the connected classrom
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Workshop on ways to use web2.0 to connect your students to the world http://theconnectedclassroom.wikispaces.com/BU_Fall_Teacher_Conf Video on slide 5 available at http://theconnectedclassroom.orgTRANSCRIPT
Kristin Hokanson
Traditional view ofknowledge
Learners are emptyvessels to be filled
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Today information is changing so rapidlyits hard to see what’s happening
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stabilo-boss/98214831/in/photostream/
• Education is changing.
• Competition is changing internationally.
• The workplace, jobs, and skill demandsare changing.
The Case forCollaborative ~ Digital Learning
Our world is Changing…
The Implications• These changes, among others, are ushering
us toward a world where knowledge, power,and productive capability will be moredispersed than at any time in our history—aworld where value creation will be fast, fluid,and persistently disruptive.
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes EverythingDon Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams
The Challenge• Our Digital Immigrant instructors, who
speak an outdated language (that of thepre-digital age), are struggling to teacha population that speaks an entirelynew language
Horizon Report 2007Key trends affecting higher education—next 5 years
– One year or less• Social Networking• User-Created Content
– Two-Three Years• Mobile Phones• Virtual Worlds
– Four-Five Years• New Scholarship and Emerging Forms of Publication• Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming
• Make Phone Calls• Send Text Messages• Download Music• Play Music• Surf the Web• Take Photos• Send Photos• Play Games
Our StudentsThis is just the start...
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web 2.0
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A Paradigm Shift
A Definition• Web 2.0 refers to a
perceived secondgeneration of web-basedcommunities and hostedservices — such as social-networking sites, wikis andblogs — which facilitatecollaboration and sharingbetween users.
Wikipedia.com
Principles of Web 1.0
•Reading
•Receiving
•Researching
change from monologue to dialogue.small loosely connected parts.getting closer and creating communities.collaboration and harnessing the power ofknowledge.It’s about being agile and responding tochange.It’s about learning fast.
what Web2.0 is all about
Web 2.0
Allows us to connect our kids
to…
Conversations…http://www.flickr.com/photos/smartbrother/44226712/
http://www.go2web20.net/
Which arepowered by…
It is a conversation between…
Source: Nemertes Research Inc.
Vibrant
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Emergent
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Fun
Compelling
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and full of insight…
…if we choose to
Let our students join.
it’s not about searching it’s about finding, applying and creating
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Benefits• A growing body of scholarship suggests
potential benefits of these forms ofparticipatory culture, including:– opportunities for peer-to-peer learning,– a changed attitude toward intellectual property,– the diversification of cultural expression,– the development of skills valued in the modern
workplace, and a more empowered conception ofcitizenship.
Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st CenturyHenry Jenkins
Impact on Learning• Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy
from one of individual expression tocommunity involvement.
• The new literacies almost all involve socialskills developed through collaboration andnetworking.
• These skills build on the foundation oftraditional literacy, research skills, technicalskills, and critical analysis skills taught in theclassroom.
Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st CenturyHenry Jenkins
What we need to do…• Teach kids how to access information• Use tools for collaborating• Use tools to communicate on the web• Develop their own learning networks• Understand social network implications• Have fun
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Learning from theEXPERTS
SocialBookmarkingSocialNetworks Collaboration
PodcastsC
alendar /Scheduling
CollaborativeProductivity
Bloggingaggregators
WikisOnline
Classroom
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Presenting
Tools to Connect:Learning from your Network
Netvibes
Surveys & Pollshttp://workshops.theconnectedclassroom.org
Online Classrooms
Welcome to Class…
DimDim Scribblink
My Vroom Skribl
Twiddla WizIQ
Wiki’s:The ultimate collaboration tool Special web site
allows visitors to add, remove, edit &change content
Not need access to or knowledge ofweb publishing software
Collaboration Group members work on common
document in common location
Wikipedia: Collaborative EncyclopediaBeing Edited in Real Time by Anyone
Wikipedia: Collaborative EncyclopediaBeing Edited in Real Time by Anyone
Talking about the importance of wikis for business, BusinessWeekwrote in 2005:
Internet research firm Gartner Group predicts that wikis will becomemainstream collaboration tools in at least 50% of companies by 2009.
At Ann Arbor (Mich.)-based Soar Technology Inc., an artificial-intelligence company that works on projects for the Office of NavalResearch, wikis enable the company to slash in half the time it takes tocomplete projects. Soar engineer Jacob Crossman says that’s becausethe wikis eliminate the usual flurry of back-and-forth attachments andresulting document-version confusion that’s rife in e-mail. At Dresdner,Rangaswami says that among the earliest and most aggressiveadopters, e-mail volume on related projects is down 75%; meetingtimes have been whacked in half.
Wikis in Schools• Business Education: Teacher Sharing
• Business Education: Student Sharing
• Computer Science Independent Study
• Science Collaboration
• Middle School Math
• Project Based Social Studies
• Literature Study
Social Networks: Connect Usersinto Communities
Social Bookmarking
http://delicious.com/zemote
http://www.diigo.com/user/khokanson
Sample Educator Grouphttp://groups.diigo.com/groups/iroquois-west-cusd-10
Collaboration
Getting Students to
Record their reflections
COVER IT LIVE
Podcasting: Explained
Podcasting: Simple
http://snipurl.com/msmpodcastsSample Health “call ins”
Collaborative productivity
http://sites.google.com/gtools4teachers
Planning / Calendars
Blogging in Education
Blogging: In the Classroom
Students talkaboutThe DebatesInvestigate someEducational Blogs
Aggregators
Netvibes Example:Teacher of Graphic Communications & Printing Technology
Keeping Track of Student Blogs:CPAVTS
Presentations
Student Created GameEmbedded on Class Wiki
Storytelling
Elementary Scrapbook made with Glogster
Animoto Case Studies in Education
Reading Olympics voicethread
Music and Audio
Flickrsocial network for photo sharing
Fun with Flickr
Other ways to use Images
You-Tube social network for sharing
videos
Video
It is easier to change thelocation of a cemeterythan to change the schoolcurriculum.
Woodrow Wilson
The Bottom LineThe value is in the content and how you use it.
Not in the technology itself.
User involvement embellishes content.Users can participate and produce their own content, or add toothers, not just passively sit back and watch the web go by.
Tagging gives content meaning.Making it easier to identify, classify, manipulate share and recycle.
Users should be able to choose what they get, how theyget it, when they get it and where they get it.
What is possible…http://horizonproject.wikispaces.com/Collaborative global project between classrooms
in diverse geographical locations
Camilla, GA (10th grade)
Vienna, Austria (11th grade)
Dhaka, Bangladesh (11th grade)
Melbourne, Australia (11th grade)
Shanghai, China (Media Literary)
Suggested Reading• Wired Magazine• The World Is Flat by Thomas Friedman• The Long Tail by Chris Anderson• Tough Choices or Tough Times: The
Report of the New Commission on theSkills of the American Workforce
• Wikinomics by by Tapscott and Williams