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twitter.com/sethbowersDirector of Information & Instructional Technology, CCSD62 Des Plaines, Illinois

blc09

• I say to students "if you are not talking you are not learning - learning is a conversation”– Darren Kuropatwa #blc09 by way of John Davitt by

way of todaysmeet.com

Information

Friday review

• An inventory• What is a classroom in 2009• How do we get there

Decision makers

A day in the life – students A & B

• What are the differences between literacy now and literacy ten years ago

Challenge

• Student reports on a recent event in history– prove that the event happened in the manner

most widely accepted by using valid primary and secondary eyewitness reports

Student A

• I found a lot of eyewitness reports on the Internet, in fact I almost had too many– The best site was allowed people to post their

experiences for others to share– Selecting some of the best, I built my report step

by step, providing an almost hour-by-hour view of the event. I almost feel like I lived through it.

Student B

• I really liked the reports I saw on this site, but wanted to assure that they were valid

• I performed a “Whois” lookup and found out that the site was owned by a fiction writer’s club

• After some more searching, and validating, I found some legitimate sites that allowed me to collect the quotes I needed

Describe

• What did good work look like before– What does it have to look like now

By the way…

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Start small

• Merlin Mann– www.43folders.com

First time sex

• and the beauty of 1.0

Podcast a poem

• Aaron “Red”

Create experts

Try this at home – IM in ModLang

Give students meaningful tasks

Google custom search

Social bookmarks

• chicklitt

Screencapture

• Jing!• Screentoaster

School Toolbox

• http://www.wiki62.wikispaces.net/Toolbox

Don’t teach tech

• Get out of my lab• Technology Benchmarks• • By the end of Kindergarten students should be able to:• use the left mouse click to navigate documents and pull-

down menus, hyperlinks and the internet. • use the scroll bar (thumb) to move up and down. • locate and open a program from the desktop and Start

Menu. • print a document from an application like MS Word or

Kidspiration.

Make things easy

• Mount the projector

Start small again

• Blog homework• Newsletters• Podcast reading passages

Build stories of success

• Dave• Sue• Marcie

Dave

• theprincipalandinterest.wordpress.com• leadertalk.org

Marcie

• SPNN

Whoa are the learners

There is no spoon

• Change– Minds– Relationship with education– Attitude about ownership

Connect with outside experts

Is a classroom space, people, or things

Adopt a feature

Adopt a feature

Adopt a feature

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Have a great trip home