tic tak - critical thinking and primary sources
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The Millennial Generation
“Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach” Mark Prensky
The Millennial Generation
“Millennials” “Digital Natives” “Thumb Tribe”
“Kids say e-mail is, like, sooooo dead.”
– CNET News, July 18, 2007
Characteristics of Digital Natives
Active Multi-tasking Non-linear thinking Ubiquity Technical Fluency Expectations of Feedback Individualization Risk-taking Information sifting
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
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 Evaluation
Poverty of Abundance
Jamie McKenzie – “From Now On” http://www.fno.org/oct06/poverty.html Vast ocean of material obscures rather than
exposes information Solutions:
Teach searching skills Manage “info glut” Choose appropriate resources
Teach Searching Skills
http://www.google.com/advanced_search Exact phrase searching
“average rainfall” Exclude words
-food, -dish, -plate Specify domain
Only search “.gov” Date
Within the past month
Manage Info-Glut
Ignore extraneous information Ads, Links, Tag Clouds, Widgets Site Management, Controls
Examples Google search: “laptops” 2¢ Worth
Choose Appropriate Resources
What kind of domain is it? .com .edu .gov .cn .tv .biz
Who published it? When? WHY? Is it well documented? Are there citations,
footnotes, references? What kinds of ads does the site attract? Is it a “squatter”?
Five Key Questions
Center for Media Literacy
1. Who created the message?
2. How do they attract my attention?
3. How might different people see this?
4. What values are represented or omitted?
5. Why is this message being sent?
Five Key Questions
5 Key Questions That Can Change The World – Lesson Plans for Media Literacy
Free download 25 lesson plans to teach media literacy Designed for any media – TV, newspaper,
Web, advertising, even maps
Questioning Media
http://questioning.org/jun09/video.html How are “video devices” similar to “literary
devices”? Deconstructing media messages Recognize “Photoshop” in other areas
Photoshopped news Photoshopped reports Photoshopped history
Dove Onslaught
Dove Evolution
Media Literacy Resources
The Center for Media Literacy
http://www.medialit.org
PBS Teachers - Media Literacy
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/media_lit/
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
http://www.kff.org/entmedia/Media-Literacy.cfm
The Media Awareness Network
http://www.media-awareness.ca
The Media Literacy Clearinghouse
http://www.frankwbaker.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
(http://www.loc.gov/teachers)
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)
CSU San Marcos Primary Documents Online
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
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/
PowerPoint Slides
http://www.slideshare.net/dadams.altec
