Student Learning = Student Performance + Student Achievement
