new leaf in learning 2012
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What are the principles that should guide education companies and educators as they support classroom teachers in embracing online content, relevant technology and a student-centered teaching style?TRANSCRIPT
Overcoming Resistance to Teaching with Technology and Online
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Mark E. Moran, Founder & CEO, Dulcinea Media
New Leaf in Learning, March 22, 2012
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Mark E. Moran
Corporate attorneyInternet executive since 1998Parent of three in grades 6, 9, 12School-district committees15 education conferences in past yearHired 50 recent college grads since 2001
Our mission: to help educators teach students how to use the Internet effectively.
Growing Awareness…
Life has become anopen-book test.
“Schools run a great risk of becoming irrelevant to students.”
-- Peter PappasFormer Social Studies
Teacher
The Internet defines the way that young people learn, communicate, and create.
Students feel in charge of information.
What sound does a goat make?
Ask a five-year-old ...
We found our own study materials online.
KIDS ARE KIDS ARE LOSTLOST
Question of the Hour
What are the principles that should
guide education companies and
educators as they support
classroom teachers in embracing
online content, relevant technology and
a student-centered teaching style?
“There is no textbook for what effective practice looks like in continually morphing information and communication landscapes.”
-- Joyce ValenzaHigh School Librarian
Understand
“Teachers waiting for a workshop to show them how to use technology are never going to do it.
Encourage them to jump in and try something.”
-- Brent JortSocial Studies teacher
Technology is a TOOL…
“One of the enduring difficulties about technology and education is that a lot of people think about the technology first and the education later.”
-- Dr. Martha Stone Wiske
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Nintendo has been on a mission to expand the market.
The $250 Wii console has been stealing the show from
higher-powered consoles with high-tech bells & whistles.
Nintendo focused on making game play easier, more
intuitive and more appealing to a mass market.tive and
more appealing to a mass market.•That bet paid off.
Paradox of the Active User
“Teachers don’t like the words, ‘partial assembly required.’”
-- Peter PappasFormer HS Social Studies
teacher, now EdTech blogger & consultant
“The Battle of Gettysburg happened in July, but I need to see your material on it when I teach it in October.
Get my pacing guide.”
-- Jimmy DaveyHS Social Studies teacher
Give it to me when I need it
•That bet paid off.
There are no Jedi Masters
“Teachers should be encouraged to let students take over.”
-- Shannon MillerLibrarian
“Kids haven’t changed. I have.” -- Marlene
Thornton
11. Under-Resourcing. The initiative is not accompanied by sufficient resources (e.g., time, support, funding, training) to actually make it happen. So why should we bother?
Ohio’s Galion Middle School
$250,000 ARRA grant25% spent on professional developmentA year of PD before any technology purchasedExciting results, but encountering rocks
“Teachers can have tech savvy parents demonstrate real-world applications of technology and help bring non-tech savvy parents up to speed.”
-- Shelley Blake-Plock
7. Concerns About Future Competence. Educators can question their ability to be effective after a change: Can I do it? How will I do it? Will I make it in the new situation?
Personal Learning Networks
“Librarians cannot adequately retool if they do not develop personal learning networks.
Those who don’t drag us all down.”
-- Valenza/Johnson
##edchat
#tlchat
TED Talks Demystified
@johnsonmaryj
Primary-Source DocumentsUsing primary sources, students learn to recognize that the record-keepers, whether artists, politicians or slaves, saw the world through a singular lens.
The Avalon Project
Ohio State University’s Official Records
American Rhetoric
Play
Address from the Bradenburg Gate, June 12, 1987
Historic Video and Images
Play
Museum of the Moving Image
The Library Of Congress: Chronicling America
Historical Letters
Artwork and Photographs
Interviews
Timelines: BBC History Timeline
Timelines: YTTM.TV
Tools: Primary Access MovieMaker
Tools: ThingLink
Games and Situations: Games for Change
Science Resource: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Science Resource: National Human Genome Research Institute
Science Resource: BBC’s Science: Human Body & Mind
Find ideas for lesson plans on websites...
@edsitement
Photo Credits
Cover: http://morguefile.com/archive/display/117973
Dangerously Irrelevant: http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2010/08/we-spend-80-of-our-classroom-time-on-the-skills-needed-for-10-of-our-jobs.html
Librarian Action Figure: http://www.flickr.com/photos/libraryman/86206037/
Khan Academy Golden Ratio: http://www.khanacademy.org/video/the-golden-ratio?topic=new-and-noteworthy
Clogs: http://www.freefoto.com/download/1450-07-1/Clogs
Yogi Berra: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yogi_Berra_1956.png
Baby Steps: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kalexanderson/6218038832/
Watering Rocks: http://langwitches.org/blog/2008/01/13/metaphors-mq-as-important-is-iq/
Fear, Uncertainty Doubt: http://www.flickr.com/photos/psd/1805369995/
Training Teachers: http://thejournal.com/articles/2011/03/30/training-teachers-for-21st-century-classrooms.aspx
Shout Out: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shoutput/4269032009/