Welcome Educators

Student Engagement: How do we engage 21st Century learners?Welcome EducatorsISTE Conference 2011

I am Wendi South and want to welcome educators to the ISTE Conference of 2011. Our theme this year is student engagement. We are looking at a new type of learner; these students have more access to digital technology than ever before and interact with it on a daily basis. How do we, as educators, use this technology both to our and the students benefit? First we must define what a 21st Century learner is.1What is a 21st Century learner?A Vision of K12 students today video

What is a 21st Century learner? B. Nesbitt and his 16 digital learners expressed it best on video. Lets let them speak for themselves.2How do we engage the learners?We need to use the technology that students use everyday to connect the content they are learning at school with their lives.

We need to provide opportunities for students to interact with the content in a variety of ways.

We need to let the students take the lead and be there to guide them.

How do we engage the learners?We need to use the technology that students use everyday to connect the content they are learning at school with their lives.

We need to provide opportunities for students to interact with the content in a variety of ways.

We need to let the students take the lead and be there to guide them.

3According to our keynote speaker, Debbie Silver, All students must be given a reasonable chance to learn and succeed,When they are given this opportunity, they will be engaged, and reach beyond where even they thought possible. Raising the bar and steering kids toward self-efficacy is what teachers need to be doingin the classroom.

According to our keynote speaker, Dr. Debbie Silver, All students must be given a reasonable chance to learn and succeed,When they are given this opportunity, they will be engaged, and reach beyond where even they thought possible. Raising the bar and steering kids toward self-efficacy is what teachers need to be doing in the classroom.

4Teacher Responsibilities:

Provide interactive environment

Learn to use the new technologies

Engage the students

Motivate the students

Educate the students

Besides just teaching content a teacher must take responsibility for engaging the students. It is not about dancing in front of the class or being a friend. It is about using individual attention to each students skills and needs. By being involved with students, it will motivate and encourage them to become engaged with the material. This has been proven to also raise student achievement as well.

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Student engagement is the key to igniting the imagination and creativity of every student which leads to a much greater understanding of the content we share. If students arent engaged, no learning is taking place. Use the technology the students use everyday outside the classroom to teach and excite students.

6Interaction and participation increase

Parents and students are concerned about the students engagement with not only content but with educators and peers. There needs to be a lot more collaboration and interaction within the classroom. Students need a voice in their education. Tools that can be used with great success in the classroom right now are: wikis, blogs, virtual reality, podcasting, and social bookmarking to name a few.7

Collaborative workshops and learning centers

Engaged students learn more, aspire to do greater things, improve in-school and in-class behavior, and are enthusiastic, optimistic and curious to learn more about the world around them. No longer can education be presented as it has been in the past where students sit passively while they are lectured to. Success and engagement in elementary school and secondary school leads to greater success and involvement in college courses. Can we deny our students that experience?8

Teachers of the pastClassrooms of the 21st century

Teachers need to make relationships important and those positive relationships need to exist throughout the school building. The school must move from the classroom management structure where the class is quiet and the students are passive into relationship-building mode where the teacher is a source of encouragement and students are actively engaged. It is the 21st Century and teachers and schools need to embrace the tools that will help engage, excite, and empower students.9Dr. Debbie Silver Educator for 30 yrs.Staff development instructorUniversity professor

Debbie's book, Drumming to the Beat of Different Marchers: Finding the Rhythm for Teaching Differentiated Learning, has just been updated and re-released by Incentive Publications.

Our keynote speaker today is Dr. Debbie Silver, who is an award-winning educator with 30 years experience as a classroom teacher, staff development instructor, and university professor. Her numerous recognitions include being named the Louisiana State Teacher of the Year. She travels across the United States training teachers to become involved and interactive with their students and to make the most of the technology the students use and have mastered.

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Dr. Silver uses humor and sensitivity to acknowledge how important teachers are in the lives of students. In the times of budget cuts, changes in funding and dramatic educational change, she understands exactly how teachers are feeling and wants to remind them why they became teachers in the first place. She reminds them and rekindles the wonder and excitement of working with students.11Please welcome our keynote speaker, Dr. Debbie Silver!

Please welcome our keynote speaker, Dr. Debbie Silver!12References:Brewster, C., & Fager, J. (2000). Increasing student engagement and motivation: from time-on-task to homework. Northwest Regional Educational Library.DeLeeuw, K. E., & Mayer, R. E. (2006). A Comparison of Three Measures of Cognitive Load: Evidence for Separable Measures of Intrinsic, Extraneous, and Germane Load. Journal of Educational Psychology , 100 (1), 223-234.Jones, D. R. (2008, November). Strengthening Student Engagement. Retrieved February 11, 2011, from International Center for Leadership in Education: http://www.leadered.com/pdf/Strengthen%20Student%20Engagement%20white%20paper.pdfMarks, H. M. (2000). Student Engagement in Instructional Activity: Patterns in the Elementary, Middle, and High School Years. American Educational Research Journal , 37 (1), 153-184.Silver, D. (2011). Debbie Silver. In Debbie Silver: Consultant, Humorist, Keynote Speaker. Retrieved February 12, 2011, from http://www.debbiesilver.com.Voke, H. (2002, February). Student Engagement: Motivating Students to learn. Retrieved February 11, 2011, from ASCD Info Brief: http://www.ascd.org/publications/newsletters/infobrief/feb02/num28/Motivating-Students-to-Learn.aspx

Suggested resourcesBlogs Sites: http://www.wordpress.com http://www.edublogs.org http://www.weebly.comhttp://www.twitter.comWiki Sites:http://www.wikispaces.comhttp://www.wetpaint.com

BlogsRecommended Sites:

http://www.wordpress.com http://www.edublogs.org http://www.weebly.com (includes extras like file sharing and discussion)http://www.twitter.com (micro-blog) WikisRecommended Sites:

http://www.wikispaces.com http://www.wetpaint.com

Social NetworkingRecommended Sites:

http://education.ning.com http://www.imbee.com http://www.classroom20.com http://todaysmeet.com/ (real-time networking) http://www.edmodo.com

Ideas for the Classroom:

http://socialnetworksined.wikispaces.com/ http://www.slideshare.net/brainopera/facebook-strategies-for-the-classroom/Media Sharing

Recommended Sites: http://www.flickr.com http://www.teachertube.com http://www.screencast.com http://www.atomiclearning.com (tutorials for technology apps)

Ideas for the Classroom:

http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listdigitalpa.html

Presenting and Media Creation

Recommended Sites: http://www.prezi.com http://edu.glogster.com http://www.wix.com

Ideas for the Classroom:

http://newmedialiteracies.org/library/ http://projectnml.ning.com http://transformativeworks.org/ http://delicious.com/ebreilly

Document SharingRecommended Sites:

http://www.slideshare.net http://docs.google.com http://www.issuu.com

Ideas for the Classroom:

http://www.google.com/educators/p_apps.html http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Revisiting-Google-Docs-for/23721/ http://www.slideshare.net/acantone/google-presentation-4835223

Virtual Worlds

Recommended Sites: http://www.opensimulator.org http://www.clubpenguin.com http://www.leadingvirtually.com

Ideas for the Classroom:

http://secondclassroom.ning.com http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Review/EducationalFrontiersLearn/47221

Podcasting Sites:

http://www.apple.com/education/digitalauthoring/podcasting.html

Social Bookmarking Sites:http://www.delicious.com

http://earth.google.com