Improving Reading, Writing and Critical Thinking Skills with Media (August 2012)

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Shared August 7, 2012, in Missoula, Montana: Interested in helping students become better readers, writers, and critical thinkers? We need to “play with media” to become more effective communicators and improve our media literacy skills as both learners and citizens. As you learn to play with digital text, images, audio and video, you will communicate more creatively and flexibly with a wider variety of options. Author and educator Wesley Fryer will inspire and empower you, as a creative person, to expand your personal senses of digital literacy and digital agency as a multimedia communicator! Learn more, order Wesley’s eBook, and access session resources on www.playingwithmedia.com. http://wfryer.me/improve

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by Wesley Fryer, Ph.D.

improving reading, writing, & critical thinking skills with

www.speedofcreativity.orgplayingwithmedia.com7 August 2012

Missoula, MT

anyone have pioneer spirit?www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/3471363885

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldseem%C3%BCller_map

Waldseemüller map (1507)

digital learning pioneers

“terra incognita”

Outline:

truth about edtech

why create with media?

what’s on the menu?

http://instagr.am/p/LvKmkxugG6/

http://instagram.com/p/N-JdGEugCM/Clark Fork River, Missoula, Montana - August 4, 2012

an important goal today:“do no harm”

not fearnot .

overwhelm

HARM

picture the importance of relationships at school

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www.flickr.com/photos/jemimus/4824411391

too many people today believe in the power of

TECHNOLOGY rather than the power of WORDS & PASSIONATE PEOPLE

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For links to today’s presentation resources:

Send the text messagewesinfo to 23559

or visit: wfryer.me/improve

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<1> truth about ed tech

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truth abouteducationaltechnology?

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“If you just buy this...”

“your testscores will

look like this:”

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f8pXcUqZgA8/TG7TCB1j4cI/AAAAAAAAAos/nIbsPJ_g2ys/s1600/iwanttobelieveel4.jpg

Dr. Larry Cuban

www.tc.columbia.edu/news.htm?articleID=3911&pub=6&issue=56

larrycuban.wordpress.com

(2003)

“As for enhanced efficiency in learning and teaching, there have been no advances (measured by higher academic achievement of urban, suburban, or rural students) over the last decade that can be confidently attributed to broader access to computers. No surprise here, as the debate over whether new technologies have increased overall American economic productivity also has had no clear answers. The link between test score improvements and computer availability and use is even more contested.”

Dr Larry Cuban. Oversold and Underused: Computers in the Classroom. Harvard University Press. 2003. ISBN: 0674011090. pages 178-179.

Michael Horn

(2008)www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/3349773813/

“…the billions schools have spent on computers have had little effect on how teachers and students learn… The reason for this disappointing result is that the way schools have employed computers has been perfectly predictable, perfectly logical– and perfectly wrong. As we show in this chapter, schools have crammed them into classrooms to sustain and marginally improve the way they already teach and run their schools, just as most organizations do when they attempt to implement innovations, including computers. Using computers this way will never allow schools to migrate to a student-centric classroom.”

Christensen, Horn & Johnson. Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns. McGraw Hill. 2008. Pages 72-73.

http://docs.wesfryer.com

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Communication with

should become‘the new normal’

in classrooms

text

audio

images

video

www.flickr.com/photos/ncsphotography/4247856340

“as digital pioneers we need to play with media”

maps.playingwithmedia.com

text

moderate

d, inte

ractive

blog

multimedia eBook

imagesstory in 5 photos

concept map

photo 180 projectaudio

‘no edit’ podcast

edited podcast

video

narra

ted sl

ides

how

scre

enca

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pupp

et vid

eo

quick-e

dit vi

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mashupsScratch Projects

Google Earth/Maps Tour

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“But Wes: Does educational research show this “increased media menu” will improve test scores?!

2001 revision of Bloom's Taxonomy

www.punahou.edu

http://wfryer.me/110

April 2008 podcastof

December 2007conversation

with Judy Beaver

research on improving literacy skills?www.marzanoresearch.com

time on task parent involvement

Identifying Similarities & DifferencesSummarizing & Note-Taking

Reinforcing Effort & Providing RecognitionHomework & Practice

Nonlinguistic RepresentationCooperative Learning

Setting Objectives & Providing FeedbackGenerating & Testing Hypotheses

Questions, Cues, & Advance Organizers

http://web2thatworks.com by Stephanie Sandifer @ssandifer

...when assigning a project, teachers look for mastery of content and allow students to take ownership of how they present that content. A teacher may ask students to demonstrate their knowledge of photosynthesis, but rather than give them a specific means of doing so, will allow the students to use any available resources to do so. This not only gets the students innovating more as they navigate through this task, but more importantly makes each student’s experience unique and gives them ownership over the product they produce. Some students may make posters, some a voicethread, some a powerpoint or prezi, but this should be no problem for the educator as they are assessing on mastery learning objectives and not actual means of presenting them.

http://theoffbeatmaestro.wordpress.com/2012/03/15/new-england-11-summit-2/

15 March2012

provide assessment choices

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<2>why create with media?

Are you going to let your students CREATE stuff?

If not, why not?

why should we play with media?

creativity

play2learn

hands-on

windows

standards

brains

stories

engage

fun

history

www.slideshare.net/wfryer/why-play-with-media

creativity is intrinsically valuable

www.flickr.com/photos/julicrockett/2968136899/

howdoyoulearn

“new skills”best?

www.flickr.com/photos/pitadel/4951801589

www.flickr.com/photos/usnavy/5964127786

share a project idea from school

learners need to make stuff

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passive learning: easy 2 forget

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MIT Lifelong Kindergarten

http://llk.media.mit.edu

assessments should be windows

www.flickr.com/photos/scuolafotografia/3631378689

www.flickr.com/photos/8136496@N05/4198567126

your website as a window into your classroom

www.flickr.com/photos/olpc/4882646127

OLPC in Afghanistan: summer 2010

gizmodo.com/5813875/what-happens-in-60-seconds-on-the-internet

June 2011

www.presentationzen.com

endPowerPoint

abusein

yourclassroom

www.flickr.com/photos/ivyfield/4486938191

BYOD?!What will we do differently when students bring devices?

the menu for demonstrating

understanding & masteryin your classroom

has exploded

www.flickr.com/photos/familymwr/5322734002 www.flickr.com/photos/torres21/6048960035

<3> what’s on this new menu?

“terra incognita”

Results from June 6, 2012, in Fort Bend ISD, TX

Alexander Fryer

June 2012

The Fire

There was a fire ban that yearBut the carless campers left

Leaving smoldering remains behindThe fire that ate the forest

Wind whispered wordlessly in the treesThe fire was given new lifeLike a new small heartbeatThe fire that ate the forest

...continued...

The fire lit the dry grassIt was gathering in strength

Like a lion preparing to strikeThe fire that ate the forest

The fire now reached the treesIt was a wild beast let free

Grey smoke billowed up to the skyThe fire that ate the forest

free: kidblog.org

Is this a big deal?

Why or why not?

think ofvisual literacy

anddigital literacy

as a menu of progressive options

Story in 5 Photos

Narrated Slideshow

Digital Story

http://voicethread.com

How will we have TIME to find & use photos?

www.flickr.com/photos/ecastro/5503890234

picasa.google.comfree:

Create a “photo sandbox” website to share photos

http://www.ipadmediacamp.com/

http://vimeo.com/29457909

...one more tool

http://instagram.com/p/NhuDThugPC/

July 25, 2012

http://videostarapp.com/AppStore

Cub ScoutScrapbook

1949 - 1950

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3rd GradeReportCard

May 1949

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What should Rachel’s

12th grade report card look like?

www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/6577432889

we’re going exciting places together

http://k12onlineconference.org

Oct 15, Oct 22-25 & Oct 29 - Nov 2, 2012

by Wesley Fryer, Ph.D.

improving reading, writing, & critical thinking skills with

www.speedofcreativity.orgplayingwithmedia.com7 August 2012

Missoula, MT

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