Technology

April 10, 2008

I amI am

Who is the librarian?

How can technology be used effectively to teach for understanding?

Agenda

Housekeeping (blogs / journals /more)

Ed Tech in the News (group discussion)

Readings

Technology integration exercise

Going forward – some emerging technologies

Blog thoughts & other housekeeping

Anything of interest from the blogs – technology or otherwise?

Doug Johnson’s post about technology training in library media programs.

Blog thoughts & other housekeeping

What is educational technology? What counts? Video games? MySpace?

Ed Tech in the News

News and Observer articleSmall groups read How do N.C. Schools Compute.

– What contributions can the LMS make to the three core areas mentioned in this article?

– What are some of the issues which will affect our jobs and how can we prepare to respond to them?

Full story here

Ed Tech in the News

(The report is at www.edweek.org/media/ew/tc/2008/30NC_STR2008.h27.pdf.)

Ed Tech in the News

Ed Tech in the News

– Three Core Areas Access to instructional technology

(presence of hardware/software)

Use of technology (classroom integration)

Capacity (teacher/administration know how and training)

Readings

Valenza article

•we must retool to serve learners

•explore the pedagogical uses of technologies

•seek professional development even when official credit is not offered

Readings

Richardson chapter

•Parallel versus sequential learners (students versus teachers)

•The Toolbox (wikis, RSS and more)

•What needs to change about curriculum when students can reach audiences beyond our classroom walls?

•What does literacy mean when we are preparing students to be creators of content?

•How does teaching change as it becomes easier to bring in primary sources?

Technology integration exercise

Modify these projects by integrating educational technology. Be sure to include the LMS as a teaching partner.

Use

•The ISTE technology student profiles

•Some of the toolbox items from Richardson (and others too)

•What we know about Teaching for Understanding

ISTE profiles

Going Forward – The Horizon Report 2008

Time to Adoption – One Year or less

Grassroots Video:

cheap to film, edit, produce / ease of distribution

Collaboration Webs: Two components

Webware – splashup.com (photos) jumpcut.com (video) slideshare.net

Online social spaces – Facebook, but also do it yourself social networks such as those from Ning.com,

Going Forward – The Horizon Report 2008

Time to Adoption – Two to Three Years

Mobile Broadband:

High end hand held computing becomes more ubiquitous, most students already have these devices.

Data Mashups:

“A web application that combines data from more than one source via a single, unified tool”

More and more tools are available to enable anyone to mashup data -

Going Forward – The Horizon Report 2008

Time to Adoption – Four to Five Years

Collective Intelligence: wikipedia and other multi author resources

tagging, photo sharing (to reveal community info)

Google Page ranks, Amazon buying histories, cell phone tracking to map traffic flow

Social Operating Systems:

Smarter MySpace….