Just starting the process of digesting the PD feast that was NECC09. Here is another bit of notes from wednesday morning.
Designing Rigorous and Globally Connected Assignments
Alan November
What word would the average teacher in your district use to describe their geeling about thechnoogy in the classroom?
promethean student response system
reaction – why wan’t alan do the response. doesn’t hit home for ease of use with promethean
words used – ug, scared, etc. negative things. no surprise there
All of our students have working collaboraticely while in school with people in different counrties.
most for “Are you nuts? We are blocking SKype?”
Teacher over seas there seems to be a general heightened aware that kids should be connected to kids in other countries.
Have you visited a K-12 school outside of the United States?
No was the majority.
Global work ethic
-self directed. don’t need a boss to tell you what to do. understand the valeu of life long learning
-have good global communication tools. creating communities
-have fantastic control over information
Do your students have a global work ethic?
No was the very dominate majority.
I think the “close the book” exam will be replaced by the “open source knowledge” exam in:
a. we did it last year, b. 1 year, c 5years, 10 years, e in your dream
surprisingly the top one was c followed closely by e
makes a point here about the pointlessness of closed book tests. Tests are harder if they have access to the facts they would otherwise remember. students have
very important to see where technology is going to so we know how to adjust teaching and learning
-looked at the 6th sense MIT video
-heard an audience say “can you see what good this is for?” WHAT how can you not see the ramification of this technology for learning.
-even november thought the image of the kids with tag cloud was scary. why? what is the problem with meta information
Let’s assume that Internet access for kids will be on their body 24/7
-what would we do now to prepare kids for this world?
-need to get to teaching ethics of having access to this information
-we shouldn’t approach it by teaching the latest tech fad not using it for a deeper understanding of information
-are there hooks in your curriculum that allow a teacher to
- site:ac.uk “General Gage” “American Revolution”
-file not found then went to the way back machine, off the web from 2006
-when you show students dissidnece, a different point of view, you can capture there attention and imagination
-we are giving the same assignments as we always have that don’t fit in to the model where we have this ease of access
-teacher need to design assignments that make sense in this environment
-Pedegogy trumps technology
-assignment design should be built into PD
-The real revolution isn’t the technology but the information and connections it provides.
Talk about NING.
-Washington International
-student had beureaus aroud the world contributing to this space
-also working on it outside of school. that is his measure
Marco Tores
-showed his students talking about what they want from teachers
-hi-tech high – school with the highest test scores for minority students
-students finding their own way to solving a problem. not one directed by the teacher
Kids are social by nature – duh
-best tool for teacher would be something like skype
-idea – skype family into the room when a kid may be doing a presentation. easy to bring parents in
-why is it scary to include parents in their students learning? why is that a privacy issue?
-ENGAGE STUDENTS IN THE ACTIVITIES TECHNOLOGY ALLOWS
-Stanford has first grade at standford
-http://epgy.stanford.edu/
-e-learning courses for gifted and talented students
Makes the case for pushing content and learning opportunities online for all ages.
“Who owns the learning?” Kids should, not teachers.
